Now that Kate Winslet is no longer poor Kate Winslet, five-time loser of the Academy Award, it's time to decide who deserves our pity next. Nathaniel Rogers got this new pity party started over at Film Experience, combining male and female performers and deciding that we should all be boo-hoo-hoo-in...

When Horton Foote died Wednesday at age 92, he was hard at work on the most ambitious project of his nearly seven-decade writing career. "The Orphans Home Cycle" — a collection of nine of Horton Foote's plays set in the fictional version of his hometown of Wharton, Texas — will premier...

In 1943, there was such fierce disagreement over the year's best picture that the four top film awards went to four pictures: the Oscars ("Casablanca"), National Board of Review ("The Ox-Bow Incident"), New York Film Critics Circle ("Watch on the Rhine") and the brand-n...

Over the past few months of the derby, my Oscarologist pal Tariq Khan shared his views on Kate Winslet and Amy Adams with Gold Derby readers. Now he pipes in with some devilishly fun thoughts on how Meryl Streep might have won best actress at the Oscars. Words below are Tariq's. Poor Meryl Streep . ...

Okay, first of all I need to preface this post by saying that I don’t believe the Oscars matter in the least. Sure, they’re fun to vote on, discuss, and are (apparently) a great excuse to party on a boat, but, ultimately, whoever takes home the gold at the end of the night only matters to those ...

Although it was extremely hard to tell, Vanessa Hudgens recently opened up about how nervous she was before performing at this year’s Oscars. The Academy Awards show took place this past Sunday (February 22) at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, where hundreds of A-list celebrities gathered. Of...

Because Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton are co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company she has scaled back her film commitments to barely one a year. That makes the news that  Blanchett is about to sign up to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe's Robin Hood e...

Oscars' king Jack Nicholson — winner of the most awards among male actors  — was conspicuously missing from his domain last Sunday. Usually, we can count on Jack Nicholson to liven up the cackle on the red carpet or make a notable appearance on stage (remember his startled reaction when he ...

• The former publicist of late actress/singer Eartha Kitt is outraged that Kitt wasn't included in the Oscars' tribute to recently deceased stars. She died on Christmas of colon cancer at age 81. "The producers are either 12 or have been living under a rock for the past 60 years," he fum...

The day after the Oscars, Keith Olbermann exulted in the bold expressions of free speech on the kudocast. He said on MSNBC, "If last night had been the 2003 Oscars, Dustin Lance Black, Bill Maher and Sean Penn probably would have spent the day raked over the coals by the yapping toadies of the ...