Maybe instead of soliciting advice from Judd Apatow, this year's Academy Award co-host (and new Twitter user) James Franco should be asking an actual former Oscar host for advice. Like Chris Rock, who in a new interview admitted that he almost got into a fight because of his stage material. Fortunately, Courtney Love was there to save him.
Maybe James Franco is a little more worried about co-hosting this year's Oscars than he originally led on. In a new video, the actor frantically (well, this is as frantic as anyone has ever seen James Franco) seeks hosting pointers from Pineapple Express scribe -- and Producers Guild Awards host -- Judd Apatow. Naturally, this advice covers the perennial appropriateness of cunnilingus jokes at black tie events. You're going to want to see this for yourself.
Oscar season is coming down to the wire, folks, and for once, all of America has something at stake: A free MacBook Air. Or a free iPod. Or other cherished prizes offered in Movieline's Statuesque Oscar Picks sweepstakes. Have you signed up yet? Grab your friends and let me show you how it's done.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Actor nominee Jesse Eisenberg!
Perhaps in response to all those people left stymied by Hereafter's Oscar nomination for visual effects (especially when Tron: Legacy got shut out of the category, poor thing), Warner Bros. have released a shot-by-shot reel showing how VFX supervisor Michael Owens and Scanline VFX put together that nine-minute opening tsunami sequence. And when you see how the live-action parts came together combining CG, green screen, water tanks, and on-location photography -- well, "Oscar-nominated Hereafter" doesn't sound so silly anymore.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams!
I know what you've been thinking for the last, oh, 70 years or so: "If only the Oscars would class up their game and maybe hit Papyrus on the way home and rustle up some more colorful, indelible stationery on which to deploy the winners' names." Holler! Your prayers are answered, and there's awesome paper-stock porn video to prove it after the jump.
Welcome to the penultimate edition of Movieline's Oscar Index, your bulletproof weekly guide to the ups, downs, spins, twists, turns, bumps, bruises and other noteworthy happenings in the 2010-11 awards race. Our Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics has issued its latest breakdown of the current competition, and it's... volatile (to say the least). Let's have a look:
In this very spot on Tuesday, you read about how a stuttering expert from the University of New Hampshire was just the latest person to profess his or her love for The King's Speech. Now there's this: "One in 20 children stutter at some point; one in 100 go on to a lifetime of stuttering. Sixty-eight million people around the world stutter," said Jane Fraser, president of The Stuttering Foundation, in a press release. "If you ask the stuttering community what movie has helped them the most, The King's Speech would surely receive at least 68 million votes." For the sake of The Social Network, hopefully they're not all Academy members.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Director nominees Joel and Ethan Coen!
When an Oscar winner proceeds with a cursory speech about agents, directors, producers, and co-stars, it's easy to forget why we wait all year for the ceremony. However, once every few years an an angel of hilarious rancor descends into the Kodak Theater, adding snide flair to these nominally staid acceptance speeches. Here are the 8 best moments in cynical Oscar acceptance; some are more lighthearted (and funnier) than others, but all have a lasting aftertaste.
As Louis deduced on Monday, it turns out the whole "Whoopi Goldberg was snubbed by the New York Times in their piece about African-American Oscar winners!" controversy was nothing more than a case of bad reading comprehension. "The error lies with those who are reading the story incorrectly," wrote a spokesperson for the Times in an e-mail to EW. "The point of the piece was not to name every black actor or actress who has been awarded an Oscar, it was to draw a comparison between the number who won prior to 2002 (the year Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won) and those who have won since." No word yet on whether Elisabeth Hasselbeck will renew her subscription to the Gray Lady. [EW]
After an inaugural barnburner featuring a historic Oscarcast and a packed house of 200 viewers, Movieline has officially re-teamed with 92YTribeca to present our second annual Oscar Viewing Party in New York. Tickets are on sale now -- prepare your tux or evening gown for the night and read on for details.
Move over Queen Elizabeth II and Andy Rooney, there's a new King's Speech champion in town. Sheryl Gottwald, a professor of speech who specializes in stuttering at the University of New Hampshire, says the Oscar front-runner perfectly illustrates the hard-road that must be taken to overcome stuttering. "The emotional turmoil that dealing with stuttering causes was represented just beautifully," she said in a press release. "Encouragement, building his sense of self and sense of self-esteem was such a big piece of King George's treatment, and it's still a big piece of what we do today." What random person will profess their love for The King's Speech next? Stay tuned...
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Supporting Actor nominee Geoffrey Rush!
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