| Jackie Chan To Receive An Honorary Oscar This Year
It’s not too soon to talk about potential Oscar nominees, and the Academy has already named a few people who have contributed their talents to entertainment who will be getting lifetime achievement awards. A lot of the time these honorary awards go to people we rarely hear about. But come next year, the Academy will give out four lifetime achievement awards, one of which to go to actor and legendary stuntman Jackie Chan. That’s right, Jackie Chan!
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| Oscars 2016: A Rundown Of The 88th Annual Academy Awards
Oscars 2016 has come and gone. The stars walked from the Red Carpet in Hollywood. We saw what they were wearing. The winners were announced, and the 88th Annual Academy Awards, which was broadcasted on ABC live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, tonight, is done. There were a lot of intriguing storylines heading into this year’s show: Would Leonardo DiCaprio finally get his first Oscar? Would Sylvester Stallone win for a character he was nominated for 40 years ago? Would Alejandro Inarritu become the first director since Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1949-50 to win back-to-back Best Director honors? What about the elephant in the room — the lack of diversity amongst the acting nominees for the second straight year — would it be addressed? What on earth would host Chris Rock say?!?! Now the the ceremony is over, here’s a rundown of the evening’s events…
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| Oscars 2016 Winners: Find Out Who Won Academy Awards
Oscars 2016 is here, and ABC will broadcast the 88th Annual Academy Awards ceremony live tonight, Sunday, February 28, 2016, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, starting at 8:30pm EST, with Chris Rock hosting. See below to find out who took home awards, as we will be updating this article throughout the night as the Winners are announced. For nominations, The Revenant leads with 12, with Mad Max: Fury Road close behind with 10. Leonardo DiCaprio is the frontrunner for Best Actor for The Revenant, the film that is the favorite to win Best Picture, with its director Alejandro González Iñárritu also expected to take home the statue. Oscars 2016 Winners are noted as “WINNER” and in bold.
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| Oscars 2016: Ranking The Best Picture Nominees
2015 saw box office records break. However, Hollywood seems stagnant in its dependency of superheroes, sequels, and series. Of the top 10 highest grossing films, 8 were sequels, spinoffs, or re-imaginings. Despite this, plenty of truly great films came out last year; so many, that I wrote a Top 10 of those NOT nominated for Best Picture. From 1944-2009, the Academy was only nominating 5 films each year for Best Picture. This year, 8 movies are nominated for the top honor. Some were all too obvious, while others came far out of left field. Let’s countdown and rank from 8 – 1 this year’s Best Picture nominees”¦
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