Having conquered the US, Lady GaGa stormed the UK producing 2009's biggest selling single of the year "Poker Face". Lady GaGa will be one of the performers on theLive BRITS Awards 2010 will make her solo BRITs 30th centre stage appearance at Earls Court on Tuesday night February 16, 2010 perform live to millions of ITV viewers following last year's featured appearance with OCA recipients, the Pet Shop Boys.
Together with Gaga will be Kasabian and JLS, in addition the outstanding Dizzee Rascal will be teaming up with Florence & The Machine for an explosive collaboration that looks set to take its place in the BRITs 30 year history. The tune Dizzee & Florence have mashed up especially for the show is titled You Got The Dirtee Love. This announcement is already making BRIT Awards 2010 with MasterCard Live an interestingly diverse and 'must see' awards show to broadcast live on ITV .
So expect a rollercoaster ride at what promises to be the most spectacular BRIT Awards Live as millions of TV viewers and over five thousand music fans partying in Earls Court witness one of the most exhilarating nights in the UK Music calendar. Watch BRITS Awards 2010 Live Performances!
The 30th BRIT Awards with MasterCard 2010 nominations was unveiled last January 18, 2010. The winner will then be invited to the BRITs on Tuesday night, February 16, 2010 at Earls Court, London to accept their award.
British Female Solo Artist Bat for Lashes Florence & the Machine Leona Lewis Lily Allen Pixie Lott
British Male Solo Artist Calvin Harris Dizzee Rascal Mika Paolo Nutini Robbie Williams
British Breakthrough Act Florence & the Machine Friendly Fires JLS La Roux Pixie Lott
British Group Doves Friendly Fires JLS Kasabian Muse
MasterCard British Album Dizzee Rascal - Tongue n’Cheek Florence & the Machine - Lungs Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
British Single Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow Alexandra Burke Ft Flo Rida - Bad Boys Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love Joe McElderry - The Climb JLS - Beat Again La Roux - In For The Kill Lily Allen - The Fear Pixie Lott - Mama Do Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Tinchy Stryder Ft N-Dubz - Number 1
Critics' Choice Ellie Goulding Delphic Marina and the Diamonds
BRITs Album of 30 Years Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head Dido - No Angel Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Duffy - Rockferry Keane - Hopes & Fears Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? Phil Collins - No Jacket Required Sade - Diamond Life The Verve - Urban Hymns Travis - The Man Who
The BRITs Hits 30 Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive/How Deep is Your Love Bros. - I Owe you Nothing Coldplay - Clocks Eurythmics & Stevie Wonder - Angel Girls Aloud - The Promise Kanye West - Gold Digger Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of my Head Michael Jackson - Earth Song Paul McCartney - Live & Let Die Pet Shop Boys - Go West Robbie Williams & Tom Jones - The Full Monty Medley Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Spice Girls - Wannabe/Who Do You Think You Are Take That - Beatles Medley The Who - Who Are You
International Female Solo Artist Lady Gaga Ladyhawke Norah Jones Rihanna Shakira
International Male Solo Artist Bruce Springsteen Eminem Jay-Z Michael Buble Seasick Steve
International Album Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Black Eyed Peas - The End Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 Lady Gaga - The Fame
International Breakthrough Act Animal Collective Daniel Merriweather Empire of the Sun Lady Gaga Taylor Swift
Outstanding Contribution Award Robbie Williams
The30th BRIT Awards with MasterCard 2010 Liveshow will be aired on February 16th 2010 live broadcast on ITV 1. Celebrating 30 years of the Awards, the show will feature spectacular staging with performances by world renowned artists with comedy genius Peter Kay hosting the event. Don't miss to watch BRIT Awards 2010 Live!
The 2010 BRIT Awards Live will take place on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. The annual awards ceremony will be held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. It will be the 30th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live on ITV1.
The 30th Brits nominations unveiled last January 18, 2010. The winner will then be invited to the BRITs on Tuesday night at Earls Court, London to accept their award.
The categories are:
MasterCard British Album *
British Male Solo Artist *
British Female Solo Artist *
British Breakthrough Act ** - winner chosen by Radio 1 listeners
British Group *
International Male Solo Artist *
International Female Solo Artist *
International Breakthrough Act ** - winner chosen by MTV viewers
International Album *
British Single - voted by Commercial Radio listeners
BRITs Album of 30 Years - voted by Radio 2 listeners
Most Memorable BRITs Performance of 30 Years - voted by ITV and GMTV viewers
"Avatar" the epic science-fiction and "The Hurt Locker" gritty Iraq war drama top this years 2010 Oscars nominees and will battle for supremacy at awards night this coming March 7,2010. After each movie topping the nominations with nine nods last Tuesday.
James Cameron's "Avatar", the most expensive movie ever made and the highest grossing film of all time, picked up a slew of nominations including best picture and best director.
Low budget "The Hurt Locker" directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, also earned nine nods including best director, best picture, best actor and best original screenplay. 'Avatar' and 'Hurt Locker': the Oscars odd couple
Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing and the first since Sofia Coppola received a nod for "Lost in Translation" in 2003. No woman director has ever won the Oscars top prize.
