Posts Tagged ‘Academy Award Oscars’

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03-02-2012

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Weekend Roundtable: Who Should Host the Oscars Next Year?

Weekend Roundtable: Who Should Host the Oscars Next Year?

After the complete disaster that was this past Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast, it’s clear that the Academy needs to take major steps to revamp the ceremony. It can no longer fall back on dragging Billy Crystal out of retirement when other plans fall through. His hosting this year was simply dreadful. With that in mind, let’s use today’s Roundtable to offer our suggestions for people who might make better hosts next year.
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02-28-2012

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Statuesque: The Good, the Bad and the Horrid of Oscars 2012

Statuesque: The Good, the Bad and the Horrid of Oscars 2012

It’s a wonder why we subject ourselves to the Oscars year after year. I guess that somewhere, deep down inside, I hope that the show will get better. But then I hear those ominous words, “Billy Crystal is hosting for the eighteenth time,” and I cringe. Still, this year’s ceremony had some rather memorable moments packed within the bowels of an otherwise bloated, misguided show of Hollywood excess.
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02-27-2012

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscars Postmortem

Statuesque: 2012 Oscars Postmortem

I want to once again thank all of our great readers who joined us at last night’s Oscar Live-Blog for making the evening such a good time. If it weren’t for you, quite frankly, that trainwreck of an awards show wouldn’t have been watchable at all.
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02-24-2012

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Oscars 2012 Live-Blog (with Contests)!

Oscars 2012 Live-Blog (with Contests)!

Here we go! The big Oscar show airs this Sunday, February 26th at 8:30 PM EST on ABC. Join us here starting with the official pre-show red carpet special at 7:00 PM. We’ll be live-blogging the entire event, and offering you the chance to win some free Blu-ray goodies. With each one of these live-blogs that we do, we refine the process a little more. We’ve made some improvements this time that should make the contests go much smoother and enhance your chances of winning.

Please read after the page break for the contest rules and information on how to claim a prize.
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Weekend Roundtable: Best and Worst Oscar Songs

Weekend Roundtable: Best and Worst Oscar Songs

In case you hadn’t heard, a little award show called the Oscars is this weekend. We may have mentioned it once or twice around here recently. Keeping with the theme, today’s Roundtable is all about the best and worst songs that have ever been nominated for Academy Awards.
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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture Categories

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture Categories

We’ve finally made it to the Best Picture nominees. As we work our way to the prediction for the grand prize of the evening, let’s also take a look at the Best Animated Picture and Best Foreign Language Film races.
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02-23-2012

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Writing and Directing

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Writing and Directing

This Oscar prediction post will be a mash-up of sorts. I was going to take the time to guess who will win in the short film categories, but really, how many of us are going to see those films anyway? If we’re being completely honest, I’d just be pulling my guesses out of thin air since I haven’t seen them either. Instead, we’ll talk about the writing and directing categories.
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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Acting Categories

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Acting Categories

In this post, we come to the categories that most people care about, which are tucked further back and spread throughout the telecast just to make sure that you watch the whole thing. Let’s take a look at the four acting categories and see if we can suss out the winners.
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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Sound Categories

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Sound Categories

The Oscars are only days away and I’ve found myself running through the nominees, wondering who will take home the statuettes. I have no real reason for caring as much as I do about these awards, but something deep inside me wants to, at some point, predict every category right. In this post, we’ll discuss the sound-related categories.
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02-22-2012

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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories

It’s Oscar week, and that means that it’s time to make some guesses about who will take home awards on Sunday night. I’ll start with the visual categories. So many pretty films, so little time… Let’s get to it, shall we?
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