Oscars

Just last week we were wondering who the next Oscar host would be, and now, here we have our answer!

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are teaming up to co-host the awards, which will be given out on March 7th.

Martin has hosted twice before, and Baldwin is a former nominee, and both are pretty funny. We're very okay with this decision.

Sad news today. Hugh Jackman, who we loved, loved as Oscars host this year, will not return to host next year's ceremonies.

Wolverine just didn't want to host two years in a row, so hopefully that means he'll be back in the future. This year's show was fun for once, and that had a lot to do with Jackman.

Oscar winner Sean Penn has pulled out of his next two film projects – the Farrelly brothers highly anticipated Three Stooges and the mob drama, Cartel.

We hope it’s to focus on his family.

He has had a rocky ride with wife, Robin Wright Penn, breaking up and making up twice in the past two years.

This past awards season's biggest story was whether or not Heath Ledger would win a posthumous Oscar for his role in The Dark Knight.

Well, if director Terry Gilliam has his way, that will be the story next year as well, except it will be for his film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Despite the fact that there initially was concern that he film would never make theaters, the movie has been given a prime fall release date.

CALLED IT!!!!

We sooooo called it!

For months we’ve speculated that John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston’s romance was one of convenience and purely for show.

Sunday was a big night for Oscars host Hugh Jackman and presenter Robert Pattinson.

So how did the two celebrate?

By doing karaoke together in Tokyo.

Pattinson and Jackman were both in Japan this week to promote their films, Twilight and Australia, both of which recently premiered in Tokyo. They ended up in a bar together and one thing led to another and the two wound up making beautiful music together.

Cheater!

Beyonce thinks she’s gotten away with it but we’re standing up and saying loud and proud, while everyone else at the Oscars, including Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman, were singing their hearts out, you were warbling along to a prerecorded track like a pathetic, lazy coward.

We find that almost as offensive as the butt-ugliness that comes out of the House of Dereon.

That’s why we made you some Faux Fried Chicken.

It’s lipsyncing… 

We mean lip-SMACKING good.

Why faux fried chicken?

Did you notice anything missing at Sunday’s Oscars?

Perhaps an homage to Eartha Kitt in the “In Memoriam” section?

Whoops.

Eartha’s former publicist is heated and is speaking up against the Academy’s omission.

Kitt died at age 81 on Christmas Day after losing her battle with colon cancer.

He told the New York Post, “The producers are either 12 or have been living under a rock for the past 60 years. It’s clear that they thought that publicist Warren Cowan was more of a household name. Go figure.”

Buuurn.

But so true.

Why are we the only ones who are speaking up about the fact that Beyoncé Knowles was totally lipsyncing during her Oscar medley with Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried on Sunday?

Everyone else was singing live but Beyoncé was Ashlee Simpson-ing her ass off.

And she wasn’t even doing it well.

If you’re going to fake it on Hollywood’s biggest night with several billion people watching you, make it seamless.

Doy.

Beyoncé has always been a faker in our eyes.

A lot of people we’ve spoken to are really annoyed that Sean Penn didn’t thank his wife during his Oscar acceptance speech as Best Actor for his performance in Milk.

But Sean said simply, “That’s implicit.”

“I wanted to keep things focused on the professional team around this movie,” he explained. “And with Robin comes my mother, my son, my daughter and half of them will punish me if I mention them.”

There you have it.

This from the man who likened winning an Oscar to “a car wreck.”

–Sasha Perl-Raver