Oscars 2009

Nikki Annual Oscars Party

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ELEGIBLE SCORES FOR OSCARS 2009 – PART 1

Bad lieutenant, port of call New Orleans – Mark Isham – “End credits”
Coco avant Channel – Alexandre Desplat – “L’Abandon”
Everybody’s fine – Dario Marianelli – “Leaving New York”
It’s complicated – Hans Zimmer – “It’s complicated”
Moon – Clint Mansell – “Welcome to Lunar Industries”
Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner – “Ouverture”
The time traveller’s wife – Mychael Danna – “I don’t feel alone anymore”
Transformers, revenge of the fallen – Steve Jablonsky – “Prime”
Up – MIchael Giacchino – “Up with end credits” OSCAR WINNER, GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER, BAFTA WINNER
Watchmen – Tyler Bates – “Mission rescue”

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In support of the American effort in World War II, the statuettes were made of plaster and were traded in for gold ones after the war had ended. The root of the name Oscar is contested. One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson; one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis’s receipt of the award in 1936. Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Academy’s Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette’s reminding her of her ‘Uncle Oscar’ (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce). Columnist Sidney Skolsky was present during Herrick’s naming and seized the name in his byline, ‘Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette ‘Oscar”. The trophy was officially dubbed the ‘Oscar’ in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Another legend reports that the Norwegian-American Eleanor Lilleberg, executive secretary to Louis B. Mayer, saw the first statuette and exclaimed, ‘It looks like King Oscar II!’. At the end of the day she asked, ‘What should we do with Oscar, put him in the vault?’ and the name stuck. Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette. Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums. While the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market. The case of Michael Todd’s grandson trying to sell Todd’s Oscar statuette illustrates that there are some who do not agree with this idea. When Todd’s grandson attempted to sell Todd’s Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction. Although Oscar sales transactions have been successful, some buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury. Since 2004, Academy Award nomination results have been announced to the public in late January. Prior to 2004, nomination results were announced publicly in early February. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,835 as of 2007. Academy membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production. Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy’s composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 73 annual awards ceremonies. All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures. New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then. Currently, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify (except for the Best Foreign Language Film). For example, the 2010 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was actually first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2009 awards as it did not play its Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2010 awards. Rule 2 states that a film must be feature-length, defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards, and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scan digital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280×720. Producers must submit an Official Screen Credits online form before the deadline; in case it is not submitted by the defined deadline, the film will be ineligible for Academ
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Meryl Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two.
She’s the most nominated actress in the Academy history.
She won her first Oscar for best supporting actress for ‘Kramer vs. Kramer” when she was 30 and her second win was for best actress for ‘Sophie’s Choice’ in 1982.

The Nominations are:
The Deer Hunter (1979), Kramer vs. Kramer (1980), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1982), Sophie’s Choice (1983), Silkwood (1984), Out of Afrika (1985), Ironweed (1988), A Cry in the Dark (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1991), The Bridges of Madison County (1996), One True Thing (1999), Music of the Heart (2000), Adaptation (2003), The Devil Wears Prada (2007), Doubt (2009), Julie & Julia (2010)

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Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley, Jr. , made an assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster’s Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator). Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, although all were unsuccessful. Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller’s war movie The Big Red One, but he turned both down. However he did accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by Paul Bartel. In this period there were also several directorial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee. The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese’s home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure. New York, New York was the director’s third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli (a tribute and allusion to her father, legendary musical director Vincente Minnelli). The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese’s usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison to his earlier work. The disappointing reception New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage the director had also developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese’s commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978. Another Scorsese-directed documentary entitled American Boy also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director’s already fragile health. Scorsese also helped provide footage for the documentary Elvis on Tour, a documentary about the legendary performer Elvis Presley. By several accounts (Scorsese’s included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese’s life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make his highly regarded film, Raging Bull. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta, calling it a Kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain’s Sight & Sound magazine. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, and Scorsese’s first for Best Director. De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but Best Director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People. Raging Bull, filmed in high contrast black and white, is where Scorsese’s style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight). Thematically too, the concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption. Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader’s original draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including Jay (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro. The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the #1 sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films. Scorsese’s next project was his fifth
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★ Remember it? ★
★ The Rap-Oscars 2010 – The XI.E class ★

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A compilation of 2010’s 10 nominees for best picture along with the winners for best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best actor, best actress, best director, and best adapted screenplay.
*no copyright infringement intended on any of the clips or music…strictly for entertainment purposes

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Honorary Award recipient Eli Wallach. The 2010 Governors Awards ceremony was held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on November 13, 2010.

