Dave Poland, writing in the Hot Blog, reminds people that the Oscars will always be the Oscars no matter how hard people wish otherwise....

The literary sour-ball Salman Rushdie examines "Slumdog Millionaire" for verisimilitude and...

The parties and the event itself were plenty fun on Sunday, but as folks who followed along at home know, the Bagger did not have a good night when it came to the Oscar ballot. He got off to a lousy start, blowing the first two awards (damn that Penelope Cruz)....

"The Dark Knight" may not be up for best picture tomorrow, but its backers can always dry their tears with a lot of cold, hard cash....

Actually, most of the criticism has been from people who believe the film excuses the main character's culpability in allowing the incineration of 300 Jews. But the joint statement from the movie's director, Stephen Daldry, Mr. Weinstein, the producer Donna Giglotti, and the screenwriter, David Hare...

For reasons known only to the Dark Overlords of the Web at The New Yorker, Kate Boo's deep, hard look into the slums of Mumbai is not online....

Keeping a few presenters under wraps hardly seems like an occasion to go to DefCon 4. "Help, they've kidnapped the Oscars!" the Bagger can hear them yelling. "They're trying to make them about, ugh, the movies."...

Sometimes, when you look hard enough, you can see a bit of the future of cinema. The Irish playwright Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for 2006 for "Six Shooter" and came to Sundance last year with the darkly hilarious "In Bruges," a film that ended up with a nomination this year for its original screen...

In Contention points out that this isn't Taraji P. Henson's first trip to the rodeo. Although she was not a nominee, she joined Three Six Mafia on-stage at the Kodak Theater in 2006 to sing "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle and Flow." The song went on to win, proving once again just how d...

In Daily Baggage, the Bagger compares the Super Bowl to the Oscars....