At the 81 Academy Awards on Sunday night, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston were not missed by the camera. The monsters inside them were clearly projected in few instances at the event.  
As Michael Douglas announced the Best Actor award for Sean Penn, the actor for ‘Milk’, there was an unmistakable snicker on [...]

Perhaps it was only because Heath Ledger won the posthumous Best Supporting Actor award, that I can still feel a sense of respect for the Oscar Awards. The Academy Awards have been shadowed by unnecessary awards given certain movies while good movies were ignored.

Heath Ledger’s movie ‘Brokeback Mountain’ won a number of academy awards and [...]

Slumdog Millionaire, the Indian rag-to-riches story bagged 8 Oscars, at the 81st Annual Academy Award. It won Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Music, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Background Score, Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay. Although Slumdog had Oscar written all over it, Danny Boyle, the director of this film was quite [...]

Finally it did happen, and Slumdog Millionaire did hog all the Oscar Awards. The movie grabbed awards for Best Motion Picture, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing and also two awards for the Indian music director of the movie. A.R Rahman won two [...]

The biggest question that is hanging on everyone’s head is whether Slumdog Millionaire will win it at the Oscars or not. The music director of the movie Rahman feels if the movie wins at the Oscars, it will lead to ‘bigger things‘. In my opinion, it surely shall lead to bigger things with respect to [...]

If you thought Oscars were boring, you must check out the humongous article I just came across on LATimes. The venerable newspaper had one of the contributors writing as to why Oscars are run by geezers and why the Oscar ceremony needs a facelift. The writer even went on to say that the Oscars are [...]