Tonight, is the biggest night in movies. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards telecast will air tonight at 8pm EST. The news media will be out in full force tonight to bring you all the coverage from the event.

But one media source won’t be attending this evening. Entertainment news blog Deadline.com got banned from tonight’s show, with it’s correspondent having his press pass revoked.

On Friday, the site posted what it claimed were exclusive spoilers from the Sunday night telecast. Basically, it gave a play by play of the shows schedule. Who’s performing when, who’s presenting what, and who are the surprise guests.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn’t take too kindly to their secrets being spilled prior to the broadcast, and revoked the reporters access to the event effectively banning him from attending.

Deadline.com editor Nikki Finke, has said that any spoilers written on the website “were done so with the permission and encouragement and even timing suggestions of Oscars bigwigs who were hoping to spike more viewership for Sunday’s show. Yet Deadline gets banned from covering the Academy Awards”.

Well, they can keep Deadline from attending the show, but they can’t keep live blogging down. So get ready for snarky coverage on Deadline’s site.

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