Complete Oscar Coverage 2009

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‘Slumdog’ and Heath Ledger Win Oscars in Revamped Telecast

Slumdog Millionaire won eight categories including Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards last night, which aired at 8:30 p.m. on ABC and featured Hugh Jackman in his first hosting gig. The late Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor…

The Best Picture Nominee Marathon

Every year, I swear that I'll watch all the Best Picture nominees to prep for the Oscars. In my movie-obsessed mind, there's nothing worse than hunkering down in front of the tube with a bucket of nachos, taking bets with my buddies over who'll win what, only to wonder whether the newly christened "movie of the year," and some of the performances in them, actually merits those golden statues. (This was a huge problem for me last year because I didn't see There Will Be Blood or No Country for Old Men.)
Well, that won't be happening this time around because this Saturday, yours truly is watching"”and blogging about"”all the Best Picture nominees. Yes, all five. Back-to-back. Over the span of 12 hours…

An Interview with Slumdog Millionaire Director Danny Boyle

“With Slumdog Millionaire, my agent only said it was a movie about Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and I thought, doesn’t sound great,” Boyle says. “I only read it because I knew the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy, who wrote The Full Monty. And about 15 or 20 pages in you know that you’re going to be able to make an amazing film out of it. I was one page into this and I was certain I would make it.”…

Oscar Predictions 2009

The votes are in and now the whole world knows: we rock at predicting the Oscars. Of the predictions you see below, we were correct 20 out of 24 times. What we got wrong: Foreign Film (Japan's Departures won), Song ("Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire won), Animated Short, and Documentary Short. That makes it our second-best year ever after 2003 (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's clean sweep), in which we were correct on 21 out of 24 counts…