This year's Oscars host, Seth MacFarlane, was accompanied by actress Emma Stone Thursday morning to announce the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Over 400 media representatives from around the world attended the 5:30am (Pacific) press conference to find out which films and stars are this year's cream of the crop.

Not surprisingly, Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic Lincoln led the pack with a whopping 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), and Best Director (Spielberg).

There were few surprises amongst this year's nominees, most notably ...

Hollywood stars Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana have reportedly ended their romance for a second time.

The couple is said to have parted ways shortly before Christmas, which they originally intended to celebrate together.

The relationship is believed to have suffered as Cooper has been busy promoting his Oscar-tipped movie Silver Linings Playbook.

A source tells the New York Post's gossip column Page Six, "Zoe had planned to spend the holidays with Bradley and his family in Europe. They all were going to Paris, but things didn't work out between them. Zoe spent New Year's Eve with frie...

Movie veteran Robert De Niro originally wanted Bradley Cooper's real mother to portray his onscreen wife in new drama Silver Linings Playbook.

The Raging Bull icon championed Cooper to land the role of his son Pat, and for a brief moment even entertained the idea of having the 37-year-old's mom, Gloria, join the project to complete their family.

De Niro went as far as to speak to director David O. Russell about his casting ideas, even though Gloria had never acted before, and thought she would be perfect because the Coopers hail from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the same town as the movie ...

2012 has been a great year in Film, especially for giant box office hits like The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Twilight Saga-Breaking Dawn Part 2. Regardless of film size though, we are thankful for the following actors because they blew us away, whether it was in a lower budget Indie or a Box office sensation (or both, in some cases!)

1.) Jennifer Lawrence- Oh, where do we possibly start with you? Your 2012 performances have been outstanding, not that it’s any surprise, because after we saw you in Winter’s Bone, we knew there was nothing you couldn’t d...

Bradley Cooper turned to his A-Team co-star Jessica Biel for advice when he was deliberating whether to take the lead role in Silver Linings Playbook.

The Hangover star is tipped for success during the upcoming Hollywood awards season for his role as a mental health patient in David O'Russell's new movie.

However, Cooper admits he was initially unsure whether to take the job, so he asked his friend Biel for her opinion knowing she had worked with the director on stalled film project Nailed, which has never been released.

He tells Deadline.com, "The reputation that preceded him for me was...

Actor Bradley Cooper stood up to TV producers while serving as a travel show host during his college years when they tried to pressure him into stripping off for a tour of a nudist beach in Croatia.

The Hangover star took on the globe-trotting job while studying for a post-graduate's degree, but he insists it wasn't all fun and games, and one trip to eastern Europe prompted a showdown with program producers.

The then-budding actor refused to go naked for the segment because he feared the embarrassing footage would surface later in life if and when he rose to fame, and he would forever reg...

Several stars attended the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala presented by the Los Angeles Times in Beverly Hills on Monday.

The event is traditionally seen as "the official launch of awards season" and honors films and actors that are likely to receive accolades at upcoming award shows. Among the honorees at the gala were Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, and Quentin Tarantino.

Amy Adams, who received the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award," looked smart and sexy in a long, navy blue sheeth dress with a sheer neckline.

Amanda Seyfried popped on the red carpet wearing a red corset-lik...

The next installment of "The Hunger Games," titled "Catching Fire," promises all kinds of changes for the world of Panem. Katniss Everdeen isn't just a Hunger Games survivor, for one; she's a full-blown celebrity now. Civil unrest is catching throughout the 12 districts, too, causing all sorts of problems for Katniss as well as the cruel President Snow.

And here's something else that's new: when "Catching Fire" hits theaters, it'll have a brand new fan in the form of A-List actor Bradley Cooper.

It seems the "Hangover" actor, currently at the Toronto International Film Festival prom...

'The Words' written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal (co-wrote story for 'Tron-Legacy') is a movie within a movie within a movie.

Yes, it does sound confusing and convoluted, but it's really a very compelling and entertaining film.

When 'The Words' begin, we meet celebrated novelist, Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid). He's standing before a crowd of fans, including grad student, Daniella (Oliva Wilde) reading excerpts from his bestselling novel, entitled, 'The Word'.

As Clay continues to read out loud, the story comes to life and we meet the characters from his book, starting ...

Actor Bradley Cooper spent a month with police officers attending call-outs to prepare for his role in upcoming movie The Place Beyond The Pines.

The Hangover star plays a cop-turned-politician in the crime drama, and he got into character by riding with real life officers.

He tells The Hollywood Reporter, "(I was) going into these domestic disturbances, which are about 80 per cent of the calls. There was one house with a fish tank that a shoe had been thrown through. Dead fish were everywhere - and kittens were eating the dead fish as we walked by."

Cooper almost missed out on the ro...

