'The Hurt Locker' wins six Oscars, including history maker for director Kathryn Bigelow

The 82nd Academy Awards followed the script set down by pundits, as the front-runners for all of the major Oscars won Sunday night. "The Hurt Locker" led with six Oscars, including best picture and best director for Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to win this award. The Iraq war drama also picked up prizes for original screenplay (Mark Boal), editing, sound mixing and sound editing. "Avatar" went into the night tied with "The Hurt Locker" with a leading nine nominations but had to settle for three Oscars for art direction, cinematography and visual effects (and a $2.4-billion and counting box-office take). See a complete list of all Oscar winners here. Lead actor went...

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03/07/2010 21:38
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Oscar nominations: Fascinating facts, figures and milestones

With invaluable assistance from our many forum posters, here are interesting stats about this year's nominations for the Oscars. Nine not so fine: "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" lead this year's derby with nine nominations each; "Nine" managed just four nominations. However, beginning with "The Life of Emile Zola" in 1937, there have been 77 films that have landed 10 or more Oscar nominations. Last year's big champ "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight of its 10 races, while "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" managed just three wins from 13 nominations. Money matters: On nomination day, "Avatar" broke the domestic box office record of 1997 best picture champ "Titanic" when it reached $601 million in receipts....

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02/03/2010 14:06
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Oscars guided by guild awards in nominations

This year, 19 of the 20 SAG acting nominees are contending at the Academy Awards. The only one not to make the cut was SAG supporting actress contender Diane Kruger ("Inglourious Basterds"), who was replaced on the Oscars ballot by Maggie Gyllenhaal ("Crazy Heart"). Last year, 18 of the 19 SAG acting nominees repeated at the Academy Awards. As double SAG nominee Kate Winslet was bumped up by the Oscars from supporting to lead for "The Reader," she was denied a lead nod for "Revolutionary Road." However, that film's Michael Shannon managed to knock SAG nominee Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire" out of the supporting race. Two years ago, 15 of the 20 SAG nominees...

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02/02/2010 10:01
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Gold Derby nuggets: Marc Shaiman added to Oscarcast team | Pete Hammond cheers 'Blind Side' | Sasha Stone on state of Oscars race

• Five-time Oscar nominee Marc Shaiman is returning to the Oscarcast as musical director six years after conducting the orchestra for Billy Crystal's swan song as host. Shaiman earned three of his four Emmy nods for his work on the Oscars, sharing in the 1992 writing win for penning Crystal's opening medley to the 64th edition of the kudos. Shaiman has lost Oscar bids for both scores -- "The American President" (1995); "The First Wives Club" (1996) and "Patch Adams" (1998) -- and songs -- "A Wink and a Smile" from "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993) and "Blame Canada" from "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (1999). For that last losing nod, Shaiman played escort to...

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11/23/2009 15:38
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Week in Review - Oscars Edition: Predictions for every race | Telecast details | Nominees cursed and blessed | Quizzes galore

OSCAR PREDICTIONS • Gold Derby's gutsy, 100% accurate Oscars predictions • Gold Derby odds on the top Oscars races • Experts predict who'll win the Oscars • Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke in a real heavyweight bout • Can Meryl Streep beat Kate Winslet at the Oscars? • Rookie pundit needs a new Oscars crystal ball OSCARS TELECAST • Will Rob Pattinson sing with Mary Poppins at the Oscars? • Will Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Zac Efron and Rob Pattinson wow Oscars' viewers? • 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson will be an Oscars presenter • Some Oscars TV ads still for sale — only $1.4 million a pop! • Oscars are the Emmys' biggest winner OSCARS HOST:...

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02/22/2009 02:26
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Here's how our Oscar pundits scored

The Envelope's odds scored fairly high, nailing 10 of the top 12 categories. Congrats to our own Steve Pond of The Envelope for achieving the highest score in all categories (19). Oh, if only I hadn't switched three predictions on Oscar morning, ditching the three eventual winners, I would've triumphed with a score of 20, but, alas… 19 — Steve Pond (The Envelope) 18 — Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) 17 — Tom O'Neil (The Envelope), Gene Seymour (Newsday), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) 16 — Mike Sragow (Baltimore Sun) 15 — Edward Douglas (Comingsoon.net) 14 — Ken Tucker (Entertainment Weekly)

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03/05/2006 22:39
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Gene Seymour's revised Oscars predix

A few weeks ago Newsday film critic Gene Seymour generously wrote out his Oscar predix for The Envelope. Looks like he's changed his mind in three categories since — supporting actor (dumping Paul Giamatti for Matt Dillon), musical score (goodbye "Brokeback," hello "Geisha") and song (now prefers "Pimp" to "Travelin' Through"). Below are Seymour's full predictions, as originally written, followed by his updates in each race. BEST PICTURE X - "Brokeback Mountain" "Capote" "Crash" "Good Night, and Good Luck" "Munich" The only thing that could brake this juggernaut's momentum — and it’s by no means unlikely — is some manner of "Brokeback" fatigue; e.g., people hearing for so long how "great" the movie is and...

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03/01/2006 12:12
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Gene Seymour's early Oscar predix

Right now I'm very busy rounding up early Oscar predictions from our panel of experts so The Envelope can issue racetrack odds. All I'm asking each expert to do is to rank nominees from 1 to 5 in 12 categories, but Gene Seymour of Newsday went to town giving us detailed analysis of each category in extensive text format. So, since he offered these to us so generously, here are his noodlings for your kudos enlightenment and enjoyment. BEST PICTURE X - "Brokeback Mountain" "Capote" "Crash" "Good Night, and Good Luck" "Munich" The only thing that could brake this juggernaut's momentum — and it’s by no means unlikely — is some manner of "Brokeback" fatigue;...

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02/10/2006 00:12
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Dueling early Oscar predictions

Don't miss the face-off between me and my fellow Enveloper, Oscar Beat columnist Steve Pond, over sizing up the Oscar nominees' early chances to win! Which one of us is correct about best actress? Steve (Reese) or me (Felicity)? Our rundowns were published yesterday in The Envelope's print edition of The Times. I especially hope that every paranoid "Brokeback Mountain" fan checks this out, so I can finally dash those ridiculous Internet rumors that I'm plotting against its shot at best picture.

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02/02/2006 08:09
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'Crash' hits WGA and PGA noms at 100 m.p.h.

Since no film has won the Oscar for best picture after being snubbed by the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America, today's nominations by those groups reveal that the winner of the next top Academy Award will be "Brokeback Mountain," "Crash," "Capote" or "Good Night, and Good Luck" — the only films appearing on both new lists. The guild nominations hit Hollywood like a head-on collision. Wiped out were four films that began this year's gold derby as front-runners: "King Kong," "Match Point," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Munich." What's happened since then is truly strange since two of those films had received rave reviews and were directed by showbiz gods:...

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01/04/2006 14:56
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'Kong' might grab the most Oscar noms

Why, oh, why do all of our trustiest crystal balls reveal different views of the Oscars' best picture race? Usually, the winner of the top Academy Award is one of the two film champs at the Globes: best drama picture (this year "Brokeback Mountain," of course) or comedy/musical picture ("Walk the Line," "Pride & Prejudice" or "The Squid and the Whale"). In the 62 years of the Globes' existence, one of its best picture picks has bagged the top Oscar 45 times. Of the four current films, the only one that has the might and cool factor to win the best picture Oscar is "Brokeback Mountain." So that means "Brokeback" is a cinch to go...

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01/02/2006 01:53
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