The ‘Crazy Heart’ star finally received recognition at the Academy Awards last night (07.03.10) when he was awarded the Best Actor gong – 29 years after his first nomination – and claimed he wouldn’t be there without the love and support of his spouse Susan Geston.

He said: “I especially want to thank my gorgeous wife, Sue, we’ve been married 33 years. We have a beautiful family. Three girls, Isabelle, Jessie and Hayley. Thank you, guys. I wouldn’t be up here without you. Thank you so much.”

Jeff – whose wife accompanied him to the Governors Ball in the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel after the awards ceremony – has previously admitted that Susan turned him down when he first asked her out.

He recalled recently: “I finally worked up the courage to ask her out and she said, ‘No. Maybe I’ll see you around.’ And as she predicted, we did bump into each other in a bar and fell madly in love.”

The actor won the Oscar for his portrayal of drunk country singer Bad Blake in ‘Crazy Heart’, who is inspired to turn his life around by a young journalist, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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‘The Hurt Locker’ won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2010. The movie also won six awards at the Oscars including Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.

The other nominations in the category of Best Motion Picture of the Year were:

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

‘The Hurt Locker’ won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2010, and director Kathryn Bigelow won the award for best director, becoming the first female ever to win the award.

The other nominees in this category were:

‘Avatar’ – James Cameron
‘Inglourious Basterds’ – Quentin Tarantino
‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’ – Lee Daniels
‘Up in the Air’ – Jason Reitman

Sandra Bullock won the award for Best performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. She got the award for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

The other nominees in this category were:

Helen Mirren – ‘The Last Station’
Carey Mulligan – ‘An Education’
Gabourey Sidibe – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’
Meryl Streep – ‘Julie and Julia’

Jeff Bridges wins the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. He gets the honor for his role of Bad Blake in American musical-drama film, ‘Crazy Heart’.

“Thank you, Mom and Dad, for turning me on to such a groovy profession,” said Jeff.

In February 2010, he was among the nearly 80 musicians to sing on the charity-single remake of We Are the World.

The other nominees in this category were:

George Clooney – ‘Up in the Air’
Colin Firth – ‘A Single Man’
Morgan Freeman – ‘Invictus’
Jeremy Renner – ‘The Hurt Locker’

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. This was the first telecast to have multiple hosts since the 59th ceremony. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show.

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner gave a tribute to horror films.

The winners of the 82nd Academy Awards are:

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston

Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire

Best Animated Feature
Up – Pete Docter

Best Live Action Short
The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusso

Best Animated Short
Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin

Best Original Song
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett

Best Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Best Makeup
Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Best Visual Effects
Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Best Original Score
Up – Michael Giacchino

Best Documentary Feature
”’The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens’

Best Foreign Language Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis “Bad” Blake

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker

Mo’Nique wins the award for Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role.

Monique Imes, known professionally as Mo’Nique, was the 16th African American actress to receive the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She received the honor for her role in the film Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire.

‘Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire’ also won in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay

The other nominees in this category were:

Penelope Cruz – ‘Nine’
Vera Farmiga – ‘Up in the Air’
Maggie Gyllenhaal – ‘Crazy Heart’
Anna Kendrick – ‘Up in the Air’

‘Up’ wins the Best Animated Feature in 2010. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, making Up only the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Together with Avatar, the two films are the first 3D films ever nominated for Best Picture Oscar.

The other nominees in the category were:

‘Coraline’
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
‘The Princess and the Frog’
‘The Secret of Kells’

The world’s most stunning and anticipated glamorous show is on, consisting of endless stars in the Kodak Theatre.

And the Oscar goes to ..

The 82nd Academy Awards full list of Winners:

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

Jeff Bridges – ‘Crazy Heart’- Won

George Clooney – ‘Up in the Air’

Colin Firth – ‘A Single Man’

Morgan Freeman – ‘Invictus’

Jeremy Renner – ‘The Hurt Locker’

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

Presented By Penelope Cruz

Matt Damon – ‘Invictus’

Woody Harrelson – ‘The Messenger’

Christopher Plummer – ‘The Last Station’

Stanley Tucci – ‘The Lovely Bones’

Christoph Waltz – ‘Inglourious Basterds’ – Won

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

Sandra Bullock – ‘The Blind Side’ – Won

Helen Mirren – ‘The Last Station’

Carey Mulligan – ‘An Education’

Gabourey Sidibe – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

Meryl Streep – ‘Julie and Julia’

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

Penelope Cruz – ‘Nine’

Vera Farmiga – ‘Up in the Air’

Maggie Gyllenhaal – ‘Crazy Heart’