However "The Hurt Locker," a tense thriller about a US army bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq, has emerged as the favorite to land the Oscars top best picture prize when the 82nd Academy Awards are presented on March 7.
Although it has earned only 16 million dollars at the box office around 125 times less than "Avatar". Bigelow's film has won a host of awards regarded as reliable indicators of likely Oscars success.
This year's best picture race was expanded to 10 films by the Academy in a move analysts said was intended to boost television ratings for the awards show. It is the first time since 1943 when "Casablanca" won best picture that so many films have been nominated in the category.
While "The Hurt Locker" has nominations spread across various spheres, most of "Avatar's" nods are in technical categories, reflecting the film's groundbreaking 3-D visual effects.
Vying for the best picture race alongside "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" are Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II revenge film "Inglourious Basterds," which weighed in with eight nominations. List of major 82nd Academy Awards nominees
It was followed by the independent "Precious," about the struggles of an illiterate abused teenager, which scored six nominations, including best picture and best director.
Other films in the best picture race include "District 9," South African director Neill Blomkamp's dazzling science-fiction film about aliens stranded in a Johannesburg township, and "Up," Pixar's charming animated film about a crotchety widower who ties balloons to his house and floats to South America.
It is only the second time that an animated film has made it into the best picture race following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992.
James Cameron's Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow's have nine nominations each as the shortlist for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker are joined by An Education, A Serious Man, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, The Blind Side, Up and Up In The Air in a ten-strong best picture category.
Follow the full list of Nominees for 82nd Annual Academy Awards 2010:
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company) Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics) Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount) Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.) Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics) Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Penélope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Coraline" (Focus Features) Henry Selick "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements "The Secret of Kells" (GKIDS) Tomm Moore "Up" (Walt Disney) Pete Docter
Achievement in art direction
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
"Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre
"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
"The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Achievement in cinematography
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger
Achievement in costume design
"Bright Star" (Apparition) Janet Patterson "Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Sandy Powell
Achievement in directing
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Cameron "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Lee Daniels "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Jason Reitman
Best documentary feature
"Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) A Magic Hour Films Production Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
"The Cove" (Roadside Attractions) An Oceanic Preservation Society Production Nominees to be determined
"Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures) A Robert Kenner Films Production Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" A Kovno Communications Production Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
"Which Way Home" A Mr. Mudd Production Rebecca Cammisa
Best documentary short subject
"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" A Downtown Community Television Center Production Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" A Just Media Production Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" A Community Media Production Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
"Music by Prudence" An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
"Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution) An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Achievement in film editing
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz
Best foreign language film of the year
"Ajami"(Kino International) An Inosan Production Israel
"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production Argentina
"The Milk of Sorrow" A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production Peru
"Un Prophète" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production France
"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production
Achievement in makeup
"Il Divo" (MPI Media Group through Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Horner "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas "Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best motion picture of the year
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) A Lightstorm Entertainment Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
"The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.) An Alcon Entertainment Production Nominees to be determined
"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
"An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production Nominees to be determined
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production Lawrence Bender, Producer
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
"Up" (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production Jonas Rivera, Producer
"Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) A Montecito Picture Company Production Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Best animated short film
"French Roast" A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production Fabrice O. Joubert
"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Brown Bag Films) A Brown Bag Films Production Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)" A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production Javier Recio Gracia
"Logorama" (Autour de Minuit) An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin
"A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations) An Aardman Animations Production Nick Park
Best live action short film
"The Door" (Network Ireland Television) An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
"Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute) A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
"Kavi" A Gregg Helvey Production Gregg Helvey
"Miracle Fish" (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey "The New Tenants" A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Achievement in sound editing
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) - Paul N.J. Ottosson "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Wylie Stateman "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin "Up" (Walt Disney) - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Achievement in sound mixing
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Achievement in visual effects
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Adapted screenplay
"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) - Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) - Screenplay by Nick Hornby "In the Loop" (IFC Films) - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) - Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) - Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Original screenplay
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) - Written by Mark Boal "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Written by Quentin Tarantino "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) - Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) - Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen "Up" (Walt Disney) - Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
Watch Live Oscar Nominnation 2010 Announcement Videohere.
Oscar Nominnation 2010 Announcement were revealed in Los Angeles this Tuesday morning around 5:30 a.m. Febrauary 2, 2010. The announcement was held at the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, with last year's lead actress nominee Anne Hathaway helping Oscar president Tom Sherak with the announcements.
James Cameron's Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time and the winner of two Golden Globes, is a near-certainty for awards in the technical categories while The Hurt Locker,Up In The Air and Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire were unsurprisingly shortlisted in multiple categories.
The nominations made pleasant reading for British actors and filmmakers with Colin Firth up for the best actor Oscar for A Single Man. Rising star Carey Mulligan is nominated for the best actress Oscar alongside Dame Helen Mirren for The Last Station while there are also nominations in the best adapted screenplay category for the writers of In the Loop and An Education.
The 2010 Oscars will be presented on March 7th at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre.
Watch Live Oscar Nominnation 2010 Announcement Videohere.