A document leaked online early Friday that appeared to reveal the winners for Sunday night’s 81st Academy Awards ceremony has been branded a fake by an Oscars spokesperson. Read the rest of this entry »

Our sister site Movie Crunch has posted a leaked copy of the 2009 Oscar results with each major Academy Awards category winner listed.

Here’s the supposed (we can’t verify it’s authenticity) scanned copy of the 2009 Oscar winners list:

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On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the first poster promoting the 2009 Academy Awards.

The 81st Annual Oscars, hosted by Hugh Jackman, will air live from Hollywood’s Kodak Theater on February 22 at 5 PT / 8 ET on ABC.

Fresh off of his Oscar nomination for Best Actor in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke sat down with The TODAY Show’s Matt Lauer on Friday to discuss his reaction to the nom and the movie that has turned him into a comeback kid.

Hollywood’s Most Attractive Couple might leave next month’s 81st Annual Academy Awards with matching Oscars. Read the rest of this entry »

Heath Ledger has received a posthumous Oscar nomination on the first anniversary of his death.
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Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker joined the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to announce nominees for the 2009 Academy Awards in Hollywood Thursday morning.

The 81st Annual Oscars will air on ABC February 22.

Nominations for The 81st Academy Awards were announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood this morning.

And the nominees for the year’s best in film are…. Read the rest of this entry »

Hugh Jackman will host the 2009 Oscars. Read the rest of this entry »

The nation’s economic crisis is hitting the publishing industry in a big way. Vanity Fair Magazine has just announced that it’s holding its annual star-studded Oscar Night party at the Sunset Tower Hotel on February 22, 2009, but this year’s event will have a slightly “cozier” feel than years past, says VF editor Graydon Carter.

“The party will be a much more intimate affair than in years past; we’re going to scale back the guest list considerably. We’ll celebrate Hollywood’s big night the way we did when we first threw the party 15 years ago—it will be a cozier, more understated event. And one with familiar decor—given the current economy, and our dedication to the green movement, we will be recycling many of the elements of years past.”