Anna Kendrick – ‘Up in the Air’

Mo’Nique – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’- Won

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year:

‘Coraline’

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘The Secret of Kells’

‘Up’- by Pete Docter – Won

Achievement in Art Direction:

‘Avatar’- by Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair – Won

‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’

‘Nine’

‘Sherlock Holmes’

‘The Young Victoria’

Achievement in Cinematography:

‘Avatar’- by Mauro Fiore – Won

‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘The White Ribbon’

Achievement in Costume Design:

‘Bright Star’

‘Coco before Chanel’

‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’

‘Nine’

‘The Young Victoria’ by Sandy Powell – Won

Achievement in Directing:

‘Avatar’ – James Cameron

‘The Hurt Locker’ – Kathryn Bigelow -Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’ – Quentin Tarantino

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’ – Lee Daniels

‘Up in the Air’ – Jason Reitman

Best Documentary Feature:

‘Burma VJ’

‘The Cove’- by Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens – Won

‘Food, Inc.’

‘The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers’

‘Which Way Home’

Best Documentary Short Subject:

‘China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan, Province’

‘The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner’

‘The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant’,

‘Music by Prudence’- by Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett – Won

‘Rabbit a la Berlin’

Achievement in Film Editing:

‘Avatar’

‘District 9′

‘The Hurt Locker’ – by Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:

‘Ajami’ – Israel

‘El Secreto de Sus Ojos‘ – Argentina – Won

‘The Milk of Sorrow’ – Peru

‘Un Prophete’ – France

‘The White Ribbon’- Germany

Achievement in Make-up:

‘Il Divo’

‘Star Trek’- by Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow – Won

‘The Young Victoria’

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):

‘Avatar’

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Sherlock Holmes’

‘Up’- by Michael Giacchino – Won

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):

‘Almost There’ from ‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘Down in New Orleans’ from ‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘Loin de Paname’ from ‘Paris 36′

‘Take It All’ from ‘Nine’

‘The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)’ from ‘Crazy Heart’-Won

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

‘Avatar’

‘The Blind Side’

‘District 9′

‘An Education’

‘The Hurt Locker’-Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

‘A Serious Man’

‘Up’

‘Up in the Air’

Best Animated Short Film:

‘French Roast’

‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’

‘The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)’

‘Logorama’- by Nicolas Schmerkin – Won

‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’

Best Live Action Short Film:

‘The Door’

‘Instead of Abracadabra’

‘Kavi’

‘Miracle Fish’

‘The New Tenants’- by Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson – Won

Achievement in Sound Editing:

‘Avatar’

‘The Hurt Locker’ by Paul N.J. Ottosson – Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Star Trek’

‘Up’

Achievement in Sound Mixing:

‘Avatar’

‘The Hurt Locker’- by Paul N.J. Ottosson & Ray Beckett – Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Star Trek’

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

Achievement in Visual Effects:

‘Avatar’ – by Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones – Won

‘District 9′

‘Star Trek’

Adapted Screenplay:

‘District 9′

‘An Education’

‘In the Loop’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’- Won

‘Up in the Air’

Original Screenplay:

‘The Hurt Locker’- Won

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘The Messenger’

‘A Serious Man’

‘Up’

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2010 Oscar Winnners List

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Its time to make an early guess for the 2010 Oscar Results! The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best movies of 2009 and will take place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

This year the ceremony may be one of the longest with 10 best picture nominees. It is more tough now to guess the winner for Best Picture.
The nominations in the category of Best Motion Picture of the Year are:

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Avatar, centered around the themes of imperialism and biodiversity, is a strong contender for the for Academy awards 2010. The movie received generally positive reviews from film critics and is nominated in 9 categories.

It seems that most of the actress who are likely to be contending for the Best Actress Nominations in ‘The 82nd Academy Awards’ have received widespread acclaim from film critics.
The nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role are:

Sandra Bullock for ‘The Blind Side’
Helen Mirren for ‘The Last Station’
Carey Mulligan for ‘An Education’
Gabourey Sidibe for ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’
Meryl Streep for ‘Julie and Julia’

Gabourey Sidibe is up against Meryl Streep for the best actress award. Streep, who portrayed the character of the late Julia Child in the comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron, ‘Julie & Julie’ may win this year. Gabby Sidibe, who made her acting debut in the role of Claireece ‘Precious’ Jones in the 2009 film ‘Precious’ is also in focus.

The guesses for Best Actor award will really be exciting this time !
The nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role are:

Jeff Bridges for ‘Crazy Heart’
George Clooney for ‘Up in the Air’
Colin Firth for ‘A Single Man’
Morgan Freeman for ‘Invictus’
Jeremy Renner for ‘The Hurt Locker’

Jeremy Renner who played the rolf of Staff Sergeant William James in American war thriller ‘The Hurt Locker’ will be fghting George Clooney for the award.

