Academy Awards - The Oscars

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• Oliver Stone wins Academy Award for 'Platoon' - Great Oscar Moments
10 Feb 2012 at 2:41pm
Oliver Stone won his second Oscar in 1986 for directing 'Platoon.' Elizabeth Taylor presented him with his award - see video.

• Oliver Stone wins Academy Award for 'Platoon' - Oscar History (Video)
10 Feb 2012 at 5:31pm
Oliver Stone won his second Oscar in 1986 for directing 'Platoon.' Elizabeth Taylor presented him with his award - see video.

• The First-Ever Academy Awards® Sanctioned Oscar® Sunday Online Party Invitati...
9 Feb 2012 at 3:17pm
Marc Friedland, the designer of the Academy Award winners? envelope, has designed the first-ever collection of Academy sanctioned invitations for Oscar Sunday viewing parties, which is now immediately available to download exclusively on Evite Postmark, announced Hans Woolley, President of Evite and Marc Friedland, Founder and Creative Director of Marc Friedland Couture Communications.

• Oscar isn?t a grouch, he?s pretty romantic. New Blu-ray Academy Award winners...
10 Feb 2012 at 1:37pm
The countdown to Oscar's big night continues with just two more weeks until the Academy Awards, but it can be Oscar night every night in your living room with the release of so many Oscar-winning and nominated films on Blu-ray and DVD.

• Oscar's favorite costumes up close at FIDM
10 Feb 2012 at 5:09pm
The exhibition of costumes from Academy Award-nominated films features more than 100 costumes from more than 20 films, including 'The Artist,' 'Hugo' and 'W.E.' After two decades, the annual exhibition of costumes from Academy Award-nominated films has become a grand tradition in Los Angeles, where costume designers don't always get as much attention as their red carpet and fashion industry ...

• Hollywood's "backroom boys" in the spotlight at "nerd Oscars"
12 Feb 2012 at 5:52pm
LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) - The Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony has been dubbed the nerd Oscars before -- but after Saturday night's show at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, you could also call it the anti-Oscars. After all, the show began with something that the big show has decided to do away with this year: the live performance of an Oscar-nominated song, in this case ...

• Former area man to receive Academy Award
8 Feb 2012 at 9:24am
BURLINGTON ? The area will have its own Oscar winner Feb. 11 when Greg Marsden heads down to Hollywood to pick up his Academy Award.

• Academy Award nominations 2012: Who got snubbed? (Poll)
24 Jan 2012 at 10:02am
With every Oscar nomination day comes the list of the snubbed. Naturally, not everyone can be a nominee, as we saw last year when Christopher Nolan failed to earn an Academy Award nod for best director for ?Inception? and the Twitter-verse threatened to invade the dreams of every Oscar voter as a result. (Well, not literally. But it was definitely implied.) Read full article >>

• Hollywood's 'backroom boys' in the spotlight at Academy's sci-tech awards
12 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) - The Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony has been dubbed the nerd Oscars before -- but after Saturday night's show at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, you could also call it the anti-Oscars.

• Oscar-nominated animated, live action and documentary short films screen tonight
10 Feb 2012 at 11:17am
Academy Award purists ? those who insist on actually watching all of the nominees, even in the obscure categories, before submitting their ballots ? should check out these programs of Oscar-nominated short films opening Friday. Among the roster of mini-movies are ones likely to make you laugh and others likely to make you cry. But either way, they?re also likely to increase your odds of winning ...

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