academy awards

A movie filmed right here in Louisiana is continuing to gain Oscar buzz and critical acclaim despite poor ticket sales as award season approaches.

It's bound to happen at some point.  With the genre's proliferation over the past 20 years it's pert nigh inevitable.  Someday a superhero movie is going to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.  That's a bold statement, I know, but it might even happen this year, through the chances are slim.  When the nom...

Leonardo DiCaprio finally gets an Oscar, Luke Bryan falls on stage and more!

IT FINALLY HAPPENED. Leonardo DiCaprio has won his very first Academy Award. Whether you were rooting for or against ‘The Revenant’, whether you think he deserved the award for his grunting and groaning as Hugh Glass or just wanted him to win a damn Oscar already, it doesn’t matter. He’s officially in the Oscar club now.

Louisiana's own MacKenzie Bourg makes it to the final ten on American Idol, the first round of performers for the ACM Awards have been announced and more!

Christian Slater gets sued, Blake Shelton fights (again) with Westboro Baptist Church and more!

This Sunday’s Oscars will be the 87th annual Academy Awards. In nearly a century of honoring Hollywood’s best, the Academy has sometimes has made some bold choices, and some dumb choices. This gallery has them all; the complete history of nine decades of Best Picture winners in pictures. Some are classics, still watched to this day. A few are almost totally forgotten to history. (Cavalcade, anyone?) But they all won. Even Crash, somehow.

One of the biggest stories from Sunday night's Academy Awards was the butchering of singer Idina Menzel’s name by John Travolta. The actor introduced her as the "wickedly talented" and "one and only"...Adele Dazeem. Wait, what did he say?

The Academy Awards are being televised this Sunday night and it got me thinking about some of the funny things that have happened on the show since it's live. In fact, I remember a few hilarious moments on the Academy Awards.

A look in pictures of some of last nights best moments at the 83rd annual Academy Awards.

The stars hit the red carpet for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, including nominees Natalie Portman, Melissa Leo, Michelle Williams, Christian Bale, Jesse Eisenberg, plus co-host Anne Hathaway.

Over its 83 years, the Academy Awards ceremony has produced hundreds of memorable, inspirational and surprising moments. The coveted Oscar statuette instigates cinema's elite to cry, kiss, scream and "exercise." With emotions running high and the tension thick, there is no telling what will happen during the upcoming February 27th show. Maybe even something that will knock one of the fol