Instead of honoring the usual suspects at its 14th Costume Designers Guild Awards Tuesday night, the guild focused its spotlight on three movies that haven't gotten as much attention this awards season: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and W.E..
12:29 PM PST 2/22/2012 by Merle Ginsberg & Gary Baum
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While plenty of pundits and insiders are running around town saying the Oscar race is a done deal, the fact is, no one really knows what's going to happen on Sunday night when it comes to Best Picture, Best Actor or Actress, Best Director, et cetera. There are season-long track records, of course, but there are also big upset possibilities. The Help is still hoping to pull a big upset over The Artist Sunday night, and anything's possible.
The 2011-2012 Oscar race, which effectively began six months ago at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, will come to an official end tonight at 5pm PST, when final ballots are due back at the Academy's accounting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to sit down for an extensive interview with the veteran actor Malcolm McDowell to commemorate two major milestones in his career: the 40th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange (1971), the Stanley Kubrick counter-culture classic that made him famous and earned a best picture Oscar nomination; and The Artist (2001), Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film (and 2012 best-picture contender) in which he makes a brief appearance. I hope that you'll check out the video of our conversation above.
Nominees take note: Should you find yourself handling a golden statuette at Sunday's Oscars, make sure you know the right way to grip it.
The Academy launched its Funny or Die produced promo Tuesday, "Oscar Etiquette," and it finds past winner Kevin Kline getting schooled one how to treat his trophy from Mike Myers.
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are the latest to join the growing list of presenters at the Oscars, producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced Tuesday.
Michael Douglas has been added to the list of presenters for the 84th Academy Awards.
Douglas won an Oscar for his performance in Wall Street (1987). He also took home a statue as a producer for best picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
Sound editing teams from Hugo, The Muppets, Super 8, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse were honored Sunday during the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 59th Golden Reel Awards at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
The sounding mixing team behind Martin Scorsese's Hugo took top honores at the 48th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, which took place Saturday night at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
The editors of best picture nominees The Descendants and The Artist won best edited dramatic feature film and best edited feature-comedy or musical -- respectively at the 62nd annual ACE Eddie Awards on Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
Sources tell THR that the actor is planning to attend the Academy Awards on Feb. 26 as his raunchy character in the upcoming Paramount movie, prompting concerns. Read more
From faulty fashion to multiple tributes, here are the moments that got THR's attention. View gallery
Covering The Race
Scott Feinberg
THR lead awards analyst/blogger for "The Race" online and co-contributor to "The Race" column in print. Handicapping awards races in the weekly "Feinberg Forecast."
Gregg Kilday
THR film editor contributing awards news, features online and "The Race" column in print.
Stephen Galloway
THR executive editor, features moderating Hollywood Reporter's roundtable series; contributing award contender cover stories in print.
Tim Appelo
THR film reporter contributing awards news, features to online and print.
Merle Ginsberg
THR senior writer and Fash Track blogger covering awards season fashion.
