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Jon Stewart to host 2008 Oscars

13 Sep 2007

US comedian Jon Stewart will return to host the next Oscars - after a performance two years ago which saw his presenting style labelled “smug humourlessness”. However the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said he would be an ideal host…

Citizen Kane Oscar expected to fetch $1m

16 Oct 2007

The Oscar won by Orson Welles for Citizen Kane is expected to top a million dollars when it goes up for auction on 11 December. Auctioneer Sotheby’s claims the value placed on the statuette is greatly enhanced by the kudos which surrounds the 1941…

Poorly kept secret confirmed

13 Sep 2007

The 80th Oscar ceremony is set to be hosted by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, confirming possibly the worst kept secret since the ending of the Sixth Sense. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have rehired the satirist after the…