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Tech NewsSploidHilarious photos make Oscar nominees pose with their younger selves
This is great. The geniuses at People Magazinestitched together pictures of celebrities posing with younger versions of themselves. Think Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey was always such a fine actor? You must’ve forgot about his goofy haircut! Only remember Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale as superbly talented? They were once wide eyed boys too. And what … Continued
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io9Watch Mr. Hublot, the animated short that just won an Oscar
Last night, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film went to Mr. Hublot, which is now available online. Set in a mechanical world, Mr. Hublot follows a man with OCD who brings a robot puppy into his life. Laurent Witz wrote and directed the award-winning short, which manages to transport us fully to its … Continued
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Gravity dominates the Academy Awards with seven Oscars
Space thriller Gravity dominated the 86th Academy Awards with seven Oscars, including winning Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón, Best Score and Best Cinematography. See the full list of winners now. Overall it was a pretty good night for genre films. Frozen won two Oscars, Her won best original screenplay and Gravity took home the rest. … Continued
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Ellen’s Oscars Selfie Has Scored the Most Retweets Ever
Ellen managed to break the record for most retweets ever by some margin at last night’s Oscars. Her selfie, shown above, has chalked up well over 2 million retweets and counting. The new tweet beatsPresident Obama’s previous record—achieved when he posted a picture of him and the First Lady when he won the 2012 presidential … Continued
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Ellen DeGeneres used an iPhone backstage instead of that Samsung
The Oscars 2014 feel like (are?) a commercial for Samsung, with Ellen DeGeneres flashing a Galaxy Note and taking selfies left right and center. It’s ridiculous. Backstage? She actually used her iPhone, of course. PR people will never learn. I really don’t know what were they thinking. DeGeneres is a well known iPhone fan.She even … Continued
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Tell Us Your Picks For the Oscars
The Oscars start tonight at 8:30pm. Will Gravity, a ground-breaking, lady-fronted, beautifully shot science film make history? Who do you think will win? Here’s the full list of nominees. Even if you haven’t seen every single film on the docket, you probably have an opinion on some fronts. Like, will Leonardo DiCaprio finally take home … Continued
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A Cheat Sheet to the Oscar Best Picture Nominees, Emoji Style
For the casual Oscar fan, the chances of you having seen each one of tonight’s Best Picture nominees are pretty slim. But don’t worry; Mashable has you covered—that is, assuming you’re fluent in Emoji. This is by no meansthe first time we’ve seen emojis used to tell a tale, but this is definitely the most … Continued
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What’s the One Movie Everyone Has Seen But You?
There’s that one movie you always meant to see, but never did. For our Ashley Feinberg, that wasGhostbusters until last week. What’s yours? You know you have one. Everyone does. Mine? Top Gun until a few months ago. Your white whale of a film has always been on your list, and you’ve always meant to … Continued
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Tech NewsVisual Effects Artists Behind The Hobbit Are Picketing the Oscars
Ironically enough, in 2013 the studio responsible for the crazy CGI tiger in Life of Pi won the Oscar for best visual effects just 11 days after declaring bankruptcy. Its story—seen in the short doc above—is indicative of a larger problem in the suffering VFX industry. Adding to that, the artists and animators behind The … Continued
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io9MoviesEvery Academy Award-Winner for Visual Effects in one glorious montage
Take a trip down special effects-laden memory lane with this collection of clips from every single winner of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, since Star Wars nabbed the first one back in 1977 — and check out who the contenders are for this year’s Oscar.
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The New Oscars Logo Is Illuminati Catnip
Trying to “fix” the Oscars with branding is a fool’s errand—just you try and put lipstick on a grotesquely excessive, four-hour-long pig. But local creative agency 180LA has done an admirable job, giving the Academy a new look that’s as smart as it is simple. Before and after. The focal point of the job is … Continued
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io9In this Oscar-nominated short, a grim grandma turns “Sleeping Beauty” into a twisted tale
In Nick Phelan’s animated short Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Granny doesn’t believe in telling children comforting tales with happily ever afters. Instead, she rips her granddaughter from sleep and tells her a version of “Sleeping Beauty” sure to keep her awake for days. Kathleen O’Rourke created the character of Granny O’Grimm, and both wrote the … Continued
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io9MoviesHow the Oscars proved Hollywood is killing the VFX industry
While ABC showed viewers the glitz and glamor of Sunday night’s Academy Awards from the red carpet and inside the Dolby Theater, across the street there was a very different show going on. Members of the visual effects (VFX) industry gathered on Hollywood Boulevard to raise awareness about the financial hardships faced by VFX houses, … Continued
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Kirk travels back in time to save the Oscars—and just won’t leave
William Shatner invaded Seth MacFarlane’s opening Oscars sketch to add a science fiction plot line to the Academy Awards. Captain James T. Kirk (suspiciously wearing his admiral’s uniform and sounding less like Shatner doing Kirk than Shatner doing grumpy Shatner) traveled back in time to prevent MacFarlane from being the worst Oscar host ever, showing … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Worst Scifi Snubs in Oscar History
It’s Oscar season, so brace yourself for more snubs when it comes to science fiction movies. Speculative fiction has a crummy track record when it comes to the Academy Awards, and even when an iconic scifi flick scores Oscar nods, it tends to be ignored in everything but the technical categories (see: E.T., Star Wars, … Continued
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Can You Identify All the Best Picture Oscar Winners Looking at this Cool Poster?
Olly Moss has designed this awesome poster just in time for the 2013 edition of the Oscars—it has all the Best Picture Academy Awards for the past 85 years, each of them represented by its main character. It’s quite a feat. The Oscars will happen on February 24. [Olly via Laughing Squid via Gizmodo Español] … Continued
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A heart-warming Oscar-nominated short about an aging couple who live upside down from one another
Like so many couples, the husband and wife in Timothy Reckart’s Oscar-nominated animated short Head Over Heels have drifted apart, not just emotionally, but gravitationally as well. They roam their flying house, one living on the ceiling, one living on the floor, each barely acknowledging the other’s existence. Then, one day, the husband tries to … Continued
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Director Jason Reitman explains why Looper absolutely deserves an Oscar
You’ve probably heard that Looper was a pretty good movie. You know who agrees with you? Jason Reitman, director of Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, and the son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. Jason took time out of his day to pen a lengthy essay for Entertainment Weekly why Looper is not only … Continued
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