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Awards || BY Jen Yamato || 11 09 2011 7:40 PM

Let's Try This Again: Brian Grazer to Produce Oscars

It's been quite a day, and quite a week for Oscar watchers, but just imagine what Academy president Tom Sherak and Co. have been dealing with on the inside of the RatnerGate hullaballoo! They're probably thanking their lucky stars for Oscar-winning uber-producer Brian Grazer, who has agreed to step in to patch together the 2012 Academy Award telecast. Hit the jump to read invisible sighs of relief between the lines of the AMPAS official press release.

Awards || BY Jen Yamato || 05 25 2011 7:30 PM

Will Oscar Online Voting Tempt Academy Award Hackers?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced to its members that online voting is in the works for next year's Oscar race -- and could possibly be implemented as early as this year. But will the digital move make the Oscars susceptible to hackers and disrupt the Academy Awards race as we know it?