The 82nd Annual Academy Awards that will be held at the Kodak Theater on Sunday, March 7th 2010, the biggest event of this year. And the winners were announced, "The Hurt Locker" declared as the Best Picture defeated the block buster movie of all time the Avatar.
Here are the Official Results of 82nd Academy Awards Winners:
Best Picture – The Hurt Locker Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Best Actor – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best Actress – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique “Precious” Best Original Screenplay – Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) Best Adapted Screenplay – Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious Best Animated Feature – Up Best Foreign Language Film – El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina) Best Documentary Feature – The Cove Best Score – Up Best Original Song – “The Weary Kind” (Crazy Heart) – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett Best Film Editing – The Hurt Locker Best Cinematography – Avatar Best Costume Design – The Young Victoria Best Art Direction – Avatar Best Makeup – Star Trek Best Visual Effects – Avatar Best Documentary (Short Subject) – Music by Prudence Best Short Film (Animated) – Logorama Best Short Film (Live Action) – The New Tenants Best Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker Best Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker
The 82nd Academy Awards Live happens tonight in Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles starting at 8 p.m. EST (5 pm for the Left Coast. This Oscars Awards 2010 Live Red Carpet Online will brought to you by AP Live. Before the proper official ceremony we will bring you the Red Carpet were everyone in Oscars 2010 participants have a change for interviews one by one. Watch The Oscars Awards 2010 Live Red Carpet Online! The artwork features this year’s hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, who will take the stage on the official ceremony live!.
Kathryn Bigelow brings home the best-director awards during the 82nd Academy Award Ceremony for her Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker." beating her ex-husband James Cameron, the best-director winner for 1997's "Titanic" who was nominated this time for his sci-fi spectacle "Avatar." Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.
The acting prizes went to Sandra Bullock as best actress for "The Blind Side" followed by Jeff Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart"; Mo'Nique as supporting actress for "Precious" and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds."
Also an industry darling, Bullock won with her first nomination. The night before the Oscars, Bullock also won the year's worst-actress prize at the Razzies for "All About Steve."
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The winners already announce and revealed during the 82nd Academy Awards Night Live from Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles last Sunday night March 7, 2010. As Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director Awards beating his ex-husband James Cameron who was nominated this time for his sci-fi spectacle "Avatar." The box office movie Avatar have no much from the Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" which brings 6 awards out of 9 nominations. Sandra Bullock won as best actress for "The Blind Side" followed by Jeff Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart", Mo'Nique as supporting actress for "Precious" and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds." If you miss to watch the highlights during the official ceremony of 82nd Academy Awards Night this is you change to Watch The Oscars Awards 2010 Replay Video Highlights!
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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
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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.
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The vampire blockbuster took the lead with seven nominations and the Oscar-winning Indian romance received six, MTV announced Monday. Both popular movies were nominated for best film. This year'sMTV Movie Awardswill be between Twilight and Slumdog Millionaire.
"Slumdog" star Dev Patel and "Twilight" vampire Robert Pattinson are both nominated for the male breakthrough performance award. The other contenders are Ben Barnes ("The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"), Bobb'e J. Thompson ("Role Models") and Pattinson's "Twilight" co-star Taylor Lautner.
Mark Burnett, who produces the freewheeling ceremony, said either film has a great chance of winning best picture.
"Twilight" has "certainly touched a part of America and young girls are totally in love with what the movie stands for and (with) romance," Burnett said in an interview. "On the other hand, I have to say, all of my kids loved `Slumdog Millionaire.' There's just something so uplifting about what that movie stands for."
Other nominated movies include "Iron Man," "The Dark Knight" and "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."
Kate Winslet, who won an Oscar for her dramatic role in "The Reader," is up for best female performance, along with Angelina Jolie ("Wanted"), Anne Hathaway ("Bride Wars"), Kristen Stewart ("Twilight") and Taraji P. Henson ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button").
Nominees for best male performance are Christian Bale ("The Dark Knight"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Iron Man"), Shia LaBeouf ("Eagle Eye"), Vin Diesel ("Fast & Furious") and "High School Musical" heartthrob Zac Efron.
Efron's co-star (and girlfriend) Vanessa Hudgens will challenge Miley Cyrus for the breakthrough performance female award. Their competition includes "Slumdog" beauty Freida Pinto and Ashley Tisdale, another "HSM" star.
