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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to host the upcoming Academy Awards.

The actor has chosen not to repeat as the host of next year's ceremony.

Writer pleaded guilty to traffic crash charge -- Scripter Roger Avary, who won an Oscar for "Pulp Fiction," has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic crash in Southern California.

The Academy Awards are doubling the number of best-picture nominees from five to 10.

Academy Awards set for March 7, 2010 -- Oscar marches into March next year, with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences picking a later date for the ceremony, due to ABC’s extensive coverage of the Winter Olympics.

Call me crazy, but after watching this Oscar night video of Lindsay Lohan, I am more than a little worried about her.

In a finale that felt as inevitable as that of the film's unlikely hero, "Slumdog" clawed its way to victory, grabbing eight Oscars, including best picture.

Producers hope the 'X-Men' hero can revive ratings for the academy's biggest night. Whoever believes there is nothing to fear but fear itself has never wet his pants onstage.

The actor who played a steroid dealer in the Oscar-nominated film "The Wrestler" was charged Thursday with being the real thing

It's not a household name, for sure. But this two-time Academy Award winner (for "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Mrs. Doubtfire") is the red-hot favorite to win the Oscar in the best makeup category, for his work taking Brad Pitt from decrepitude to infancy in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."