2012 Oscar awards
See below for a collection of links for the 2012 Oscar nominations and the 84th Academy Awards show. The nominations were announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, and the Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 26. Keep checking here for all your Oscar news from now until after the awards are given out. If you think we’re missing important links, share them in the conversations tab.
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New lobbying rules in effect — in Hollywood
(Merie Wallace / AP)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has instituted what amount to the showbiz equivalent of campaign finance reform for the Oscar season.
Eye on entertainment
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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Lil Jon, Eddie Van Halen, Mariah Carey and other celebrities.
Cannes 2012: Festival offers only small hints for Oscar season
via Los Angeles Times
It’s a wrap: Amid froth of the Cannes Film Festival, movies explored our age of anxiety
(Joel Ryan / Associated Press)
CANNES, France — There was Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, red carpet glamour and a crop of new Academy Award contenders — but this was also the year the global financial crisis exploded onto movie screens at Cannes.
Robert De Niro tells Bates College graduates in Maine he did OK despite lack of education
(The Lewiston Sun-Journal, Russ Dillingham / Associated Press)
LEWISTON, Maine — As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.
At Cannes 2012, the Angelina Jolie leg look abounds
(Jonathan Short / AP)
Kim Kardashian, Kristen Stewart and Freida Pinto wore dresses with thigh-high slits on various red carpets.
Academy Award nominated film “Dive Bomber” featured at HBLL
via The Daily Universe
Cannes and Oscar – Most Likely to SucceedZac Efron out of his comfort zone in Lee Daniels’ sultry drama ‘The Paperboy’ in Cannes
(Virginia Mayo / Associated Press)
CANNES, France — Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role “The Paperboy” — and he says that’s the way he wanted it.
No kisses for Will Smith in New York, but lots of ribbing from ‘MIB3’ co-star Tommy Lee Jones
(Evan Agostini / Associated Press)
NEW YORK — Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does.
1981 review of ‘Let There Be Light’: War Casualty
This review originally appeared Feb. 12, 1981, in The Post.
Sapphires are early Oscar sparklers
Cannes 2012: Can a Girl Group Follow 'The Artist' From Cannes to Oscar?‘Rust and Bone’ director Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes, citadel of arthouse film
(Joel Ryan / Associated Press)
CANNES, France — Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie.
Student Oscar winners announced
The American Film Institute, American University, USC, UCLA, NYU and Columbia are among the schools that will be represented at the 2012 Student Academy Awards ceremony June 9.
Oscar winner Hilary Swank to star in film about malaria by Four Weddings writer Richard Curtis
via The Telegraph
Academy Award Winning Director Martin Scorsese To Produce Feature Length Drama Silver Ghost
Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples
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