Oscars Has Smallest TV Audience Ever

In what could hardly be dubbed a surprise, Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC took a tumble in the ratings, logging the show’s smallest audience on record.
A batch of films with mostly grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked any real momentum thanks to the writers strike, contributed to this year’s alarming 20% [...]

Academy Awards Results

Some surprises, mostly not…to me anyway. Everyone offer Cavanagh your condolences.

Oscar Coverage

Welcome to Popcorn Junkies’ annual live coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony. Coinciding with this event is my one year anniversary here at the Pulse, so I will be spending much of the evening pretending this is a celebration of me and my accomplishments as well of those actually in Hollywood. All signs [...]

Oscar Nominations Announced

Credit: CNN
The Oscars are scheduled to take place on February 24 from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with Jon Stewart as the host. The broadcast will air on ABC.
Best Picture
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Juno
Michael Clayton
Atonement

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeny Todd
George Clooney for Michael Clayton
Viggo Mortensen for [...]

Nominees For The 80th Academy Awards Announced

No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood were the big winners at today’s announcements for the 80th Academy Awards nominations. The Coen Brothers’ crime saga about a drug deal gone bad and Paul Thomas Anderson’s meditation on greed led the way with 8 nods apiece, including Best Picture. Close behind [...]

Golden Globes & Parties Officially Cancelled

Credit: Variety
Efforts by industry insiders to salvage next Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards festivities imploded Monday in a complicated scenario that mirrors the breakdown in trust and communication that has fueled the Writers Guild of America’s 11-week-old strike against Hollywood’s majors.
By Monday evening, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s 65th annual kudos had been downscaled from a [...]

Actors Set To Boycott Golden Globes

Credit: Variety
SAG president Alan Rosenberg has announced that not one of the more than 70 actors nominated for a Golden Globe will attend the Jan. 13 ceremonies because of the WGA’s plans to picket the event.
The Globes have been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty due to the WGA’s refusal to grant a strike waiver to [...]

The 2007 Oscar Winners

And the winners are…
Winners in bold, other nominees in italics below

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

The Departed
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Little Miss Sunshine
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

The Departed
BORAT
Children Of Men
Little Children
Notes On A Scandal
Best Performance by [...]

Oscar Coverage

Welcome to our annual coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony, where each year the best of the cinematic year are rewarded for their work. It’s been a rather unique year that’s being looked at, 2006, and it’s been reflected in the nominees as this is maybe one of the better rounded field in some [...]

The Spirit Award Winners

And the winners are…
Winners in bold, other nominees in italics below
Best Feature

Little Miss Sunshine
American Gun
The Dead Girl
Half Nelson
Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Screenplay

Jason Reitman for Thank You For Smoking
Nicole Holofcener for Friends With Money
Neil Burger for The Illusionist
Ron Nyswaner for The Painted Veil
Jeff Stanzler for Sorry, Haters
Best First Screenplay

Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
Gabrielle Zevin [...]