Deadline reports that the Family Guy creator turned oddly tanned celebrity has been asked to come back in 2014, cementing the rise of the good-looking comedy guy who acts like a jerk and accuses his detractors of being humorless or worse whenever a joke offends or angers them.
Now that the Academy Awards have come and gone and the winners have had their trophies engraved, it's time to look forward, to an uncertain future. If they heed our unsolicited advice, a decades-long bounty of roles and accolades awaits them. Should they ignore it, there is only doom and obscurity.
Today in celebrity gossip: Some juicy tidbits from Sunday night's Oscars parties, word on what other famous people were doing that night, and some unsurprising news about Anne Hathaway's speech.
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.
Moment-by-moment coverage of Hollywood's biggest night, from the red carpet to the show and all the winners, with Richard Lawson.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The most ridiculed Oscars number of all time, unveiled.
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?
The actual movie posters for this year's Best Picture nominees have nothing on these. The Academy teamed up with Gallery1988 to commission artists to create screen prints inspired by the top films.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Before they could settle in to eat, stars were forced to process across a red carpet and face questions from the press, all of which resulted in the latest version of this particularly quirky group of celebrities saying the darndest things. Here are some highlights.
That Argo, an almost universally well-reviewed film, is now an Oscar front-runner isn't exactly a surprise, but its late-season trouncing of another film certainly is. What happened to Zero Dark Thirty?
Two big weekend wins for Argo have the Hollywood pundits saying that its Best Picture chances have transformed from Academy snub to Golden Globes surprise to, suddenly, a done deal at the Oscars. Will all this make the biggest prize turn from dramatic to, well, boring?
A map of the monthly calendar of Academy Award winners and nominees has surprising results: December is the most popular month for nominated releases, but winners tend to come from October and November.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Who will get picked? Who will get snubbed? The Academy Awards are never entirely predictable, but we have some educated guesses in the so-called major categories, before we bring you the full roll call bright and early Thursday morning.
So what happens if the Academy is too scared to cast Oscar ballots this year? With the nominations less than two weeks away, reports are screaming out of Hollywood that the awards' attempt at going digital may already be backfiring.
Oscar mania grows stronger by the day, so it's time to take a gamble at figuring out who might wind up vying for gold in the most crowded of this year's big categories.
In a year that has been disproportionately in favor of big performances from the guys, this category is anyone's game at this point. That said, let's look at the five performances we think will get Oscar's attention come January.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
With Les Mis and Zero Dark Thirty screening over the weekend to much acclaim, it's time to start filling out our potential Oscar ballots, based on how each movie fits into this year's awards landscape.
Fans of silly voices and dinner theater-level crooning rejoice: Deadline is reporting that Family Guy creator and voice actor Seth MacFarlane, who had a big-screen hit this summer with Ted, will be hosting the next Academy Awards ceremony.
A just-announced big change in the Oscars schedule has shocked everyone the world over. Elsewhere in showbiz: NBC might have a hit on its hands, The Voice gets two new judges, and you'll have to wait a little big longer for Les Miserables.
If you're like us, you saw your Twitter feed blow up on Sunday night with tweets about dresses, acceptance speeches, and French swears as the Oscars were broadcast on ABC.
The CW has found its newest leading lady, the Oscars were a mild success, and Jonah Hill stays serious.
The glitter dust of the 84th Academy Awards may have settled, but with the 85th edition a mere 363 days away, there are some lessons for next year's producers, whoever they may be. Let's review while our memories are still fresh.
The best Oscar after-party moments, including Sean Young's arrest, Cameron Diaz's blackballing, and Madonna's over-the-top Gucci party favors.
Is the era of "Freedom fries" finally over? Or is the backlash just beginning?
The Academy Awards are all about celebrating artistry and all that blah blah blah. What they're really about is fabulous fashion, so here are our choices for the standout looks of this year's ceremony.
Sunday's 84th Academy Awards ceremony (which we live-blogged!) has come to an end. And while plenty happened, there are really only ten things you need to know about the ceremony to hold your own during today's water cooler conversation. Here they are.
The envelopes are sealed. The starlets, starved. So get ready for excitement: It's the Oscars, everybody!
A giant animated gif has every reaction shot from Oscar winners and losers.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Mark Wahlberg says a friend at the firm charged with tallying Oscar votes has told him all the Academy Award winners in advance of this weekend's ceremony, and he's out to spoil it for the rest of us by revealing them to the Huffington Post UK.
The Sunlight Foundation's Lindsay Young has a timely report investigating the political donations of those lucky few whose names appear on the list of nominees for this weekend's Academy Awards, and -- wonder of wonders -- these Hollywood types tend to give a lot of money to Democrats, reaffirming that not much can shake the film industry's faith in their favorite party.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that didn't make sense.
A Los Angeles Times report on the demographics of the Academy Award voters paints a pretty clear picture of what we're dealing with when the Oscars get handed out: they're a reflection of a pretty homogenous group of people's tastes.
The Oscar-winner says she suffers from macular degeneration, and can no longer read scripts or make out faces.
Oscar telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer have been pretty hush-hush about their plans for the ceremony (12 days, everyone!). But, with Billy Crystal on board as host, there is at least one thing we're guaranteed: Billy Crystal jokes.
JGL is a man of many talents, Amy Adams heads into the art world, and a dismaying glimpse of the new Spider-Man.
A look at the award season's most efficient night.
Uggie the dog is cute. He's also becoming an awards-baiting prop.
One of the oldest traditions on Oscar nominations day is getting reaction quotes from nominees. Not everyone participates, but plenty do. Who said the best things this year? Let's take a look.
This year's Academy Award nominations have been announced and, for what are usually pretty by-the-book awards, there were a decent amount of surprises this year.
The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, Tree of Life, and War Horse get nominated for Best Picture.
Tomorrow's Academy Awards nominations marks the official beginning of Hollywood's most wonderful, excruciating time: Oscar season! And we have some ideas for who will be having a fun morning and who will not.
The Golden Globe Awards have come and gone and today we have the BAFTA Award nominations, meaning it's time to do some more Oscar thinking, now that the nominations are a week away and we're armed with this new information.
James Franco and Kim Novak are not proving to be good spokespeople for their awards-season causes.
Awards season has started, which means it's time for the inevitable Oscar campaigns. And you know what? That's OK.
With 36 days left until the GOP's Iowa Caucus and 57 days remaining until the 2011 Oscar nominations are announced, the candidates and Best Picture hopefuls have begun to run together in our thoughts. Naturally, Ron Paul is Moneyball.
The New York Film Critics Circle has announced their best of the year awards, doing so via their Twitter feed. There were some surprises! Let's see who won, via tweets, of course.
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