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'Argo' Wins Best Picture Oscar 12 weeks ago

Ben Affleck’s “Argo” has become the fourth film in history to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without a Best...

By Steve Pond

Why 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Is the Box Office Winner in Oscar's Best-Picture Race

February 22, 2013 By Brent Lang 13 weeks ago

Ranking the Best Picture nominees in terms of return on investment yields some box office surprises

Oscar Gets Arty With New Best Picture Posters (Photos)

February 13, 2013 By Steve Pond 14 weeks ago

Academy teams up with Gallery1988 to create and exhibit alternative posters for "Argo," "Lincoln," "Django Unchained" and the other best-pic nominees

Oscar Voting: Passion's Got Nothing to Do With It

February 16, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Contrary to a recent report, to win a Best Picture Oscar you need consensus, not passion

Recount: Why There May Only Be 6 Best-Picture Nominees

January 20, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

A new simulation shows how the Oscar system is totally dependent on first-place votes

Oscar Ballots Due Today -- 10 Shockers That Could Happen

January 13, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"The Artist" stumbling? Only five Best Picture noms? How Academy voters could confound expectations ...

There Will Only Be 8 Oscar Best-Picture Nominees -- Here's Why

December 21, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

We counted the Critics' Choice Movie Awards ballots the same way the Motion Picture Academy now tallies its votes and got some interesting results

Judge to Bob Yari: Cough Up $12M to 'Crash' Group

December 20, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Bob Yari owes filmmakers $12 million for breach of contract

My Prediction: Only 7 Films Will Get Best Picture Nominations

October 13, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Why the numbers don't add up to 10 this Oscar season

New Best Picture Rules Could Discard Large Number of Oscar Ballots (Exclusive)

June 22, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Exclusive: The new rules for Best Picture nominations could dramatically change the number of voters whose ballots influence the slate of nominees

Academy's Best-Pic Change: A Smart Way to Fix Something That Wasn't Broken

June 15, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Analysis: By instituting a variable number of Best-Picture nominees, AMPAS takes a savvy but almost unprecedented step in Oscar's marquee category

Academy Shakes Up Best Picture Category: Now It's 5 to 10 Nominees

June 14, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Change will result in variable number of nominees, depending on percentage of first-place votes

Oscar Best-Pic Montage Wasn't Playing Favorites, Filmmaker Says

February 28, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Director who assembled montage set to "The King's Speech" says he was rooting for "The Social Network"

Best Picture Nominee Posters We'd Like to See (Slideshow)

January 26, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Here are the Best Picture nominee movie posters the studio marketing departments didn't want you to see, courtesy of the theshiznit.co.uk

Oscars 2011 – The Best Picture Nominees (Slideshow)

January 25, 2011 By Dominic Patten 2 years ago

"The King's Speech," "Social Network," "The Fighter," "Black Swan," "127 Hours," "The Kids Are Alright," "Inception," "Toy Story 3," "True Grit" and "Winter's Bone" are all in the running for Best Picture this year. If you haven't seen them, you should --- take a peek.

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'Before Midnight' Review: Joy and Pain, Long After Happily Ever After

Richard Linklater’s third peek into the love story of the couple played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke celebrates romance, compromise, disillusionment and the glory of conversation