At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number of big surprises, not least in the top category. Spotlight was a surprise Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight, about the Boston journalists who exposed the scale of child sex abuse within the Catholic […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s Oscar nominations at a pre-dawn ceremony, here in Los Angeles. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel top the list, each receiving nine nods, with The Imitation Game close behind them on eight. Academy members have narrowed down their Best Picture list to eight, […]
In recent years, he’s hosted the Emmys and the Tonys and now, Neil Patrick Harris – currently starring in the box office chart topping Gone Girl– is to add the Oscars to his CV. He’s taking over from Ellen De Generes, who – as a safe pair of hands – brought in the highest ratings […]
300: Rise of an Empire hits the top spot after making £2,761,612 on its opening weekend. The American action film is a follow up to the 2007 film 300, which follows a fictionalised retelling of the Battle of Salamis, taking place before, during and after. Zack Snyder, who directed and co-wrote the original film, acts […]
Third week in the top spot for the computer animated, The Lego Movie which made another £3,266,594 and after three weeks on release has totalled £26,671,764 in cinema ticket sales. New in second place is the American thriller, Non-Stop, which made £2,652,364 on its opening weekend and stars Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Lupita […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has withdrawn the Oscar nomination from one of the contenders for Best Original Song at this year’s ceremony. The musician, Bruce Broughton, who wrote the song “Alone Yet Not Alone” – for the independent Christian film of the same name – is a former Academy governor and […]
Straight to the top spot last weekend was Martin Scorsese’s latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, the true story of Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, a wealthy stockbroker living the high life until his fall involving corruption, crime and the federal government. The film made £4,655,984 on its opening weekend in the UK, […]
The Academy that hands out the Oscars has announced four film-makers to receive honorary statuettes at the fifth annual Governor’s Awards ceremony in Hollywood in November; three actors and a costume designer. Honorary Oscars are being awarded to the comic, actor and writer Steve Martin, who has hosted the Oscar ceremony itself three times, the […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the Oscars, says the comedian and chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres will host next year’s awards ceremony. “I am so excited to be hosting the Oscars for the second time,” DeGeneres said in a statement. Her performance in 2007 earned her an Emmy nomination. The […]
The body that hands out the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has chosen its first black president. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who’s been an Academy governor in the Public Relations branch for more than twenty years, succeeds Hawk Koch, who’d served only one year as president, but couldn’t stand again because he’d […]