Artist: Oscar

Madonna has been looking marvelous these days, hasn't she? Now that the MDNA singer has scored a Best Costume  Oscar nomination for her film  W.E ., we're sure the Material Girl will be pulling out all the stops on the Academy Awards red carpet next month. In anticipation of what the pop queen will wear for Hollywood's biggest night, join us as we look back at Madonna's fashion triumphs and serious missteps from Oscars past, and tell us your predictions for the pop icon's awards ensemble this year below (or hit us [...]

The Golden Globes, with their head-patting 'well, your song is quite good', must have been galling enough for singer-turned-director-at-leas t-in-her-head Madonna. The Oscars shortlist are crueller still , with no room even for best song nomination. In fact, WE gets just one shortlisting. For best costumes. To be fair, The Muppets are probably going to be shoo-in for Best Song, for Man Or Muppet, so it's probably a kindness that they're not expecting her to turn up. Besides, Madonna's not an idiot and must have seen her film, so she was able [...]

Melissa McCarthy gets a Best Supporting Actress nod for pooping in a sink, and not this lovely, erudite young lady? Not cool, Oscar. Not cool. Filed under: Film Has AIDS, The Dilemma Tagged: Moneyball, Snubs, The Oscars

The 2012 Academy Awards are fast approaching. They'll air on February 26, so you have a few weeks to catch up on viewing the nominated films. This year's batch includes a few expected nominees: "Hugo," "The Artist," "Moneyball," and "The Descendants" all made out with several expected nominations, but there are also a few surprises. Late release "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" made the Best Picture cut and only two songs were deemed worthy enough to make best original song nominations. Noticeably missing from that category is Golden Globe winner Madonna's [...]

Proof that no one is better than Flight of the Conchords (and in this case Bret McKenzie) at parodying genre from the inside, the incredibly hum-able, endlessly catchy, utterly hilarious and gorgeous "Man or Muppet" has been nominated for an Oscar. If this doesn't win, I'll be slightly less pissed than when Elliott Smith lost. (By the way, this is the ONLY reason to watch the Oscars)

Remember last year at the Academy Awards when Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for Best Original Score for The Social Network ? That was fun to see, wasn't it? Sadly it won't be happening again this year. It looks like the Academy is over and done with dark, brooding, digital, industrial scores and is going back to honoring the classic sounding scores. Reznor and Ross didn't get nominated for their work on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo while legendary composers like John Williams ( War [...]

Filed under: News , Awards Disney The 84th Academy Awards nomination list is here! And out of the 39 tunes shortlisted for Best Original Song, only two have made the cut. 'Man or Muppet' from Jason Segel 's ' The Muppets ' and 'Real in Rio' from the animated feature ' Rio ' are the only two original tracks deemed worthy of an Oscar in 2012. "I think that 'Man or Muppet' should be [...]

Congratulations to 2012 Best Picture Nominee.... WAR HORSE!!! Bring home the gold, you magnificent equine bastard! Filed under: Film Has AIDS, The Dilemma Tagged: The Oscars, WARHORSE

Congratulations to 2012 Best Picture Nominee.... WAR HORSE!!! Bring home the gold, you magnificent equine bastard! Filed under: Film Has AIDS, The Dilemma Tagged: The Oscars, WARHORSE

The names of the nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards , hosted by Billy Crystal, were announced on Tuesday morning. Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” leads the pack with eleven nominations, but it was an especially pleasant morning for Woody Allen : “Midnight in Paris” received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Allen won the director prize 34 years ago for “Annie Hall,” the best picture winner that also netted Allen and Marshall Brickman the original screenplay Oscar. [...]

The 2012 Oscar nominations , which include War Horse, The Artist, Moneyball, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Hugo, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as the Best Picture contenders pretty much confirms the notion that this has been a terrible year for "good" movies. That's a putrid list. The biggest snub, however, has to be The Adventures of Tin Tin not being nominated for Best Animated feature, while the likes of Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots were. Good lord.

(Tomorrow at 8:30 AM on the East Coast, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will announce its nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards.  The annoucements will be made by the moderately attractive  Jennifer Lawrence .  Sadly we did not have the opportunity to speak with Ms. Lawrence, so we asked our resident film expert Franklin Laviola to give us his predictions for the nominations.  Check back tomorrow morning to see how accurate he was.) Note: In categories where predicted nominees are not listed in alphabetical order, they are listed in order of the [...]

The other day, a film-critic friend and I had dissenting opinions -- several of them -- and our healthy debates, naturally, turned to the subject of George Clooney, one of my favorite actors. The other guy's take on the soon-to-be-quadruple Oscar nominee for acting (and likely two-time winner come February 26) was one I've heard countless times: "Doesn't George Clooney always play himself?" Wait, that guy he was playing in Syriana was George Clooney? I do not think so, and if he was, then he gained 30 pounds and f**ked up his back on [...]

The Academy Awards are commonly referred to as the gay Super Bowl, and for good reason: they each represent the culmination of months of grueling, bone-crunching competition, tend to feature misguided musical numbers, and are ultimately about impossibly wealthy people fighting over trophies while the rest of us cheer from the breadlines. In short: it's [...]

This afternoon as I was purchasing my ticket to see Young Adult (which opened today in Australia), I found myself thinking about the strange beast that the film's star Charlize Theron calls her career. Never solidly A-list and not exactly B-list, the actress has spent the last decade or so with one leg up and the other right below. Though she looks great straddling both sides of mid-celebrity, her filmography is clunky indeed. Yes, she's famous, but she never quite became a marquee star, someone who can send bodies flocking to the cinema. (Quick! Name [...]

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Can Oscar resist a Gallic beauty in a tux? I hope not. It's beginning to look a lot like it will be yet another predictable year at the Oscars. Although the nominations won't be announced until Tuesday, January 24, a clear pattern has already emerged. After the January 13 Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics Choice Awards and the Hollywood Foreign Press's Golden Globe Awards two days later, the 2012 Oscar frontrunners are all but set in stone. Sound familiar? It should. In recent years, there's been little [...]

You'd better sit down, kids. I'm about to make a declaration that's certain to leave my dear readers gasping or shouting "Blasphemy!" in unison at the computer screen. Had Meryl Streep won her third Academy Award way back when she truly deserved to (for 2002's Adaptation , or 2006's The Devil Wears Prada ), she might not even be in the Oscar discussion for The Iron Lady , the new biopic in which she steps into the heels and wears the bouffant hairdo of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. [...]

You'd think that starring as J. Edgar Hoover, one of the most controversial men of the 20th century, in J. Edgar would be Leonardo DiCaprio's ticket to the podium on Oscar night. Right? Wrong. Probably not with Brad Pitt ( Moneyball ) and George Clooney ( The Descendants ) in the running. And definitely not with Meryl Streep expected to finally bring home the gold for the third time for playing former British Prime Minister [...]

Until a few hours ago, it had been six months since I last stood on Melbourne soil, and now that I'm back, it feels just like we never said goodbye. The third miracle of 2012? Not exactly. I had no doubt that my love affair with Melbourne would pick up right where it left off. In fact, I think I might be even more enamored of Melbourne the third time around. Here's why. 1. Immigration Immigration Immigration After location location location (and mine, at 572 St. Kilda Road, is exactly what it [...]