The Oscars 2012 Infographic

Oscars 2012 Infographic

Our friends from UK PR company Feref have created this fabulous infographic which gives details of last night’s proceedings at the 2012 84th Academy Awards ceremony. The graphic looks at red carpet buzz all the way through up to The Artist being announced as the Best Picture. It also includes who had the most attention [...]

Watch the Oscars Red Carpet Arrivals Video Roundup & Interviews

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Awards season is now finished for 2012 with the Oscars being the last major awards ceremony to take place. Jon and I were up live blogging and updating the winners list as they happened last night and what was a pretty dull awards ceremony it has to be said. Billy Crystal did a fine job [...]

The 2012 Oscar Winners

The Oscars

So here they are, the winners of the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony which took place at the Hollywood and Highland Centre LA and was attended by Hollywood’s finest. The Artist didn’t win as many awards as we thought it might but came away with five awards in total including  three of the biggies – Best [...]

The 2012 Oscars Live Blog

The Oscars

Right! It’s another caffeine fuelled night ahead of us as we prepare to liveblog the 84th Academy Awards. The Artist is the favourite to scoop up the awards tonight, which would round off a grand few days for Michel Hazanavicius and his silent film which run rampant through the Cesars and Independent Spirit awards but [...]

The Dictator Defeats the Academy and WILL be Attending the Oscars!

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s been in the news a few times in the past few days, having first announced his intentions to attend tomorrow night’s 84th Academy Awards in character as General Aladeen from his upcoming movie, The Dictator. The Academy responded by officially banning him from doing so, which was followed yesterday by two brilliant [...]

The Dictator’s General Aladeen/Sacha Baron Cohen Threatens the Academy for their Oscar Ban

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We heard earlier this week that Sacha Baron Cohen had announced his intentions to attend this Sunday’s 84th Academy Awards in character as General Aladeen from his upcoming movie, The Dictator. Apparently, the Academy weren’t too happy with the idea and decided to withdraw Baron Cohen’s invitation, and now Aladeen has responded in kind with [...]

Infographic: Who Would Win Best Picture According to Twitter Buzz?

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The Oscars are here again and that means all of Hollywood are buzzing to find out which movie will take the coveted for Best Picture. We just out up a post asking who you think should win here but before you do that, have a little look at this brilliant infographic which shows who would [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Attend the Oscars as The Dictator

Sacha Baron Cohen - The Dictator

Never one to shy away from controversy, Sacha Baron Cohen now wants to take the game of using awards shows to have fun and promote his movies to a whole new level by going to this weekend’s Academy Awards dressed as the titular figure of his upcoming movie, The Dictator. The Cambridge-educated British actor, already [...]

How to get Nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in Five Easy Steps

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The Best Picture accolade at the Academy Awards if probably the most vaunted, talked about, and prestigious prizes in the world of film. This reputation is impressive given that not a year goes by when the choice for nominations, and sometimes even the winner, are at best baffling and at worst completely inexplicable. Here I’ll [...]

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy WILL Present at the 84th Academy Awards Ceremony

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BIG news this Friday evening folks as news breaks that Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog WILL present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony which takes place next week on Sunday 24th February. Miss Piggy attended the 2012 BAFTA Awards last weekend interviewing all and sundry. If you missed her fabulous interviews, you can see [...]

Celebrate the Classics with a raft of Academy Award® Winning titles up for grabs!

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With awards season in full swing and the Academy Award® nominees now announced, we’ve taken a look back at some of the greatest ‘Best Picture’ award winning films from the last 75 years, and have a selection for you to win! Three lucky Hey U Guys winners can take a stroll down memory lane with seven award-winning DVDs [...]

Are The Oscars Becoming Irrelevant?

The Oscars

Well no, since you asked. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t deeply flawed. The Oscars are the high watermark of film recognition. The red carpet trampling, lovvie love-a-thon that is the motion picture awards season starts in earnest with the Golden Globes in early January and extravagantly culminates every year in late February with the [...]

Hollywood Unhinged

The Artist

Fearing a remake of The Artist and wondering whether Meryl Streep could take Robert Downey Jr in a fight. I’m brainstorming crazy stuff that Tom Cruise might jump off. For a movie. Obviously. Why? Well, you can bet somebody, somewhere, with a lot more power and influence than me is doing just that. Maybe I [...]

Oscar Nominations 2012 Announced

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This morning (LA time) Jennifer Lawrence, star of upcoming movie The Hunger Games will be revealing the nominations live from LA for the 84th Academy Awards aka The Oscars. We’ll update the list below as as we can so keep refreshing (press F5 on your keyboard) the post to see the nominations as they arrive. [...]

Watch the Oscar Nominations 2012 Announcement LIVE Stream

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Today at 13.30 GMT, Jennifer Lawrence, star of the new movie, The Hunger Games will be announcing the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards live from LA. We’ll also be updating the list of nominations as they happen here. You can watch the nominations as they happen live below: We’re expecting big things from The [...]

Billy Crystal to host Oscars, Fans of The Muppets Devastated

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It’s been a hectic few days for the for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the 84th Academy Awards lost producer Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy all within 24 hours. Confirmation of Ratner’s replacement is here, however, and amid conversations of who should stand in as host is all over the [...]

Millennium Picks Up Woody Harrelson’s Rampart With An Eye On The Oscars

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Back in May, we got the terrific first look at Woody Harrelson in his next upcoming film, Rampart, along with the official full synopsis, and right from the get-go it looked and sounded brilliant. Earlier this month, we then got the first three clips from the film, just after it had its world premiere at [...]

Stephen Fry Will Return As Our Host For The 2012 BAFTAs

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With the news recently announced that Eddie Murphy will be hosting the Academy Awards next year, it seems only right that our host for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards would be announced too. And the British Academy has now announced that the beloved Stephen Fry will returning to take the hosting duties [...]

Eddie Murphy Officially Signs On To Host Next Year’s Oscars

Eddie Murphy

The rumours started over the weekend that the wildly popular, albeit perhaps slightly in years gone by, Eddie Murphy would be hosting the Oscars next year, taking over from James Franco and Anne Hathaway’s turn back at the end of February this year. Deadline are now reporting that Murphy has officially agreed to take the [...]

Images Surface from Dogtooth Director’s New Film, Alps

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Fans of last year’s warped family drama and art house hit, Dogtooth, (if you haven’t seen this incredible film yet, you need to rectify that ASAP) will be happy to learn that not only has director Yorgos Lanthimos finished his new film, but it’s due to premiere (in competition) at this year’s Venice Film Festival which [...]