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Academy Award Nominees

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Don't Just Watch the Oscars

The 84th annual Academy Awards will air on Sunday at 7 p.m. Impress friends and family by inviting them over and treating them to a star-studded party.

  For throwing an Oscar party at home, choose a themed food or drink item for each movie nominated for Best Picture. The best part of this menu is that you can shop local in Abington. If you don’t want to make each item from scratch, there’s a great business in the area who carries the items. Many of this year’s films are set in the past. “Midnight in Paris” takes viewers to the golden era of Paris in the 1920s, the very same city and just 10 years later that Hugo is set in. The Artist also dwells in the 30s Depression Era, but its characters dance, but don’t sing in America, while the War Horse charges audiences into World War I England. Midnight in Paris – With each era that actor Owen Wilson travels to in this film, he winds up at a …

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