Looking at the overall growth for the 2013 Academy Awards telecast on ABC, one might quibble with host Seth MacFarlane's potential impact, but figures for this year's Oscars suggest a particularly big bump among MacFa...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials on Monday dismissed the Oscar-winning film "Argo" as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda, but some young, moderate Iranians welcomed it as a fresh view of recent history...
Not surprising to anyone who's spent more than five minutes with her, Jennifer Lawrence's honest and funny personality shined through as she spoke to the press backstage at the 85th Academy Awards Sunday night. ...
Here's a nice story that totally blind-sided me today. Did you know that Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Fine ("Inocente") is a huge Redskins fan? It goes deeper than that, actually, and this blog post from Ste...
I’m writing this column, the last Tech Support entry for this 2012-2013 Oscar season, with a strange combination of ambivalence and a touch of the bittersweet. Despite the fun of awards season, and this one in p...
Fast National ratings for Sunday, February 24, 2013.
The combination of a blockbuster slate of Best Picture nominees -- relatively speaking -- plus buzzed-about host Seth MacFarlane appears to have given a ra...
Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence with her Oscar as she enters the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
Ah, Oscar. You never fail to disappoint and 2013 was clearly was the best and worst of times. An incredibly uneven show with a host whose 15 minute monologue/intro/whatever you want to call it wasn't the best ch...
When the Academy signed Seth MacFarlane on as host, they were aiming to use the "Family Guy" creator's brand of provocation as an asset. Instead, his "edge" couldn't cut through many of the sleepil...
Music and the movies was the unofficial-official theme of the 2013 Academy Awards, and big names were on hand to flesh the concept out. Jennifer Hudson, Adele, Barbra Streisand, host Seth MacFarlane, Kristin Chenoweth...
