Justin Timberlake's been touting his music career recently with the release of his album The 20/20 Experience, but the jack-of-all-trades entertainer within may have a big role to fill—that is if the National Enquirer's source is right.
Yes, predictive lists are already out, so — what the hell? — we've put together a list based on the lists, in roughly descending order of which big movie from the year ahead will score a Best Picture nomination.
Amid the fallout from Seth MacFarlane's Oscar hosting performance, everyone speculated as to who the next Oscar host should be. Kimmel seemed almost too easy of a choice, but now it seems like he is already being groomed as the successor.
As the fury over his Academy Awards hosting gig starts to settle down, the Academy itself isn't abandoning the host, even as he becomes the latest Hollywood product to be condemned by lawmakers.
Over the past few days, BuzzFeed has turned the story of a Palestinian filmmaker detained by LAX customs officials on his way to the Oscars into something infinitely more petty: an all-out campaign to distract readers from their own shoddy reporting.
In statements made exclusively to The Atlantic Wire, Michael Moore and Emad Burnat say the Palestinian filmmaker's detainment by LAX customs officials on his way to the Oscars was anything but a "publicity stunt," as a deeply flawed BuzzFeed report based on a single anonymous source characterized the incident.
Seth MacFarlane, after all the criticism, said on Twitter today that he won't host the Academy Awards again. Naturally, a number of publications have already started speculating as to who should emcee in 2014. Let's rank the choices.
The host's much criticized "We Saw Your Boobs" song during his opening number of the Oscars was all about celebrity nude scenes, and now the website that's all about just that has done MacFarlane's homework for him.
The numbers are in and, well, you win, MacFarlane. Turns out, if the Academy Awards hope to survive on network television, cultivating a base-level appeal with a "risky" non-traditional host might just do the trick.
The Economist has a chart examining the frequency of gushing onstage clichés in Oscar history, and the words of Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence weren't as bad as usual.
After an Oscar night uproar over a tweet that used the c-word to describe Quvenzhané Wallis, The Onion's new CEO is attempting to put the incident behind the paper of satirical record. But beyond the offensiveness, can The Onion still be The Onion now?
The criticism is still raining down on the Oscar host — "sexist" and "racist" and "worst ever" are not uncommon from all over today. But was he funny? Some professional funny people seem to think so.
Today in a special Academy Awards edition of celebrity gossip: A look at all the post-Oscar bashes and their fabulous attendees, from Vanity Fair conversations to Britney Spears's new hair. Plus an award-show lobby full of toilet water.
If you think you're tired after staying up late to watch the endless Academy Awards, just imagine how these people are feeling.
It looks like Ben Affleck will not be receiving any congratulatory phone calls from Iran today, after the media there dismissed his film's triumph at the Academy Awards as "Hollywood insiders sacrificing quality and artistic cinema to political slogans and distortions."
Where are we most likely to see dresses inspired by the ladies on the Oscars red carpet? At the mall.
There was the monologue, which didn't go over so well in some parts, and then there was the rest of the Oscars, which didn't either. The first-time host was, as expected, kind of a jerk. Here's a sampler.
There were hints of invention and humor throughout the Academy Awards on Sunday, but all told the show was remarkable only in its moments of jaw-droppingly bad jokes from the off-putting and unsteady host — and in its agonizing waste of time.
She won hearts when she tripped on the way up to the stage to collect the award for Best Actress. Then she won some more in the press room. She had been drinking.
The Best Picture denouement turned into a surprise appearance by the First Lady, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C. — where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie — to introduce and announce the winner, Argo.
Kristen Stewart was using crutches on the red carpet at the Oscars, and appeared to be limping when she came out on stage to present. And backstage, Hathaway told her to "break a leg."
Musicals were the them of Oscar night, and the movie musical tribute about halfway through the seemingly endless show featured Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway, and only part of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for Sound Editing. While it is rare, it is not unprecedented: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for Best Actress in 1969, and were other ties!
The host spent the first 19 minutes of the Academy Awards on Sunday making sure everyone would, in fact, hate him.
Here are the best and — let's be charitable — most unusual dresses from the Oscar red carpet, with closeups of beads, velvet, and tulle, plus the occasional haircut and refreshed face.
From hungry Jennifer Lawrence to Anne Hathaway's semi-nip slip, here are the most irreverent moments from the Oscars, pre-actual Oscars.
