Oscar hopeful Sandra Bullock crowned worst actress 
    (Reuters)

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sandra Bullock has earned a few honors in Hollywood, “America’s Sweetheart” among them, and on Saturday she was crowned with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009, one day before she’s favored to win an Oscar. Bullock, whose drama Read More..

     

    Mo'Nique, Harrelson win supporting Spirit honors 
    (AP)

    LOS ANGELES – Mo’Nique won the supporting-actress honor Friday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film for the Harlem drama “Precious,” while Woody Harrelson earned the supporting-actor trophy for the war-on-terror story “The Messenger.” Both are up Read More..

     

    India tribes fight mining firm in real-life Avatar 
    (Reuters)

    LANJIGARH, India (Reuters) – As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the Oscars, a world away in remote eastern India, activists say the story of the blockbuster sci-fi film Avatar — nominated for nine awards — is being played out. Set in the fantasy world of Pandora, Read More..

     

    Gifts, parties and celebs: L.A. readies for Oscars 
    (AP)

    LOS ANGELES – Hollywood is in full-on Oscar mode. The red carpet has been laid out in front of the Kodak Theatre, topped with a plastic sheet in case of rain. Traffic is snarled. Tourists are flocking to Hollywood & Highland to see a bit of the Academy Awards preparations and snap Read More..

     

    Sarah Palin loads up on free stuff at gift suite 
    (AP)

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, California – Sarah Palin showed up at a celebrity gift suite with two daughters, her brother and a small entourage in tow and loaded up with free promotional cosmetic and fashion items being given away in connection with Oscar-week festivities. Lorna Khoo of Read More..

     

    Review: 'Alice' through a drearier looking glass 
    (AP)

    In Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice has grown — not by “drink me” potion or “eat me” cake — into a 19-year-old girl. Working from Linda Woolverton’s very Hollywood screenplay adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Read More..

     

    Ten movies vie for top honors at new-look Oscars 
    (AFP)

    HOLLYWOOD (AFP) – An expanded field of 10 movies are vying for honors Sunday at the Oscars, where a complex new voting system will be used to determine the winner of the coveted best picture prize. In a move designed to boost television ratings for the Academy Awards, organizers last Read More..

     

    Meet the lawyer who guards the door at the Oscars 
    (Reuters)

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Attention Academy Award winners: David Quinto will sue you if you sell your Oscar. He’ll sue you if you try to sell someone else’s Oscar, or if you make a fake Oscar, or even if you call yourself an Oscar winner. A partner at L.A.’s Read More..

     

    Looking back at Oscar's biggest goof 
    (Reuters)

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Oscar’s campaign season officially ends on Tuesday evening, when ballots are due at Academy headquarters. But for Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, producers of Sunday night’s 82nd annual Academy Awards, the anxiety is just beginning. Read More..