12 Years A Slave
With '12 Years a Slave,' Oscars get it right this year Major props to the Oscars for acknowledging “12 Years a Slave” as the the Best Picture of 2013, reversing its recent trend of embracing less challenging fare like “Argo” and...
Lupita Nyong'o wins Oscar for her first movie LOS ANGELES — Lupita Nyong’o has won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her harrowing portrayal of a slave who’s caught her sadistic master’s eye in “12 Years...
Why there are 9 Best Picture nominees at this year's Oscars LOS ANGELES — Was it Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” the folk rock bio pic “Inside Llewyn Davis,” or Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine”? We’ll never know which film might have been...
Showbiz veteran blasts Oscar nominees in ballot peek And the winner is . . . awful! A cranky member of the Motion Picture Academy offered up a “brutally honest” peek at his Oscar ballot — rife with snarky...
Will clueless Oscar voters snub '12 Years’ star for J.Law? Sunday may be a night that goes down in Oscar infamy: There appears to be a chance that Brooklyn’s own Lupita Nyong’o will NOT win Best Supporting Actress for her...
'Gravity' wins big at BAFTA awards The searing historical drama “12 Years a Slave” took best picture honors at Sunday’s British academy awards in London, as well as best actor honors for Chiwetel Ejiofor as the...
Will ‘Gravity’ win Best Picture Oscar after taking Directors Guild Award? “Gravity’’ now officially leads the Best Picture race after winning the highly predictive Directors Guild of America award over the weekend — but its triumph at the Oscars is far...
Descendants defend '12 Years a Slave' plantation owner Descendants of a Louisiana plantation owner rallied to his defense, insisting that the Oscar-nominated movie “12 Years a Slave” unfairly portrayed him as a tyrant. The critically acclaimed movie –...
2014 Oscars turning into tightest race yet One of the tightest races in Oscar history is brewing, with three different movies capturing key precursor awards over the weekend. A dramatic tie between “12 Years a Slave’’ and...