Oscars' New 'Popular Film' Category Decried By Industry
Actor Rob Lowe pronounced the Oscars dead, "survived by sequels, tent-poles and vertical integration."
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Actor Rob Lowe pronounced the Oscars dead, "survived by sequels, tent-poles and vertical integration."
Ratings for the 91st Academy Awards fell to an all-time low of 26.5 million viewers.
Entertainment Tonight's Nancy O'Dell talks about the 2018 Oscars.
Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest.
The movie was just shy of tying the record of 14 nominations shared by "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land."
After taking responsibility for the epic best picture flub at the Oscars last year, Tim Ryan of PwC got down to business.
Pixar's "Inside Out" is the winner of the best animated feature film Academy Award. The film tells the story of a young girl's emotions as her family relocates from Minnesota to San Francisco.
We might be thousands of miles away from Hollywood, but Minnesota does have its fair share of Oscar winners.
We might be thousands of miles away from Hollywood, but Minnesota does have its fair share of Oscar winners, including animator Pete Docter.
Here's a look at what films are likely to take home Oscars in the animated and live action short categories.
An Oscar pool is an Oscar pool, and it's not usually the big, headlining categories that count so much as the little, technical, specialty, "Birdman isn't nominated here" categories. Those are the categories where making uneducated guesses will throw a big, gold-plated wrench into your plans to win that $7 prize at your Academy Awards party of choice.
Now that the Super Bowl is behind us, let's talk about a different type of spectacle, The Oscars.
It hasn't been a great week for former Minneapolis cab driver turned movie star Barkhad Abdi. First he lost the Academy Award, and now a new report says Abdi is "dead broke." According to the New Yorker, Abdi only made $65,000 from his role as the Somali pirate leader in "Captain Phillips."
The thing about throwing an Oscar party -- even an impromptu, informal one -- is that it's really tough to actually keep track of the show itself, what with making the cocktails and distributing the ballots and tipping the pizza delivery person.
Every Friday, Mike Augustyniak picks up a new cocktail recipe from a local mixologist. Throughout February, Mike's learning some cocktail recipes from Nicollet Island Inn's bartender Troy Jurgens. This week's selections will provide the perfect accompaniment to your Oscar party. And one's even safe for the kids.
Barkhad Abdi, the Somali immigrant who was a Twin Cities limo driver before playing a pirate in "Captain Phillips," won an award at the British Academy Awards over the weekend. Abdi was named best supporting actor, edging Michael Fassbender in "12 Years a Slave" and Bradley Cooper in "American Hustle."
For the last few years, I've pointed out that winning your Oscar pool in some ways depends on being smart about your selections in the short film categories. That everyone usually has a pretty solid idea of what's going to win in the major races is mostly a given. Down ballot? A whole 'nother ball game.
Minnesota will be well represented at this year's Academy Awards ceremony. The most notable is former Minneapolis limo driver Barkhad Abdi, who was discovered by the producers of Captain Phillips. Abdi, who had never acted before, is nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The 86th annual Academy Award nominations for best motion picture have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The critics have spoken. The Golden Globes have been handed out. And the Oscar ballots have been in for a week now. The Academy Awards are unquestionably the Super Bowl of the entertainment world. Here are the people and films I expect to be nominated this year.
A familiar face on WCCO's daytime television is heading for the Oscars.
This year's Academy Awards race is a potential cluster, but here are my educated guesses as to what will emerge victorious in a year ripe for Oscar asterisks, along with my own personal preferences.
If you want to really take names in your Oscar pool, you have to know your way around the short film categories. Most simply choose blindly in those three races, often favoring the most pleasing or serious sounding title in the lineup.
