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Harry Potter and the 'strange' case of Oscars snub

Harry Potter and the 'strange' case of Oscars snub

LONDON (Reuters) - One of the few places where the Harry Potter movies failed to weave their magic was the Oscars, and the blockbuster franchise's failure to win a single Academy Award in eight attempts still rankles with some key pla [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Gwyneth Paltrow on finding the perfect Oscars dress

Gwyneth Paltrow on finding the perfect Oscars dress

Paltrow took our breath away when she sashayed on to the red carpet at the Oscars in a white, figure-hugging gown and co-ordinating cape by Tom Ford. But she's the first to admit her sartorial success wasn't all down to her good t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars Remix winner: The ‘Michelle’ redux

Oscars Remix winner: The ‘Michelle’ redux

Virtual paper dolls? DIY fashion magazine? Shopping wish list? It’s difficult to describe exactly what Polyvore — an online tool that enables users to design and share sartorial collages — is. With more than 13 million v [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: 20,000+ tweets per minute, Meryl Streep on top

Oscars 2012: 20,000+ tweets per minute, Meryl Streep on top

The 2007 Academy Awards were the first Oscars to be chronicled on Twitter in real time, by the Hollywood gossip blog Defamer. At the time, Twitter was a rather unknown novelty, but today it boasts millions of users and is an ever-updating [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012 red carpet: you decide what the fashion police couldn't

Oscars 2012 red carpet: you decide what the fashion police c...

It's late in the day after the Oscars and you know what that means: listmania. Everyone from Vogue to Perez Hilton has something to say about what went down on last night's red carpet. Top 10 best/worst dressed lists are being bla [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing winners announced

Oscars 2012: Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing wi...

The return from the ad breaks at the Oscars 2012 and Billy Crystal gives the audience another taste of his great since of humour, before going into another link. The link was a black and white tribute to The Wizard of Oz, with a number of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Octavia Spencer wins Best Supporting Actress at Oscars 2012

Octavia Spencer wins Best Supporting Actress at Oscars 2012

Back now to Billy Crystal for more jokes, laughter and fun before he introduced Batman actor Christian Bale to the stage to present the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It was a big category with plenty of big names and many people have [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Costume Design and Makeup winners

Oscars 2012: Costume Design and Makeup winners

The next Oscar of the night was for Costume Design and the winner was Mark Bridges for The Artist, it is his first ever Academy Award win and he was extremely delighted with the win, talking about achieving his childhood dream. It was pos [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Meryl Streep wins for lead actress

Oscars 2012: Meryl Streep wins for lead actress

Meryl Streep won the Oscar for lead actress Sunday at the 84th Academy Awards, for her role playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." Though the film itself was greeted with mixed reviews, [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012 – Best Picture: The Sounds of Silence

Oscars 2012 – Best Picture: The Sounds of Silence

The year started off 9 months ago with The Artist taking the early lead in Cannes. It had the early advantage in Cannes of being one of the few wholly uplifting films to screen there. A tiny tasty bonbon that melts on our tongue in flavor [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Making a Case for 'The Muppets' Songwriter Bret McKenzie

Oscars 2012: Making a Case for 'The Muppets' Songwriter Bret...

With only two competitors in the Oscar race for Best Song, a much-deserved win for Bret McKenzie’s “Man or Muppet,” a soaring anthem that speaks to the existential dilemma all of us have grappled with at one time or anot [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

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

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

Oscars 2012: Oscar nominations avoid controversy

Oscars 2012: Oscar nominations avoid controversy

Months ago, at the beginning of the awards season, I suggested that some of the finest films around would struggle to win recognition because the Oscar voters have a tendency to play it safe. I mentioned three releases (all British, as it [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Stars told they cannot be presenters at both Oscars and Golden Globes

Stars told they cannot be presenters at both Oscars and Gold...

Jennifer Lopez pulled out of the Globes after she and other stars were warned by email through their agents that it could prevent them from appearing on the Oscars in February as presenters. One source said, "There have been com [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

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