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The Blind Side and his subsequent conservatorship battle.The former Super Bowl winner and his adopted family rose to fame following the release of the 2009 film, starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. The movie was based on Oher’s life and charted his rise to fame as a football star with the help of the Tuohy family, who took him in when he was homeless.However, last year, Oher filed a lawsuit claiming he was under the impression that he had been adopted by the Tuohy family, only to later learn that rather than an adoption, it was in fact a conservatorship agreement.The football star signed the agreement when he was 18, which he claims allowed the Tuohy family to control his finances.

turned down the offer to host the 2025 Oscars. In recent years, the comedian and talk show host had become an Academy Awards favorite, as he acted as the emcee for the biggest night in Hollywood four times: in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024. So, why did he finally step away? On the most recent episode of Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson’s “Politickin’” podcast, Kimmel said, “I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year.” Kimmel, who hosted last year’s ceremony, which included “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” competing and John Cena seemingly nude onstage, added, “It was just too much last year.

Liza Minnelli is upset about how her appearance at the 2022 Academy Awards was handled. The Hollywood legend, 78, announced her new memoir on Tuesday in a statement to People magazine, and reiterated claims that she was “sabotaged” at the Oscars two years ago.

PEOPLE reported on Monday.Kimmel, 56, has hosted the Oscars four times before, including the last two years. Mulaney, 41, has never hosted the Academy Awards before.According to Deadline, Mulaney waited for Kimmel to pass on the hosting gig, and then he said no.The Post has reached out to reps for both comedians for comment.The 97th Academy Awards are set to air March 2, 2025.Kimmel hosted the Oscars in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024.

GWAR have shared an intergalactic metal cover of ‘I’m Just Ken’ from the Barbie movie.Singer Blöthar the Berserker explained the cover was inspired by his “prurient interest” in Ryan Gosling, who performed the track in the Greta Gerwig movie and earlier this year brought the song to the 2024 Oscars.He said: “I had my eye on him since the Mickey Mouse Club, I can’t go close to Ryan, I feel close to Ryan.”During the cover, he sang: “We’re just GWAR,” while holding up a decapitated Barbie head before adding: “Yes we are clowns and we exist / To take a piss on a sacrosanctity.”The band were performing the cover as part of The A.V. Club Undercover series which returned for season nine after a seven year hiatus.During his own performance of the track at the Oscars earlier this year, Gosling took to the stage clad in an all-pink Barbie-inspired outfit.He performed against pink hues with an ensemble of backup dancers as Mark Ronson played the guitar.

in a 2006 interview. “It’s the westernmost west of America.

the infamous Oscars smack, when Smith stormed the stage of the Dolby Theater and slapped presenter Chris Rock for making a jab about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, it still stings for many ticket-buyers. Let alone Rock.The actor’s televised assault of the comic and unhinged shouts of “Get my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!” shattered his public image as a charismatic and funny life of the party who could wring laughs even out of a devastating alien invasion.The hit was enough to get him banned from the Oscars until 2032. Frankly, he’s lucky that he wasn’t arrested.

Jodie Foster has told Robert Downey Jr. that he has “a big mouth and a crazy mind” and that he is the sort of person that she would like to be.The two Oscar-winning actors took part in the ‘Actors on Actors’ series recently for Variety, where they shared their memories of working together, including on the 1995 Thanksgiving film Home For The Holidays, which Foster directed.Recalling their collaboration, Foster said the filming process was “all perfect because of you.”“You have a big mouth and a crazy mind that loves the freedom of being in the moment, which is not who I am, but who I wish to be – somebody that’s free like you,” she added.Downey admitted that he was “pretty out of my mind” for the duration of the shooting of the film, and recalled his contribution being “one of the most relaxed performances in the history of cinema”.Earlier this year, Downey was awarded the Best Supporting Actor award at the Oscars for his role in Oppenheimer, while Foster is a two-time winner in the Best Actress category, for 1988’s The Accused and 1991’s The Silence Of The Lambs.In April, Foster spoke again about Home For The Holidays, during a time when Downey’s struggles with addiction and crime were prominent.She told Esquire that she “took him to one side” before saying: “Look, I couldn’t be more grateful for what you’ve given in this film.

Andra Day was rising all the way up as a Grammy-nominated chanteuse — for her 2015 debut album, “Cheers to the Fall” — who sang like the spiritual goddaughter of Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu.Then in 2021, the 39-year-old singer — born Cassandra Monique Batie — flipped the script to become the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated star of “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” the Lee Daniels-directed biopic about the same Lady Day who inspired her stage name.Now, nine years and three movies later — she also shot the indie drama “Exhibiting Forgiveness” and the upcoming supernatural thriller “The Deliverance” — Day is back to bringing her own jazzy, sultry vibes with her long-awaited second studio album, “Cassandra (cherith).”And she will continue to get her own gardenia groove back in the most pastoral of New York settings — Central Park — when she headlines the season kickoff of the SummerStage series with a free concert on Saturday.Still, she hasn’t completely kicked the Holiday habit.“There are some parts for sure that I could still shake and then some parts I’m realizing, well, I’m just growing, you know what I mean?” Day told The Post.

Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, has died at the age of 95.Richard and his brother Robert B. Sherman served as the in-house songwriters at Disney in the 1960s and won two Oscars for their work.