The golden popcorn trophy for best kiss _ one of the event's signature unconventional categories _ could be handed to one of six big-screen duos, including Efron and Hudgens, Pinto and Patel, Stewart and Pattinson, or Sean Penn and James Franco, who co-starred in "Milk."
Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for his menacing performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," is also nominated in the best villain category.
MTV usually introduces a new category or two each year: This year, a golden popcorn will be awarded to the "best song from a movie." The nominees are Cyrus' "The Climb" (from the new "Hannah Montana" film); the "Twilight" song "Decode" by Paramore; the "Slumdog" anthem "Jai Ho"; and the Bruce Springsteen ballad "The Wrestler" from the movie starring Mickey Rourke.
Votes can be cast online at MTV's Web site through May 27 for all categories except best movie. MTV said voting in that category remains open until May 31, when the show will air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif. "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg is the host.
Burnett said the key to a successful movie-awards show is to let awkward moments pan out. Among last year's highlights: Franco and Seth Rogen pulled out a bag of fake marijuana on stage.
"I will tell you right now _ there are three big things" that are part of the show, Burnett said. "I would say personally in my three years of producing the MTV Movie Awards live, the biggest thing that I can think of is going to be happening this year."
Slumdog Millionaire wins Oscar for Best Picture during the 81st Annual Academy Awards - The Oscars Awards 2009. Heald at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, February 22, 2009.
Maybe it was the adorable smile on that "Slumdog Millionaire" kid in his pint-sized tuxedo.
Or best director winner Danny Boyle bouncing in silly tribute to Tigger of "Winnie the Pooh."
The grinning, top-hatted dad of best actress winner Kate Winslet, whistling like a champion to get his daughter's attention.
Or an entire crowd standing together in remembrance of Heath Ledger.
This year's Oscar telecast was striking for its many feel-good themes and moments -- and perhaps exactly what we needed from a recession-era awards show.
Certainly, it was a notable contrast to last year, when darkness and cynicism ruled the nominated films, capped by best picture winner "No Country for Old Men," about a homicidal sociopath. The collective subject matter was so bleak that host Jon Stewart was inspired to say of "Juno," the one comedy: "Thank goodness for teen pregnancy!"
This year's host, Hugh Jackman, had no such trouble. He presided over a show filled with Cinderella themes both fictional and real-life. And none was more poignant than that of the night's big winner, "Slumdog Millionaire," with its story of love triumphing over desperate poverty, criminality and pure evil.
Lost on no one at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, of course, was the Cinderella-like story of the movie itself, which nearly became a victim of the tanking economy and was headed for a direct-to-DVD release before News Corp.'s Fox Searchlight stepped in to distribute it.
And there were the many personal stories of those involved in the film. As the cast stood onstage after winning the best picture award, the cameras focused briefly on a beatifically smiling Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, one of the children who'd been whisked to the Oscars from a desperately poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mumbai, where he lives in a lean-to made of plastic tarpaulins and blankets. One can only imagine how the moment must have felt for his friends and family back home.
It fell to Simon Beaufoy, who won for the film's adapted screenplay, to make the link between our troubled times and the film's appeal.
"It's come out at a time when the value of money, which has been raised to this extraordinary height, is suddenly being shown to be a kind of very shallow thing," Beaufoy said. "The financial markets are crashing around the world, and a film comes out which is ostensibly about being a millionaire. Actually ... it's a film that says there's more important things than money: love, faith and family."
It was a different family -- that of the late Heath Ledger -- that brought tears to many eyes in the most emotional moment of the ceremony, no less affecting because it was expected: Ledger's posthumous Oscar for his diabolical Joker in "The Dark Knight."
The entire theater rose along with Ledger's relatives to pay tribute to this deeply talented actor who died last year at age 28, of an accidental prescription drug overdose. They heard his father express how much Ledger would have wanted to be there.
"This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by all you here tonight, his peers within an industry he so loved," said Kim Ledger, Heath Ledger's father.
The moment was lacking only one thing: A look back at Ledger's stunning work as the Joker. The new format for the acting awards, with five former winners paying tribute to nominees in short speeches, may have added some touching moments -- Shirley MacLaine telling Anne Hathaway that she had a great future was one of them -- but it took away the film clips, an omission some found glaring.
