The Oscars 2012

Oscar Recap: A Year Where Older Is Better

John Farr | Posted 04.28.2012
John Farr

After the 2011 awards, when it was so painfully obvious that the Academy was trying to reinvent itself for a younger audience, this year older proved to be better.

Stars Hit Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Posted 02.27.2012

While the Oscars may have ended (and quite early, too!), celebrities' night has just begun. Now all the statues have been handed out, it's time for Ho...

Meryl Streep Academy Awards 2012 Best Actress Winner

Posted 02.27.2012

In what might have been the tightest race of Oscar night, Meryl Streep beat Viola Davis to win Best Actress at the 84th annual Academy Awards. With 17...

Jean Dujardin Academy Awards 2012 Best Actor Winner

Posted 02.27.2012

C'est incroyable! Jean Dujardin won Best Actor at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night for his charming lead role in "The Artist." "I lov...

Octavia Spencer Academy Awards 2012 Best Supporting Actress Winner

Posted 02.27.2012

Octavia Spencer plowed through awards season as the frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress, and the veteran character actress didn't disappoint on Os...

Academy Awards 2012: Favorite Foreign Born Oscar Winners

Posted 02.23.2012

After Jean Dujardin took home the Golden Globe and SAG Award for his performance in "The Artist," everyone had the same thought: This Frenchie -- c'es...

Oscar's All Time Best Dressed

Posted 02.22.2013

Sometimes, Oscar attendees decide to go against the convention of dressing like a crazy person on Halloween (Bjork, Cher) and actually look fantastic....

Worst Dressed Oscar Attendees

Posted 02.22.2013

Congratulations, folks! The 85th annual Academy Awards are on the horizon! So to tide you over until Hollywood's biggest night, Moviefone is pulling o...

The Oscars 2012: Is The Academy Ageist?

Posted 02.21.2012

From Gwenyth Paltrow to Marion Cotillard to Natalie Portman, recent conventional wisdom might lead you to believe that the predominantly old, white an...

Stars Makes The Rounds At Vanities Party

Posted 04.22.2012

The Oscars aren't until Sunday night, but that doesn't mean Hollywood's best and brightest have to wait until then to party. Vanity Fair kicked off Os...

Study: Oscar Voters Are Mostly White Men

AP | Posted 02.19.2012

LOS ANGELES -- A study of Academy Awards voters has found that it's not a very diverse group that hands out Hollywood's highest honors. The Los Angel...

Will the Kodak Theatre Lose the "Kodak?"

Posted 02.01.2012

The Oscar folks have been making noise about relocating from the Kodak Theatre that was built solely to host the Academy Awards. But even if the Oscar...

Tom Cruise Announced As Oscar Presenter

Posted 02.01.2012

He might not be as cool as the cast of "Bridesmaids," but Tom Cruise will still hit the Oscar stage later this month as a presenter. The Academy of...

The Oscar Bounce: What's An Oscar Nomination Worth At The Box Office?

The Huffington Post | Gary Susman | Posted 03.26.2012

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 ...

Christopher Plummer Doesn't Know Jonah Hill, Stopped Drinking Hard Liquor

Posted 01.25.2012

Christopher Plummer is familiar with the salted-hair chaps vying for this year's Best Supporting Actor, except for -- surprise! -- the group's sole yo...

'The Artist': How Did a Dialogue-Free Movie Earn a Screenplay Oscar Nomination?

The Huffington Post | Gary Susman | Posted 01.24.2012

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

Patton Oswalt Reacts To Oscar Snub: Tweets Alternate Reality

Posted 01.24.2012

It seems Albert Brooks isn't the only joker in Tinsletown -- other snub-ees have been proving that they will get the last laugh. "Young Adult" st...

Was 2011 The Year Of The Woman At The Movies?

The Huffington Post | Gary Susman | Posted 01.23.2012

Another awards season, another round of complaints that there are few good roles for actresses, unless you're Meryl Streep. And yet, this year's award...

Holy Highball, Ricky -- the Golden Globes Might Actually Matter!

John Lopez | Posted 03.11.2012
John Lopez

If you're the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel gambling addict who likes to play the spread on the Oscars, the Golden Globes might kind-of, sort-of, mean something.

Academy Awards 2012: Oscar Ballot Revealed

Christopher Rosen | Posted 01.05.2012

For those of you who have always wanted to be an Oscar voter ("Yes, 'Breaking Dawn' should win Best Adapted Screenplay!"), here's something that might...