Oscars

Viggo Mortensen walked the 2017 Academy Awards red carpet looking like a man in a suit who's maybe not the most thrilled to be there.

Ah, can you smell it? The aroma of scorching hot awards season debates is already in the air! The nominees for the 2017 Oscars were announced bright and early this morning – or should we say dark and early, as the ScreenCrush team beat the sunrise for the big announcement.

An “October surprise” refers to a major revelation deliberately timed to influence the outcome of a Presidential election. The Oscars, then, regularly offer a January surprise, in which a contender comes out of nowhere to elbow their way into the awards conversation. This year’s big shock is permanently smirking superhero send-up Deadpool, which has already upended plenty of predictions by racking up nominations among various industry guild groups. Superhero movies have never been able to crack the Best Picture race, but perhaps the self-reflexive meta streak in Deadpool could give it the edge it needs to sneak into the category. The nominations will be announced one week from today, and who’ll end up at the big dance is anyone’s guess.

Deadpool. Mercenary. Superhero. Weapon X survivor. And Writer’s Guild of America nominee for Best Adapted freaking Screenplay.

Just the other day I was talking to a group of friends about Jackie Chan and reminiscing on his career. He gave us Rumble in the Bronx! He gave us The Legend of the Drunken Master! He gave us silly banter while fighting guys in the Rush Hour movies, all while sporting a big, goofy smile...

Everyone's favorite droid made his Oscar debut last night with C3PO and R2D2 to pay tribute to composer John Williams. I was not invited to be his date, and I'm quite bitter about it. My BFF BB-8 didn't even tell me that he was going to be there! What kind of a friend does that?

IT FINALLY HAPPENED. Leonardo DiCaprio has won his very first Academy Award. Whether you were rooting for or against ‘The Revenant’, whether you think he deserved the award for his grunting and groaning as Hugh Glass or just wanted him to win a damn Oscar already, it doesn’t matter. He’s officially in the Oscar club now.

The head Foo Fighter is set to perform at the Oscars tonight and part of that deal apparently means an obligatory red carpet interview with Chris Connelly.

Ex Machina provided the first real upset of the 2016 Oscars beating out heavy favorite Star Wars: The Force Awakens for Best Visual Effects. In addition to Star Wars, Ex Machina beat out fellow nominees Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant and The Martian.

Check out the full list of 2016 Oscars winners here.

After "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" aired Monday, we were just sitting around the studio when we saw the hotline was ringing. Not expecting anyone, we decided to pick the phone up anyway. Lo and behold, actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried was on the other end!

Kristi Capel, a newscaster at WJW-TV Fox 8 in Cleveland, is probably going to want this one back. On Monday while talking about Lady Gaga's performance at The Oscars, where she sang a musical medley tribute to "The Sound of Music," it seemed like Capel was trying to pay Lady Gaga a compliment. But she failed miserably.