Academy Awards - The Oscars

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• AMPAS Announces 2012 Student Academy Award Winner
15 May 2012 at 1:13pm
Attention, Hollywood! Your next generation has arrived. Ten students from nine U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as winner in the Academy's 39th Annual Student Academy Awards Competition. In the past, winners of the Student Academy Awards have received a total of 46 Oscar nominations, including last year's Live Action Short Film nominees Hallvar Witzo and Max Zahle. The awards ...

• Video: Oscar-winner: Obama saved lives with same-sex marriage stance
16 May 2012 at 1:28pm
Dustin Lance Black, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for the film "Milk," said that President Obama saved lives by announcing his support for same-sex marriage.

• Oscar-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin to adapt Steve Jobs bestselling bio
16 May 2012 at 7:47am
Aaron Sorkin won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Social Network.

• Echoes Of Old Hollywood At The 84th Academy Awards
14 May 2012 at 8:06pm
When Christopher Plummer, at age 82, won the best supporting actor Oscar at Sunday's 84th Annual Academy Awards for his performance in??Beginners, his acceptance speech, like Oscar winners??The Artist??and??Hugo, was resplendent with Old Hollywood grace and charm. "You're only two years older than me, darling; where have you been all my life?," he began while ...

• "Social Network" writer to pen Steve Jobs film script
16 May 2012 at 2:08pm
Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind "The Social Network" will write the script for a film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

• Why Michael Fassbender Wasn't Oscar Nominated
15 May 2012 at 7:50am
On January 24 when the 84th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced, the omission that I found most glaring was in the Best Actor category as Michael Fassbender wasn't singled out for his revelatory turn in Shame. Yes, the penis movie. But it was so much more than that.

• Student Oscar winners announced, AFI tops list
15 May 2012 at 4:44pm
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The American Film Institute, USC, UCLA, NYU and Columbia were among the schools that will be represented at the 2012 Student Academy Awards ceremony on June 9. Those schools were home to some of the 10 students who were named winners of this year's Student Oscars, which the Academy announced on Tuesday. Winners were announced in the alternative, animation, documentary ...

• Steve Jobs biopic lands Aaron Sorkin as screenwriter
16 May 2012 at 1:08pm
Sony Pictures has hired Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for its upcoming biopic on Steve Jobs.

• Three-Time Academy Award®-Winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood to Launch F...
30 Apr 2012 at 8:04am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- HSN, the leader in multi-channel retail, announced today the addition of three-time Academy Award®-winning Hollywood costume designer Colleen Atwood ...

• PR: GKids Announces English Language Voice Cast for "A Cat in Paris", Opening...
16 May 2012 at 3:22pm
GKIDS ANNOUNCES THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VOICE CAST FOR ACADEMY AWARD

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