Oscar win would revive talk of Gore bid
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Forget about sharing the stage with fellow Democrats on cable TV. Al Gore goes prime time, red carpet Sunday night at the Academy Awards before tens of millions, reviving talk of a possible presidential run.
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Optimism was in the air among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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This is not more sycophancy to Al Gore, I promise. In fact, his enemies could even consider this a heads-up. In short: WHOEVER WINS THE PRESIDENCY, AL GORE HAS WON EVERYTHING ELSE. Sure, the Nobel/Oscar/Emmy trifecta is impressive. But look at what else Gore has netted. As unlikely as it seems for such a [...].
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Rasmussen Reports - This week, Rasmussen Reports dropped Al Gore from our list of contenders in polling on the Democratic Presidential nomination but it had little impact on the overall dynamic of the poll results.
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We've seen plenty of political moments at the Oscars before.  But on Sunday, we could see the most unusual political moment ever.
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LOS ANGELES  - There's no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn't until February 24. But a number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so quietly.
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LOS ANGELES -- He had spent long nights squirming in a chair at the Kodak Theatre waiting to find out whether he had won an Academy Award, but Rob Reiner had rarely felt so nervous. Thirty minutes before last week's Democratic debate, the movie director and ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter...
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The double Oscar win for "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore's expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates said on Monday.
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With nearly six months until Hollywood's biggest party, everyone already is thinking about the Academy Awards. Not many will admit that the thought of winning an Oscar crosses their mind, though.
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Al Gore, largely absent from this year's presidential campaign, is renewing his efforts to help the Democratic Party raise more money as Election Day approaches.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says Al Gore would play a key role in his administration if he wants one, but he won't say whether he'd ask him to be his running mate.
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Martin Scorsese, the creator of "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver," finally won Oscar recognition on Sunday but he had to share the spotlight with politician Al Gore, regal actress Helen Mirren and Cinderella story Jennifer Hudson.
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Some surprises among the Oscar nominations Tuesday:
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Former US vice president Al Gore is seen as a possible winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the planet from global warming, the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute has said.Comment
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Although the writers strike has created a swirl of uncertainty, Hollywood's awards season will be business as usual Wednesday, when the academy mails Oscar nomination ballots to its 5,829 voting members.
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LOS ANGELES  - If the opinions of the nation's critics are anything to go by, Daniel Day-Lewis can pretty much pick up his best actor Oscar right now.
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After weeks of relentless Oscar campaign ads, talk-show interviews and red-carpet events, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made up their minds. The next step is to count their votes.