The Rev. Al Sharpton ripped Hollywood after the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, with black actors completely shut out of each of the four top acting categories for a second straight year.
Appearing on Conan last week to discuss the final season of Two and a Half Men, Ashton Kutcher offered up a tip to host Conan O’Brien on how to confirm one’s sexual preferences.
During the most political Academy Awards ceremony in years, an event filled with partial nudity, political statements, and a lot of farcical back patting, Hollywood’s elite once again gathered to secularly wrap up another year in film.
The Oscars are tacky. We expect the Oscars to be tacky. You would think, though, that the one thing the Academy would and could get right is the annual “In Memoriam” tribute to those in their profession who died the
Sunday night’s Academy Awards was littered with political commentary, with Best Director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu no exception as he dedicated Birdman’s Best Picture win to his fellow Mexicans, “who live in Mexico.” Iñárritu’s comments echo prior statements made by last year’s Best Director and fellow Mexican, Alfonso Cuarón, slamming Mexican government officials over systematic corruption.
According to Deadline, the total and 18-49 demo ratings for Sunday night’s pretty dreadful Oscar telecast drooped a considerable 14% over last year, reaching the lowest total number of viewers in 7 years. Just 34.6 million tuned in last night.
The patriotic film The American Sniper was nominated for six Oscars, astonishing fans and critics alike. But why is it surprising that a film honoring an American hero would be celebrated in the capital of the American movie business? The fact is, despite a few recent signs of dawning good sense—think Zero Dark Thirty, on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and Argo, about a successful CIA operation—Hollywood still tends to spurn patriotism on the silver screen and to celebrate truly unsavory characters and ideology, as long as they’re on the Left.
The Oscars bring political speeches to Hollywood, and politicians in Washington are happy to cheer them on.
Parenthood changes things, particularly a person’s perspective on health and wellness. Such is the case with House of Lies star Kristen Bell, who recently revealed that before she had her two little girls she had been skeptical of vaccination.
There are many reasons to celebrate Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar last night – from his charming and refreshingly brief acceptance speech to the fact that the award didn’t go to Benedict “This is what a feminist looks like” Cumberbatch – but
Lady Gaga paid tribute to Julie Andrews during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards, performing a medley of music from The Sound of Music, including the song “My Favorite Things.” After Gaga’s performance Julie Andrews walked onstage
Citizenfour, the HBO documentary about notorious NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, picked up the Oscar for Best Documentary during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
The HBO documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 picked up the Oscar for Best Short-Subject Documentary at Sunday night’s 87th annual Academy Awards.
HOLLYWOOD, California—A planned protest over the lack of diversity in the film industry by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) has been canceled. The group will instead seek direct dialogue with Hollywood’s central authority, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Apple teamed up with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese for its latest iPad commercial, which will air during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
Breitbart News will be live-blogging and commenting on tonight’s Oscar ceremony until the bitter end, which will probably be sometime tomorrow. Latest updates at the top. — 12:06 – It’s Over… Closing Thoughts… By tomorrow everyone will have already forgotten
Actor and rapper Markice “Kesan” Moore, best known for playing Andrew on Season 3 of The Walking Dead, reportedly attempted to commit suicide this week.
Kanye West said on Friday he is developing a video game inspired by the single “Only One,” which is about his late mother.
While moviegoers are often touched by the messages portrayed on film, one woman in western Mexico was arrested for touching HERSELF during a screening of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, had used hard drugs prior to being found unresponsive in a bathtub, according to a report from People.
Without a doubt “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a box office hit. There is also no question, though, its success was front-loaded and that the C+ CinemaScore (which is pretty awful) audiences gave the S&M love story has hurt repeat
Nominees who fail to bring home an Oscar this Sunday night will still be receiving gifts that are valued at more than $160,000, according to a report from CNN.
It is my honor to partner with Breitbart News Network, and Breitbart executives Stephen K. Bannon and Larry Solov, to present the Second Annual Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Last year, we bestowed the inaugural award to The Great One–conservative radio host Mark Levin. The presentation ceremony for this award was standing-room only at the CPAC Theater, where activists and conservative leaders joined to hear Mark Levin’s courageous acceptance speech.
Analysts from Crowdpac, a group that gathers campaign finance data, have attempted to rate this year’s Best Picture nominees from liberal to conservative based on the political donations of those behind the film’s productions.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Al Sharpton-led National Action Network is set to hold a protest Sunday night outside the 87th annual Academy Awards near Hollywood’s Dolby Theater, over what it claims is a lack of diversity in the film business.
Street artist Plastic Jesus is up to his old tricks. On Thursday morning, a life-size replica of an Oscar statue bent over and snorting two lines of cocaine was placed on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, ahead of Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
