Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne will look to take home his second golden statuette in two years when he plays transgender artist Lili Elbe in this year’s upcoming film The Danish Girl.
Actor Sean Penn unapologetically responded to questions about his Alejandro Iñárritu green card Oscars joke on Saturday in Beverly Hills, CA, and instead opted to blame a “xenophobic” country for the controversy.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor gave his own version of the Academy Awards during a UN session in New York this week. The “Oscars for Maintenance of International Peace and Security” mockingly awarded Iran, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinians with Oscars in its very own special categories.
The 87th annual Academy Awards were a bit of a letdown; there were no real surprises in any of the major categories, winners’s acceptance speeches got too political, and there was a shortage of good performances (apart from an outstanding turn from Lady Gaga channeling Julie Andrews).
Sunday night’s Academy Awards was littered with political commentary, with Best Director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu no exception as he dedicated Birdman’s Best Picture win to his fellow Mexicans, “who live in Mexico.” Iñárritu’s comments echo prior statements made by last year’s Best Director and fellow Mexican, Alfonso Cuarón, slamming Mexican government officials over systematic corruption.
The patriotic film The American Sniper was nominated for six Oscars, astonishing fans and critics alike. But why is it surprising that a film honoring an American hero would be celebrated in the capital of the American movie business? The fact is, despite a few recent signs of dawning good sense—think Zero Dark Thirty, on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and Argo, about a successful CIA operation—Hollywood still tends to spurn patriotism on the silver screen and to celebrate truly unsavory characters and ideology, as long as they’re on the Left.
There are many reasons to celebrate Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar last night – from his charming and refreshingly brief acceptance speech to the fact that the award didn’t go to Benedict “This is what a feminist looks like” Cumberbatch – but
Citizenfour, the HBO documentary about notorious NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, picked up the Oscar for Best Documentary during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
The HBO documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 picked up the Oscar for Best Short-Subject Documentary at Sunday night’s 87th annual Academy Awards.
HOLLYWOOD, California—A planned protest over the lack of diversity in the film industry by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) has been canceled. The group will instead seek direct dialogue with Hollywood’s central authority, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Apple teamed up with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese for its latest iPad commercial, which will air during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
Breitbart News will be live-blogging and commenting on tonight’s Oscar ceremony until the bitter end, which will probably be sometime tomorrow. Latest updates at the top. — 12:06 – It’s Over… Closing Thoughts… By tomorrow everyone will have already forgotten
Nominees who fail to bring home an Oscar this Sunday night will still be receiving gifts that are valued at more than $160,000, according to a report from CNN.
Analysts from Crowdpac, a group that gathers campaign finance data, have attempted to rate this year’s Best Picture nominees from liberal to conservative based on the political donations of those behind the film’s productions.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Al Sharpton-led National Action Network is set to hold a protest Sunday night outside the 87th annual Academy Awards near Hollywood’s Dolby Theater, over what it claims is a lack of diversity in the film business.
Street artist Plastic Jesus is up to his old tricks. On Thursday morning, a life-size replica of an Oscar statue bent over and snorting two lines of cocaine was placed on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, ahead of Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
While film’s all-stars rush to beat the cut-off music during acceptance speeches every year at the Oscars, it’s obvious and visibly frustrating for some that the academy doesn’t allocate enough time to dish out all those “thank yous.”
Over the last few months Breitbart News has analyzed the performance of director Ana DuVernay’s “Selma,” both at the box office and in the Awards Derby, through the lens of an America completely exhausted by nearly three years of unrelenting,
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) is upset with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs over the perceived lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominees, and he is demanding an in-person meeting over the issue.
With the Academy Awards just one week away, nominees are busy fretting about dresses, fitting tuxedoes, and finalizing acceptance speeches. On Oscar night, winners will be toasted, achievements will be lauded, and some films may even get a “bump” at
Football’s biggest night of the year is unquestionably the Super Bowl. Preliminary ratings show that Sunday’s game hit a record high with 72% of televisions watching. That should add up to somewhere around 115 million viewers and an all-time record.
A story about tremendous loss, heartbreak, addiction, forgiveness, and recovery, Cake is a beautiful and inspiring film driven by a note-worthy performance by Jennifer Aniston.
The cast and crew of Selma will march with local residents in Alabama on Sunday at an event commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
It wasn’t just Oprah Winfrey‘s “Selma” and the late-Roger Ebert who felt Oscar’s snub after Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar Nominations, so too did all of mainstream America. Other than director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” which is expected
Oprah Winfrey’s “Selma” took a pretty harsh beating Thursday morning as nominations were announced for the 87th annual Oscar nominations. The civil rights drama was blanked in every major category, including Best Actor, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Score. (Full list
The Academy is slated to spend $5.5 million on advertising for the 2015 Academy Awards both on television and on social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, according to an advertising agency report. The show’s presenter, Neil Patrick Harris, who