With the exception of anything brought to you courtesy of Adam Sandler, it’s become as clear as filtered water during the last couple of years… comedies have become raunchier, bolder, harder and extremely rough, and guess what? They’re hitting their mark! R-rated comedies seem to be gaining leverage among the masses and the results are quite obvious – most of us enjoy them. In a day-and-age where there’s way too much close-minded prudishness going on, why not take advantage out of all those suckling situations, flip them, and present them with humor as rough as they’re currently hitting our...

Actor Bradley Cooper has reportedly rekindled his romance with Zoe Saldana, weeks after the couple ended a three-month love affair.

The Hangover hunk was first rumored to be dating actress Saldana at the end of 2011, when they were spotted ringing in the New Year together with a kiss. Neither star commented on the romance reports or split speculation in March, but it appears they are together again.

Cooper and Saldana were spotted enjoying an intimate dinner date in New York on Wednesday. An eyewitness tells the New York Post's Page Six column they looked "pretty engaged" while dining t...

The web has been buzzing since yesterday after the Fox network announced it was launching a new dating show with celebrities in spinning chairs.

"The Choice" will feature stars going on blind dates and choosing their partners by listening to them with their backs turned towards them. It's a take on NBC's popular singing competition "The Voice." It's also reminiscient of "The Dating Game," which ran from 1965-86 on ABC.

A celebrity will pull on a "love handle" to turn arouond and and come face-to-face with his date. If more than one star turns, the contestant chooses who to go on a dat...

The Wolf Pack is gearing up for one more night of forgotten debauchery. Warner Bros. announced that The Hangover franchise will return to theaters one more time, with The Hangover Part III scheduled to release May 24th - the coveted Memorial Day weekend.

Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis are currently set to reprise their roles, although director Todd Phillips is keeping the plot under wraps. "We're going to surprise a lot of people with the final chapter we have planned," says Phillips in the press release. "It will be a fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, d...

Rhys Ifans is about to yell "Timber!"

The "Amazing Spider-Man" villain will be trading the streets (and, presumably, the sewers) of New York City for the mountains of North Carolina in "Serena," according to Variety.

"Serena" takes place in 1929 North Carolina, where young newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) look to build their timber empire. Their ruthless rise to power takes a sudden turn when Serena finds she can't bear children, which prompts her to embark on a deadly vendetta against her husband's illegitimate son.

The film is based on the 20...

Ryan Reynolds has beaten Ryan Gosling to the top of a new list of hunks women would most like to cheat on their partners with.

Reynolds topped the Fitness magazine countdown with 14 percent of the vote, while Gosling was just one percent behind him. Taylor Lautner and Bradley Cooper tied for third place with 10 percent each.

The poll also revealed that 38 percent of the women asked to name the celebrity they'd consider having an affair with confessed they would cheat if given a free pass.

In a related survey, Reynolds' "The Proposal" co-star Sandra Bullock was the clear winner in a Class...

Production on a film adaptation of John Milton's classical poem "Paradise Lost" has been shut down due to budget constraints.

Bradley Cooper was to lead the cast as Lucifer in the Biblical tale, but Legendary Pictures bosses have axed the film over costing concerns.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, studio bosses feared the $120 million budget would not cover the special effects technology required to bring the epic to the big screen.

Djimon Hounsou, Casey Affleck, Camilla Belle and Rufus Sewell were all set to star in director Alex Proyas' movie.

Zoe Saldana has moved on from the recent breakdown of her 11-year relationship - she's reportedly dating Bradley Cooper.

The actress revealed in November she had ended her longterm relationship with fiance Keith Britton, stating they "amicably separated."

And Saldana rang in the New Year with a new man - a report on UsMagazine.com suggests she was seen kissing "The Hangover" star at a private 1940s-themed party in Los Angeles on December 31.

A source tells the website, "They were making out for 20 minutes! They're dating, but Zoe just left an engagement. She's just looking to have fun."
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Brad Pitt has been named the "Top Money-Making Star of 2011," according to an annual survey of movie theatre owners.

Bosses at Quigley Publishing Company have asked theatre owners and film buyers to vote for their top 10 box office generators, and this year exhibitors credited Pitt with bringing in more traffic than any other celebrity due to his acting and/or vocal appearances in "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life," and "Happy Feet Two."

Coming in at number two was Pitt's pal George Clooney for both "The Ides of March" and "The Descendants," and last year's winner, Johnny Depp, fell to third...

Sorry ladies, People magazine's reigning "Sexiest Man Alive" is no longer on the market. Hangover hunk Bradley Cooper is reportedly dating his The Words co-star Zoe Saldana -- who recently called off an engagement to her longtime boyfriend.

In a Tinseltown case of art imitating life, the rumor mill is atwitter with whispers that Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana, who appear as lovers in the upcoming film The Words, have grown surprisingly close off camera.

In fact, the pair are reportedly dating.

Ever since Cooper called it quits with actress Renée Zellweger earlier this year, People magazi...

Director Michael Bay's action-packed Transformers: Dark Of The Moon has been named the most mistake-ridden movie of 2011.

