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  Davood Roostaei, Famed Iranian-American Painter, Dies at 63

  The artist was jailed for two years in Iran in the early '80s for his "subversive" art

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  Billy Crystal deserves an honorary Oscar, just like Bob Hope got

  Happy 75th birthday to comedian and actor Billy Crystal! What better gift to celebrate than an honorary Oscar? The academy board of governors will meet later in the spring to decide the 2023 honorary recipients (life achievement, Jean Hersholt and Thalberg). We are hoping that acting governors Whoopi Goldberg, Marlee Matlin and Rita Wilson will […]

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  The Telegraph

  The Oscars have finally realised that age is no barrier

  Age – in an industry that places such a premium on gilded youth – proved no barrier at this year’s Oscars to a historic set of victories. For the first time since 1982, every one of Sunday night’s winning actors was over 50 years old: Michelle Yeoh (60), Brendan Fraser (54), Ke Huy Quan (51) and Jamie Lee Curtis (64).

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  UK’s David Parfitt Unveils New Project With ‘The Father’ French Partner & Near-Future ‘Hamlet’; Makes Appeal To U.S. Agents

  Oscar and BAFTA-winning film producer David Parfitt is hoping to reunite with French producer Philippe Carcassonne following their successful collaboration on Florian Zeller’s Oscar-winning drama The Father. Parfitt revealed his plans during a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator event on Sunday. “He [Carcassonne] is developing something really interesting based on an […]

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  CinemaBlend

  6 Oscar-Winning Performances In Horror Movies

  Horror movies do not get many Oscar wins, but these great performances did.

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  2023 Oscars Best Supporting Actor nominees: 1 veteran versus 4 rookies

  The 2023 Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actor are Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”), Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”), Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), and Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). Our odds currently show Quan (31/10) triumphing, followed in order of likelihood by Gleeson (4/1), Keoghan (4/1), […]

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  2023 Oscars Best Actor nominees: 1st all-rookie lineup in 88 years

  The 2023 Oscar nominees for Best Actor are Austin Butler (“Elvis”), Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”), Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”), and Bill Nighy (“Living”). Butler (69/20) is favored to win by our odds, followed in order by Fraser (71/20), Farrell (4/1), Nighy (9/2), and Mescal (9/2). Last year’s lead male lineup […]

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  NY Daily News

  ‘Lost Highway’ actor Robert Blake dead at 89

  Actor Robert Blake, known for “Baretta,” “In Cold Blood” and “Lost Highway,” as well as being acquitted in the killing of his wife, has died. He was 89. Blake died Thursday from heart disease at his Los Angeles home, according to a statement from his family. Blake, born Michael Gubitosi in Nutley, N.J. in 1933, was a child actor, playing one of the Little Rascals in dozens of the popular “Our ...

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  Sharon Stone reflects on nobody wanting to dress her for the 1992 Oscars

  There are probably loads of people that would happily line up to style Sharon Stone for a red carpet event. The actress recently reflected on her first experience attending the 1992 Oscars, when nobody wanted to dress her. At the time, Stone had not received her big break, as "Basic Instinct" -- in which she played the now-iconic character Catherine Tramell -- had not yet been released.

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  The Telegraph

  Will Smith and the curse of the Best Actor Oscar

  The Oscars ceremony, once the self-congratulatory highpoint of the film industry’s calendar, is rapidly turning into an annual instalment of Curb Your Enthusiasm – albeit with rather more physical violence than the Larry David sitcom. Last year’s spectacle of Will Smith striding onto the stage to slap Chris Rock for insulting his wife, before making a tearful God-thanking speech as he accepted the Best Actor award a few moments later, was easily one of the most awkward scenes ever shown on telev

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