Academy awards

• Damien Bona earned a law degree from New York University in 1980 but spent only two years practicing law. As he told the Los Angeles Times in 1986, I had to choose between a job and an obsession. I chose the obsession.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Yet when the curtain falls, one question remains: Who cast the votes? About 37 million people tuned in to the Academy Awards last year, and a great deal rides on the shows outcome.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Both are among the favorites for the screenwriting awards at next weekends Academy Awards. In the television categories, Modern Family was named best comedy series.
(TheWrap)
• MADRID – Enrique Urbizus noirish cop drama No Rest for the Wicked won six prizes Sunday night at the 26th Spanish Academy Goya Awards, including best film, director, original screenplay and actor for Jose Coronado.
(Variety)
• BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oscar® telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer have invited Cirque du Soleil to present a wholly unique and exclusive performance for the 84th Academy Awards, it was announced today.
(PR Newswire)
• GBK, the luxury lifestyle gift lounge and special events company, will honor the 2012 Academy Awards Nominees and Presenters with its Annual Gift Lounge on February 24th and 25th.
(Beaumont Enterprise)
• A study of Academy Awards voters has found that its not a very diverse group that hands out Hollywoods highest honors.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• Three cadets from Summit Valley Leadership Academy won awards at the Brigade Individual Major Awards Competition on Feb. 4.
(Hesperia Star)
• The glamour and excitement of Hollywoods biggest night will come to Oklahoma City when Oscar Night America rolls out the red carpet at 6 p.m. Feb. 26 at The Greens Country Club.
(Daily Oklahoman)
• Spencer will make a red-carpet comeback next week at the Academy Awards in which shes up for honors again in the Best Supporting Actress category.
(MSN India)