(LIST) 18 Huge Oscar Upsets!

Quite a few people will be shocked if Argo doesn't win Best Picture at the Oscars tonight—but history has shown that it could happen. Celebuzz rounds up the 18 biggest Academy Awards upsets:

(POP NEWS) Chink; Pizzazz; Down Low; Smart; Never In; Panache; Paranoia; Sex Tape; Over; Sexist; Color; Jackman!

• CHINK: Latest 'Diplomat' to North Korea: Dennis Rodman?

• PIZZAZZ: A$AP Rocky is  Gay Sometimes, But I Have a Lot of Bitches So Why Would I Care?'

• DOWN LOW: New Zealand Parliament Committee Advances Marriage Equality Bill!

• GROWING UP: Boston Fraternity Raises Money for Trans Frat Bro's Surgery!

• SMART: Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Explains Why She Changed Her Mind on Same-Sex Marriage!

• NEVER IN: Anderson Cooper Talks Coming Out with Andy Cohen!

• PANACHE: Morrissey thinks If More Men Were Gay, There Would Be No Wars!

• PARANOIA: If Pistorius Is Telling Truth, He's Still a 'Dangerous Killer'!

(The Frontrunners) - Oscar Show Reaction!

Dave Karger runs down the top five biggest stories from the Academy Awards show!

(OUTscene AMERICA) Gays at Vanity Fair Oscar party!

The gays were well-represented at last night’s Vanity Fair Oscar party! 

Jesse Tyler Ferguson looked dapper with fiance Justin Mikita

MORE BELOW!

(GOSSIP) Is Anne Hathaway the New Liza Minnelli?:

By Lous Virtel

Our final task is a particularly fun one. Let's take the acting winners from Sunday's ceremony, compare each of them to an Oscar winner of yore based on similar roles, similar Oscar speeches, and similar presences. I've got four Oscar-winning ancestors lined up with the four Oscar winners actors from last night. Can you come up with better matches? I dare you.

(LIST) The 5 Most Annoying Oscar Speeches Ever!

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by Louis Virtel 

We're closing in on the holiest holiday of the year, Awardsgiving, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unleashes a heap of golden hardware onto a bunch of unsuspecting stars (and Anne Hathaway). The Oscars are a gleefully ridiculous occasion when some actors give fantastic speeches (Marion Cotillard, anyone?) and some dubious ones too (Jane Fonda stealing Louise Fletcher's sign language skills for her Coming Home speech? Not a fan -- but don't hold it against me, Jane!) Fortunately, most Oscar speeches are never as annoying as the five listed below. Here they are, the five most annoying Oscar speeches in history.

(Weeklings!) The Gay History of the Oscars!

 

January and February would be wiped off the calendar if it weren't for Oscar season, which keeps many of us warm during these torturous winter evenings. But then Renee Zellweger wins and we're freezing again, so there you have it.

On this edition of Weeklings!,  Sunday's Oscars by taking you back in Academy Awards history through the gayest achievements in film. Everyone from Scarlett O'Hara to Harvey Milk comes up. I go everywhere. So strap on your gigantic pantaloons, Katharine Hepburn, because we have a lot of ground to cover.

(OSCAR REVIEWS) Meandering, Boring Oscars 'Didn't Work'!

Some critics took offense at Seth McFarlane's Oscar jokes—but the more universal complaint was that the show dragged, perhaps even more than usual. Among the reactions:

• "Well, that didn't work," writes Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times, calling the show "long, self-indulgent, and dull even by the show's time-honored dull-defining standards." Obsessed with the musical aspect of the night, producers "forgot the essential truism of their business: It's all in the timing and the presentation."