Moment-by-moment coverage of Hollywood's biggest night, from the red carpet to the show and all the winners, with Richard Lawson.
He's tried to win over his haters with a self-effacing schtick, but should you believe him? Or is he double-crossing everyone, only to pull another 180 and go all Ricky Gervais on us? Let's examine, with some psychoanalysis.
The Academy Awards are on Sunday! We've already told you who we think the winners will be, but what else will happen during the show? In advance of our live account of all the Oscar night proceedings, here are some probably very accurate guesses. (But not really.)
What began as a simple magazine pitch has now taken writer Joshuah Bearman all the way to the Oscars. (Well, he's working on getting a ticket.) Here's the story of the article that inspired Argo.
Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway? She's just so very... Anne Hathaway. Here's the trail of awards-season drama that she hath wrought, as a preview of sorts for hate-watching the Oscars:
Silver has finally delivered his Oscar picks, refining his method of forecasting the awards so they're more in line with his election picks — or at least better than his so-so history of calling the Academy Awards.
Nate Silver isn't doing the Oscars this year, and he's not that good at picking the winners anyway. But we spoke with the Harvard nerd trying to replace him, then double-checked with Silver's favorite indicators and Hollywood insiders, for the closest thing to a scientific Oscar ballot there is in 2013.
Now that we've gone through who we think should win Oscars this year, it's time to take a look at who will actually likely win. We're going to go quickly, category by category all the way down the list, listing the likely winner and one potential spoiler. Happy balloting, everyone!
The Academy has done away with its "kind of sexist" tradition of having hot women present the statuettes in favor of young filmmakers from Zimbabwe to the Marine Corps. Here are the kids you'll be seeing a lot of come Sunday night.
With the Academy Awards quickly approaching, we're going through each of the major categories and pretending we're Academy voters. Forget who will win, we have a very important decision to make.
Unlike the Oscars' sporting event counterpart, the Super Bowl, you probably aren't that interested in the commercials, but should you be?
A new IMDb-meets-Kevin Bacon graphic for Oscar night reveals the links between various actors, producers, and directors up for awards this year.
The perpetual baby stars in a nominated animated short, and Facebook fans are helping to choose among real-life Oscar gown counterparts — from last year's Angelina to Jennifer Lawrence's memorable red number from the year before that.
Palestinian director Emad Burnat has gone through a lot to get to Hollywood. Even now, with an Oscar nomination under his belt, he's still reportedly being held up by airport immigrations officers while trying to get to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony.
With the Academy Awards just a few days away, the behind-the-scenes plans for Oscar night are starting to go public, and they look... long, with a side of questionable vocals.
Ah, the Oscars: glitz, glamour, and condoms.
Oscar buzz, at least for Best Picture, at least for people who really care, comes in ebbs and flows of speculation. Here's a look back at the Hollywood conventional wisdom, from The Master's weird rise to Zero Dark Thirty's torturous fall and Argo's late surge.
It's been a rough year for Oscar voting, but it all comes to close at 5 p.m. PST on Tuesday, the Academy's official deadline for ballots, whether electronic or paper.
Last night Argo won the Best Adapted Screenplay prize at the Writers Guild of America awards, seemingly inching the film closer to Oscar sure-thing status. Are there surprises left in any of the big categories?
Everyone kind of expects Seth MacFarlane to be a huge jerk when he hosts the Oscars, but in new interviews released today, the Hollywood insider/outsider admits that his plan is to take it straight to the stars in the audience.
What with all of the political drama in this year's Best Picture crop — and Michelle Obama hosting the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House — we couldn't help but wonder which films our top politicians would like to see win.
With the Academy Awards quickly approaching, we're going through each of the major categories and pretending we're Academy voters. Forget who will win, we have a decision to make.
Funny or Die is out with "Part 2" of the "Between Two Ferns" Oscar special. Here are the highlights — and, uh, Daniel Day-Lewis, and, um, Sally Field eating Anne Hathaway?
Oscar nominees are pretty careful not to offend on their award-season interview tour. But in bringing back his viral video series "Between Two Ferns" for Funny or Die today, well, Zach Galifianakis is having none of that.
The slow march toward an Oscar win for Argo got another boost on Sunday. The British Academy of Film and Television had their yearly to-do on Sunday, and they just loved Ben's big movie.
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