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Movie Blog: Your 2013 Oscar Pool Cheat Sheet
In Wait Until Dark, the villainous psycho played by Alan Arkin (who is nominated for best supporting actor this year for his irascible but chummy performance in Argo) jokes about two con men who...
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‘Revenant’ Leads Oscar Noms With 12
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The brutal 1820s frontier saga “The Revenant” landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards, while the acting categories were again filled entirely by white...
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Original Song Nominees At Oscars Is Battle Of The Pop Stars
NEW YORK (AP) — The race for best original song at the Academy Awards is a full-blown battle of the 20-something pop stars, with Lady Gaga, Sam Smith and the Weeknd up for the honor this year. In...
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Predictions For The 2016 Oscar-Nominated Shorts
Looking to bolster your Oscar pool chances? Then you ought to look elsewhere. I say this, basically, because I don’t have a clue (or any real interest in) how the shorts are chosen or voted upon. I do,...
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Bloomington’s Pete Docter Preps For Oscars
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We might be thousands of miles away from Hollywood, but Minnesota does have its fair share of Oscar winners, including animator Pete Docter. “Inside Out” was another hit film for...
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Minnesota’s Greatest Oscar Hits Include Lange, Coens
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We might be thousands of miles away from Hollywood, but Minnesota does have its fair share of Oscar winners. The list includes Judy Garland, who won a special juvenile Oscar for...
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Joe Biden: Live From LA, Introducing Lady Gaga At The Oscars
WASHINGTON (AP) — Live from Los Angeles, introducing Lady Gaga at the Academy Awards, it’s Vice President Joe Biden. Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to attend the Oscars on Sunday night, and the vice...
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Minnesotan Pete Docter Wins Oscar For ‘Inside Out’
Pixar’s “Inside Out” is the winner of the best animated feature film Academy Award. The film tells the story of a young girl’s emotions as her family relocates from Minnesota to San Francisco. Director...
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Spotlight, DiCaprio, Larson Winners In 88th Annual Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hollywood’s diversity crisis has loomed large over awards season and the big question going into the 88th annual Academy Awards was whether it would dominate the ceremony, too. It...
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News Click: Chris Rock’s Oscars
Here’s the first half hour of our Monday show the day after the Oscars. Included in this link is a three minute summary of Chris Rock’s monologue. Tell us what you think....
View ArticleNew Rules In Place To Prevent Another Oscars Envelope Flub
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After taking responsibility for the epic best picture flub at the Oscars last year, Tim Ryan of PwC got down to business. He grilled the partners who made the gaffe, then personally...
View Article‘The Shape Of Water’ Nets 13 Oscar Nods
NEW YORK (AP) — Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” has landed a leading 13 nominations and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director by the...
View Article90th Oscars Dance Between Honoring, Correcting The Past
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest. But this year, with a culture-wide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct,...
View ArticleOscars Recap With Entertainment Tonight’s Nancy O’Dell
On a night filled with few surprises, the 90th Academy Awards still ended up being a memorable evening. Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to win best original screenplay, Allison Janney...
View ArticleOscars Announce New ‘Best Popular Film’ Category
LOS ANGELES (AP/WCCO) — The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk three-hour ceremony on a much earlier air date of Feb. 9, 2020. Change is coming to the...
View ArticleOscars’ New ‘Popular Film’ Category Decried By Industry
NEW YORK (AP) — Not since Faye Dunaway shouted “La La Land!” has an Oscar announcement caused quite as much chaos as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decision to create a new Academy...
View Article2019 Oscar Nominations: The Complete List
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, with “The Favourite” and “Roma” leading all films with ten nominations each. “A Star Is Born” followed...
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‘Green Book’ Is More Than An Oscar-Nominee: The Story Behind The Book
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The film “Green Book” is up for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture. It’s the story of a black musician and his white bodyguard traveling the Jim Crow South in the 60’s. They use “The...
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Movie Blog: 2012 Oscar Nominations
(credit: 20th Century Fox) Here are the nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards. Lincoln leads the pack with 12 nominations, with Life of Pi somewhat surprisingly just behind it with 11. A few stray...
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