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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.

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.

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.

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.

Football’s biggest night of the year is unquestionably the Super Bowl. Preliminary ratings show that Sunday’s game hit a record high with 72% of televisions watching. That should add up to somewhere around 115 million viewers and an all-time record.

David Oyelowo, the actor who portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the historical film “Selma,” blasted the Motion Picture Academy Sunday for awarding black actors with Oscars “more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or

Indignity after indignity continues to pile on producer Oprah Winfrey’s dishonest Civil Rights drama “Selma.” On top of countless award season snubs, audiences are staying away in droves. After 5 weeks in release and a ton of publicity (both good

The Daily Beast interviewed an unidentified female Oscar voter who hated Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” and believes producer Oprah Winfrey’s dishonest Civil Rights drama “Selma” was robbed It was nominated for only Best Song and Picture). This anonymous voter is

Despite an also-ran Best Picture Oscar nomination and a ton of publicity surrounding all the anti-science crybabying over “Selma’s” overall  Oscar snub, the dishonest Civil Rights drama stood alone in its box office free fall. Every other film nominated for

Producer Oprah Winfrey’s Selma won two Oscar nominations Thursday morning: Best Picture and Best Song. Because the Civil Rights drama failed to win nominations for its director, star or script, people are claiming it was snubbed (it was — the

Although Ava Duvernay’s civil rights era drama Selma garnered only two Oscar nominations Thursday, President Obama has deemed the film worthy of showing, and will screen it Friday night at the White House for a special event.

Here are the 5 crucial facts Vox chose to ignore when it declared the Oscars racist: “12 Years a Slave” was the Best Picture front-runner when it won last year “12 Years a Slave” was up against some very tough

It wasn’t just Oprah Winfrey‘s “Selma” and the late-Roger Ebert who felt Oscar’s snub after Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar Nominations, so too did all of mainstream America.  Other than director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” which is expected

If Roger Ebert’s friends and family thought his legacy would be capped off with an Oscar win for “Life Itself,” the documentary about the famous film critic’s life and career, a bucket of cold water was felt by all after

Oprah Winfrey’s “Selma” took a pretty harsh beating Thursday morning as nominations were announced for the 87th annual Oscar nominations. The civil rights drama was blanked in every major category, including Best Actor, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Score. (Full list

The Academy is slated to spend $5.5 million on advertising for the 2015 Academy Awards both on television and on social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, according to an advertising agency report. The show’s presenter, Neil Patrick Harris, who