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The Muppets may be at the Oscars this year, but another fan favorite will be absent: According to E!, the stars of "Breaking Dawn" (probably) won't be...

In case you thought the Oscars had completely jumped the ship, the Academy Awards have just announced that Kermit and Miss Piggy will be at this year'...

"You like me!" shouted a hysterical Sally Field, after winning an Oscar for "Norma Rae." "Right now, you like me!" Winning an Oscar is every actor's d...

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Nominated For: Best Actor (Gary Oldman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score What's It About: Based on the ...

"Margin Call" Nominated For: Best Original Screenplay What's It About: "Margin Call" follows a group of employees (Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci...

"The Descendants" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (George Clooney), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing What's It About...

"War Horse" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing Wha...

One thing this past year confirmed was that these handsome, movie-idol personalities can really act. Too often Pitt and Clooney have been constrained by their leading man status to playing cool protagonists who save the day and get the girl. And they appear to be playing themselves.

For a subject like short films, brevity is the key. So here's everything you need to know in a nutshell: the Short Film Oscars are broken into three c...

If you thought the Academy's Best Original Song screening process -- which allowed only two nominees this year and excluded such usually Oscar-worthy ...

Stars: they're just us! Even they think the Oscars are boring. In a new interview with Maxim, two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman says wha...

If you aren't excited enough for the 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony later this month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has quite a t...

Maybe it's to his credit that it took Gary Oldman this long to earn an Oscar nomination. In a career that has spanned 30 years, he's gone punk, donned...

The First Amendment denotes a separation between Church and State. However, nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is there a clause proposing separation be...

It has been a good couple of weeks for Janet McTeer. The 50-year-old British star was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in "A...

Back in January, New York Times scribe Adam Sternberg, using a metric based on Academy Award-nominated performances, including actual acting nominatio...

I love dogs. Growing up an only child in the Midwest, my dog (I use the word "my" loosely, since, as a third-grader, I was not the one who paid for ...

Hollywood do-godders often wring their hands over the persistence of racism or sexism. Now there's a new scourge: breedism. According to Martin Scorse...

Just because you won't be in the Kodak Theater with all the Academy Award nominees, it doesn't mean you can't achieve some Oscar glory. Enter Moviefon...

Liam Neeson had to fight off more than just Arctic wolves this weekend; he also had to face the fearsome power of online group discounts. Nonetheless,...

The Shiznit is at it again. Last year, they went viral with spot-on parodies of the 2011 Oscar race, and now they're doing it again, giving "The Arti...

The much vaunted Oscar bounce ain't what it used to be. Within the last decade, a movie nominated for Best Picture could expect to see its grosses ...

When Jonah Hill's name was called out as an Oscar nominee Tuesday morning, there were audible rumblings of surprise and, dare we say, disapproval. ...

Hey, why shouldn't Michel Hazanavicius have earned a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for "The Artist"? What could be more original, in 2011,...

The nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were just announced, and as is always the case on "Oscar morning," there were glaring omissions.