By Drew Grant 2/24 6:56pm

The 85th Academy Awards

The Best Picture category isn't the only thing that bulked up.

The 85th Annual Academy Awards Live Chat, Hosted by the Dog From Family Guy

Update: Well, now we have an extra hour and a half of the red carpet! Talk amongst yourselves!

What is it about the Academy Awards? Intellectually, it’s hard to muster up that much enthusiasm about who “wore it best” (Ang Lee) or how modest Katniss will be in her acceptance speech, hopefully avoiding a First Wives’ Club reference that sounded like she was hating on Meryl Streep this time. And yet … we still feel compelled to watch. Maybe it’s because secretly, deep down, we still find it fascinating that the guy who does the voice of Stewie looks like the host of a reality game show about finding true love by having a dance-off on a stripper pole.

Or maybe it’s because we’re just suckers, who deep down believe that Beasts of the Southern Wild might still possibly have a chance against Argo or Lincoln.

Come join us, will you, on this the most magical of evenings for producers, people who are married to movie stars, and dress designers? We’ll be hosting a live chat below. Just click the big countdown button and you’re all set. Got it?

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By Drew Grant 2/24 10:59am

Academy Awards

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Leo and Tigers and Ben Affleck, (Arg)O My!: Who Will Be the Sorest Loser at Tonight’s Academy Awards?

Tonight is the 85th Academy Awards, and for all intents and purposes it should be a good one. Look at all those serious films, and the one movie by Quentin Tarantino! And with big snubs for Best Director for both Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, does that mean one of them will be be sweeping up the Best Picture Award as a consolation prize? And most importantly, is it too late to write in a ballot for Javier Bardem in Skyfall? Because he was great. Read More

By Alice Dijksterhuis 7/30/09 7:50pm

Love Beads for Ang Lee: Hippie Spirit Celebrated at Taking Woodstock Premiere

The thunder rolled and the rain poured down, but the stars were out at Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side on Wednesday, July 29, for the premiere of director Ang Lee’s latest movie, Taking Woodstock, about the germinal (and very muddy) hippie concert that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

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By Joe Pompeo 6/09/08 1:16pm

Brokeback Mountain Opera Coming to New York

Brokeback Mountain is coming back to New York, this time in the form of an opera.

The New York City Opera has commissioned American composer and New York native Charles Wuorinen to adapt the E. Annie Proulx short story and subsequent Oscar-winning film for its 2013 spring season. It will be Mr. Wuorinen’s second Read More

By Joe Pompeo 4/24/08 8:51pm

Ang Lee to Direct Comedy About Woodstock

We’d been wondering what director Ang Lee’s next move would be, especially following Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger’s fatal overdose in late January. It turns out Mr. Lee’s next project is a bit more light-hearted than that film, or his last, Lust, Caution. It’s a comedy about the original Woodstock music festival based on Read More

By Rex Reed 10/02/07 6:07pm

Sex Snooze

LUST, CAUTION
Running Time 157 minutes
Written by Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus
Directed by Ang Lee
Starring Tang Wei, Tony Leung

Lust, Caution, Ang Lee’s first film since his phenomenal masterpiece, Brokeback Mountain, signals a return to his geographical roots, but in no way dilutes his passion for Read More