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Get Your Live Blog on for the Oscars This Sunday

This Sunday, February 26, is the 84th annual Academy Awards and Art Attack has you covered before and after the ceremony. But what about during? How are you supposed to make it through all three hours (plus the red carpet) with nothing to do but stare at your TV and play the Billy Crystal drinking g ... More >>

Death To The Academy Award For Best Original Song

Being both a music nerd and a movie geek, my interest was piqued when it was revealed that this year only two songs were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. I wondered how the Academy decided that there were only two songs worthy of competing for the award, and how those songs we ... More >>

Oscar Categories That We Wish Existed

By now you have all seen this year's Oscar nominations, released yesterday, in Beverly Hills, California. Nine films were nominated for Best Picture, including Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse, The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life. Fun stuff, espe ... More >>

Waste Land

By now you have all seen this year's Oscar nominations, released yesterday, in Beverly Hills, California. Nine films were nominated for Best Picture, including Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse, The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life. Fun stuff, espe ... More >>

DVDs & Blu-rays: The Ides of March

The Ides of March stars George Clooney and Ryan Gosling; George Clooney directs. The Setup: George Clooney just took home a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for his performance in The Descendants, so expect to see lots of coverage of him as the Oscars approach. This review, just to be clear ... More >>

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

Drink Along With Art Attack As We Liveblog The Golden Globes

The awards ceremony everybody acts like they care about (but nobody really does) is back. That's right, the Golden Globes, those annual accolades bestowed upon Hollywood's finest by the justified and ancient Hollywood Foreign Press Association, air this Sunday at 7 p.m. on NBC. And as an added tre ... More >>

West Side Story's 50th Anniversary

The awards ceremony everybody acts like they care about (but nobody really does) is back. That's right, the Golden Globes, those annual accolades bestowed upon Hollywood's finest by the justified and ancient Hollywood Foreign Press Association, air this Sunday at 7 p.m. on NBC. And as an added tre ... More >>

One Day

Life happens according to plan.

Weary Boy

Ryan Bingham won an Oscar last year, but is too busy to notice.

Oscar Liveblogging!! Tonight, of All Nights!

Too bad Chalie Sheen's not hosting​Tonight brings the annual event where Hollywood humbly congratulates itself -- and all the little people -- in the Academy Awards. Whate everyone's hoping for, of course, is at least one trainwreck moment. James Franco and Anne Hathaway host, which will be. ... More >>

2010 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

Too bad Chalie Sheen's not hosting​Tonight brings the annual event where Hollywood humbly congratulates itself -- and all the little people -- in the Academy Awards. Whate everyone's hoping for, of course, is at least one trainwreck moment. James Franco and Anne Hathaway host, which will be. ... More >>

Why the Golden Globes Are Relevant...No, Really

Just as relevant as the Academy Awards. Sorry.​The 2011 awards season kicked off Sunday night with the 68th installment of the Golden Globes, a.k.a. That Awards Show No One in Hollywood Takes Seriously But They All Attend Anyway Because They're Too Chickenshit to Blow It Off. Though now that ... More >>

Golden Globes: Worst Dressed Viewers

Put some more effort into it, girl​Last night's Golden Globes brought with it, as it always done, a string of fashion triumphs and disasters. Many a publication or online site today is busy raining down judgment with lists of each category. We must do our part. So here are the Golden Globes' ... More >>

Free Lindsay Lohan: Chances Hath Spoken!

Craig Hlavaty​You get it? Because Lindsay Lohan dated a girl and Chances is a bar where women kiss women on the mouth and hold hands?

We (Love) Jeff Bridges Film Festival: Crazy Heart

See the role that won the venerable actor an Oscar

Today's DVDs: The Thrill Of Victory, The Agony Of Valentine's Day

Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Who else was Clint gonna call?​Director Clint Eastwood, actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. That powerhouse trio could have chosen to tell just about any story they wanted and made it into an Academy Award worthy film. They chose Invictus, the real-life story o ... More >>

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: We Love Jeff Bridges

See a retrospective of the recently crowned Oscar winner's screen work

Mo'Nique: Spread the Love Tour

The award-winning comic-turned-actress is putting her serious side away for a while

Wait Until Dark

Audrey Hepburn versus a gang of thugs - our money's on Audrey

Shakespeare in Love Feast

Romeo, Romeo, shiver me timbers, Romeo

Pop Rocks: Golden Bozos

You know awards season is in full swing when all the celebrities converge upon the Beverly Hilton to get drunk and act like receiving an award from the same organization that once honored Pia Zadora is something to be proud of.That's right, it was Golden Globes night last Sunday. And while the just ... More >>

Plenty of Passes Left for Tonight's Crazy Heart Screening

Sig's Lagoon (3710 Main) has plenty of passes left for this evening's preview screening of Crazy Heart, the Golden Globe-nominated film starring Jeff Bridges as a hard-luck country singer who finds... wait for it... One Last Shot At Redemption when he meets kind-hearted journalist Maggie Gylle ... More >>

Starship Troopers

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2009 Mug Awards

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Summer Israeli Film Series: Riki Riki

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The Fortune Cookie

Together for the first time, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

Rice Students Win That MTV Contest And Head To The Oscars

And it's Rice FTW!!!Sure, the basketball team sucks, the football program's a perpetual work in progress, and even the baseball team ain't what it used to be. But the Owls have DOMINATED the MTV contest to send people to interview celebrities on the Academy Awards red carpet!We told you about the tw ... More >>

Why Robert Downey, Jr. Will Not Win for Best Supporting Actor

I finally saw Tropic Thunder this past weekend on DVD, and my God, it was hilarious. Fantastic, funny, full of Hollywood-stabbing humor, and Tom Cruise completely won back all of my respect with his part as Les Grossman. SO, that said. Robert Downey, Jr. needs to win for Best Supporting Actor thi ... More >>

The Red Carpet Calls For Two Rice Students

Asking questions on the Oscars' red carpet is not quite as glamorous as getting asked questions on the Oscars' red carpet, but two students from Rice are hoping fervently they get the chance.The team of Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel (hopeful correspondent and cameraman, respectively) is among the top ... More >>

Golden Globes Awards Party

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Tony Kushner

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright discusses his ability to portray the down-and-out

Episcopal and Cinco Ranch Win Big at Tommy Tune Awards

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright discusses his ability to portray the down-and-out

Dersu Uzala

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa captures life in the Russian wilderness

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis author gets her Academy Award-nominated brain picked

Miss Pop Rocks Loves (the First Half of) the Oscars

Persepolis author gets her Academy Award-nominated brain picked

Alamo Drafthouse Valentine Day’s screening

See Gwyneth Paltrow in the role that won her an Oscar

I Miss the Awards Shows

See Gwyneth Paltrow in the role that won her an Oscar

Artful Thursday: War and Peace – The Short Version

A lecture by Rice professor Terrence Doody kicks off a week of events surrounding the historic novel and the seven-hour-long film

The Red Balloon and White Mane

Albert Lamorisse’s Academy Award-winning short film

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Lagaan to This One

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Oscar Wild!

Where to watch the stars

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man's a comedy, but not that kind

Fat Joe

All or Nothing

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career