LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Is "Avatar" truly the underdog? That's the way Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman saw the best picture race last month in an interview with the New York Times -- and that was before "Avatar" lost to "The Hurt Locker" at the producers and directors guild awards in recent weeks. The reality, though, is more complicated. Typically, the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The acceptance speech is the ultimate Hollywood audition. As the winners are invited to the podium ("But I didn't expect this; I have nothing prepared") and handed their trophies ("It's so heavy!"), all acceptance speeches do risk blurring into one ("And most of all I want to thank my husband/wife/partner-in-life; and to ...