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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.
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Uggie the dog is cute. He's also becoming an awards-baiting prop.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
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.
Hooray, the SAG Award nominations, that is the award nominations given out by the Screen Actors Guild actors union, have been announced. There aren't too many surprises, but let's take a look at them anyway. Awards season!
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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