SF News Catch the Oscars 2024 in Style at These San Francisco Bay Area Watch Parties From casual free watch parties at the Knockout to game-filled events at the Balboa Theater to a black-tie fete at Cinelounge Tiburon, here are some ways to watch the Oscars in and around SF Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Scores Big With Oscar Noms for German-Language War Epic, But Streamers Mostly Shut Out This Year Los Gatos-based Netflix is the only one of the big players in streaming video to score big with Oscar nominations this year for their German-language WWI epic 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
Bay Area Sports ICYMI, Steph Curry Won an Academy Award Sunday Night Yeah I guess a few things got overshadowed at the Oscars Sunday night, one of them being Steph Curry and Shaq winning Best Documentary Short for ‘The Queen of Basketball,’ the story of the only woman ever drafted by the NBA.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Native Ryan Coogler Makes History With Oscar Nomination for 'Judas and the Black Messiah' This year's Oscar nominations were announced early Monday morning, and after years of criticism over the awards' lack of diversity — and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag campaign that began with the 2015 awards — the 2021 slate of nominees is more diverse than ever.
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Shot At Oakland's Highland Hospital Up For Oscar A UC Berkeley journalism lecturer is up for an Oscar tonight in the documentary short category, and that's filmmaker Dan Krauss for his 24-minute film called "Extremis," about people facing end-of-life decisions, largely
Arts & Entertainment Of Course, Pixar Won Another Oscar, For 'Inside Out' In case you hadn't heard or didn't watch the 88th annual Academy Awards last night, you should know that odds-on favorite Pixar won the award for Best Animated Feature for the eighth time
Arts & Entertainment The Six Best Oscars Parties In San Francisco If your invitation to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party somehow got lost in the mail, you can still get all the ballgowns, ballots and bingo of this Sunday night’s 88th Academy Awards
Arts & Entertainment The 7 Best Places To Watch The Academy Awards In The Bay Area Like your fun aunt, we've been waiting all year for the 87th Academy Awards, hosted by Doogie Howser MD, held this Sunday and airing live on ABC at 5:30 p.m.* Red
Arts & Entertainment Batkid NOT Snubbed By 'Spider-Man' Star At The Oscars [Updated] Update: According to Andrew Garfield, the Oscars are to blame for crushing the hopes of Batkid. "The reps say Garfield DID contribute to the presentation script, but he had nothing to do with
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Responds To Oscars Recognition Bedlam here at the corner of 14th and South Van Ness on the news of @CateBlanchett's second victory at the #Oscars! pic.twitter.com/N7CtYFOLAb— Jackson West (@jacksonwest) March 3, 2014 Uptown Almanac's
Arts & Entertainment Here's How Twitter Engineers Looked When Ellen's Tweet Went Viral Last night, Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres decided she wanted to try and break the record for most-retweeted Tweet ever—President Obama's reelection victory Tweet got over 780,000. To beat his record, she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend: Oscar Viewing Parties At The Balboa Theatre, SoMa StrEat Food Where are you watching the Oscars? Probably at home in something cozy, if you're smart. But should you find the willpower to venture out this weekend, here are two options for watching them
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luella Offering Oscar-Themed Food Package For Most Important Night Of The Year Sunday night is the most important night of the year. It's Oscar night, that's why! How much will you squirm when Anne Hathaway delivers her self-consciously kooky and over-prepared acceptance speech? A lot.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Paperman', A Partly Hand-Drawn, Oscar-Nominated Animated Short From Disney 'Paperman,' done in (mostly) black and white, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It tells the story of a mid-century commuter who falls in love with a woman
Arts & Entertainment Oscars This Sunday! Our Picks For The Best Places To Watch In SF It's that time of year again where stylists dress actors to within an inch of their true personalities for the red carpet and product endorsement deals. That is to say, it's Academy Awards
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oscar Watch: Controversial Hollywood Cocktails At Quince The Financial District's noted restaurant of glitz and glamour, Quince, just concocted several new cocktails to coincide with Oscar season. (Pst, the Academy Awards fall on Sunday, February 26th.) Most of the drinks
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Nominees Are In: Hugo Leads With 11, Melissa McCarthy Scores 1 We're into the final stretch of award show season, folks. The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards (now hosted again by your grandmother's favorite, Billy Crystal, not Eddie Murphy) are out! If you've
SF News Oscar Nominations Spew Forth Well, both Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey were snubbed for their work in Black Swan, and Christopher Nolan was nixed from the Best Director category for Inception at this morning's Academy Award nominations
Arts & Entertainment Style-ist: Local Designer Takes Best Dressed at Oscars by Chloé Harris At the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Madame Streep had the post-orgasmic glow of a woman who has snuggled in a foxhole with Clooney, sizzled with Tucci and romped in the
SF News Pixar's 'Up' Receives 5 Oscar Nominations The ingenious and famously hardworking folks at Pixar must be celebrating today. The Emeryville studio's animated feature Up received a total of 5 nominations -- almost tying Disney's Beauty and the Beast, who
misc Our Old Pal Zennie Is Flabbergasted That He Can't Get a Press Credential for the Oscars City Brights blogger and SFist fave Zennie Abraham (who, inexplicably, is no longer a featured City Brights blogger and whose blog now must be dug up about six links deep) can't figure out
SF News Images: "Signs of Hatred" at the Oscars As refined "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" approached last night's Oscars, here's what they were greeted with before arriving to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. The folks from God Hates Fags ilk. Yep, they
SF News Penn, Black Win Oscars for <i>Milk</i> Nominated for eight Academy Awards, Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic Milk took home two awards last night: Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black) and Best Actor (Sean Penn). This makes win number-two
SF News Shirtless Actor Gallery Whets Appetite for Oscar Sunday What with the Academy Awards happening on Sunday -- the biggest night of the year, period -- the good folks over at The Sword have searched the internets to come up with a