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Oscar race: Best Actress race spices up ho-hum year for film...

2011 wasn't a great year for movies. In fact, we don't think that any of this year's nine nominees for Best Picture will be remembered as a classic film 50 or even 25 years from now. That said, there were some admirable perfor [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar organizers honour film science, technology

Los Angeles: Hosting Oscar organizers' Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday night, actress Milla Jovovich, a veteran of effects-driven movies like the 'Resident Evil' franchise, confessed she knew little about what actu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Oscar-nominated short films

The races for the live-action and animated short film Oscar tend to operate blessedly outside the Academy Awards hype machine; assembled here into two separate programs, this year's nominees — a stronger batch than last year' [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Watch all 10 short film nominees on the big scr...

Canadians finally get to come up short in their Oscar pools. We get to see, for the first time in recent memory, all 10 nominees for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live-Action Short Film prior to the Academy Awards on Feb. 26. The [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Developers of film recorder to receive Oscar

The first Oscar recipients of the new year were announced Thursday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The developers of the Arrilaser film recorder, produced by Germany's venerable Arri camera company, will receive an [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

265 Feature Films in Contention for 2011 Best Picture Oscar

Two hundred sixty-five feature films are eligible for the 2011 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. To be eligible for 84th Academy Awards® consideration, feature films must open in a c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar nod a tall order for short films

When Los Angeles filmmaker Brent Roske arrived for an awards-promotion screening of George Clooney's new movie "The Descendants" on the 20th Century Fox lot in October, his chief concern was where to park. He found a pr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Oscar Awards Race: Brad Pitt, Aaron Sorkin And Moneyball Hon...

Moneyball, the story of how Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics revolutionized the way baseball was looked at by those in the front offices all across the league, was a fan-favorite at the box offices. As for the movie critics across th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Samoan language film in line for Oscar nomination

A New Zealand film has been submitted as a contender for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards for the very first time. The Orator (O le Tulafale) is written and directed by Wellington man Tusi Tamasese, and will be put fo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Oscar Winner Helen Mirren Takes Bette Midler's Place In HBO ...

Helen Mirren, Oscar winner for her role in The Queen, will step into Bette Midler’s role opposite Al Pacino in the HBO film Phil Spector. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Bette Midler had to step down from the role after a hernia [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Milk’ is decade’s top gay film

Sean Penn’s Oscar-winning movie Milk has been voted the best gay film of the last decade. Penn won an Academy Award in 2008 for his role as gay activist and politician Harvey Milk in the biopic, which topped the poll of the mo [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Film shot at IDP camp wins Oscar

It was a boost for Kenya after a movie shot at Ebenezer IDP camp in Kikopey won an award in the Best Foreign Feature Category. The film, In a Better World, won the Academy Award during Grammy awards held on February 27. This is the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

That’s our Oscar! Brooklyn filmmaker wins the naked gold guy

Brooklyn has a new Oscar winner! Bedford-Stuyvesant filmmaker Luke Matheny, 35, can now add Academy Award winner to his credits after his clever short film, “God of Love,” picked up the naked gold statuette on Sunday night. O [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Short film produced by Fil-Ams wins Oscar

“God of Love,” directed by Luke Matheny and produced by Filipino-Americans Gigi Dement, Stefanie Walmsley and Stephen Dypiangco, won the Best Live Action Short Film in Sunday’s Academy Awards. In his acceptance spe [...]