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Eddie Murphy Is Hosting The Oscars!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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While Hollywood doesn’t seem interested in balancing the lack of Black representation on the big screen, the Academy is happy to have us host the awards show. According to HumorMillmag.com , Eddie Murphy is confirmed to host the 84th Academy Awards in February of 2012. The Oscars will be the first time Murphy has taken the stage to perform any kind of stand-up in over twenty years. He is currently starring in the up-coming movie Tower Heist , Directed by Brett Ratner. Ratner is reported to be producing the Awards as well. The last African-American to host the Oscars was Chris Rock in 2004. Whoopi Goldberg has hosted four Oscars with her last being in 2001. Will this make you watch? RELATED POSTS: FIRST LOOK: Eddie Murphy And Gabourey Sidibe In “Tower Heist” Trailer [VIDEO] Eddie Murphy To Receive Comedy Icon Award The Internet Kills Eddie Murphy…Again

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And They’re (Almost) Off: The Preliminary 2011-12 Oscar Index

Posted on August 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Ready or not, the Oscar Equinox is upon us: The Venice Film Festival is underway, the Telluride Film Festival launches this weekend, and the Toronto International Film Festival commences a week from tomorrow. Amid that crop of movies will be the bulk of this year’s awards-season contenders, which will compete against an elite class already having opened in theaters and another fistful yet to come this winter. Same game, new players. And Movieline’s redoubtable Oscar Index has the preliminary breakdown of who to watch.

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Movieline at the Midpoint: Who Are 2011’s Oscar Contenders to Date?

Posted on July 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Ever since Sundance, we’ve been contemplating the crop of of films, performances and various other contenders shaping up for this fall’s awards-season harvest. But what of those worthy releases from the first part of the year — the critical and/or commercial darlings who may enjoy some longevity when it comes time for Oscar voting? There are at least a couple every year; now, at 2011’s midpoint , join Movieline in parsing out the likeliest among their ranks.

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BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #71: Three 6 Mafia Win Academy Award For “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) Kodak Theater 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA When: March 5, 2006 What: The Memphis rap group earned an Oscar for Best Original Song for their contribution to the Hustle & Flow movie soundtrack. The film starred Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson , who performed the Three 6 Mafia-penned “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp.” NEXT | PREVIOUS In celebration of Black Music Month, TheUrbanDaily’s “It’s All Black Music” presents  100 Rewarding Black Music Moments , sponsored by Southwest Airlines . Each Black Music Moment is associated with an actual place that you can visit. During the month of June, check in to at least three of these places on  Foursquare to unlock TheUrbanDaily’s exclusive  “It’s All Black Music” Badge . Check out the locations and details on our  Foursquare page !

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BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #71: Three 6 Mafia Win Academy Award For “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) Kodak Theater 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA When: March 5, 2006 What: The Memphis rap group earned an Oscar for Best Original Song for their contribution to the Hustle & Flow movie soundtrack. The film starred Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson , who performed the Three 6 Mafia-penned “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp.” NEXT | PREVIOUS In celebration of Black Music Month, TheUrbanDaily’s “It’s All Black Music” presents  100 Rewarding Black Music Moments , sponsored by Southwest Airlines . Each Black Music Moment is associated with an actual place that you can visit. During the month of June, check in to at least three of these places on  Foursquare to unlock TheUrbanDaily’s exclusive  “It’s All Black Music” Badge . Check out the locations and details on our  Foursquare page !

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Is King’s Speech Really Better Than Unforgiven, The Sting, and These Other Best Picture Oscar Winners?

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The folks at Rotten Tomatoes have tabulated their annual Best of the Best list, inserting Tom Hooper’s 2011 Best Picture winner The King’s Speech into the annals of Oscar history. But comparing great films to other great films has always been something of an apples to oranges situation; how can you measure, say, The Godfather Part II against An American in Paris — two very different films that occupy adjoining slots on the list and have the same Tomatometer ranking (98 percent)? With a carefully calculated algorithm, that’s how! Still… why does The King’s Speech not quite feel right sitting so high above other bona fide classics?

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The New Something Borrowed Trailer: John Krasinski and Ginnifer Goodwin Deserve Better

Posted on March 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Are there two more adorable television stars than John Krasinski and Ginnifer Goodwin? The answer you’re looking for is, “No.” Which makes the second trailer for Something Borrowed all the more disconcerting. After all, how could something that features two should-be-wildly-more-famous-than-they-are stars look so… tepid?

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‘Bruce Cohen is a Liar’: Gay Oscar Producer’s Wiki Bio Attacked Over Censored Kiss

Posted on March 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

As if on cue, openly gay Oscarcast co-producer Bruce Cohen is facing the ultimate Web sanction for that censored Javier Bardem-Josh Brolin smooch from Sunday night: an attacked Wikipedia bio calling him a “liar” and homophobe in cahoots with ABC. Slow clap, Internet, slow clap.

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Late Night Highlights: Jay Leno Gives Betty White a Book on Sex

Posted on March 2, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Last night, Betty White stopped by the Tonight Show to not talk about Charlie Sheen. The nerve. Instead, she and Jay Leno celebrated her recent birthday. Elsewhere, Piers Morgan told Conan about the behind-the-scenes situation during his recent Charlie Sheen interview, B.J. Novak talked about his meeting with Michael Jackson, Stephen Colbert chided CBS, and Jimmy Fallon binged on fast food.

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Manohla Dargis Went to the Oscars and All We Got Was This Lousy Epiphany

Posted on March 2, 2011 by | Leave a comment

New York Times critic Manohla Dargis today flings a lifesaver into the tsunami of bile otherwise known as the Oscar Aftermath, suggesting to readers that maybe you just had to be there for the show to have any real significance. She was, after all, attending her first Oscars ever — walking the red carpet, hitting the Governors Ball, the whole deal. And despite the preordained showing of The King’s Speech and James Franco’s half-assed hosting (perceptible even from the cheap seats, Dargis affirms), there is cause for optimism about this most beaten of dead horses.

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