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Original Oscar winner "Wings" soars again in Hollywood

"Wings," a World War I aerial dogfight epic made in 1927, won the first ever Oscar for best picture. Paramount Pictures, which is celebrating its centenary, has restored the classic silent action film and will present it with li [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar academy plans outdoor theater in Hollywood

The overseers of the Academy Awards are building an outdoor theater and event space on a piece of land in Hollywood that had been intended for a film museum. The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren still making an impressio...

Helen Mirren is still making an impression in Hollywood. The Oscar winning actress sank her feet in wet cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Monday, joining a long list of celebrity hand and foot prints in the courtyard of the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Hollywood gets jitters from talk of Oscar move

The big head-shaker in Hollywood this week is the buzz surrounding possibly moving Oscar night to January in 2012. The Governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apparently discussed the idea at a Tuesday meeting this [...]

Posted On : Jun, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar-winner directs sting on Hollywood's favourite sushi sp...

"Is this the whale?" joked a noisy patron, pointing to some dark red slabs of tuna on the small tray of sushi, which had just been deposited on his table at one of California's renowned sushi restaurants "Come on guys, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Independents muscle out Hollywood studios at Oscars

Independents muscle out Hollywood studios at Oscars

It could have been the night when "Avatar," from News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox, turned its audience appeal and $2.5 billion in box office gold into a best picture Oscar win.But instead, smaller films from independent ho [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Hollywood expecting another titanic TV audience for Oscars

Whether he walks away with any or all of the nine Oscars that Avatar is nominated for -- or is eclipsed by his ex-wife -- James Cameron may still go home the hero of this year's awards. His 3D sci-fi epic has been a boon for the box [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Hollywood Swinging: Your Winning Oscar Party Playlist

Okay, so maybe the Best Song nominees aren't being performed on the Oscars telecast this year -- thus personally denying me a double dose of my lifelong musical hero Randy Newman. Yet that does not mean this will be a totally tuneles [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

With the Oscars days away, Hollywood gets busy

With the Oscars days away, Hollywood gets busy

If the Academy Awards  are like the Super Bowl  of entertainment, then it's game week in Tinseltown. There are cocktail parties in every corner of the city. Gift lounges have sprouted up like spring flowers. Calendars are c [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Hollywood's Oscar contenders chart course for gold

Hollywood's Oscar contenders chart course for gold

War film "The Hurt Locker" and action adventure "Avatar," which each earned nine nominations for the world's top film honors, are frontrunners among 10 best motion picture nominees, but which of the two films will [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar hopefuls turn out in force at Hollywood Awards

Oscar hopefuls turn out in force at Hollywood Awards

If the Golden Globes are a great place to try out your Oscar acceptance speech, then the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards are at least a great place to try out your Golden Globe speech. Monday night's 2 1/2-hour gala at the Beverl [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar Top 10? Hollywood mulls best-pic makeover

You would think doubling a film's chances for an Academy Award nomination would thrill everyone in Hollywood, where an Oscar is the highest form of ego-stroking in a town of big egos. Yet attitudes among stars, filmmakers and executives ra [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar Top 10? Hollywood mulls best-pic makeover

You would think doubling a film's chances for an Academy Award nomination would thrill everyone in Hollywood, where an Oscar is the highest form of ego-stroking in a town of big egos. Yet attitudes among stars, filmmakers and executives ra [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

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