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Mon, Feb 27 2012

Oscars 2012: Winners List

Oscars 2012: Winners List

Also tagged: 84th academy awards, a separation, Adapted Screenplay, Angelina Jolie, art direction, beginners, Ben Stiller, best actor, best actress, Best Director, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, billy crystal, Bradley Cooper, christopher plummer, Cinematography, Costume Design, Documentary, documentary short, Emma Stone, Foreign Language Film, hugo, jean dujardin, live action short film, Makeup, Meryl Streep, michel hazanavicius, midnight in paris, octavia spencer, Original Score, Original Screenplay, Original Song, oscar winners, Oscars, oscars 2012, Penélope Cruz, rango, saving face, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, the artist, the descendants, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the help, the iron lady, the muppets, the shore, Tina Fey, tom hanks, undefeated, visual effects, Winners

And the winners are… Cinematography Hugo Art Direction Hugo Costume Design The Artist Makeup The Iron Lady Foreign Language Film A Separation Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, The Help Film...

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Mon, Feb 28 2011

Oscars Special: Tweet Transcript from the Awards Show

Oscars Special: Tweet Transcript from the Awards Show

Also tagged: 83rd Annual Academy Awards, best actor, best actress, best adapted screenplay, best animated film, Best Animated Short, Best Art Direction, best cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, best documentary, Best Documentary Short, best editing, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Live-Action Short, best makeup, best original score, best original screenplay, best song, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, best visual effects, Oscars

Join us for live tweets on www.twitter.com/theurbanwire on the awards show! What’s happening: Quick thoughts and full winners list of the Oscars: http://theurbanwire.com/2011/02/28/oscarswinners One...

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Mon, Feb 28 2011

Oscars Special: Tweet Transcript from the Red Carpet

Oscars Special: Tweet Transcript from the Red Carpet

Also tagged: 83rd Annual Academy Awards, best actor, best actress, best adapted screenplay, best animated film, Best Animated Short, Best Art Direction, best cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, best documentary, Best Documentary Short, best editing, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Live-Action Short, best makeup, best original score, best original screenplay, best song, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, best visual effects, Oscars

Join us for live tweets on www.twitter.com/theurbanwire on the awards show! This is what you missed: We wrap up the red carpet tweets with our favorites: Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, Marisa Tomei...

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Sun, Feb 27 2011

Best Pictures According to The Zeitgeist

Best Pictures According to The Zeitgeist

Also tagged: 83rd Annual Academy Awards, Black Swan, Easy A, Hereafter, inception, kiss-ass, Oscars, the fighter, The King's Speech, The Runaways, The Social Network, toy story 3

A Year of Best Pictures according to The Zeitgeist — Shrek not included. To be frank, the Best Picture nominees at the Oscars this year are impressive and offer nothing dire to gripe about. But...

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Sat, Feb 26 2011

How to make a Best Picture

How to make a Best Picture

Also tagged: 127 Hours, 83rd Annual Academy Awards, Black Swan, inception, Oscars, the fighter, the kids are all right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, true grit

Producing a Best Picture isn’t that hard. Just follow the rules of moviemaking conventions as seen in the nominees Every year, there’s something contentious or arguable about the Best Picture category....

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Fri, Feb 25 2011

Oscars Predictions Special

Oscars Predictions Special

Also tagged: 127 Hours, 83rd Annual Academy Awards, A. R. Rahman, Aaron Sorkin, Alice in Wonderland, animated feature, anne hathaway, Annette Bening, art direction, best actor, best actress, Best Director, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, Black Swan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, christian bale, Cinematography, Colin Firth, Costume Design, david fincher, Dido, Directors Guild, Geoffrey Rush, Golden Globes, hailee steinfeld, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, If I Rise, inception, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jersey Shore, jesse eisenberg, Johnny Depp, Julianne Moore, Love and Other Drugs, Makeup, Marcia Gay Harden, melissa leo, Natalie Portman, Original Score, Original Screenplay, Original Song, Oscars, Roger Deakins, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, the fighter, the kids are all right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, the wolfman, tom hooper, toy story 3, true grit, visual effects, winter's bone

WHO WILL BE KING OF HOLLYWOOD’S SOCIAL NETWORK? Since its INCEPTION, the Oscars has always been a calculated and intense campaign to crown who is KING of Hollywood’s SOCIAL NETWORK. Every movie...

