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
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
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
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 Sean Penn's Oscar Speech Since most of you think you're too smart to watch the Academy Awards, do let us cram them down your throat this morning. Especially since San Francisco got a major tip of the
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
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: AMC 2009 Best Picture Showcase Need to catch all of the Best Picture nominees before Oscar night? We can help. SFist is offering one (yes, just one) ticket to a screening of Milk, The Reader, The Curious Case
SF News <i>Milk</i> Nabs 8 Oscar Nominations Gus Van Sant's Milk, the biopic about slain San Francisco supervisor and gay activist Harvey Milk, was nominated for eight Oscars this morning. In addition to a Best Picture nomination, Dustin Lance Black
misc Daniel Day Lewis' Earrings Prove Too Much for Oscar Audience Last night, around 10 p.m. after the Academy Awards, the world was concerned about three things: the Oscar-winning documentary , a piano-playing pop/rock singer-songwriter, and Daniel Day Lewis' sexuality. We're guessing no.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2008 Academy Awards Shorts It's almost Academy Awards® time and whether or not the writers will still be on strike, it seems that each year the movies are less and less relevant to the show itself. Between
misc SFist Photo: The Orphanage -- A New Film From Spain If you're hankering to see a Sixth Sense-ish "horror-drama hybrid," look no further. Don't bother reading the reviews. Pft. Just get on out there and check it out. We're not saying is perfect,