If Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Attend the Oscars, He’ll Have to Play By The Academy’s Boring Rules [Oscars]

Sacha Baron Cohen just received some great free publicity for his new comedy, The Dictator, courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Deadline Hollywood reported last night that the actor had been “banned” from the awards show on Sunday because he’d been planning on showing up dressed as his next character, an anti-democratic dictator named General Aladee. More »