• At Salon, Andrew O'Hehir notes that we spent "three and a half hours of our mortal lives on some bizarre variety show, hosted by a guy most of the audience probably didn’t recognize, that ended with five minutes of movie awards." It eventually became clear "that MacFarlane was just going to keep telling increasingly distasteful fat-chick jokes and John Wilkes Booth jokes until it was time to segue into 'Why is this show so long?' jokes."
• OK, MacFarlane wasn't "out-and-out terrible," writes Spencer Kornhaber at the Atlantic. He was full of "fake edginess," but "what the jokes were, really, was stupid, boring, and empty: humor that relied less on its own patently sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. content than on admiration for or disgust with the host's willingness to deliver it."
• In short, notes Alessandra Stanley at the New York Times: "MacFarlane didn’t ruin the show. But the show almost ruined the Oscars."

(LIST) Full List of 85TH Academy Award Winners !!

Argo won the top prize at tonight's Academy Awards, netting the Best Motion Picture statuette. Oscar spread the love around, as there was no one standout sweeping victor in a majority of the principal categories. Other winners tonight included Les Miserables and Django Unchained which each won several awards. Full list of winners,

(POP NEWS) Global Affair; F-Bomb; Clogged; Cheap; Well Deserved; Offended; Inclusion; Tops; Tab; Toxic; Finally; Senses; Ripped; Stand; Change!

• GLOBAL AFFAIR: Iran Fumes Over Argo's Oscar Win! 

• F-BOMB: Jennifer Lawrence Reveals What She Was Thinking When She Fell on the Stairs at the Oscars!

• CLOGGED: Toilet Floods Oscars Lobby!

• CHEAP: No Laughs Over Onion's Super Nasty Oscar Tweet!

• WELL DESERVED: Twilight Bites, Wins 7 Razzies!

• OFFENDED: Anti-Gay Megachurch Pastor Spurned by Tim Tebow Speaks Out!

• INCLUSION: UFC President Dana White On Gay Fighters: 'If You Are Gay, I Could Care Less'!

• TOPS: Johnson Wins 2nd Daytona 500!

(EXCLUSIVE) OSCAR SHOCKER: They forgot to get BRUCE!

by MK Scott

Now that Oscars  are over, I could now say that the Oscars had its Moments with Bond and Bassey with Adele and Babs. I Loved the Movie Musical Medley as well as Michelle Obama. What was missing was a Host with good Material, such as the Opening which was a Boobs of an embarrassment. On Social media, the chatter was the that it the worst opening since Snow White and Rob Lowe's 'Proud Mary' Fiasco from 1989. The Presenters dialogue looked forced and confusing. MacFarlane (who definitely is not a stage performer.) Looks and Sings was the Poor Man's Hugh Jackman.

What Happened? Well, a few weeks ago I learned that the Head Comedy writer after 23 years was not invited back. With the Gay Producing Team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, you would want to utilize the talents of the Best Comedy writer and the Biggest and Gayest of them all and make the the oscars, the Gayest ever. We all know the experience and Talents of Bruce Vilanch.  Every funny moment from the Oscars in the last 23 years was written by Vilanch. I pressed further, and Vilanch responded (via E-mail) , "We had one conversation. they said they'd get back to me. they never did. we've been friends for 40 years"!

This was one of the questions I was going to ask Zadan and Meron during a scheduled interviewe, which was cancelled.

Here's Hoping Oscar has realized their mistake and Give Vilanch the respect he deserves. What he needs is an Honorary Oscar and a lifelong contract.

(OSCAR HUNKS): Old Hollywood Re-vealed!

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(LIST) 10 Greatest "Best Actress"-Nominated Performances That Didn't Win AND The 10 Actors Who Need, Need, Need an Oscar!

Let's talk about jilted actresses, boys.

The Oscars are next Sunday, and we still have plenty of Academy history to reinspect like amateur Clouseaus. Today's cold case: the 10 greatest Best Actress-nominated performances that didn't win an Oscar. Apologies to my other sentimental favorites like Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole, Anne Bancroft in The Graduate, and my darling Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue because I could only pick 10. Here they are.

(LIST) The 10 Greatest Songs from Terrible Movies!