"You've got all these wonderful images -- so let's see this stuff on screen!" said Jonathan Kuntz, a historian at UCLA's film school. "They could have done a better job selling their films by actually showing them. Not everyone has seen these movies."
The ratings support that view -- bigger and more mainstream movies always draw higher Oscar ratings, and though viewership was up by more than 4 million this year, at 36.3 million, there are still only two Oscar telecasts on record with fewer viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Last year, when "No Country For Old Men" won best picture, the telecast was seen by 32 million people, the lowest on record. The 2003 telecast, with "Chicago" as the best picture winner, was seen by 33 million.
But back to the sweet moments, which came in some unexpected places. Certainly there was no Cinderella story in "The Reader," the tale of an unrepentant Nazi guard played by Kate Winslet.
But Winslet's win was touching nonetheless -- the popular British actress had been nominated five times previously with no success.
Thanking her parents for their faith in her, she called out, "Dad, whistle or something 'cause then I'll know where you are." And Roger Winslet whistled back -- heartily, for the world to hear.
Unlike the genial Winslet, Sean Penn is known for a somewhat prickly presence. But in keeping with the night, the best actor winner for "Milk" seemed a little, well, softer around the edges, virtually apologizing for some of his trademark brashness.
"I want it to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often," Penn said, to laughter. He went on to make a passionate plea for legalization of same-sex marriages.
Penn's portrayal of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk was striking partly because the character was so much sweeter -- and full of smiles -- than many he's played before. His performance was so convincing that it gave Penn's friend, Robert DeNiro, one of the night's best comic lines.
"How did he do it?" DeNiro asked as he introduced Penn in the best actor category. "How for so many years did Sean Penn get all those jobs playing straight men?"
But for lines that epitomized the feel-good nature of the 81st Academy Awards, one could do no better than 43-year-old Indian composer A.R. Rahman, who won Oscars for both original soundtrack and original song from "Slumdog Millionaire."
The Oscars ceremonywas held again at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, which started at exactly at 5PT/8ET. Hosted by none other than Hugh Jackman and televised live on ABC. Together with Beyonce Knowles, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfield , Dominic Cooper on there Musical Performance Mama Mia Stage Skit Medley Broadway.
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The 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 presented, "Slumdog Millionaire", Danny Boyle's small-budget film for this year's Best Picture along with 5 other Oscars awards and awarded the second ever posthumous Oscars award to Heath Ledger for his final role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight."
Hugh Jackman’s opening song and dance number was an entertaining and impressive showing of the Australian’s talent. But after the lovely opening, the ceremony, hyped to be new and different was, for the most part, the same old humdrum Oscars.
Complete list of nominees for this year's 81st Academy Awards 2009 - The Oscars Ceremony. Awarding of nominations/nominees will be live on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. You may watch via ABC in the Unites States.
Best Actress / Female Performance in a Leading Role Kate Winslet - The Reader Melissa Leo - Frozen River Meryl Streep - Doubt Angelina Jolie - Changeling Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Best Actor / Male Performance in a Leading Role Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler Richard Jenkins - The Visitor Sean Penn - Milk
Best Supporting Actress / Female Performance in a Supporting Role Amy Adams - Doubt Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Viola Davis - Doubt
Best Supporting Actor / Male Performance in a Supporting Role Josh Brolin - Milk Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Best Picture Frost/Nixon Milk Slumdog Millionaire The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Reader
Best Director / Achievement in Directing Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon Stephen Daldry - The Reader Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Gus Van Sant - Milk
Best Foreign Language Film Waltz With Bashir - Israel Revanche - Austria The Class - France Der Baader Meinhof Komplex - Germany Departures - Japan
Best Adapted Screenplay Doubt - John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth, Eric Roth, Robin Swicord The Reader - David Hare
Best Original Screenplay Frozen River - Courtney Hunt Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh In Bruges - Martin McDonagh Milk - Dustin Lance Black WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
Best Cinematography Changeling - Tom Stern Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
Best Editing Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Dan Hanley Milk - Elliot Graham Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall The Dark Knight - Lee Smith
Best Original Score Defiance - James Newton Howard Milk - Danny Elfman Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat WALL-E - Thomas Newman
Best Art Direction / Achievement in Art Direction Changeling Revolutionary Road The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight The Duchess
Best Costume Design Australia - Catherine Martin The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West The Duchess - Michael O’Connor Milk - Danny Glicker Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky
Best Original Song Down to Earth from WALL-E - Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Gulzar O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam
Best Animated Film Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall-E
