Oscars

Alfie (1966) - 5 Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Actor - Michael Caine, Best Supporting Actress - Vivien Merchant , Best Original Song, Best Adapted Screenplay)

It’s Oscar Season (Again) At The Roxy!

It may be almost May, but that doesn’t mean you can’t re-live all the glitz and glamour of Oscar season! Our friends at the Roxy are giving you a chance to catch up on all the Oscar nominees you may have missed out on the …

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Oscar Liveblogging From The Istaverse

If you didn’t fancy staying up all night to listen to Fearn Cotton’s witterings you probably woke up to good news this morning about Slumdog Millionaire’s haul of 8 Oscars and Kate’s broken duck. For a view from backstage, however, Londonist Hollywood film buffs can …

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Preview: Screwball Women @ BFI Southbank

Back before there was Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, or Meg Ryan and virtually any other male lead, there was Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant, Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Kate Hepburn and – well, you get the idea. Never …

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Tube Wins Transport Oscar

As a parochial and unglamorous antidote to the Hollywood Oscars that took place last weekend, London Underground was crowned Public Transport Operator of the Year at what LUL are desperately trying to sex up as the “transport Oscars” but are actually more prosaically known as …

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Saturday Cinema Summary

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Stallone takes us back to a simpler age in Rambo, Jack Black goes pretend low budget in Be Kind Rewind, Bono gets his ego blasted out in 3D in U2-3D and Norah …

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Weekend Round-Up

This is what we have learned while you were out bisto-ing the Spring air and foraging in the farmers’ markets this weekend: It’s the Baftas tonight, and as the Oscars are on ice, the paparazzi will be out for this in force. ‘Fraid the bloggerazzi …

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London On The Cheap – 15th – 20th July

We’ll let you into a secret: Londonist is a bit skint. And we all know that the wonderful events in the city can add up to quite a hefty sum. It means that we can’t go and see the Dali and Film exhibition at the …

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Gay For May

Maybe it’s the heat, but May in London has become a veritable political gay-fest. Last week, a gay man took the helm of Richmond Borough Council for the first time, and announced ‘diversity’ as a key theme for his year in office. This happens just …

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Saturday Cinema Summary!

This week – The accompanying film to Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, the 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima as experienced by the Japanese Imperial Army. (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Jim Carrey gets obsessed with the number 23 (The Number 23). Today had the …

Blood Diamond

Leonardo DiCaprio was yesterday nominated for an Oscar for his role as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond, while his co-star, Djimon Hounsou, is up for a Best Supporting Oscar. The film directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, The Siege) is first and foremost an …

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And the Oscar goes to?

The nominations for the Oscars (or the 79th annual Academy Awards if you’re bing picky) have been announced: Best Picture: The Departed Babel Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond) …