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A brief look at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011 Oscars). Here I go through the categories, who were nominated, who won, who I thought would win and who I wanted to win… or something like that. Check it out

Achievement in Art Direction (Tom Hanks)
Nominees = Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt.1, Inception, the King’s Speech, True Grit
Winner = Alice in Wonderland

Achievement in Cinematography (Tom Hanks)
Nominees = Black Swan, Inception, the King’s Speech, the Social Network, True Grit
Winner = Inception

Best Supporting Actress (Kirk Douglas)
Nominees = Amy Adams (the Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (the King’s Speech), Jackie Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Melissa Leo (the Fighter), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Winner = Melissa Leo (the Fighter)

Best Animated Short (Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis)
Nominees = Day and Night, the Gruffalo, Lets Pollute, the Lost Thing, Madagascar
Winner = the Lost Thing

Best Animated Feature (Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis)
Nominees = How to Train Your Dragon, the Illusionist, Toy Story 3
Winner = Toy Story 3

Best Adapted Screenplay (Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem)
Nominees = 127 Hours, the Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, winter’s Bone
Winner = the Social Network

Best Original Screenplay (Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem)
Nominees = Another Year, the Fighter, Inception, the Kids Are All Right, the King’s Speech
Winner = the King’s Speech

Best Foreign Language Film (Russell Brand and Helen Mirren)
Nominees = Biutiful, Dogtooth, in a Better World, Incendies, Outside the Law
Winner = In a Better World

Best Supporting Actor (Reese Witherspoon)
Nominees = Christian Bale (the Fighter), John Hawkes (winter’s Bone), Jeremy Renner (the Town), Mark Ruffalo (the Kids are Alright), Jeffrey Rush (the King’s Speech)
Winner = Christian Bale (the Fighter)

Best Original Score (Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman)
Nominees = How to Train your Dragon, the King’s Speech, the Social Network, 127 Hours, Inception
Winner = the Social Network

Achievement in Sound (Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaghey)
Nominees = Inception, the King’s Speech, Salt, the Social Network, True Grit
Winner = Inception

Best Sound Editing (Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaghey)
Nominees = Inception, Toy Story 3, TRON: Legacy, True Grit, Unstoppable
Winner = Inception

Achievement in Make-Up (Cate Blanchett)
Nominees = Barney’s Version, the Way Back, the Wolf Man
Winner = the Wolf Man

Best Costume Design (Cate Blanchett)
Nominees = the King’s Speech, Tempest, Alice in Wonderland, True Grit, I Am Love
Winner = Alice in Wonderland

Best Documentary Short (Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal)
Nominees = Killing in the Name, Poster Girl, Strangers no More, Sun Come Up, the Warriors of Quigang
Winner = Strangers no More

Best Live Action Short (Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal)
Nominees = the Confession, the Crush, God of Love, Nawewe, Wish 143
Winner = God of Love

Best Documentary Feature (Oprah Winfrey)
Nominees = Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gas Light, Inside Job, Restrepo, Waste Land
Winner = Inside Job

Best Visual Effects (Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law)
Nominees = Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1, Hereafter, Inception, Iron Man 2
Winner = Inception

Best Film Editing (Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law)
Nominees = Black Swan, the Fighter, the King’s Speech, the Social Network, 127 Hours
Winner = the Social Network

Best Original Song (Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Hudson)
Nominees = Toy Story 3 (We Belong Together), Tangled (I See the Light), 127 Hours (If I Rise), Country Strong (Coming Home)
Winner = Toy Story 3

Best Director (Hilary Swank and Kathryn Bigelow)
Nominees = David O. Russell (the Fighter), Tom Hooper (the King’s Speech), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), David Fincher (the Social Network), the Coen Brothers (True Grit)
Winner = Tom Hooper (the King’s Speech)

Best Actress (Jeff Bridges)
Nominees = Annette Benning (the Kids are All right), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Jennifer Lawrence (winter’s Bone), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Winner = Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Best Actor (Sandra Bullock)
Nominees = Javier Bardem (Biutiful), Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Jesse Eisenberg (the Social Network), Colin Firth (the King’s Speech), James Franco (127 Hours)
Winner = Colin Firth (the King’s Speech)

Best Picture (Steven Spielberg)
Nominees = The King’s Speech, the Social Network, the Fighter, Black Swan, 127 Hours, Inception, the Kid’s are All right, Winter’s Bone, True Grit, Toy Story 3
Winner = the King’s Speech

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