In advance of tonight's Oscars ceremony, if your last remaining critique of the Best Picture nominees is, "Why didn't any characters in American Hustle sound like they were familiar with the nuanced regional brogue of South Jersey and Philadelphia?", then the Times has you covered.
This Sunday's Academy Awards will be a grand array of blowhards, backpatting, and Jennifer Lawrence .gifs, but it will also be the scene of a contentious, bitter protest. Visual effects artists who brought more Smaug to Smaug and more feathers to Tonto, refuse to move to British Columbia and they are ready to tell you…
A naked Ken doll spray painted gold: everyone wants one, but not everyone can have one because Seth MacFarlane didn't order enough. It's time for the 85th annual Academy Awards!
Unless they get invited to a coronation or a really fancy funeral, the Oscars are the dressiest event most stars will ever attend. Whose beautiful gown will prompt Ryan Seacrest to shed his first, genuine tear? Who will wear pink even though they are a redhead? Who will forget the name of the lowly tailor who spun…
People get into acting for all sorts of reasons. Because they relish exploring the complexities of the human spirit; because they majored in Art History and are otherwise unemployable; because they lubba-lubba-love gift bags. Mostly it's the gift bags.
"Let the darn thing go, will ya?" said Sally Field said during the manic 20/20 special Mad About the Oscars with Katie Couric. Field was referring to her frequently quoted speech from the 1985 Academy Awards ceremony (where she won her second Oscar for Places in the Heart), and the way it has reverberated through pop…
Here's a lesson on how to write about your break-up in a veiled-revealing way: When Your Ex is Nominated for an Oscar.
The award season marches on with yet another installment of Between Two Ferns: The only one-on-one interview show that isn't afraid to ask its A-list guests the questions that no one wants to ask.
It's been too many months since Zach Galifianakis last took a seat between two ferns and proceeded to make famous people feel extremely uncomfortable, but the man-child comedian has still got it.
The best interviews either confirm something that viewers have always hoped to be true or surprises them utterly; Emmanuelle Riva does both. Of course she is too tired to attend the BAFTAs; of course she is happiest when she is working. She is everything we want an 85-year-old Frenchwoman in the middle of an…
"I just like partying," 9-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis tells André Leon Talley. Someone intervene now.
Actress Emma Stone and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane — this year's host — got up nice and early to tell some really atrocious jokes and announce this year's Oscar nominations. If you were smart enough to avoid this stupid ceremony, here's what's totally surprising: neither Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow nor …
Les Misérables has already made off with $67 million at the box office since debuting on Christmas day, but a lot of people have found the sweeping musical largely problematic. Many are quick to criticize the performance of Russell Crowe. He can't really sing that well after all and some really judgmental critics feel…
Hugh Jackman, pronounced "You Jack Men" when said slowly by your dad as he smiles at you until you get the joke, is of course playing Jean Valjean in this year's adaptation of Les Miserables.
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It's all coulda, woulda, shoulda with you, Marky Mark. After claiming he could have stopped 9/11 and being immune to masturbation, he claimed to have big friends in high places doling out insider Oscar information the night before the awards.
While ratings were up for what some consider History's Worst Oscars that doesn't mean it's a big winner. No, it seems like the Grammys telecast just a few weeks ago scored an even bigger audience.
A study in speed meme-ing: In under 24 hours, Angelina Jolie's dramatic right leg has taken over the internet. As we speak, America's most powerful meme factories are pumping their pistons as fast as they can: What if Angelina's leg had a Twitter feed? What if it got peppersprayed? What if she showed both her legs?…
This actress was sobbing backstage at the Oscars because she didn't win an award. This actor wants to give an aging diva a TV show, this rapper scored drugs off his now-dead girlfriend, and this actress had an author beaten up because he was going to write a book about all the men her famous husband slept with. Now …
Sure, last night's Academy Awards were the worst Oscars ever. But that doesn't mean we were deprived the always-glamorous faces of the silver screen. Happy faces, sad faces, faces incapable of emotion due to injections—they're all here for your perusal.