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Tue, Mar 9 2010

The Hurt Locker Blows Up the Oscars

Also tagged: academy awards, adam shankman, Alec Baldwin, an education, animated feature, anna kendrick, Avatar, Ben Stiller, best adapted screenplay, best costume, Best Director, best documentary, best makeup, best original screenplay, best visual effects, carey mulligan, Colin Firth, crazy heart, District 9, George Clooney, Helen Mirren, inglourious basterds, invictus, james cameron, james taylor, jason reitman, Jeff Bridges, jeremy renner, john hughes, Julianne Moore, kathryn bigelow, kodak theatre, Kristen Stewart, mark boal, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, mo'nique, Morgan Freeman, Na'vi, Oscars, precious, Robert Downey Jr, ryan bingham, Sandra Bullock, sarah jessica parker, Star Trek, Steve Martin, t bone, Taylor Lautner, The Blind Side, the cove, the hurt locker, the weary kind, tim robbins, Tina Fey, tom ford, twilight, up, up in the air, vera farmiga, Winners, young victoria, zac effron

The Hurt Locker blew up the Avatar party and made history in the process “Ladies and gentlemen, the show is so long, that Avatar now takes place in the past.” Co-host funny man Steve Martin said...

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Mon, Mar 8 2010

Oscars Open Up The Hurt Locker, Wins Best Picture

Also tagged: 82nd academy awards, Alec Baldwin, Avatar, best actor, best actress, best adapted screenplay, best animated feature, best cinematography, best costume, best editing, best makeup, best original screenplay, best score, best song, best sound, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, christoph waltz, hurt locker, inglourious basterds, james cameron, Jeff Bridges, kathryn bigelow, mo'nique, Oscars, precious, Sandra Bullock, sarah jessica parker, Star Trek, Steve Martin, the hurt locker, the young victoria, Tina Fey, up, up in the air, Winners

The Hurt Locker blazes apart a predictable Oscar night with six wins, including one with history made. Uploaded at 12:35pm. Boom. The bomb squad is moving in now at the Kodak Theatre. And so it has just...

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Sat, Mar 6 2010

Oscars Predictions Special: An Education on the Oscars

Also tagged: a serious man, an education, anna kendrick, art direction, Avatar, awards, best actor, best actress, best adapated screenplay, best animated film, best costume, Best Director, best makeup, best original score, best original screenplay, best original song, best supporting actor, Best Supporting Actress, Brad Pitt, carey mulligan, chrisotoph waltz, christopher plummer, cinematoghraphy, coco before chanel, Colin Firth, cove, crazy heart, District 9, Documentary, editing, film editing, Gabourey Sidibe, George Clooney, Helen Mirren, hurt locker, in the loop, inglourious basterds, invcitus, james cameron, james horner, jason reitman, Jeff Bridges, jeremy renner, julie and julia, kathryn bigelow, lee daniels, maggie gyllenhaal, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, movies, Na'vi, nine, Nominations, Oscars, Penélope Cruz, precious, Quentin Tarantino, Sandra Bullock, Stanley Tucci, Star Trek, The Blind Side, the last station, The Lovely Bones, the messenger, the weary kind, up, up in the air, vera farmiga, visual effects, Woody Harrelson

With every vote up in the air, a blind side is in order. Will Avatar be banished to the losers’ hurt locker? It takes a serious man and resident film buff like Ronald Wan to offer UrbanWire his precious...

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Wed, Feb 18 2009

Lowdown on Best Picture nominees

Lowdown on Best Picture nominees

Also tagged: 81st, 81st Academy Awards, Academy, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anil Kapoor, awards, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, danny boyle, david fincher, David Kross, dev patel, frank langella, frost/nixon, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, James Franco, John Travolta, josh brolin, Julia Ormond, Kate Winslet, Lena Olin, Loveleen Tandan, Lowdown, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, milk, Oscar, Oscars, Peter Morgan, Predictions, ralph fiennes, ron howard, sean penn, Simon Beaufoy, slumdog millionaire, stephen daldry, Steven Spielberg, Taraji Penda Henson, the curious case of benjamin button, the reader, Tom Cruise, urbanwire, Victor Garber

Courtesy of Focus Features With the 81st Annual Academy Awards just a few days away (Feb 22), The UrbanWire gazes deep into our crystal ball to see which of the 5 Best Picture nominees may emerge...

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