Academy Awards

Twelve of the best sites about the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. Oscar.com - Official site of the most recent Academy Awards presentation offers tons of video highlights of the event itself, the nomination ceremonies, post-show interviews, red carpet photos and video, winners list and interviews, more. (www.oscar.com)

2. Complete List of Winners at the 79th Annual Academy Awards - As the title suggests, all the winners from the latest Academy Awards ceremony. (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

3. ‘Departed’ Arrives; Whitaker, Mirren Are King And Queen - February 26, 2007 article recaps the Oscars, with a focus on the big wins for The Departed as well as Helen Mirren’s Best Acress win for her role in The Queen, and Forest Whitaker’s Best Actor win for The Last King of Scotland. (www.washingtonpost.com)

4. Scorsese Finally An Oscar Winner - February 26, 2007 article offers a recap of the latest Academy Awards, focusing especially on Martin Scorsese finally winning a best director Oscar after multiple nominations in prior years witrhout a win. Scorsese’s film The Departed also won Best Picture. (www.cnn.com)

5. ‘Dreamgirl’ Jennifer Hudson Wins Oscar - February 25, 2007 recap of the Academy Awards leads off with a feature on Jennifer Hudson’s win for best supporting actress. (abcnews.go.com)

6. Departed Evening of Bloated, Boring Hollywood Babble - February 26, 2007 opinion on the Academy Awards is summed up by this sentence: “In the time it could have taken to see two of the five best picture nominees, the 79th annual Academy Awards managed to become one of the least interesting television shows of the entire season.” (www.sfgate.com)

7. Gore Uses Oscar Speech to Plug Environmental Cause - February 26, 2007 article on former U.S. Vice President Al Gore winning a best documentary Oscar for the global warming film An Inconvenient Truth. (www.cnn.com)

8. 79th Annual Academy Awards: Best Dressed - Opinion on who looked best at the most recent Academy Awards, at least as far as the women go. Includes photos of Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Emily Blunt, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Helen Mirren. (www.holycandy.com)

9. 2007 Academy Awards: Worst-Dressed - A look at one opinion on who blew it fashion-wise at the 79th Academy Awards. Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, and Zhang Ziyi make the list. (www.bryanboy.com)

10. The 79th Annual Academy Awards - Governor’s Ball - Photos from the post-Oscars party, including Helen Mirren, Al Gore, Melissa Etheridge, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Forest Whitaker, and more. (celebritymound.com)

11. And Now… Back to the Oscars Red Carpet! - Photos from the red carpet arrivals at the latest Academy Awards including Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Hudson, Emily Blunt, Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith, and Kate Winslet. (www.ibabuzz.com)

12. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Official site of the “Academy” in “Academy Awards” offers nominees and winners lists, features on Oscar event preparation, Oscar fashion, the post-show Governors Ball, information on the statuettes themselves, a searchable database of movie scripts and more. (www.oscars.org)