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A small independent movie, Alone Yet Not Alone has had it’s song of the same title disqualified from the Academy Awards due to it’s writer sending out emails asking people to consider it.

After careful consideration by the Academy, it was decided the song would be revoked from the competition.

The author of the song featured in the little-heard of movie, Bruce Broughton had this to say: “I’m devastated. I indulged in the smallest grassroots campaign and it went against me when the song started to get attention. I got taken down by competition that had months of promotion and advertising behind them. I simply asked that people find the song and consider it”.

 

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The Strypes, who hail from Co. Cavan, made their US television début on Conan O’Brien on Monday night, performing their hit single Blue Collar Jane.

The young lads later uploaded a picture to Twitter that read, “Conan was mind blowing. Top notch!” alongside a picture of the band with the popular American TV host.

The Irish band are also said to be performing at the most popular pre-Oscars party in LA, the Oscar Wilde party, on February 27th.

Wow, we wish we had been this accomplished as teenagers. Our days mostly consisted of kissing a Ronan Keating poster, watching Clarissa Explains It All and eating Pushpops. Sigh.

 Strypes

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This year’s Academy Awards is said to have “tribute to heroes” as a theme, with a special nod give to the 1939 musical, The Wizard of Oz.

The film, at the time of its release gained six nominations at the Oscars and won a single one for Best Original Score and Song.

The movie is one of the great classics and starred the beautiful Judy Garland, so we can’t wait to see how they celebrate this milestone in movie history!

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Oh Ellen, you can do no wrong.

We can’t wait to see her hosting the Oscars this year! While it won’t be hard to top Seth McFarlane’s terrible presenting from last year, we know she will raise the roof!

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Her director, Spike Jonze has praised Scarlett Johansson’s performance as Samantha, the intelligent computer operating system with personality and emotions.

The movie was Jonze’s screenwriting debut and is now up for five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Speaking about Johansson’s acting through just her voice, Jonze only had the best to say: “Scarlett is not afraid of revealing her pain and emotions. She’s attractive, but she’s also smart as hell. She’s is some renaissance age, where she is pushing herself to new places. She wants to go deeper and is taking risks”.

Her also stars Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams.

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Journalist shows support for her famous brother.

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Awards season is upon us so we decided to take a look at five of the movies you NEED to watch before settling in with a hot water bottle (or any other bottle of your choice) to watch the Oscars this year.

1. Gravity
This movie is entirely set in space –  a “3D science fiction thriller” if you will. This made us sceptical to say the least. “It’s basically Open Water in space” was one of the quotes floating around in relation to the movie, but it’s actually a very impressive film. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are the story’s two stars and Bullock has impressed critics everywhere with her performance as astronaut Dr Ryan Stone.

2. Philomena
A British comedy-drama set in Britain, Ireland and the US, this movie starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan has created quite a stir. Based on the true story of Limerick woman Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), the movie follows Lee’s journey to find her son who was taken off her at the convent in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, where she was kept during her pregnancy 1960’s. A truly inspiring and heart breaking tale with a light comedic touch that is worth seeing;  if even just for the relevance of what so many women in Ireland went through at the time.

3. American Hustle
Jennifer Lawrence. Need we say more? Christian Bale. There we go! A fast paced, interesting and vibrant movie that is far from let down by its impressive cast. A little on the hard side to explain, the movie involves con artists, robbery and politicians. Well worth seeing and it is sure to be a hit at the Oscars this year.

4. 12 Years a Slave
Based on a true story, the movie on everybody’s lips this week is 12 Years a Slave. It has been predicted that this will win massively at the Oscars this year. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Soloman Northup, a free man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in post-civil war America and whose autobiography was the inspiration for the movie. The movie also stars our very own and very lovely Michael Fassbender, alongside Brad Pitt.

5. The Wolf of Wall Street
Oh Leo. We want you to get the Oscar you deserve so much this year – it’s been a long time coming. The movie, a black comedy directed by Martin Scorsese, revolves around stockbroker Belfort (Leonardo Di Caprio) who works at a firm on Wall Street during the nineties, engaging in fraud and corruption. Set to be huge, it will be released in Ireland on the 17th January.

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