Arriving, appropriately enough, in the wake of Mother’s Day, comes a new book toasting the mother of all Bad Mother movies, Mommie Dearest.Ashley Hoff’s With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic offers chapter after entertaining chapter digging into the making of the notorious 1981 drama starring Faye Dunaway, tearing down rose bushes, bearing walls, and some of the scenery as Hollywood film legend Joan Crawford.Based on the eponymous best-selling memoir by Christina Crawford, Joan’s adopted daughter, detailing years of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her Oscar-winning mother, Mommie Dearest was supposed to be a serious exposé of child abuse. Somehow, that’s not the movie that director Frank Perry and producer Frank Yablans wound up making, as is vividly chronicled in Hoff’s book.“Nobody sets out to make a failure,” says the author and Hollywood historian, whose previous book Match Game 101: A Backstage History of Match Game took a behind-the-scenes look at a different camp phenomenon.

“Fly on the Wall” podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jerry Seinfeld said that in his directorial debut “Unfrosted” (now streaming on Netflix), he wanted Chris Rock to do a parody of the infamous Will Smith Oscars slap from the 2022 ceremony. “The other thing I wanted to do that I almost did was Chris Rock was going to be the emcee of the Bowl & Spoon Awards — and we shot that right after the Will Smith slap,” Seinfeld explained, referring to a scene in “Unfrosted.” “I was going to have somebody come up on the stage and have Chris punch ’em out as they got there.”But, Seinfeld added that so soon after the event, Rock “wasn’t up to perform.” Following the infamous moment when Smith slapped Rock at the live broadcast, Rock laid low from the limelight for a while, and Smith was banned from the Oscars for 10 years.

Ozzy Osbourne has revealed the one accolade he still wants to win.On the latest episode of Ozzy’s SiriusXM program Ozzy Speaks, the former Black Sabbath frontman was asked about what he has yet to achieve in his long and illustrious career. Now that he’s soon to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo act, there’s just one thing left that Ozzy has yet to win: an Oscar.“You’ve got to fucking be in a movie to win an Oscar,” co-host Billy Morrison replied while laughing.

Ethan Hawke has revealed that he received advice from Denzel Washington after losing out on an Oscar.Hawke was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in crime thriller Training Day at the 2002 Academy Awards. The award ultimately went to British actor Jim Broadbent for Iris.Hawke, now 53, has shared that his co-star Washington, who won the award for Best Actor that evening for Training Day, provided him with some useful advice, following his loss.Speaking on Who’s Talking To Chris Wallace (via Variety), Hawke described how following the announcement, Washington whispered in Hawke’s ear: “It’s better that you didn’t win.

Emma Stone has denied that she called Jimmy Kimmel a “prick” after he made a joke as the Oscars host about her film Poor Things.In a clip that went viral, Stone appeared to mouth the word to her husband after Kimmel poked fun at the movie.“Those were all the parts of Poor Things that we’re allowed to show on TV,” Kimmel quipped after the film’s Best Picture nominee montage aired.But now, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Stone has flatly denied that she was annoyed by the gag, also saying that she did not call the host a prick.“Did he upset me? No!” she said. “I didn’t call him a prick.

an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she was reminded that “some people thought you called Kimmel a p—k.” The actress responded, “No! I didn’t call him a p—k. What did I say? I didn’t call him a p—k. I wasn’t upset with him at all.

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, has died at the age of 80.The Mexican director, producer and writer, perhaps best known for the 1986 film The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, passed away in her San Francisco home.Portillo was known for her bold filmmaking style that confronted issues around race, sexuality and social justice, and often featured stories and experiences of Latin American, Mexican and Chicano culture.Born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1943, she moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, where she became part of a Marxist filmmaking collective, Cine Manifest, in the ‘70s, eventually working on her first film, After the Earthquake, in 1979.In addition to her extensive work in documentary features, Portillo went on to gain a reputation in the worlds of video installation and screenwriting, and also worked in investigative journalism and visual art.She co-directed The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo with Susana Blaustein Muñoz.

Cillian Murphy, describing the Oppenheimer star as “adorable” and “very special”.Rea, who was Oscar-nominated for his performance in 1992’s The Crying Games, has collaborated with Murphy on a number of projects over the years, including Breakfast On Pluto and Ballyturk.“He is a really adorable guy,” Rea told Irish news channel RTE. “Of course, he had something very special, with tremendous focus, and he’s a good laugh; he is a good guy to work with.“He is a really pleasant person, and it’s nice to go out with him for drinks and what have you.

Donald Trump has been mocked for confusing presenter Jimmy Kimmel with Al Pacino.Earlier this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the chat show host took a brand-new jab at the former president by jokingly describing the alleged hush money paid to adult star Stormy Daniels as a “legal expense”.Trump quickly took to social media to fire back at Kimmel, but in the process of doing so, managed to confuse the Oscars host with acting legend Al Pacino in an error-filled rant.“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year’,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.He continued: “It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS’. Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope.

Jimmy Kimmel “might” be hosting the 2025 Oscars after Donald Trump said he was “a fool” and the “worst host ever” at this year’s ceremony. Kimmel, 56, kicked off his ABC talk show by revealing he received nearly a hundred messages after he appeared to have once again agitated “our Kentucky fried former president.” In a lengthy Truth Social media post made by the former president, Trump, 77, claimed that Kimmel “still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards.”Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that his ratings had, in fact, been pretty high. “I don’t know.

told Esquire. “I love Jimmy Kimmel. I think he’s a national treasure.”During Kimmel’s monologue at the 2024 Academy Awards in March, the late-night host took aim at Downey’s past drug use.“This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.’s long and illustrious career,” Kimmel, 56, said.