Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history. At the 45th Academy Awards in March 1973, Sacheen Cruz Littlefeather stepped in to refuse Marlon Brando's Oscar for Best Actor for his role in "The

For many performers, being put on the spot is when they shine the brightest. However, as anyone who's ever given a wedding toast knows, nobody's really at their best when they're nervous, kind of drunk and unexpectedly called upon to say a few words. Osc

Associated Press Was he hip enough? Bob Hope, right, being strangled by Marlon Brando at the 1955 Oscars. THE 84th Academy Awards will take place next Sunday at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. In anticipation of that night of rapture and tedium, Manoh

Yes, he really does go where no man has gone before because he goes his own way, and that's quite wonderful. William Shatner's one-man show, "Shatner's World we just live in it ..." It's great fun, and th

27 March 1973: Sacheen Littlefeather presents a speech on behalf of actor Marlon Brando, for his performance in The Godfather, after he boycotted the 45th Academy Awards, in protest of the treatment of Native Americans by the film industry.

Even today, nearly 60 years later, there’s no denying the intensity of On the Waterfront. The story focuses on Terry (Marlon Brando), a corrupt New Jersey dockworker who grows a conscience and blows the whistle on the crooked union boss who ruins his lif

Actors Robert Duvall and James Caan (right) who starred in the first Godfather movie appear at a 2/10/05 promotional event in New York for EA Games which is producing "The Godfather" video game for release in mid 2005. The late Marlon Brando recorded his

In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Pancho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounterwith Marlon Brando. It was 1976. I had been with [legendar

Barry – pictured at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow –will play Stanley Kowalski, the role made famous by Marlon Brando in the film version of Tennessee Williams's play, performed 65 years ago. The world premiere of the ballet will open in Glasgow in Apri

I would have found a different PC case mod to kick off PC Gaming Lives' weekly celebration of the art of enclosure craft, but this Godfather -themed masterpiece made me an offer I probably could have refused but chose not to. Were I capable of crafting m

CINEMA classic On the Waterfront will be screened at Hoylake’s next community film night. The film, which stars Marlon Brando at the height of his career, will be shown at The Parade Hoylake Community Centre on Friday, February 24. A licensed bar opens a

The dark comedy, written by the ensemble, imagines what might have happened on the morning of September 11, 2001 when Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Marlon Brando, who had been in New York City for a celebration of Jackson's birthday at Madison S

The only positive response I've ever had to the word "valentine" was when I saw Sydney Lumet's The Fugitive Kind and Marlon Brando's Valentine Xavier appeared in a snakeskin jacket. I feel zilch about this Hollywood montage making the rounds today. The f

NEW YORK - We Americans may have thought we created the Angry Young Man. You know, that volcanic, vital, articulate stud who howls a lot. We've got tons of them, from James Dean and Marlon Brando, to Sean Penn and Holden Caufield. So it might come as a b

"Local hero," Jake Ellenberger, was today awarded with a key to the city of Omaha, Neb. , by David Dover, Deputy Chief of Staff to Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle. "Juggernaut," according to DeadSpin.com, joins the ranks of notables such as Warren Buffett, Marlon

Days like today are really tricky because I keep trying to find one thing to show you that isn’t the Grammys, isn’t Whitney Houston. (The latter is such a depressing scene; I just can’t even.) But I think I finally found you guys something. Brooklyn-base

The Iron Lady star lost her shoe at the Baftas and her glasses at the Golden Globes – and carried both accidents off with dotty good humour. We can't wait to see how she will enliven Oscar night Meryl Streep at the Baftas, with her 'prince charming' Coli

Spec Ops: The Line takes a different approach to the usual war shooter. It isn't a jingoistic game about patriotism and winning the war in the name of all that is pure and righteous. It isn't another simplistic 'kill all the terrorists' blast-a-thon, eit

Chiggidy Check It. It's Jay Z 's classic "99 Problems" but rebuilt with film clips and retitled "99 Problems in Film". So instead of Jay Z recounting the story it's lots of out of context snippets of the past. Watch as Christopher Walken confounds rap cr