Oscars News
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Invitations to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been sent out. This time around, 271 artists and executives have been invited to join.
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After moving to March to avoid all competition with the Winter Olympics, The Oscars will be back in February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
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In the days following the Academy Awards, two social media case studies emerged thanks to Ellen Degeneres' "selfie" and to John Travolta's "Adele Dazeem."
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As noted below, the weekend's true big story was for another film besides the victor and the runner-up. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" grabbed a whopping $202,792 per screen average. It was only in 4 theaters.
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Samsung says the Oscars selfie that went viral was a "surprise for everyone," after reports it was part of a pre-planned marketing stunt by the company, a sponsor of the Academy Awards.But the South Korean tech giant, which earned huge publicity when E...
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by AFP
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John Travolta said he has been feeling terrible over his much-ridiculed Oscars mangling of singer Idina Menzel's name -- but concluded she would want him to "Let it Go."The actor triggered a storm of online mockery -- including an app to "Travoltify" y...
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Sunday's Oscars ceremony, was watched by 43 million TV viewers in the U.S. This was the highest audience recorded for ten years.
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Britain's film industry is celebrating a coming of age on after the British-made 'Gravity' and the British-directed "12 Years a Slave" dominated the Oscars.Space drama 'Gravity' owed many of its seven Oscars to the stunning special effects produced by ...
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by Guy Jackson (AFP)
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As Mexico basks in the glow of its first best director Oscar for Alfonso Cuaron and his blockbuster film "Gravity," a new generation of homegrown filmmakers wonders if the magic of the golden stat...
In the Media
by Michael O'Boyle (Reuters)
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The audience that tuned in to watch ABC's live telecast of the Oscars hosted by Ellen DeGeneres on Sunday was the show's highest in 14 years after ratings were upwardly revised.
In the Media
by Eric Kelsey (Reuters)
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The 2014 Academy Awards took place Sunday evening in Los Angeles, at the Dolby Theater, hosted by Ellen Degeneres and filled with all of Hollywood’s biggest and favorite stars, just as expected.
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A sea of Oscar statuettes filled the Governor's Ball on Sunday night as winners chatted, ate and celebrated with the film industry's elite at the official Academy Awards party.
In the Media
by Piya Sinha-Roy (Reuters)
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Is this the year the "selfie" stole the Oscars?
In the Media
by Lisa Baertlein (Reuters)
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The slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" won the best picture Oscar on Sunday, becoming the first film from a black director to win the film industry's top honor in the 86 years of the Academy Awards.
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by Reuters
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Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the Oscar for best director on Sunday for the space thriller, "Gravity," in which an astronaut fights for her survival after being cut loose from her space shuttle.
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by Tim Reid (Reuters)
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Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for best actor on Sunday for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" as a homophobic, rodeo-loving Texan who contracts AIDS and becomes an unlikely savior for gay patients and drug addicts desperate fo...
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by Reuters
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Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres shattered a record on Twitter Sunday after the selfie photograph she took with Hollywood stars at the Academy Awards became the most retweeted message ever."We crashed and broke Twitter.
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by AFP
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Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres set Twitter ablaze -- and even sparked problems for users -- on Sunday when the "selfie" photograph she took with Hollywood stars at the Academy Awards went viral.DeGeneres, who joked with A-listers throughout the show, corra...
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by AFP
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Newly minted Oscar winner Jared Leto delighted journalists on Sunday by promptly inviting reporters to fondle his coveted statuette.The 42-year-old star picked up the ultimate accolade of an honor-laden awards season for his performance as an AIDS-stri...
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by AFP
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On Sunday night Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres gathered A-list actors around her for a live "selfie" photo that she immediately posted on Twitter. The photo was retweeted 676,000 times within 30 minutes.
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Lupita Nyong'o won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday for her role as the hardworking slave Patsey in drama "12 Years a Slave," capping a breakout awards season for the Yale-trained Kenyan actress.
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by Reuters
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Shimmering metallics, bold jewel tones and newcomer Lupita Nyong'o led the style at this year's Oscars red carpet, as actresses shunned runway trends to showcase colors and silhouettes inspired by ...
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by Piya Sinha-Roy (Reuters)
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Visually stunning Italian drama "The Great Beauty" won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday, capping its successful awards season run in the United States and Europe.
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by Reuters
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Comedienne and talk show star Ellen DeGeneres returned as Oscar host on Sunday, bringing her deadpan affability, and free pizza, to the 86th Academy Awards show while still poking fun at Hollywood ro...
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by Steve Gorman (Reuters)
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Jared Leto, the former teen heartthrob who left Hollywood to become a rock star, won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday in his return to movies as an HIV positive transgender woman in "Dalla...
In the Media
by Piya Sinha-Roy (Reuters)
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Hollywood's finest hit the Oscars red carpet Sunday as the sun emerged just in time for the 86th Academy Awards, the most fiercely contested show in decades with no clear frontrunner for the top prize.Storm clouds which had threatened to rain on the pr...
In the Media
by Michael Thurston (AFP)
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"12 Years a Slave" wins best picture as the Oscars just wrapped up in Hollywood. It was a victory for movies tonight with a split between top movie and director. That is something that has now happened two years in a row.
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Of all the incredible work represented this year at the Academy Awards, no one item stands above the rest more than the music.
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A tight race at the box office is reflecting what is happening when the subject of movies comes up these days. With "Non-Stop" and "Son of God" in a tight race, this weekend also sees another one on a bigger scale - the Oscars
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Here is a selection of interesting and offbeat facts about the 86th Academy Awards, taking place Sunday in Hollywood: - At 23, Jennifer Lawrence, in the running for the best supporting actress Oscar for "American Hustle," is the youngest actress to sco...
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by AFP
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Always something happening in the world of Oscars.
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With permission by Reuters / Fred Prouser
Angelina Jolie arrives at the 5th Annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Awards in Hollywood November 16, 2013. Jolie is being honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which is an Oscar statuette at the ceremony
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Oscar's art collection by Marc Friedland
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Getting closer as rehearsals take place.
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Zakia is one of the heroes of the Oscar-winning short doc "Saving Face"
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Carpet down, covered in plastic; statuette placed
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This is where ABC shot takes place as the stars are almost down with the walk. They are setting up their angles here.
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Getting closer as rehearsals take place.
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Uggie poses with a mini Academy Award
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Via Twitter account @TheEllenShow
A selfie photo taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscars Sunday night
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Marc Friedland
Oscar's art collection by Marc Friedland
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Show is taking shape.
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Red carpet in bunches here.
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