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Smash hit Barbie came away with a glittering trove of Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning but fans of the film claimed one thing – or maybe a pair of things – were missing.

On the night of Monday, January 15, 2024, my beloved father-in-law, John Frederick Hamlin Jr., passed from this earth into God’s arms at the age of 92, just two months shy of 93. He went peacefully with his daughters and grandchildren by his side.

Comedian Kevin Hart says he will never host the Oscars because it is no longer a “comedy-friendly environment.”

Los Angeles — A 97-year-old Mel Brooks accepted a lifetime achievement Oscar in Hollywood on Tuesday, more than half a century after he won his only Academy Award with “The Producers.”

I’m thrilled they brought Kimmel back. Hollywood’s slow-motion suicide is a true joy to witness. Let Jimmy Kimmel host all the things!

Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host of the Academy Awards for the second straight year and fourth time overall.

Jeanell English, the former executive VP of impact and inclusion for the Oscars, quit in a huff over micro- and macro-aggressions.

NEW YORK — Hattie McDaniel’s best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar, and it would be half a century before another Black woman again won an acting award.

Leslie Jones is claiming that fellow comedian Chris Rock “had to go to counseling with his daughters” after actor Will Smith smacked him across the face at the Oscars last year.

Actor Sean Penn offered a bizarre take on last year’s Oscars scene where Chris Rock slapped Will Smith, claiming that it never would have happened if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was present at the event.

A prominent Hollywood awards columnist is pushing Sound of Freedom for Oscars contention, as the anti-child trafficking drama has emerged as the surprise box-office success of the summer.

Actress Jameela Jamil, a hardcore woke advocate, has taken a surprising turn by coming out against gender-neutral award categories.

Donnie Yen slammed a petition that called for his removal from the Oscars over his support for China.

Every totalitarian movement needs its Orwellian euphemisms, and Big Trans is no exception. Case in point: “gender confirmation” and “gender affirmation,” which are now ubiquitous in the media. Even Wikipedia automatically directs searches for “sex change operation” to the page

The “free” $126,000 gift bags that were handed out to Hollywood A-list Oscars attendees also came with a hefty tax bill, according to reports.

Hu Xijin, a top Chinese propagandist and former editor of the state-run Global Times, triggered a torrent of ridicule Monday for crediting the “Chinese cultural genes” of actress Michelle Yeoh for her Best Actress Academy Award.

The Malaysian television network TV3 is facing days of ongoing condemnation at home after censoring the bodies of Hollywood actresses Jessica Chastain and Halle Berry during a news report on Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Malaysian to win an Oscar.

The basement-rated Academy Awards not only put on a terrible show every year, these idiots always blow the In Memoriam segment. They blew it so badly this year that I can hardly believe it.

Tom Cruise planned to attend the Oscars until he learned Judd Apatow was helping Jimmy “Ratings Poison” Kimmel write the monologue.

Newly minted Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis has announced she is giving her best supporting actress Oscar statuette “they/them” pronouns in honor of her transgender “daughter” Ruby.

With a pathetic 18.7 million viewers, it’s official: the Academy Awards are doornail dead.

Nobody likes to lose. Especially when your entire professional work is on display and you get beaten very publicly by an opponent. Just ask Angela Bassett.

Following yet another disastrously low-rated Academy Awards, acclaimed filmmaker and screenwriter Paul Schrader offered his own morning-after analysis, declaring that “the Oscars mean less each year” due to the Academy’s financial challenges and “scramble to be woke.”

As always, I watched the Academy Awards red carpet so you didn’t have to. This year, there were exceptional looks from some of the biggest talent in Hollywood and some duds from try-hards, wannabes, and has-beens.

Indian actor Ram Charan, who starred in the Oscar-winning historical action film “RRR,” thanked his unborn child during a red carpet interview on Sunday for bringing the movie “so much luck” during award season.

A U.N. high commissioner used Ke Huy Quan’s Oscar win to lever in some politics, insisting migrant boats “carry big talent”.

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony host Jimmy Kimmel has been derided for singling out Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai during Sunday night’s show, with critics saying his exchange with the Taliban survivor ranking amongst “the worst they had ever seen.”

The 2023 Oscars In Memoriam segment on Sunday night has drawn criticism for those Hollywood names left unregarded including Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino, Charlbi Dean, and Leslie Jordan. To name a few.

Actress Michelle Yeoh appeared to take a subtle jab at CNN Don Lemon’s recent comment that women over 40 have passed their prime. 

Actor Hugh Grant had an awkward interview on the champagne carpet at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, referring to the event as a “vanity fair,” then giving literal answers to questions without offering any embellishment.

The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

In the evening’s most explicitly political moment, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-director Daniel Scheinert defended drag queens and drag children while accepting his Oscar for best director Sunday at the 95th annual Academy Awards.

In a sharp rebuke to the Oscars, Tom Cruise and James Cameron were both conspicuously absent at the 95th annual Academy Awards.

“The Goonies” star Ke Huy Quan celebrated the “American Dream” during his Oscars acceptance speech on Sunday after citing his journey from a boat to a refugee camp as the son of South Vietnamese immigrants.

Jamie Lee Curtis thanked her male-t0-female transgender “daughter” Ruby in her Oscar acceptance speech Sunday after winning the supporting actress award for the indie sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered a scathing roast of the Academy and actor Will Smith over last year’s infamous slap.