Academy Awards
Jane Fonda speaks during her Handprint/Footprint Ceremony during the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 27, 2013 in Los Angeles. Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster-in-Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.
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Well didn't J-Law fall down and bow before God's presence and highness this year at the Oscars ... I am sure y'all seen the movie Silver Linings Playbook.There's a silver linings (sic) in every cloud. Trust me.
I don’t know what their insurance protocol called for, but you’d think there would be some measures in place ... There are tens of millions of diamonds and jewels out at the Academy Awards and they have armed guards, vaults, big security firms, everything you can think of.
I think it’s inspiring — when Denis Villeneuve went to the Oscars and Xavier Dolan went to Cannes at 19 all filmmakers in Canada got some inspiration. ‘We go OK. We can do it too, why not me?’More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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David Geffen donates $25M for academy museum
-- Music and movie mogul David Geffen has kicked in $25 million for a film museum planned by Academy Awards overseers.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that the David Geffen Foundation made the donation for the museum scheduled Read more »
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'Barbara' review: Adult drama of East Germany
review was first published Dec. 21, 2012. It was, quite naturally, ignored by the Academy Awards in their February sweepstakes, but the best screen performance of last year was by Nina Hoss , playing the title character in Christian Petzold's "Barbara." A Read more »
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Young: Seth MacFarlane sketch presented equal-opportunity satire
than a week after the Academy Awards , the buzz continues -- not about the movies or the actors, but about the ceremony's alleged offenses against womanhood. On Friday, actress Jamie Lee Curtis weighed in, writing for the Huffington Post that the show was Read more »
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Jennifer Lawrence explains fall at the Oscars
Jennifer Lawrence charmed a roomful of reporters at the Academy Awards on Sunday night when asked about her tumble on the stairs as she went to accept the best actress Oscar."Was that on purpose? Absolutely!" she joked when asked what happened. "What do you Read more »
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How to talk about Oscar nominated movies with kids
is buzzing about the winners and losers from last night's Academy Awards ceremony on ABC. While some of the Oscar nominated movies weren't meant for the little ones, there are a few you may want to watch together with older children, especially if you have Read more »
Around the web
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500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Found, Named After Johnny Depp
He's starred in countless films, was nominated for Oscars, and was named People's Sexiest Man Alive, but Johnny Depp received a truly unique honor when an extinct species was recently named after him. Noted for its scissor-like claws, Kooteninchela deppi i 1:17 PM from The Gossip Girls Read more »
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Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders
her director husband Michel Hazanavicius' vivacious silent homage to Hollywood's Golden Age. It went on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture. Rahim was the breakout star of the 2009 festival in Jacques Audiard's poetic and brutal prison drama 12:59 PM from Mail.com Read more »
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'Star Trek' at the Oscars
at the end of the year. So with that in mind, how has a franchise that spans 12 films over 34 years fared at the Academy Awards all this time? It seemed like something worth digging into for our purposes here and with the new film on screens, so let's take 11:47 AM from HitFix Read more »
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Cannes Film Festival 2013: Doutzen Kroes copies Angelina Jolie's famous Oscar pose
Walking the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, Doutzen Kroes looked every bit the supermodel. But the L'Oreal ambassador did her best impression of Angelina Jolie, by awkwardly sticking out her leg from under her pale pink dress from Atelier Versace's Fall 2 11:06 AM from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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Double win for RnaG's Cormac
programme, and programme presenter Cormac Ó hEadhra also took home the prize for Radio Presenter of the Year. The Oireachtais awards took place in the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill and were hosted by Aengus Mac Grianna from RTÉ News. The programme which was 10:56 AM from RTE Interactive Read more »
