Tonight many New Yorkers will have their own super bowl. The Academy Awards, The Oscars® There will be many Oscar parties and viewers in Living rooms throughout Manhattan tonight. The New York Academy members and Guests will celebrate the Oscars tonight at Daniel Boulud's iconic landmark restaurant Daniel. Daniel will be rolling out the red carpet for New York-based members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, entertainment industry executives, and several hometown luminaries to celebrate the 85th Oscars with an exclusive viewing party, the only East Coast event officially hosted by the Academy. This year’s show is (11 comments)
Oscar (TM) AMPAS “Made in NY” films are well represented among the nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards Ceremony tonight. Doubt, the Miramax film which shot on location in New York City in late 2007 and early 2008, was nominated for five awards, including four in the acting categories. Meryl Streep earned her fifteenth Oscar nomination for her leading role as Sister Aloysius, the headmistress at a Catholic school in the Bronx in the 1960s. Her co-stars Amy Adams and Viola Davis were both nominated for their supporting roles in the film as was Philip Seymour Hoffman (9 comments)