The 84th Annual Academy Awards ceremony was a night to remember, especially after comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made an unusual appearance on the Oscar red carpet. Cohen, the star of  the new movie The Dictator, arrived in character as General Aladeen, holding a golden urn that supposedly carried the ashes of late North Korean leader Kim [...]

The silent movie The Artist won a total of five awards at last night’s Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The cast and crew, including Uggie, the adorable Jack Russell who stole everyone’s hearts in the movie, went on stage to accept the award. The movie’s lead actor, Jean Dujardin, took Best Actor and Michel Hazavanicius won for [...]

Will Hugo take best picture? Will Brad Pitt claim best actor? If search is any indication of who the highly coveted golden statues will go to, then Google insights reveals your winners! The results they’ve gathered shines the spotlight on the people and pictures that Canadians are searching for the most on Google, leading up [...]

Monsieur Lazhar — Canada’s entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar — won the UPC audience award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival this past weekend.  The film, written and directed by Philippe Falardeau, is about an Algerian immigrant with a tragic past who steps in as a teacher at an elementary school after the previous teacher commits suicide. [...]

Uggie, who is quickly becoming the most famous living showbusiness canine, was on hand when the silent movie The Artist picked up yet another award on Tuesday night. He was joined by co-stars Jean Dujardin, who won a Golden Globe and a SAG award and is up for an Academy Award; Missi Pyle and James [...]

Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, leads the Academy Award nominations with 11, including Best Picture and Best Director. The  black and white silent film The Artist received 10 nominations, also including Best Picture and Best Director. Other motion pictures nominated for Best Picture are The Descendants, the recently released Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, [...]

Christian Bale ran into a little trouble while in China to promote to his state-backed Chinese film The Flowers of War, a 1930s war drama set in Nanjing. The Oscar-winning actor was attempting to pay a visit to a human rights lawyer, Chen Ghuangcheng, who has been living under house arrest for the past year. [...]

Since Brett Ratner and Eddie Murphy resigned from their posts as producer and host of next year’s Oscars, many were wondering who would fill those big shoes of entertaining Hollywood’s biggest and brightest event. Not to worry because Billy Crystal has saved the day! New producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer have officially announced that [...]

Brett Ratner, director of Tower Heist, submitted his resignation as a producer of the 84th annual Academy Awards a day after apologizing for using a gay slur at a recent screening of his latest film. Ratner, who got Eddie Murphy on board as 2012’s host, then issued an open letter to the entertainment industry in [...]

Telecast producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced via a press release that they’ve chosen the host for the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 26, 2012 — comedian Eddie Murphy. “Eddie is a comedic genius, one of the greatest and most influential live performers ever,” Ratner [...]

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