Eagle-eyed film fans have reported 58 blunders in the third installment of the Shia LaBeouf release, six more than the latest Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, On Stranger Tides.

However, the big franchise films aren't the only ones named and shamed in MovieMistakes.com's end of year poll - X-Men: First Class (30 mistakes), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (20 mistakes), and Super 8 (17 mistakes) are also filled with errors.

Website creator Jon Sandys al...

Let's hear it for the boys! It's that time of year again when we honor the "37 Hottest Male Stars." Our list includes the usual suspects (Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and George Clooney), as well as a younger crew (Taylor Lautner and Zac Efron).

Robert Pattinson dominated the big screen with "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and Ryan Gosling impressed critics with "Drive." We can't decide between who's the sexier magical creature on "True Blood" - Alexander Skarsgaard or Joe Manganiello.

Let's not forget the musicians: Adam Levine, Justin Bieber, Drake and other heartthrobs also make...

A California man has withdrawn his lawsuit against the studio bosses behind The Hangover Part II - just two months after alleging the hit comedy was based on his own experiences.

Michael Alan Rubin turned the events of his hellish honeymoon in Asia into a script entitled Mickey and Kirin, and he took action against the project's officials in October for reportedly infringing on his copyright by basing The Hangover sequel on his work.

But now Rubin has voluntarily dismissed the suit, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

As WENN went to press, it was not yet known if the two parties had re...

Some folks just can't settle down. Here are the serial daters of 2011: The celebs that hooked up with the most people!

After splitting with Penn Badgely in late 2010, Blake Lively took a tour of Hollywood's hunks. After a summer of romance with Leonardo DiCaprio, she hit it off with Green Lantern co-star Ryan Reynolds.

Scarlett Johansson dwarfs Lively's number of suitors. Her rumored boyfriends included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Penn, Kieran Culkin, and Bradley Cooper.

Bradley Cooper wasn't waiting around for Scarlett, though. He was linked to Jennifer Lopez, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer An...

A modest bachelor brunch devolves into a wild weekend in Bangkok when the gang travels to Thailand to see Stu get married in "The Hangover Part II."

Still traumatized by memories of the Las Vegas fiasco, Stu (Ed Helms) vows to keep his pre-wedding partying to the bare minimum. But when Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) show up, Stu's low-key brunch makes their previous Vegas fiasco look like a family trip to Disneyland. "The Hangover Part II" features cameos by Mike Tyson and Paul Giamatti.

The film made U.S. box office history after grossing $86.5 ...

Could Olivia Wilde be dating funnyman Jason Sudeikis? That's the hot rumor going around, and US Weekly has a source saying the couple is not exactly trying to hide it.

In this week's issue a source tells US Weekly that Wilde(27) and Sudeikis(36) have been spending plenty of time together around New York when Jason isn't rehearsing for Saturday Night Live. On December 4 they arrived at Loi together following the live show that night.

"She's come to the [SNL] studio at Rockefeller Center, and they've gone out to dinner after rehearsals," adds an insider.

Wilde divorced Tao Ruspoli in Octo...

We saw Zoe Saldana searching for a Christmas tree in Hollywood on Monday. The actress wore a gingham blouse, tights and wedge boots while hunting for the perfect tree.

Zoe's recent action film "Columbiana" will be released on DVD & Blu-ray Dec. 20. The film centers on a fiery assassin on the quest for vengeance for her parents' murder.

She stars in the upcoming film "The Words" opposite Olivia Wilde and Bradley Cooper about an aspiring writer who claims another man's long lost work as his own.

Bradley Cooper has confirmed "The Hangover" cast is set to reunite for a second sequel set in Los Angeles.

The actor shot to international fame with his role in the 2009 Las Vegas-based comedy opposite Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha, and a follow-up, The Hangover Part II, set in Thailand, was released earlier this year.

Cooper has now revealed filming on the third installment should begin next September and he believes the film will be set in California.

He tells TV host Graham Norton, "I hope we'll start shooting next September. I know (director) Todd Phillips is working ...

Bradley Cooper feels uncomfortable since People magazine editors named him Sexiest Man Alive - because he's convinced his pal Ryan Gosling actually deserves the title.

The Hangover hunk has claimed the 2011 crown but admits Gosling is a more deserving winner as the Canadian actor always looks groomed.

He tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "It's so awful that I'm admitting this but the hell with it - there was such a backlash to when they announced it. Ryan Gosling, who I love and I just did a movie with him, he's the greatest, but we were both in Paris this last week and a friend of...

He has piercing eyes, a winning smile, tons of talent – plus, he cooks and speaks French! In this week's special double issue, prepare to swoon over People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 2011, Bradley Cooper. With his ice-blue eyes, mussed hair, and lightning-quick wit, Bradley Cooper, 36, has cornered the market on playing cool and confident. But when he learned that People named him this year's Sexiest Man Alive, he says, "I thought I was being Punk'd." This Georgetown grad can whip up gourmet meals, quote Sophocles, and chat breezily in French. And he is close with two special females: His...