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3 November 2009 10:34 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Whoa – just when you thought the Oscars had lost its capacity to surprise, along comes news like this. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been tapped to co-host the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony next March.Martin, of course, has hosted the ceremony before on two occasions, but this will be Baldwin’s first time. The ceremony has had multiple hosts before, but this is the first time, according to The Hollywood Reporter, that two people will have hosted the Oscars while standing in the same room since the very first ceremony in 1929, when Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and William C. DeMille pulled double duty. And who can forget how that turned out.We’ve no idea how this new pairing will work, but frankly we’re hugely excited. It’s something fresh and different, even if the potential for Roy Evans/Gerard Houllier-style disaster is very real, and the Oscars can »

7 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Rarely seen home movies shot by and featuring Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly and the late Natalie Wood are to be screened as part of a quirky one-day film festival in Hollywood.

The candid footage will screen during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ presentation of Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive on 17 October at the Linwood Dunn Theater.

The event is already sold out.

A spokesperson for the Academy says, "The Academy Film Archive houses a wide variety of such films and will present a selection of excerpts including footage of Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Judy Garland, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Alfred Hitchcock, Harpo Marx, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Stewart, Esther Williams and Loretta Young."

Hollywood Home Movies II is being presented in conjunction with Home Movie Day, an annual international celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. »

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15 June 2009 12:09 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

The movie-studio system reached its peak in 1939, the year most historians and buffs alike regard as the greatest year in Hollywood history.

The 70th anniversary of that storied year is being celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a series that includes all of Oscar's Best Picture nominees -- back when there were 10 of them.

This was such a rich year that the series kicks off tonight with a classic that wasn't nominated -- George Stevens' rousing Colonial-era India adventure "Gunga Din" starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen. »

- By LOU LUMENICK

3 articles from 2009