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The surprise announcement of co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin for the Oscars next year hid the declined invitations of actors Robert Downey Jr and Ben Stiller, according to a report.
Academy Awards organisers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman were reported to have asked Downey Jr and Stiller, a pair of dark comedians, to share hosting [...]

Hollywood stunner Jennifer Connelly is training to be an Ultimate Fighter.

The Oscar-winning actress has revealed she loves taking mixed martial arts (MMA) classes and has an ‘inner ninja’.

Connelly, 38, started taking MMA classes after watching her husband, Brit actor Paul Bettany, 38, training for a new action film role.

She said: “I’ve taken on mixed martial [...]

Veteran actor Geoffrey Rush has claimed Australia is now obsessed with fame.

He said the country now focuses on celebrity and red carpet goings-on rather than creative movie-making.

Rush said recently: “When I was starting out in film no-one knew who Toni Collette was, no-one knew who Baz Luhrmann was, no-one knew who I was. We were [...]

Oscar chiefs are reportedly worrying about the shortage of women eligible to win the Best Actress gong at next February’s ceremony.
Academy insiders fear there are simply not enough “good” lead roles by women for voters to choose the winner from.
Kate Winslet won the award at this year’s ceremony for her role in The Reader.
One Academy [...]

Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon has visited India as part of his work with the H2O Africa Foundation and been hailed by its Hindu people.
Damon, 38, co-founded the foundation in 2006, which aims to raise awareness about clean water initiatives.
The foundation has already set up projects in countries such as Uganda, Central African Republic, Ghana, Kenya, [...]

The Academy Awards will expand the competition for Best Picture award, by bumping up the eligible list of movies from five to 10.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is actually taking the Oscars back to their historic roots in doing so. Sid Ganis, AMPAS president, said: "After more than six decades the [...]

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has admitted she has more fun at funerals than at weddings.
Emma, 50, is starring in new film Last Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman, which centres around a wedding day.
She said: “I have never known a wedding where the bride and the groom aren’t sitting there fretting about who’s been invited and [...]

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow may not be much of a movie buff but she is a certified “Revenge of The Nerds” fan. Despite this Gwyneth Paltrow said she is a big fan of cinema and relies on the taste of her celebrity friends when it comes to her movie choices from classic, documentary to [...]

The actor who hosted this years Academy Awards admitted that he could not calm down until he performed his musical together with Anne Hathaway. Hugh Jackman said: “After that I was able to relax. I knew we were going to be OK after that. But when we were planning that whole thing for live TV, [...]

Best Actress winner Kate Winslett may have won the coveted Oscars but she still could not help getting mesmerized by her trophy. The actress regaled the Academy audience when in hr acceptance speech, she revealed that she had been obsessed about the Oscars even as a child and mimicked the winners using her [...]

Post winning the Best Actor Award at this year’s Academy Awards Sean Penn has wasted no time to send a message across to people who are opposed to gay marriage and also those who took to the streets outside the Academy Awards on Sunday to protest against same-sex marriage.
When asked what he would tell the [...]

The actress from “Vanilla Sky” who managed to nail an Academy Awards for best supporting female role due to her performance in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” was highly grateful to Woody Allen for her success. Penelope Cruz said the following in her acceptance speech: “I’m going to go call Woody right now. I call Woody sometimes [...]

Cat fights? This was what war-freaks were expecting with Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston thrown into one location where they could not help but bump into each other. They may not have bumped into each other but everything seemed fine between the women—Jennifer Aniston the past and Angelina Jolie the present—in Brad Pitt’s life. [...]

Academy Awards night host Hugh Jackman is taking the Oscars to new heights saying it will be a naked Oscars. That’s the sexiest man alive’s take on those prying to get a little Oscars details from him before the show begins Sunday. Hugh Jackman, who has been known for his affable and humorous nature, said [...]

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Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has turned criminal. Don’t get too excited though because that’s just in the movies. Berry is set to play the role of real-life jewelry theft Doris Payne. Payne is infamous for her long career as an international jewel thief. She dressed herself up in fancy clothes as a ruse to [...]

Oscars winners Meryl Streep and Gwyneth Paltrow may be goddesses in the acting world but not one of them was able to get the coveted Grammys Awards. Paltrow and Streeps were nominated for a Grammy for the first time, Paltrow, who read the “Brown Bear and Friends” was nominated for best spoken album for [...]

The Grammys will surely be one event where you won’t find any of the Oscar nominees; at least, those who would rather take a rest before the big event. That’s not to say that the Grammys will be short of celebrities because John Mayer and his squeeze Jennifer Aniston will surely be there. Do [...]

Clint Eastwood has once again been snubbed by the Academy but this time he is grinning his way to the banks. His Gran Torino movie may have to get an Oscar nomination for him as Best Actor but it is making a lot of waves in the box office with up to $110 million in [...]

Mickey Rourke has admitted that he is yet to see his own performance in the movie ‘The Wrestler’ a role which has won him a Golden Globe award and also bagged him an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor make, the reason being that he completely hates seeing himself onscreen.
By his own [...]

Penelope Cruz says she is willing to do anything that will make her win an Oscar which she would like to dedicate to Spain; Penelope received an Academy Awards nomination on Thursday for her role in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona which has earned her a Best Supporting Actress category at the February awards.
She [...]

Mickey Rourke is being touted as Hollywood’s latest comeback king and he has vowed that he will make amends for lost time post recapturing his acting career, acknowledging he’ll be dropped like a rock if he falls off the rails again.
At the age of 52 Mickey managed to make a triumph return to the sliver [...]

After Brad Pitt’s stunning red carpet appearance during the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it is now his leading lady’s turn to shine literally and all. Cate Blanchett was a sparkling image at the red carpet during her latest film’s premiere night.
The Oscar-winning actress bedazzled guests with the shining simplicity [...]

The one person that Alec Baldwin thinks has all the best of life is Tom Hanks. Both Alec & Tom are Oscar winners and greater actors as well but Alec looks up to Tom Hanks – because “he’s got it all”.
Actor Alec has accessed Tom Hanks life from different angles and find that Tom [...]

The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson were found dead in their home in Chicago last week. The two adults were found fatally shot. The bodies of 57-year old Darnell Donerson and Jason Hudson were reportedly discovered by a cousin who lived nearby. The 27-year old singer/actress’ nephew was believed [...]

How much do you love your hair?
Are you ready to donate your lovely hair for some good cause?
The sweet and smart actress Hilary Swank has asked the women around the globe to cut their hair short and donate them for a great cause which is to help provide wigs for women who loose their [...]