Throughout this year's Oscar season, Creed's Sylvester Stallone has always stopped just short of being the odds-on favorite to win Best Supporting Actor. So earlier tonight, when the award went to Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies, it was a disappointment but not a surprise to many fans who hoped Stallone would take home the trophy for his portrayal of aging boxer Rocky Balboa -- a role for which he was […]
Alejandro G. Inarritu won Best Director for "The Revenant" and Leonardo Di Caprio finally won Best Actor for the same movie. "Spotlight" the won Best Picture award being the big surprise of the night. "The Revenant", which had a leading 12 noms, and "Spotlight" were the only other films to win multiple awards, with three and two respectively. See the complete list! Best Picture Spotlight Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers Best Actor […]
The winners that a mathematical model predicts in the top eight categories favor Leonardo DiCaprio and Brie Larson, but Sylvester Stallone may have to sweat it out. The Revenant is twice as likely as Spotlight to take the big prize of best picture at Sunday night’s 88th annual Oscars. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brie Larson are, statistically speaking, assured the top acting awards. But while many are predicting a Sylvester Stallone […]
1. The original design of “Oscar” was by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons. He came up with a statuette of a knight standing on a reel of film gripping a crusader’s sword. The Academy commissioned the Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley to create the design in three dimensions. 2. It was presented for the first time at the initial awards banquet on May 16, 1929 to Emil Jannings, named Best […]
In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some waves when he hinted Facebook was working on a way to expand its famous Like button — not by adding the much-fabled “dislike” option, but by making it way more empathetic, expressing sadness and other emotions. Today, Facebook is taking the wraps off what form the new Like may take. It is rolling out “Reactions,” a new set of six emoji that will sit alongside the original thumbs-up to let […]
We cannot all be blessed with a smooth, majestic voice like actor Morgan Freeman, but now you can at least have him give you driving directions. Just fire up the Waze mapping app (which is owned by Google these days) and fiddle around with the settings, then you’ll be off to the grocery store with Freeman’s gentle guidance. This is, unfortunately, not a permanent option. The version of Morgan Freeman in […]
Jude Law has called for the British Government to allow children living in the Calais "Jungle" migrant camp to come to the UK if they already have relatives living here. The 43-year-old actor called for the demolition of the southern part of the camp to be delayed until children are granted protection by French or British authorities. The charity Help Refugees estimate there to be 445 children - 315 alone […]
Paul Avgerinos, a Redding-based composer who runs Studio Unicorn on Sanfordtown Road, won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album last night. He won for his album ‘Grace,’ which was released last year. This is the first Grammy for Avgerinos, who was featured by the Pilot in December. In addition to producing albums of meditative and spiritually inspired music, many of his single tracks have been featured in feature films and […]
While most of us are just getting used to the idea of 3D printing, scientists are already working on technological marvels that operate two dimensions deeper. Researchers at the University of Southampton have succeeded in recording and retrieving five dimensional digital data using a quartz crystal. The ‘Superman’ memory crystal is a futuristic storage technique with unprecedented features – including a 360 terabyte per disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C […]
