Oscar

Veteran Hollywood actor Karl Malden, 97, an Academy Award winner and died on Wednesday of natural causes.

"Karl lived a rich, full life," said Academy of Arts and Motion Pictures president Sid Ganis. "He has the greatest and most loving family, [and] a career that has spanned the spectrum of the arts from theatre to film and television, to some very famous commercial work."

Christian Bale is stepping into the boxing ring with Mark Wahlberg.

The two have signed on to co-star in Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Fighter, his follow up to The Wrestler.

We’re sensing a theme here.

Bale will play troubled, crack-addicted real-life boxer Dicky Eklund and Wahlberg will play his half-brother, also a boxer, “Irish” Mickey Ward.

This bad boy has Oscar written all over it.

Matt Damon and Brad Pitt were originally signed on to star.

Kate Winslet was spotted proudly carrying her swaddled Oscar through JFK airport after returning from Los Angeles.

We love how she cradles it like a baby.

Are we the only ones still giggling to ourselves when we think of Hugh Jackman's techno homage to The Reader?

It reminded us of that awesome cell phone commercial with "The Techno Twins, Slaz and Veeder."

Umpst, umpst, umpst...woooooh!

—Sasha Perl-Raver

If, and by if, we mean when, Heath Ledger wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on Sunday, his daughter Matilda, 3, has been named the statuette’s eventual owner.

“In the event that Heath Ledger should be selected as the supporting actor recipient, the statuette will be held in trust for his daughter by her mother, Michelle Williams, until Matilda reaches the age of 18,” Bruce Davis, executive director of the academy, announced today. 

She's nominated for an Oscar, her career is on the rise, but the most important thing in the world to Taraji P. Henson is her son.

And she wants that child to be well fed.

She tells USA Today, “My son gets breakfast every morning. I don’t buy cereal. Sometimes he wants scrambled eggs. Sometimes he’ll have bacon. Or pancakes. He gets home-cooked meals every day.

That adorable Irish independent film from 2006 that won an Oscar for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the movie’s stars/songwriters, who fell in love for real on the set?

They broke up.

Bummer.

The pair picked up an Oscar for Best Original Song award for their duet “Falling Softly” from the film’s soundtrack.

Even though their relationship is over, they continue to perform together.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Oy.

Mickey Rourke showed up to Monday’s Oscar nominee luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel looking like a pimp who got lost on his way to the boulevard to make sure his tricks were making him that scrilla.

Hand down the pants like Al Bundy on the couch, as always, no socks with his loafers (or are they slippers?) and sunglasses (inside!) at the most prestigious luncheon in Hollywood.

That guy is repellent beyond comprehension.

After picking up an Oscar nomination on Thursday, Kate Winslet arrives at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Friday to receive the Montecito Award.

She received the Performance of the Year Award in 2005 and is the festival’s first two-time honoree.

Other honorees at the festival include Clint Eastwood, Penelope Cruz and Mickey Rourke.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Marisa Tomei and her twelve-years-younger boyfriend, the delightful Logan Marshall-Green, hit the streets of Park City yesterday just after Tomei’s Oscar nomination was announced.

We just returned home to LA to find a stack of mail, a DVR busting at the seams and a fridge so pathetically empty, we might have to eat baking soda for breakfast.

Our time in Sundance has come to an end, snowy summer camp is over and we’re already feeling the withdrawal.

There is a certain pulsating mania in Sundance that is magical. Five films a day, meals consisting of sugarfree Red Bull and Krispy Kremes, bathroom celebrity sighting and weather so cold it makes your jaw numb and your teeth hurt had become the norm for us.