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Tonight is the Razzies (More Tomorrow).  Here are Louis Virtel's  10 favorite tunes specifically produced for the soundtracks of wretched movies.

(LIST) 25 Youngest Oscar Nominees and Winners!

Sometimes child stars grow up to be Lindsay Lohan. Other times, they get nominated for an Oscar at age 14 and grow up to be Jodie Foster. Huffington Post rounds up the latter in its slideshow of the 25 youngest Academy Award nominees and winners, all of them aged 20 or younger (and most under 18):

(MOVIE FREAK) 85th Annual Academy Awards - The Predictions!

by Sara Michelle Fetters

It’s been a strange road to the 85th annual Academy Awards, this Sunday’s telecast and presentation one of the more unusual the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has ever encountered. By attempting to move up the nomination deadline to presage influence by various critics organization, artists guilds and other awards shows (namely the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs), the Academy inadvertently through things into all kinds of disarray, creating an atmosphere of odd uncertainty this year that has many perplexed.

You’d think this uncertainty would be a good thing, but in the case of the 85th Oscars you’d be hard-pressed to find many who think so. The reason can be summed up in one word (or title): Argo. While the movie received a healthy seven nominations including a nod for Best Picture, Ben Affleck was left out of the Best Director race leading many to assume it’s chances for the top award were suddenly D.O.A. But then came a weird sympathetic backlash decrying this perceived ‘snubbing,’ Affleck and Argo going on to win a seemingly never-ending series of awards from critics and artist guilds alike including taking home the BAFTA for Best Picture, the WGA for adapted screenplay and the SAG for best ensemble.

(LIST) The 10 Hottest "Best Actor" Oscar Winners!

by Louis Virtel

 

Ten men. Ten Oscars. Ten eternal images of hotness that I'm happy to rank.

You'll be either excited or depressed to learn that the idea of a hot Best Actor Oscar winner is mostly a recent invention. There are some Oscar-winning studs from the the '30s and '40s, but you see plenty more GQ-ready gents in the Academy Award-winning roles of the '90s and 2000s. So without further ado, let's take another trip back and time and count down the 10 hottest "Best Actor" winners.

(The Frontrunners) -Dave Predicts the Winners of Best Director and Picture!

Dave Karger gives his top predictions for who will win the Oscars for Best Director and Picture in this episode of 'The Frontrunners.'

(The Frontrunners) - Dave Predicts the Winners of Best Actor and Actress!

Dave Karger gives his top predictions for who will win the Oscars for Best Actor and Actress in this episode of 'The Frontrunners.'

(LIST) The 5 Most Ridiculous Best Actress Wins!

by Louis Virtel

I had a ball with a 10 Greatest Best Actress Victories list, and now it's time to reveal my dark side: Here are my five least favorite wins for Best Actress, and you'll notice they're all pretty fabulous actresses doing subpar work in subpar fare. Maybe I'm just mad at them for getting rewarded for the wrong work. Maybe I'm contrarian. T'any rate, here are the five offenders:

5. Jodie Foster, The Accused

 

This is not my way of damning Jodie for that cryptic, near-Dada speech she gave at the Golden Globes. This is my way of acknowledging that The Accused is unimportant Oscar bait full of teary monologues that just don't work. Jodie Foster is a commanding actress, and I consider her work in The Silence of the Lambs one of the most justified wins of the '90s. (Love the '91 Oscars so, so much. Thelma, Louise, Rambling Rose, Mercedes Ruehl, etc.) But even in the broadest description, The Accused is Lifetime material at best: A squawky client with Desperately Seeking Susan style is sexually assaulted at a bar in front of cheering patrons, and she and her tough-as-nails lawyer eventually win in court over the trio of rapists. Jodie is a ball of forced characterizations here, a nonstop medley of quirks and squawks. It doesn't help that '88 was also the year of Glenn Close's best performance (and film) Dangerous Liaisons and Meryl Streep's now-underrated work in the very damning A Cry in The Dark. Both would've been better and more unusual choices than Jodie in The Accused.