Academy awards

• LOS ANGELES -- The Academy Awards are the film industrys biggest night of the year, and movie fans deserve their own Oscar celebrations.
(Huffington Post)
• The Newport Beach-based Southern California Children's Chorus is going to Hollywood. In fact, it's going to the Academy Awards, and bringing two Riverside teens with it.
(Riverside Press Enterprise)
• This Sunday, Carol Leifer will sit backstage as a writer for her fifth Academy Awards show and her third Academy Awards with Billy Crystal as host.
(VANITYFAIR)
• The waiting is almost over for Hollywoods biggest weekend of the year! With the 84th Academy Awards coming up this Sunday (Feb. 26), its time to test your Oscar show know-how.
(Daily Oklahoman)
• So much Oscar programming, so little time! Luckily, here's a rundown of what Oscar-related shows are on TV this weekend so you can spare yourself the stress of choosing at the last minute.
(Entertainment Weekly Online)
• What a long campaign season its been. Guessing and second-guessing frontrunners. Money pouring in to prop up candidates that hardly seem the best but gain voters attention nonetheless — at least for a laser-hot moment.
(Denver Post)
• (CNN)-- Expressing apologies that she cant accompany him to prom on his birthday, country music beauty Taylor Swift on Friday asked an 18-year-old student with cancer to be her date to the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.
(CNN)
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(Voice of America)
• Its no secret that demonstrating diversity isnt exactly Hollywoods strong point--and that fact becomes more painfully obvious on Oscar night.
(Huffington Post)
• Predicting the Oscars is a real crap shoot. You can't really poll Academy members and you essentially have to read their minds and think, "Which of these nominees do you think they'll pick to win?" Rules and trends don't always apply.
(Calgary Herald)