Jimmy Kimmel addressed the elephant in the room several times during Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony. The late-night talk show host opened his monologue with a joke about Will Smith’s Oscar slap from last year, saying, “Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the odds of another fight on stage went way up,” joked Kimmel. […]
Will Smith & Martin: Says Bad Boys 4 Is Still In The Works Despite Oscars Slap
The Oscars have made a huge announcement that the awards show will happen in person in 2021 and nit virtually. What are your thoughts on that? via NYP: “The Oscars in-person telecast will happen,” a rep for the Academy and ABC, which airs the show, said. The awards show was postponed and moved to April 25, 2021 amid […]
Eminem shocked everybody last night at the Oscars… Did you see the look on people’s faces? The unexpected performance was certainly full of life and energy, but social media immediately lost themselves trying to figure out why he was there. Why couldn’t he have just waited two more years so it could be the 20th […]
Tyler Perry is not happy with the Oscars. They didn’t even nominate the Jennifer Lopez foe her role in Hustlers. via TMZ: We got Tyler Monday outside leaving NBC studios in NYC. All we asked was how he’s feeling, and he immediately told us, “I’m upset, man” … then started unloading on the Academy. Tyler says […]
The Academy Awards honors the finest in films, but there were times during Sunday night’s Oscars telecast that it felt like music’s biggest night. In celebration of the blockbuster film Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen kicked off the night — live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood — with the one-two punch of “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions,” with guitarist Brian […]
Green Book pulled off an upset at Sunday’s Oscars, beating out Bohemian Rhapsody and Roma for best picture. The drama, about the friendship between a black pianist and his white driver in the ’60s American South, also won for best original screenplay and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali. Rami Malek was named best actor for playing singer Freddy Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. He thanked the members […]
The Oscars will give short shrift to the Best Song category. Just two of the five nominees will be allowed to perform. The Academy opted for the two chart-topping tunes: from Black Panther, “All the Stars” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA [pr: SIZ-uh] plus Lady Gaga will belt out “Shallow” from A Star is Born. Producers are driving hard toward a three-hour time limit on the ABC […]
he Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards. Roma and The Favourite lead with 10 nominations. Roma is up for Best Picture, Best Director (Alfonso Cuaron) and Best Actress (Yalitza Aparicio). The Favourite is nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress (Olivia Colman). Other multiple nominees, also up for Best Picture, include A Star is Born, Vice, Black Panther, BlackkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green […]
Kevin Hart will not be the host of the Academy Awards. He buckled under intense public scrutiny and tweeted early Friday morning how he wished not to be a distraction. Hart apologized to the LGBTQ community for his “insensitive words.” On Thursday, the comic refused to apologize for homophobic tweets from almost a decade ago. Kevin Hart had deleted those tweets since […]
Kevin Host has been tapped to host the Oscars. In an Instagram post, the comedian wrote, “I will be sure to make this years Oscars a special one. Now it’s time to rise to the occasion. I appreciate @TheAcademy for the opportunity. For years I have been asked if I would ever host the Oscars and my answer was always the […]
The 2018 Oscars was one for the record books — but not for the right reasons. The audience for Sunday’s ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, dropped to an all-time low of 26.5 million viewers. That’s down nearly 20 percent from last year’s show and the fourth straight year ratings have declined. The previous all-time low came in 2008 when Jon […]
