Emma Champion here – your first and ONLY correspondent on all things Oscar®; and well, Folks, I’m not sure how it happened, but it’s THAT time AGAIN! This will be my 13th Oscar® All-Nighter, and, as always, it is an absolute pleasure and delight. Open the wine, get the popcorn a-poppin’, sit back, and absorb … Read more
Executive Producer of Tangled (2011), Glen Keane, could possibly be regarded as The Walt Disney Company’s secret weapon. This is the animator who gave Ariel her flaming red hair; put the swoosh in the cape of the Beast; and created for Pocahontas her expression of longing as John Smith sailed away. It seems like something … Read more
In David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) declared to his pre-9/11 Project Mayhem delegates that their generation had “no great war; no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression…is our lives.” With that sentence, an entire age band were marked and identified as a group lost and … Read more
When I was 12, I began the painful process of packing away my toys. Almost a third of my very-pink bedroom was a miniature, plastic Barbie village – a house, a café, a fashion boutique – they were a very important chapter of my childhood and I still remember how difficult it was to say … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio is a sly old dog. He wowed critics with his depictions of real-life writers, playing Tobias Wolff in This Boy’s Life (1993) (holding his own against a terrific Robert De Niro), and Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995). He nabbed his first Oscar nod at the tender age of twenty, for his … Read more
When last we saw Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the first, attention-grabbing instalment of Iron Man (2008), he had announced to the world that he was, in fact, the titular titan of triumph in the battle against his arch nemesis, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), and the man behind the ever-polished metal suit. This presented … Read more
23.00 – 01.00: Red Carpet Coverage live on E! Channel, following the A-Listers as they saunter gracefully into the Kodak Theatre. Highlights: James Cameron and Suzy Amis’s colour coordinating outfits; panic on the red carpet when a freak rain shower hits in LA where it NEVER rains; Charlize Theron’s hideous “Crinkly Breasts” dress; Sigourney Weaver … Read more
James Cameron is a rather strange anomaly in the world of film. He goes all-out to bring original, ground-breaking movies to his audiences – some of which have become the most iconic films of all-time – such as Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), True Lies (1994) and, … Read more
Robert Pattinson probably doesn’t know what’s hit him. One minute you’re Frederick Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) – some expendable plot device in another boy’s story. The next, you’re the star of one of the biggest teen movie franchises to ever emerge, you’re mobbed in the streets, and your face … Read more
Michael Caine is, arguably, Britain’s highest commodity when it comes to character actors. With an illustrious career that has spanned five decades and is still going strong, at age 72, the man knows no bounds. What is utterly bewildering above all of this, however, is his ability to push beyond his own boundaries, challenging himself … Read more