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In support of the world’s largest BitTorrent search engine, The Pirate Bay, which is currently on trial in Sweden for  “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws,” F.A.T Labs has organized “Academy Awards P2P gatherings” in five major cities around the world, all kicking off on Sunday during the Oscar awards ceremony. F.A.T Lab members will be loading up USB thumbdrives with every single Oscar-nominated movie to give to attendees.  (more…)

No surprises or big upsets at this year’s Academy Awards: No Country for Old Men rightfully swept the majority of the categories, including Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Picture; Daniel Day Lewis got the Oscar for Best Actor and Juno won Best Original Screenplay.

If you were looking for upsets, you were looking in the wrong place.

Check out the 2008 Oscar winners’ list (major categories) after the jump. (more…)

Who needs red-carpet bragathons like the Golden Globes and Oscars when the Razzies are around?

The 2008 Razzie nominations for the worst films and performances of the year have been announced, and it seems that playing multiple roles in terrible movies doubles your chances of bringing home the not-so-prestigious award. (more…)

I could rant on about the Golden Globes (or lack thereof), but when it comes down to it, you just want to know who won, right? Right.

On behalf of the winners, I would like to thank God/agents/producers and you at home!

Actors and actresses already get too much exposure and credit for a job well done – bring on a WGA-free Oscars, I say.

2008 Golden Globe Winners:

Best Actress, Drama – Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There

Best Song – “Guaranteed,” Into the Wild

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy- Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose

Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

Best Original Screenplay – Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

Best Actress, Drama – Julie Christie, Away From Her

Best Original Score – Dario Marianelli, Atonement

Best Director Motion Picture – Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy – Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Foreign Picture – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor, Drama – Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Best Picture, Drama – Atonement

We recently chimed in with our thoughts on the truncated Golden Globes, stating that the awards show is barely relevant to even the most hardcore pop-culture follower. The Academy Awards, on the other hand, are a far larger affair.

With the Golden Globes being scaled down to a high-society press conference, is the axe looming over the Oscars?

The 80th Annual Academy Awards are scheduled to be broadcast live on February 24, with the nominees announced on January 22, less than two weeks away.

Under the usual circumstances, a staff of writers would be knee-deep in zingers come January 22 – but no dice this year, with all this WGA strike hullabaloo.

Even Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director, doesn’t sound very optimistic about the shows’ outcome: “I’m not going to cite odds, but our hope is we can work something out or that the strike is resolved in time.” Ouch.

Has the WGA finally broke down the corporate heads? Quite possibly: Jon Stewart is scheduled to revisit his role as host at the Oscars, but in lieu of recent events may or may not follow through with his part of the bargain. If that’s the case, the Academy has no host, let alone a shoe-in ready to fill Stewart’s spot.

This situation is sticky. A resolution is in order, methinks…

Film School Rejects is dedicated to one thing: drunkenness. The site has been slowly turning its readers into stumbling drunk fools by making drinking games out of each weeks new movie releases.Take a look at some of the most ridiculous drinking games of 2008 — some of which will definitely lead to death if done correctly. As a bonus, there’s a special drinking game for Awards season, which can be played while watching any movie that earns an award nomination between now and the Oscars.

Superbad Drinking Game

God bless Judd Apatow for ushering in a new slate of R-rated comedies. We got trashed watching Katherine Heigl take it from Seth Rogan in Knocked Up earlier this year. Now, we’re going to offer a toast to Superbad.

And now, to cover our butts… This game is only for people over the age of 21. Please drink responsibly… unless you’re cops with guns, in which case you can do whatever you want.

TAKE A DRINK WHENEVER…. (more…)

With the writer’s strike still going strong, the WGA has denied invitations to prepare material for the Golden Globes on January 13 and the Oscars in February. If both events didn’t seem crappy enough last time, they should be craptacular this time around.

(See what happens when you don’t get pros to make jokes for you?)

This situation raises a red flag for the Oscars in particular. With Jon Stewart returning as host it’s assumed that he will have to “wing it” without any writer’s assistance. Sure, Stewart can handle a fair share of improvisation – but an entire show? That’s a tall order. (more…)