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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Theater, Steven Spielberg, Cedar Rapids (movie), William Shatner
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Oscars 2013: Follow the Academy Awards live on Twitter
The 85th Academy Awards are hours away, but social media is abuzz with winner projections, potential Oscar snubs and fashion faux pas. For film buffs and casual onlookers following the awards on a second screen, you can get access from the scene on...
Tags: Amour (movie), Screen Actors Guild Awards, Steven Spielberg, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Visual effects workers miffed after Oscar speech cut-off
Workers in California's beleaguered visual effects industry were left fuming Monday after a speech by Oscar-winning supervisor Bill Westenhofer was cut short -- by the ominous music of "Jaws." Westenhofer, who led the team at Rhythm & Hues that won a...
Tags: Academy Awards, Financially Distressed Companies, Bankruptcy, Economy, Business and Finance, Ang Lee
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Oscars 2013: Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz among night's surprises
Riding high on a late-inning surge of Oscar goodwill, "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee supplied one of Sunday night's most surprising outcomes: besting Steven Spielberg for director. Until just a few weeks ago — and with "Argo" director Ben Affleck...
Tags: Robert De Niro, Academy Awards, Argo (movie), Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg
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Oscars 2013: Ang Lee is worthy, but better than Steven Spielberg?
Now that the dust has settled and cold reality has replaced airy speculation, it's clearer than ever that as far as the 2013 best picture Oscar was concerned, Hollywood's directors gave and took away. Not content with being the powers on the set, the...
Tags: Academy Awards, Argo (movie), Steven Spielberg, The Hurt Locker (movie), Kathryn Bigelow
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Oscar 2013 -- Seth MacFarlane's party, Shirley Bassey's triumph!
Liz Smith"I THINK it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business," said director Sydney Pollack. WHILE first lady Michelle Obama lent herself to the opening of the Oscar envelope for best picture, bets were that she hoped the winner would turn out...Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Fred Astaire, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Bob Hope
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'Life of Pi,' 'Argo' win big at Oscars. NBC takes big fall.
After the coffee. Before getting the tuxedo to the cleaners. The Skinny: I kept my tweeting to a minimum during the Oscars. Just as New Year's Eve and St. Patrick's Day are amateur night to drinkers, the Oscars is amateur night for tweeters. Monday's...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, News Media, Television Industry, Ang Lee, The Hollywood Reporter
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Oscars 2013: Five things we learned from the awards season
The Oscars are over. (Or is Seth MacFarlane still singing? We turned off the TV.) "Argo" has its best picture trophy. Ben Affleck made his final self-deprecating acceptance speech. And the White House cashed in on its last awards season photo op. What...
Tags: Academy Awards, Argo (movie), Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey
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Book adaptations are big winners at Oscars
To find the inspiration behind the actors, actresses and others who hoisted Oscars last night, look no further than the works in your nearest library, bookstore or e-reader. The big winners were drawn from characters in adaptations that ranged from a mid-...
Tags: Academy Awards, Les Miserables (movie), Argo (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Ang Lee
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Backstage at the Oscars: Affleck, Clooney talk 'Argo'
Highlights from backstage at the Oscars: The “Argo” trio of Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov took the stage, and Affleck was asked when he felt was tipping point for his movie’s victory. “Michelle Obama,”...
Tags: Amour (movie), Theater, Les Miserables (movie), Jack Nicholson, Steve Martin
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Oscars 2013: Join our discussion about the Academy Awards [Video]
The Oscars saluted Hollywood’s best from the past year on Sunday night, honoring “Argo” for best picture, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence for lead actor and actress, and Ang Lee for director, to name only a few. Anne Hathaway&...
Tags: Theater, Les Miserables (movie), Daniel Day-Lewis, Marvin Hamlisch, Abraham Lincoln
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Oscars 2013: Hairstyles, the long and the short of it
Sunday night's 85th Academy Awards style was, as Times fashion critic Booth Moore pointed out, all about extremes. While Moore was referring to the complete red carpet looks -- the gowns, the jewels and the like -- one might have come to the same...
Tags: Academy Awards, Zoe Saldana, E! Entertainment Television, Inc., L.A. Confidential (movie), Awards and Prizes
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