Best Documentary The Garden Man on Wire Trouble the Water The Betrayal Encounters at the End of the World
Best Makeup / Achievement in Make-Up The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom The Dark Knight - John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz
Best Short Animation / Animated Short Oktapodi Presto This Way Up La Maison en Petits Cubes Lavatory - Lovestory
Best Live Action Short The Pig Spielzeugland (Toyland) Auf der Strecke Manon on the Asphalt New Boy
Best Sound Editing / Achievement in Sound Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers Iron Man - Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes The Dark Knight - Richard King WALL-E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood Wanted - Wylie Stateman
Best Visual Effects The Dark Knight - Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron Iron Man - John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan
The acting categories are always hotly contested and this year is no different. Both in the actors and actresses categories, no one has emerged as the clear favorite this year. Not only because of their equally good performances but also because the different award giving organizations have proclaimed different winners in the past month or so. But expect the names of Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie to be read from the 2009 Oscar nominations list later today. The same goes for Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke. I am also expecting a nomination for Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight.
Watch The 81st Annual Academy Awards Ceremony Live on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 pm , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be televised in the United States on ABC. Oscars ceremony is the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony will honor its selection of the best films of 2008. The Oscars, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself, were conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss, Louis B. Mayer. The awards are presented is one of the most prominent film award ceremonies in the world.
Academy Awards are given for best motion picture; foreign-language film; performances by male and female actors in both leading and supporting roles; achievement in direction; screenplays, both original and adapted from previously produced or published material; and scores and songs composed for films. Other award categories include live-action short subject, animated short subject, documentary feature, and documentary short feature. Excellence in technical disciplines is also recognized, including art direction, cinematography, costume design, makeup, film editing, sound and sound effects editing, and visual effects. In addition, special or honorary awards are given for distinguished careers or humanitarian achievement.
The first awards were presented at a private dinner in Hollywood, with an audience of less than 250 people. Since the first year the awards have been publicly broadcast, at first by radio then by TV after 1953. During the first decade the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. at the night of the awards; this method was ruined when the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began, as a result the Academy has since used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners. Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.
prizes given annually in the United States by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the creation and production of motion pictures. First presented in 1929 for films shown in 1927 and 1928, the Academy Awards, commonly known as Oscars, are among the film industry’s most coveted prizes.
The entire academy membership participates in voting for the annual awards. In most award categories, a maximum of five entrants are first nominated by the academy members who work in that particular field (that is, actors select actors, directors select directors, and so on). From among these nominees all academy members select the winners by secret ballot. The winners are publicly announced at a formal ceremony each spring. One hour of the 1929 awards ceremony was broadcast on the radio, and from 1944 through 1969 the entire ceremony was broadcast. Television broadcasts began in 1953 and today attract a worldwide audience. Various people claim to have given the name Oscar to the symbolic statuette presented to winners, including actor Bette Davis, academy librarian Margaret Herrick, and columnist Sidney Skolsky. But the origin of the name has never been definitively determined. The gold-plated bronze human figure, which is 34.3 cm (13.5 in) high and weighs 3.9 kg (8.5 lb), was created by American sculptor George Stanley based on sketches made by American motion-picture art director Cedric Gibbons.
Awards are given for best motion picture; foreign-language film; performances by male and female actors in both leading and supporting roles; achievement in direction; screenplays, both original and adapted from previously produced or published material; and scores and songs composed for films. Other award categories include live-action short subject, animated short subject, documentary feature, and documentary short feature. Excellence in technical disciplines is also recognized, including art direction, cinematography, costume design, makeup, film editing, sound and sound effects editing, and visual effects. In addition, special or honorary awards are given for distinguished careers or humanitarian achievement.
Academy Award - The Oscar is the main national film award in the USA. The Academy Awards (Oscars) are awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent film award ceremonies in the world. The Oscars, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself, were conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. DeMille.
The 81st Academy Awards honoring the best in film for 2008 will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with actor Hugh Jackman hosting the ceremony for the first time.
