This year’s Oscars nominations have hurled all of us film nerds into a cascade of excitement, defeat, cynicism and, per usual ...

How did the Academy Award get that sticky Oscar nickname? Was it Bette Davis seeing her husband's rump or a gossip columnist on deadline? Or neither?

The Oscars have gendered acting awards but not in other categories, so I looked at 9,530 individual nominations since 1929 to ...

Whether the Academy Awards are actually the world's most prestigious award in cinema is up for debate. Since 1929, the ...