Welcome to the first in what will be a series of weekly columns updating the state of the Oscar race. We'll continue to trace who's ahead and who's a ...

If recent Oscar history is any guide, the way to get nominated and even to win is not by making a movie whose merits everyone can agree on. Rather, yo...

In some ways, we already know who the Academy members will choose when they announce the Oscar nominations on Jan. 10. After all, the Academy members ...

Shocking omissions and inclusions are all but built into the Oscar nominating process. How could it be otherwise, when there are up to 10 possible Be...

Could it be that the Golden Globes actually have better taste than the Oscars? After all, Globe voters this year found room for critically lauded perf...

Could it be that the Golden Globes actually have better taste than the Oscars? After all, Globe voters this year found room for critically lauded per...

Can Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host the Oscars, too, please? The galpal co-hosts of the Golden Globes had a couple of difficult tasks to accomplish i...

There weren't a whole lot of surprises among the movie awards at Sunday's Golden Globes, but the few that arose were shockers. The most shocking su...

Is 'Argo' on a stealth mission to spirit the Best Picture Oscar away from the epics that have been zealously guarding the prize as if it were already ...

Aside from the Oscar nominations themselves, the most important development in the Oscar race this week was, of course, the Eddie nominations, from th...

Friday marks the release of "The Last Stand," an Arnold Schwarzenegger comeback vehicle in which the heroes include a well-armed citizenry, federal re...

What if the man who said, "I'll be back" came back, and no one noticed? Not that anyone was expecting huge numbers from "The Last Stand," the first...

The Academy Award acting nominees continued to make news this week, whether or not they wanted to. Without lifting a finger, Jessica Chastain scored a...

Opening in seventh place this weekend with just $5.0 million on 2,043 screens, "Movie 43" marks one of the poorest wide-release openings of Hugh Jackm...

Whether you think of Warner Bros. as the studio that gave you talking pictures, Bugs Bunny, Bogart, or Batman, you have to acknowledge the studio's pl...

Sometimes Oscar prognosticators are slow on the uptake. After all, if something unexpected happens once, it's a fluke. Twice, and it's a coincidence. ...