Get ready for the Oscars this weekend with these 10 quirky facts, touching on the awards ceremony and some of this year’s nominees.
Filled with burgers and fries, and tuxedos and high heels, the Vanity Fair Oscar Party was one for the books. Of course all the stars were there.
Emma Watson made a booboo when she took to the red carpet at the Academy Awards, but she quickly shut down her haters via Twitter.
Chaos ensued when Frances McDormand’s Oscar went missing during the Governors Ball, although the culprit was easy enough to locate.
Another year, another nearly four-hour broadcast that had some memorable, but safe, moments for viewers to enjoy. Here are the best.
The 90th Academy Awards was held at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, and of course it was all glitz and glamour. Let’s see who won.
Another year, another swag bag filled with extravagant gifts for those nominated for an Oscar. Let’s take a look at what Distinctive Assets has in store this time.
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With the 88th Academy Awards coming up, an anonymous Oscar voter spilt the beans on all the gossip that’s going down in the Academy, from Best Picture to the racism accusations.
You need to check out everything that is included in the Oscar nominee gift bag – it’s kinda sickening at how lame the gifts are.
The world easily loses its marbles. It often comes down to mob mentality, and even more so because people just don’t “get” what happened. This is what happened here.
It’s bad enough losing out on the Best Actor award at the Oscars but when you are caught with your speech in your hand as the other name is announced it gets pretty awkward.
Every year, Celebs flock to the Vanity Fair post-Oscar party. And, as if there were not enough images of them all already, they pose for a few more.
Spur of the moment on-the-spot interviews in front of cameras can’t be easy, and this mother-daughter combo shows just how fast it can go from bearable to disaster.
Rubbing your ex’s nose in it 101 – Arrive at the world’s premier entertainment event looking like a million bucks and then some.
I don’t know if Lady Gaga was trying to channel Amal Clooney’s beautiful white gloves from the Golden Globes or what, but this is all types of wrong.
Whilst The Lego Movie didn’t win any awards last night, it sure stole the stage with it’s best original song “Everything is Awesome”. Please enjoy.
Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar acceptance speech made headlines because the actor mentioned God. It begs the question, why has the media focused their attention on actor’s mentioning his religious beliefs?
This year’s Oscars will be known for the famous Ellen selfie, but that isn’t the only photo from the event doing the rounds on the web. The 2014 Academy Awards featured starving celebs pigging out on pizza, thanks to generous host Ellen DeGeneres, and a heap of glorious photobombs.
This might be the worst case of fomo in Oscar history. Ellen’s selfie has cracked the three million retweet margin, and included the likes of Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence. The person feeling left out of the most famous selfie ever? Liza Minnelli.
Ozzie actress Cate Blanchett accepted her Oscar for Best Actress with grace, but dropped all pretence when she did her post awards show interview. When a journalist pointed out to Cate that she had become the first ever Australian to take home two Academy Awards for acting, she dropped the F-bomb.
For months leading up to the Oscars, celebrities employ whatever means (puking, diets, starvation) to fit into that perfect dress for the red carpet. But have you ever considered that these starved celebs have to endure at least three hours of award show before they can pig out? Don’t worry Ellen DeGeneres was there, savior of starving celebs everywhere.
Jennifer Lawrence falling at the Oscars is becoming an annual event. Her sea legs gave way on the red carpet, when le wild traffic cone appeared. The camouflaged cone got the best of the actress mere seconds after she stepped onto the red carpet.
And the award for temporarily crashing Twitter and posting the most retweeted selfie ever goes to Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen’s Oscar selfie garnered 2.3 million retweets, eclipsing Obama’s famous victory selfie (780,063 retweets) in just over half an hour.
To avoid the ‘Oscar’ confusion we present you with all of the Academy award winners bright and early today. The big winners of the 2014 Academy Awards were ’12 Years a Slave’ taking home three Oscars (including Best Picture) and Gravity, which won seven awards.
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The Academy Awards have been around for quite some time, and the 2014 installment is soon approaching. Without giving you a history lesson or an extremely long list, here is an inforgraphic with all of the Oscar Best Picture Winners represented as icons, for the uninitiated.
The only Oscar making news headlines of late has been the blade runner, but the Academy Awards are just around the corner. The people over at the Daily Beast got their hands on one of the 6,000 Oscar voters willing to spill the beans. Here are a couple of tips the anonymous voter has for us, concerning the upcoming Academy awards.
As with any year, this year’s Academy Awards promises to be a glittering evening filled with joy, voyeurism and bitter disappointment. But before we get to the disappointments, lets have a look at this year’s nominations.
Silver Linings Playbook star and new Oscar owner Jennifer Lawrence gave quite the performance at the 2013 Academy Awards. In short, she’s funny. Funnier than Seth Macfarlane, for sure. Step aside, Jimmy Fallon. [Source: Reddit]