Praise came from far and wide tonight for Kiwi winners in the Academy Awards in Hollywood, after New Zealanders took five of the top honours. [More]

Heh.. you gotta love a country that has a Lord of the Rings minister.

Some of Hollywood’s most famous and powerful figures — not to mention hobbits — walked away losers Sunday, drifting back to their limousines without the golden statuettes that mark the industry’s highest honor. [More]

The folks from PVPOnline are obviously as disappointed about Lord of the Rings not winning Best Film as we are, according to today’s comic. [More]

With the Oscars over and behind us, we have something to look forward to not five days away…the release of the Two Towers trailer! And Moriarty from AICN mailed me to say that he has indeed seen Friday’s trailer, and wrote up a report on just what we will see in a few days time! [More]

Well for those of you who didn’t see the entire Oscar broadcast or followed our online coverage for the entire five hours or more here’s a short summary. LOTR:FOTR picked up the Oscars for Make Up, Cinematography, Visual Effects and Score but unfortunally lost in the other, sometimes bigger, categories which adds up to a total of four Oscars out of thirteen nominations. A Beautiful Mind snatched away the Oscars in most of the important categories such as Best Director and Best Film. There were some surprises and some disappointments but I guess we have one advantage over the rest; we can try again next year! On Behalf of the TORn staff congrats to PJ and crew with the four Oscars and goodnight!

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring failed to win the Oscar for Best Motion Picture, which went to A Beautiful Mind.