Has it already been a year since Hugh Jackman performed his fantastic tribute to the Best Picture nominees, all while singing and slinging himself over ridiculous props? Good on you, Mr. Jackman, for getting through the opening monologue without any…
Barbara Walters announced on The View yesterday that after thirty years, she’s ending her annual Oscar special. Not to fear, she’ll continue with “The Top 10 Most Fascinating People”, but as for the pre-awards commentary, she felt that she’d “been…
I have now seen all of the Best Picture oscar nominees and I think it would be worthwhile to discuss each of their virtues and flaws. If you agree or disagree, post comments and we’ll get a discussion/debate going
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Alec Baldwin’s 14-year-old daughter Ireland (remember her, from the the “pig” cell phone debacle) called 911 this morning after the two had a fight. Apparently after they had it out, as they so often seem to, Baldwin took an Ambien…
This is the first year with the number of Best Picture noms doubled:
Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Up is only…
Turkey Day hasn’t even rolled around yet, but there’s already speculation about this year’s Academy Award nominees. We at Ology have decided to throw our hat in the ring (but only for the fun categories, natch.)
Best Supporting Actor…
Inspired by a recent discussion over on Tumblr (shameless plug!) about Hitchcock’s Rope, I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite long takes in cinema.
A couple of words about the long take: it’s a great director’s…
Tropes & Props is a weekly column that details the various objects (collective word “props”) utilized in on-screen storytelling, tracking their significance from the writer’s mind to the character’s soul.
Last week, we covered the more intangible objects, like virginity…
Radar Online reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 134 artists and executives to join its voting ranks of nearly 6,000.
Among those are, as mentioned above, Hugh Jackman, Emily Blunt, and Michael Cera; in…
This season, the Academy has decided to allow 10 Best Picture nominees instead of the recent norm of 5. In early years of the award, the number of nominees was not locked down and varied widely. From the Gold Derby…
