Chris Rock is going to the host for the upcoming 2016 Oscars on February 28, and there is one huge takeaway that we have from what he wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon: He is going out in full force on the Academy Awards nominating twenty white men and women for acting awards. As you can […]
The 2016 Academy Awards are going to be airing on ABC starting on Sunday, February 28, and the network has officially now decided that now is the time to get their promotional efforts in gear. The promo below featuring none other than host Chris Rock is the first one that has been formally released at […]
Jessica Jones, Oscars, Quantico
Now that we know “Quantico” has that much-coveted full-season, why not spend a moment or two discussing the latest bit of casting news? It’s so much easier to report on a show that you know is not going away anytime soon. According to TVLine, Anne Heche (“Men in Trees”) has signed up to appear as a […]
It feels like for almost every year since he first hosted the Academy Awards, Chris Rock has had his name in contention to return to the gig. However, this may be the year that he finally comes back. According to Variety, Rock is in talks to take the hosting gig for the 2016 show on […]
How about this for something that we really did not see coming to the “Oscars” ever again? It turns out that for the upcoming 2016 Academy Awards, ABC is going to be fine with bringing back two hosts. The last time this happened was back when we had Anne Hathaway and James Franco emceeing the broadcast, and […]
Back when we first wrote about the In Memoriam segment during our Academy Awards telecast on Sunday night, one of the first things that we admitted was that it would be almost completely impossible for the ABC special to actually please everyone. Someone is always going to be forgotten. With that being said, not including Joan […]
What happened to the 2015 Academy Awards? That is certainly a question we understand many having, especially after seeing the ratings come in from last night’s show. The silver lining here is that while they are the lowest preliminary figures in sever years, this still remains an immensely popular show. After all, it drew a […]
While we’ve already went through some of the performances at the Oscars that managed to compete in the Best Song category, what we had tonight with Lady Gaga was something completely different … and unexpected. The last thing that we expected to hear from her was a performance of the songs from “The Sound of […]
Good news when it comes to Idina Menzel and John Travolta: Everything is seemingly in the past. Last year, these two were front and center for what has to be one of the most embarrassing gaffes in the history of the Academy Awards when Travolta somehow managed to pronounce the Broadway megastar’s name as “Adele […]
The Oscars In Memoriam segment is always incredibly emotional. We know that there is always a good deal of controversy surrounding who is left out of the montage, we do feel every time that the hearts of the Academy are in the right place. They want to make this moving, and try to include as […]
