Every year distributors campaign to land a Best Picture nomination with some repeatedly getting nominated every year. Others are unlikely despite big pushes and having huge films. Here is a look at five distributors that will definitely get Best Picture nominations this year.
Amidst reports that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 star Andrew Garfield ditched Batkid at this year's Oscars Awards, the young actor reportedly made up for the night with a trip to Disney.
Gravity was quite the force at Sunday's 86th Annual Academy Awards. Director Alfonso Cuarón took home two himself, one for Directing and one for Film Editing. The Mexican director, however, is trying to leave the Oscars behind, both literally and figuratively.
In case you weren't tipped off by the perfect "placement" of a shiny new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in the center of the TV frame when Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres spontaneously decided to take the now-famous celeb-packed selfie that temporarily broke Twitter - that was big for Samsung.
The highly demanded Veronica Mars movie will premiere on March 14. Fans do not have to wait until then to get a little bit of their Veronica Mars fix, however. On Friday, the opening scene of the movie was released on YouTube.
The 86th Annual Academy Awards will go down as a treasured moment in Latino history in Arts & Entertainment.
Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón became the first Latino to win an Oscar for Best Director, fellow Gravity collaborator and Mexican filmmaker Emmanuel Lubeski won for cinematography, and multi-faceted Filipino-American Robert Lopez became a member of the prestigious 'EGOT' (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards) club, joining in the ranks of legendary talent, such as the beloved Rita Moreno.
The Fifty Shades of Grey movie is done filming. According to members of the cast and crew, everyone is walking away with something different from the film.
In total, Gravity tied for the most nominations with David O Russell's American Hustle, both arriving at the Oscars with 10 nominations each. Only Gravity would end up with the largest count of Oscar wins, though.
Social networking computed with a number of factors may actually predict the likely outcome of the Academy Awards on March 2, according to Farsite Forecast.
As a treat for Oscar viewers, for the first time, the Academy will be hosting an Oscar concert to feature the nominated songs as well as original song pieces that will form part of the event.
Mexican writer/director Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is representing Latinos in film worldwide by leading the pack for this year's Oscars nods -- with 10 Oscar nominations. But fellow Latino, Guatemala-born actor Oscar Isaac who stars in Inside Llewyn Davis isn't quite feeling the Oscar love that he and the Coen brothers deserve, according to many fans of the film.
