When Sean Penn won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "Milk," he started his acceptance speech with "You commie, homo-loving sons-a-guns…" Sean Penn is no stranger to voicing his opinion, but is a movie awards show the place to do it? I guess if an actor is really opinionated, ...

Sean Penn certainly knows how to create a stir, doesn’t he? When he snagged a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "Milk," Penn took the opportunity to voice his stance on gay marriage, with some politics thrown in there, too. I also thought it was funny when he said, "I want to mak...

Hugh Jackman's opening featuring Anne Hathaway as Richard Nixon. Penelope Cruz wins Best Supporting Actress Ben Stiller as Joaquin Phoenix Kate Winslet wins the Academy Award for Best Actress Philippe Petit performs some magic The comedy movies of 2008 montage Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture (...

TC and Kim wrap up the big awards weekend 2009 with their take on the Spirit Awards, the Razzies, and the big one, the 81st Academy Awards! We have a complete list of winners from all three award ceremonies, and plenty of dish and commentary on the winners and losers!See you Sunday for our regular e...

Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at the Academy Awards taking home 8 Oscars. Danny Boyle won his first Oscar for directing. We've been Danny Boyle fans since his Trainspotting days. Slumdog Millionaire wins big at The Oscars Congrats to Danny and the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire for yo...

Of course a day after the Academy Awards it is my duty to review the best and worst dressed celebrities from a “straight male that can’t dress himself “ perspective. Not wanting to make this format feel  repetitive decided to bring in another person to comment with me on the fashion mistakes ...

Song, Dance, and Commendation: Turning the 2009 Oscars into a Television Event When the Academy Awards brought on a set of new producers, there was the usual buzzwords: on time! Big surprises! Excitement! On time! Thrilling! And yet, we all doubted that it could live up to the expectation, especiall...

A few observations. This whole arc of a movie in production thing is an interesting approach to set a narrative for the show. I don't know if it's really adding a lot since the Oscars don't really need a narrative, but they put some thought into it. Tina Fey and Steve Martin should be hosting. Is Sa...

8:30 - The Academy Awards are starting! Here comes Hugh Jackman!! 8:32 - Jackman on the Academy cutting back this year because of the recession: "Next year I will starring in a film called New Zealand." Fred, who studied abroad in New Zealand last semester, flipped out at this. 8:33 - Shocker. He is...

6:26 PM - Hello! Cinefille here and it is time to start my live-blog of the 81st Annual Academy Awards. I'm am, sadly, not watching the Red Carpet on the Big Vowel with Ryan Seacrest right now. But maybe that is a good thing. According to the text message my ex-roommate Freddie just sent me High Sch...