Film Awards

Broadway Publicist: Sigourney Weaver's Bio Gaffe Is My Fault

As I wrote earlier today, Sigourney Weaver's Playbill bio for the hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike wrongly states that she won the Oscar for Aliens. Well, don't blame Siggy. The show's publicist, Rick Miramontez, from O & M Co., has issued a mea culpa. First, some background. His fir ... More >>

Could Argo Win Just One Oscar?

Meaning the Big One. Argo has been picking up so much steam lately--it copped the PGA, the Golden Globe, and the SAG--that it's looking like a much healthier Best Picture Oscar candidate than it did when they snubbed Ben Affleck for a Best Director nomination. As has been pointed out, Hollywood li ... More >>

Daniel Day-Lewis's Third Oscar?

If the protean Daniel Day-Lewis wins his third Oscar for Lincoln--which there's a much better chance of happening than Liz & Dick nabbing an Emmy--he'll be the first three-time Best Actor winner in the Academy's history. Other actors have won three Oscars, mind you, but not all for Best Actor. (Ja ... More >>

The Youngest and Oldest Oscar Acting Nominees Ever?

I started thinking those breakthroughs could simultaneously happen if both Quvenzhane Wallis and Emmanuelle Riva get nominated for Best Actress on January 10, when the Academy's list of chosen folk is announced. Wallis, now 9, has gotten acclaim for her startling turn as Hushpuppy in Beasts of the ... More >>

The 2012 Best Picture Nominees Will Be...

Since Miss Cleo was driven out of business years ago, the Gold Derby site had to fall back on asking various pundits like myself to start predicting what will win the Oscar for Best Picture next year. Alas, I'm still working on last year's predictions. (The Artist doesn't have a chance. Trust me! I ... More >>

Octavia Spencer Is Getting Her Breasts Done!

Yes, the Oscar front-runner for The Help thinks the help she needs is to get a rack lift. And you gotta love her for the honesty. As she tells Parade magazine about her post-Oscar plans:

In Documentaries, New York City Trumps Hollywood, Report Finds

Take that, Hollywood! In the battle for Oscars, New York City is beating Hollywood by a long shot -- at least in one category. A study released today from the Center for an Urban Future, a New York City-based think tank, shows that half of the films nominated for an Oscar in the documentary-film ... More >>

"Best Movie Of The Year"? I Saw It At Film Forum!

Roger Ebert called the Iranian melodrama A Separation "the best film of the year." What's more, it won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and it's nominated for two Oscars. And it's indeed remarkable -- a far cry from slick, bloated, soulless Hollywood fare.

Oscar Quiz! Oscar Quiz!

​Well, it's just one question, actually, and then a followup. Who's the only actress to have been nominated once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress and won both?

Transgender And Drag At The Oscars! A Fabulous Pictorial!

In Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close (above) convincingly plays a woman who dresses like a man in order to nab some employment in 19th-century Ireland. But it's the kind of stunt that can also nab you awards consideration.

Who Should Be The Oscar Host? Here Are My Picks

​Eddie Murphy has followed his homophobic pal Brett Ratner out the gay door, and now the Oscars are starting from square zero again, much like the Democrats did when John Edwards was revealed to have fathered a love child. So who should swoop in and save the show's ass? Naturally, I'm going ... More >>

CO-ED NAKED DANCING

A festival where less is more

Jack Lemmon Offered To Flash The Nurses

​When everyone's favorite actor, Jack Lemmon, was in the hospital dying about a decade ago, he was inspiringly uncomplaining and patient, according to Jack's actor son Chris Lemmon. But through all that impressive dignity, Jack managed to keep his bawdy humor intact. In fact, in his memoir, ... More >>

CAT AND MOUSE

Take a wild ride with the NYPD's drug squad

Joan Crawford Accepts Oscar For Anne Bancroft

christies.com​In 1963, the Best Actress race at the Oscars boiled down to a heated battle between Bette Davis for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? and Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker (though the other nominees, Katharine Hepburn, Lee Remick, and Geraldine Page, all gave sterling performanc ... More >>

The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Razzie Award "Winners"

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Angelina Jolie in a Michael Bay production. ​In the 30 years since MTV first hit the air, the music video has proven itself as a medium able to collapse high and low culture—or, ... More >>

Ricky Gervais Amazed By Emmy Nod For Golden Globes Gig

​When awards shows get nominated for awards, it's a little like a dog sniffing its own butt. And sure enough, the Emmys have nominated the Tonys, the Oscars, and the Golden Globes, all of which will probably end up competing for a Pulitzer! It's all so creepily incestual it's like a cult in ... More >>

CUCKOO CA-CHOO!

Have a picnic with Jack Nicholson

Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher: Another Oscar?

​Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a heavily researched, carefully made up film called The Iron Lady? Reeks of Oscar, right? Well, I know the answer.

Oscars 2011: Ranking the Red-Carpet Fashion Highs and Lows

You had us at beard. ​At Refinery 29's Oscar Viewing Party at the W Hotel in Union Square last night, we waited eagerly to be wowed by the celebs on the red carpet. Alas, that moment never came. We mostly shrugged, "meh"ed, and nodded. Not even Helena Bonham Carter, whose eccentricity has kept ... More >>

Three's Company With James Franco?

​Ok, get this, kids. The worst sitcom ever--except for My Mother The Car--has become James Franco's obsession to the point where he's threatening to take it to the stage and/or big screen. You see, Franco just did a Three's Company-related art installation, and the original show's creators w ... More >>

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

Is Leonardo DiCaprio the New De Niro?

​Who ever thought that little Leonardo DiCaprio from Growing Pains would emerge as one of the most sought-after actors of his generation? After showing enough quirk appeal to get an Oscar nomination with What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, he developed into heartthrob material, almost making us bel ... More >>

Sigourney Weaver Attacks The Oscars

​Avatar co-star Sigourney Weaver has said in an interview that James Cameron would have won the Oscar for Best Director--except "he didn't have breasts." This is outrageous!

Sigourney Weaver Attacks The Oscars

​Avatar co-star Sigourney Weaver has said in an interview that James Cameron would have won the Oscar for Best Director--except "he didn't have breasts." This is outrageous! If the Oscars were simply making a statement by declaring the first woman Best Director, then I guess the Directors Gu ... More >>

HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN

Avatar, 10 Best Picture nominations, long, boring speeches—yes!

HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN

Avatar, 10 Best Picture nominations, long, boring speeches—yes!

It's Meryl Vs. Sandra!

​Did anyone think the Best Actress Oscar race would boil down to a battle royale between the greatest actress of her generation, Meryl Streep, and Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock? No, but with both ladies' Golden Globes wins, that exactly what it's shaping up as. Mind you, I've always trum ... More >>

62 Oscar Best Song Pre-Nominees Include Tunes from Bruno, Brothers, and Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!

Movie award fever flares up again! If you think the expanded list of Best Picture nominees (from five to 10) with which the Academy will experiment in 2010 is an embarrassment of riches (or just an embarrassment), take a look at the list of 63 eligible Best Song contenders they released last week. ... More >>

Golden Globe Nominations Favor Up in The Air, Hurt Locker

​Movie awards fever proceeds apace with the Golden Globes nominations. The once-derided Hollywood Foreign Press Association prizes are now considered legit and a predictor of Oscar behavior, so the Best Motion Picture - Drama nominees -- NY/LA Critics' laureate The Hurt Locker , along with Ava ... More >>

What Was The Best Movie of The Decade?

​Was it Glitter? Gigli? No, let's stay away from the 'G' films. Instead, I'll toss out some of the decade's Best Picture Oscar winners, just as possible selections to crown from:

Oscar Times 10? Pros and Cons of the Expanded Best Picture Race

The MPAA have announced they'll nominate 10 rather than five Best Picture nominees next year, and the commentary has flown thick and fast. Each side has a point: Pro: Fans point out that in early years the Oscars frequently named ten or more nominees at a time. The fabled 1939 crop, for example, i ... More >>

Toyland

Jennifer Hudson+Robin Thicke

The French Connection

Pedophile Nazi Wins Oscar! Pedophile Priest Loses To Corpse!

How gay were the Oscars? Well, Queen Latifah sat with her trainer girlfriend; Hugh Jackman sat on Frank Langella's lap; Beyonce sang "Over The Rainbow"; Milk writer Dustin Lance Black and star Sean Penn gave stirring speeches about how God loves the gays; and kisses from that film were included in ... More >>

Oscar Night Reminder! It's Tonight!

No, it's not the actual Academy Awards that are tonight--that's this Sunday, as gays everywhere have known for a year--but this evening marks an even more spectacular gala: the me-hosted panel talking about the Oscars at the LGBT Center, as we span both gay heroes (Milk) and gay molesters (Doubt). T ... More >>

Best Oscar Party

Murray Hill has the Academy to thank

Thumbs Up For Hugh Jackman as Oscar Host

Read About The Divas!

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Looking back at Elia Kazan's scandalous Baby Doll

Penelopes Cruzes To The Gold?

Who You Calling a SAG?

Walk the Line Vs. Ray: Battle of the Oscar-Bait Music Biopics

Inside Academy Awards Buzz!

Operation Infinite Justice

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Malice in Wonderland

Joan Rivers, Bohemia, and the Oscars

NY Mirror

And the Winner Is . . .

Prize Fight