Film Awards

Kon-Tiki, the Oscar Nominee About an Epic Rafting Trip, Now Has an English Language Version

From Child Soldiers to the History of the Razzie Awards: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, April 12 Starting at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent is Movies and Music: Pavilion and Sam Prekop. Coming from the South by Southwest film festival's Emerging Visions category is Pavilion, a part-documentary, part-autobiographical film from Tim ... More >>

Plate: LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food and Wine Event is This Sunday

Now that the Oscars are over, it's time to go eat something. Maybe a lot of things. Fortunately for you, we've put a great deal of food and drink in one place -- the Peterson Automotive Museum, where this coming Sunday afternoon, you can eat as much as you possibly can over a four-hour period withou ... More >>

Los Angeles Times' Oscar Coverage Sees All-Time Record Web Traffic

There was a time, it seems, when there was a wall between pajama-bottom bloggers and real journalists. Real journalists didn't bait Google. Real journalists focused on facts and not on fancy photos. Real journalists trumpeted reporting awards over readership. Now? Not so much. The Los Angeles Time ... More >>

Lord of the Rings Fans Hold Their Own Oscar Party, With Elves, Hobbits and Middle Earth Drinking Songs

If you're going to go to an Oscar party, make sure it's one involving J.R.R. Tolkien fans. On Sunday afternoon, the One Expected Party took over American Legion Post 43 for a Hobbit-centric event that lasted late into the night. We were only a couple blocks away from the Dolby Theater, but the vibe ... More >>

The 2013 Oscars Drinking Game

The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3 hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, ... More >>

We'd Like to Mock the Academy

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

Post-Oscar Bitching, a Chance to Prove How Young and Hip We All Are

Ew, old people. They're so old! Especially that Billy Crystal. What is he, 105? Get off the stage! In your electric walker! If you buy into the prevailing narrative of the post-Oscars Twitterverse, all Academy voters are elderly, with a quirky fondness for nostalgic moving pictures about moving pic ... More >>

Massive LAPD Security Detail at Oscars Included Bomb-Squad Robot, Forklift

The Academy Awards in the heart of Hollywood make the perfect target for a terrorist. (Or an Occupier.) They're the ultimate symbol of Western culture, celebrating billion-dollar blockbusters and caught up in a media frenzy of nip slips/gown slits. Of this, the LAPD is well aware. Thus the massive ... More >>

Academy Award Winners Haven't Included Latino Actors, Nonwhite Actresses in 10 Years

Updated at the bottom: The Oscars broke the 10-year spell. Only days after the voters behind the Academy Awards were revealed as extremely white (94 percent), male (77 percent) and old (median age, 62), the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center issued a report indicating that Oscar winners seem to r ... More >>

Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars, or Are We Being Set Up? (VIDEO)

Calling the organizer of the Oscar Awards the "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Zionists," Sacha Baron Cohen character General Shabazz Aladeen threatened grave consequences if the Oscars people didn't reactivate his tickets to the big show Sunday. That's right, Aladeen said the Academy will face ... More >>

Why The Artist Will Win Best Picture at the Oscars

To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of persuasion over Academy members -- it's actually true. A silent film has not taken top honors since the ... More >>

Golden Globe Guests Will Feast On, Among Other Things, Gold Shavings

Sunday night's Golden Globe ceremony figures to be an entertaining few hours -- too bad the cameras never zoom in on our favorite (or least favorite) celebrities while they eat dinner. Unlike at the Oscars or Emmys, Golden Globe guests feast on a gourmet meal and can indulge by drinking endless amou ... More >>

Academy Awards in Trouble? Oscar Statuette Makers Issue Ominous Statement About Labor Woes at Their Factory

Bring it on down to Oscarville.​The 84th Academy Awards, set for February, has had a dark cloud hanging over it, and the weather doesn't seem to be clearing. After Brett Ratner pulled out of his production gig following his utterance of an anti-gay slur (and Eddie Murphy then exited as host), ... More >>

Goodwill Goes Hollywood: A Star Is Born

Larry Fink: Hollywood, 2000-2009

Nikki Finke, Elusive Hollywood Blogger, Makes Stink About Oscars 'Nightmare,' or the 'Worst Snorecast Ever'

Pwned.​Updated after the jump: Audio of Nikki Finke calling for the resignation of Academy President Tom Sherak! Worlds more entertaining than the Academy Awards themselves this year were the fang-tastic bloggings of celeb scooper Nikki Finke -- a celebrity in her own right, though she's take ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

Oscar Mild

'90s mavericks may have bum-rushed the establishment, but the more the Oscars change, the more they stay the same

HOORAY FOR PACOIMA

THE KING'S VEST

Cinefamily Academy Awards Watching Party & Fund-raiser

Did Randy Newman Get Another Oscar Nomination for a Song That Sounds Like All His Other Oscar Nominated Songs? What Do You Think?

​It's that time of the year again: Oscar nominations are out! And we know what you're asking yourself: Did Randy Newman get another Oscar nomination for a song that sounds like all his other Oscar-nominated songs? Did he get a nod once again (we can do this post every year--and in fact we do) ... More >>

Oscar's Rules of Order

DocuWeeks offers help — for a price

FOURTH UPDATE Exclusive: Antonio Villaraigosa free tickets are worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored

By Tibby Rothman and Jill StewartDid the mayor lose, misplace -- or destroy -- his records? ​ L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accepted free seats.But first the hot news from City Hall moments ago. The below is a ... More >>

Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

Food in Film: Oscar Nominations Announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category (big surprise), which has doubled in size to ten. As far as food movies go, Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for Julie & Julia, a ... More >>

Showers For Golden Globes As Stars Hit The Wet Carpet

​One might think that, after several days worth of forecasts predicted a deluge of heavy-duty storm weather starting Sunday, the organizers of the Golden Globes might have a hint that its annual red-carpet festivities at the Beverly Hilton might get a little wet. Other events, such as the SAG ... More >>

YOU VIL NOT LAUGH

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

Worst Oscar Ideas Ever

That’s what happens when the studios pressure the “Acadummy”

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

Subtitles Are Cool

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

To Everything There Is A Season

As the editor of this paper's film pages as well as the chief critic, I try to afford as little coverage as possible to the phenomenon known as “awards season,” in large part because it is a season presumed to end with the handing out of the Oscars — a statuette whose golden luster has been so ... More >>

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

All the World�s a Stage

What to do from February 24 to March 2

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Will Chris Rock Be Oscar Dyn-O-Mite?

If Rock bombs he’ll have only himself (and maybe conservatives) to blame

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

Docs on the Rocks

At Oscar time, many of the year�s best documentaries don�t stand a chance

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year�s Oscars suck more than usual

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic