Academy Awards

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Conversations
A podcast with Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley
The little match girl's resurrection
Watch the Oscar-nominated Disney short -- and its earlier incarnations.
It's hard out here for an entourage
I'd like to thank my agent, my accountant and my therapist. No, really.
"Days of Glory"
This extraordinary and deeply moving Oscar-nominated movie illuminates a forgotten patch of history.
Rabbit Bites: The Oscars
Can a grey rapper win the academy's highest honor?
Deconstructing Oscar: Safe, sunshiny choices
The Academy's nominations this year are more memorable for what isn't nominated than what is.
Hey, Academy voters! Don't forget ...
Salon critics make last-minute ballot suggestions for Oscar -- actors, writers, songs and more
As good as it gets
Oprah's friend Gayle King interviews an apparently tipsy Jack Nicholson.
Built to shill
M. Night Shyamalan and Naomi Watts trade humiliation for payola.
Oscar castrates himself
The Academy celebrates niceness, bleeps out "bitch" and pats itself on the back for good behavior. And what did they do to poor Jon Stewart?
Did Sarah Silverman get bleeped?
Did Silverman get bleeped at the Independent Spirit Awards?
Red (stained, moth-eaten) carpet
The braindead charm of the Independent Spirit Awards pre-show.
Good night and good frock?
Clooney and Witherspoon face different kinds of grilling backstage at the Oscars.
Beyond the Multiplex
The nominees for best foreign language film and best documentary feature are ... a quirky mixed bag. And we handicap them all for you here.
Movie Moment No. 2: "Wedding Crashers"
Vince Vaughn, lovable louche.
Pushing the envelope
It's time to second-guess the Academy and toast the great overlooked performances of 2005, from Scarlett Johansson to ... Sharon Stone.
Movie Moment No. 1: "Grizzly Man"
Favorite 2005 movie moments, beginning with a true Peaceable Kingdom.
"Don't call it the nerd Oscars"
There's no bling, no limo gridlock and only one famous face -- but one night celebrates the techies who make our movies better.
"Unchain the women directors"
A billboard timed to the Oscars decries Hollywood's sexism.
Where are Oscar's chicks?
Breaking news: The past year sucked for women in movies.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Sports night at the Oscars: A boxing flick wins big as jock pix -- Jose Canseco's "Super Size Me," etc. -- dominate, and the producers want the whole thing finished, pronto.
Why did "Finding Neverland" snag an Oscar nomination?
It's not -- despite what some would want us to believe -- because it's the choice of "values voters."
Oscar bombs
"The Passion of the Frodo" sweeps, and more beautiful stars bravely impersonate the genuinely homely to great success. But all the crooked teeth in New Zealand can't save a dull, dull Oscar night.
The suffering buzzocracy
For movie execs used to sending beribboned boxes of the latest Christmas movies to 500 of their closest Botox artists, dog walkers and Kabbalah gurus, the pre-Oscar "screener ban" is torture.
The 75th Oscars: Hollywood dons its war paint
Movie people act all serious while Marines die, the Academy actually provides some surprises (Adrien Brody, anyone?) and Michael Moore pees on the furniture. And Nicole, honey, write a speech, OK?
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