“Oscars” on The Daily Caller

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn’t included in the Academy Awards’ In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star. (more)

A vast number of people will be seated Sunday evening, desperate to hear a good joke while the movie industry pats itself on its behind. (more)

Sunday night’s Academy Awards weren’t too exciting, which isn’t particularly surprising for a mostly self-congratulatory event that spends most of its time on sappy acceptance speeches (doubling the number of Best Picture nominees didn’t help matters, either). But, in all the decades the Academy Awards have been around, you’d think someone out there could at least splice together an interesting speech. You’d be right. (more)

Roger Ross Williams didn’t get too far in his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday, thanks to the hijinks of one Elinor Burkett. Williams and Burkett are both apparently feuding producers of the film “Music by Prudence” or something. (more)

This year’s red carpet was marked with a variety of different colors, shapes and styles.  Some stars knocked it out of the ballpark; others have since become candidates for next year’s worst dressed list. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 41.3 million people saw “The Hurt Locker” top the popular “Avatar” for best picture in the most-watched Academy Awards telecast since 2005. (more)

April 3. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards. (more)

The 82nd annual Academy Awards proved to be a good night for “The Hurt Locker,” which earned a total of 6 Oscars. Among their wins included Best Picture. Kathryn Bigelow, who directed the small film, also became the first female winner of the Best Director award. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock walked away with the lead acting awards for their performances in “Crazy Heart” and “The Blind Side,” respectively. “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” won best adapted screen play and actress Mo’Nique took home the best supporting actress trophy. Rounding out the big winners was Christoph Waltz who won best supporting actor for his role as a Nazi officer in Quentin Tarantino’s epic “Inglourious Basterds.” (more)

TAIJI, Japan (AP) — The gala crowd in Los Angeles cheered as “The Cove” won the best documentary Oscar with its grisly portrayal of dolphin hunting. Half a world away, residents of the small Japanese village shown in the film abhorred the attention and said it won’t end their centuries-old tradition. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker “Avatar,” it didn’t happen that way. (more)

At least, compared to Letterman’s iconic performance March 27, 1995 at the 67th Academy Awards. (more)

Domestic box-office totals through February for the most-honored films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards: (more)

The commentary on social media during the Academy Awards broadcast was often more entertaining than the show itself. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga “The Hurt Locker.” (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sandra Bullock paid her dues in Hollywood for more than 20 years, beloved by the moviegoing public if not always the critics. She was rewarded Sunday, winning the best-actress Oscar for playing a tough white Southern woman who adopted a black child in “The Blind Side.” (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Dude finally has an Oscar. (more)

The Argentine film “The Secret in Their Eyes,” a thriller about a 25-year-long manhunt, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mo’Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won the same honor for “Gone With the Wind” — the first Academy Award ever given to a black performer. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year’s Oscar broadcast, they offered a happy reminder that an often overstuffed, overwrought TV shindig can be lighthearted fun. (more)