Academy Awards

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  • Hey, Academy voters! Don't forget ...

    Salon critics make last-minute ballot suggestions for Oscar -- actors, writers, songs and more
    By Salon staff January 12, 2007

  • As good as it gets

    Oprah's friend Gayle King interviews an apparently tipsy Jack Nicholson.
    By H.H. March 6, 2006

  • Built to shill

    M. Night Shyamalan and Naomi Watts trade humiliation for payola.
    By H.H. March 6, 2006

  • 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?
    By Cintra Wilson March 6, 2006

  • Did Sarah Silverman get bleeped?

    Did Silverman get bleeped at the Independent Spirit Awards?
    By K.L. March 5, 2006

  • Red (stained, moth-eaten) carpet

    The braindead charm of the Independent Spirit Awards pre-show.
    By K.L. March 5, 2006

  • Good night and good frock?

    Clooney and Witherspoon face different kinds of grilling backstage at the Oscars.
    By Rebecca Traister March 5, 2006

  • 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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 2, 2006

  • Movie Moment No. 2: "Wedding Crashers"

    Vince Vaughn, lovable louche.
    By K.L. February 28, 2006

  • 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.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 28, 2006

  • Movie Moment No. 1: "Grizzly Man"

    Favorite 2005 movie moments, beginning with a true Peaceable Kingdom.
    By K.L. February 26, 2006

  • "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.
    By Scott Kirsner February 21, 2006

  • "Unchain the women directors"

    A billboard timed to the Oscars decries Hollywood's sexism.
    By Lori Leibovich February 7, 2006

  • Where are Oscar's chicks?

    Breaking news: The past year sucked for women in movies.
    By Rebecca Traister February 1, 2006

  • 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.
    February 28, 2005

  • 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."
    By Charles Taylor January 26, 2005

  • 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.
    By Cintra Wilson March 1, 2004

  • 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.
    By Tina Brown October 23, 2003

  • 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?
    By Cintra Wilson March 24, 2003

  • The Fix

    Will Smith a no-show at Oscars, Peter Jennings a no-show at war coverage and Monica to host reality dating show.
    By Karen Croft March 20, 2003

  • The Fix

    The red carpet gets yanked, Russian girl duo heats up, Pacino disses De Niro, and O'Toole remembers pissing in a sink!
    By Karen Croft March 19, 2003

  • "Nowhere in Africa"

    The Oscar-nominated story of German Jews in Kenya delivers just what the Academy expects from foreign films: Refined boredom.
    By Stephanie Zacharek March 14, 2003

  • "Chicago," schmicago!

    The overly hyped Miramax musical isn't worth the sequins that gave their lives for it. Here are five song-and-dance films that are the real deal.
    By Karen Croft February 20, 2003

  • Gollum: Dissed by the Oscars?

    Andy Serkis' computer-aided performance was one of the best things about "The Two Towers." But the Academy isn't ready for digital actors.
    By Ivan Askwith February 18, 2003

  • Oscar snub fans North Korea-U.S. tension

    Was the Academy blind to the cinematic splendor and dialectical imperative of "Gypsum Mine #425"?
    By Bruce McCall February 15, 2003
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