The nomiantions for the Achievement in Directing are:

James Cameron for ‘Avatar’
Kathryn Bigelow for ‘The Hurt Locker’
Quentin Tarantino for ‘Inglourious Basterds’
Lee Daniels for ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’
Jason Reitman for ‘Up in the Air’

Kathryn Bigelow is to battle it out with James Cameron for the honour.

Avatar

It about knowing a new race a new world in a new horizon. The sequel starts with the war between the blue “Navi’s” and humans who wants to invade the alien planet “Pandora” for it priceless resources.

Navi’s are very emotional & spiritual beings who love and worships nature and very mysteriously connected with every living thing of their planet.

It is not another alien oriented film where Sigourney Weaver fights with the alliens but one of the most philosophic master piece that ever made by James Cameron which shows love and affection for the whole alien race. Actually it’s a massage in disguise that we must care for our priceless treasure, our mother earth.

It seems their has been an extensive years of research behind this movie and unique detailing in every scene. All the blue ‘Navi’s’ are so real that it reflects each and every human characters and the moral of the story is love for nature and fight for existence.

Avatar has topped all box-office records last year, making as much as £200million in one weekend, and it one of the most anticipated film for the oscars 2010.

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Claireece Precious Jones a deprived teenage girl with unfulfilled  dreams, raped by her own father abused by her own mother and infected with AIDS. It’s a very pathetic story of an American girl carelessly raised in messed up home.

Director Lee Daniels portrays “Precious” (Gabourey Sidibe) in an unbelievably realistic frame where anyone is compelled to feel for her with deepest sympathy.

The film is so down to earth that it makes us feel “Precious” is just one of our own daughter. “Precious” who is precious to no-one in her family impregnated twice by her father and treated as a slave by her mother (Mo’Nique) . This is an extremely tragic story of an imaginative girl with shattered dreams and unanswered tears, who strives hard to exists and express her sorrows.

The Hurt Locker

The film is based on real life scenario of war-zone Iraq, where life and death is determined in  matter of seconds. It’s focused on the team of US Army EOD and highlights basic human fears and frustrations of the soldiers in the bomb disposal squad.

The original story was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad . The film shows graphical images of a young dead boy who has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb discovered by William James (Jeremy Renner).The flawless tight editing of this film gives a very realistic scene of war wrecked Baghdad beautifully composed by director Kathryn Bigelow.

The film has already won the BAFTA 2010 Best Film and speculations are high that it would sweep away this year’s Oscar too.

Hollywood newcomer Gabourey Sidibe is to battle it out with Oscar veteran Meryl Streep for the Best Actress Academy Award.

The 26-year-old actress is up against Sandra Bullock and Carey Mulligan – both of whom are nominated for their first Academy Award – Dame Helen Mirren and Meryl for the Best Actress in a Leading Role accolade.

Gabourey was virtually unheard of before she played the role of troubled teenager Claireece ‘Precious’ Jones in the movie ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’ opposite Mariah Carey.

Meryl, 60, has now earned a total of 16 Oscar nominations throughout her career and she has so far won two Academy Awards.

Morgan Freeman’s portrayal of former South African President Nelson Mandela in ‘Invictus’ has landed him a nomination in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category.

He will be fighting Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney and Jeremy Renner for the honour.

Leading the way with the most nominations is 3-D sci-fi adventure ‘Avatar’ with nine nods, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Music (Original Score), and ‘The Hurt Locker’, which also up for nine prizes.

This year sees the Best Picture category feature ten nominations instead of the usual five, with animated movie ‘Up’ and ‘An Education’ among the contenders.

The Best Actress in a Supporting Role category features Penelope Cruz for ‘Nine’ and Mo’Nique for ‘Precious…’ alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

Matt Damon, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Plummer, Stanley Tucci and Christoph Waltz are all nominated for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role group.

Among the surprise nominations is ‘Star Trek’, which could potentially earn four awards, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects and Best Make-up.

The 82nd Academy Awards take place at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theatre on March 2 and will be hosted Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

The 82nd Academy Awards full list of nominees:

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

Jeff Bridges – ‘Crazy Heart’

George Clooney – ‘Up in the Air’

Colin Firth – ‘A Single Man’

Morgan Freeman – ‘Invictus’

Jeremy Renner – ‘The Hurt Locker’

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

Matt Damon – ‘Invictus’

Woody Harrelson – ‘The Messenger’

Christopher Plummer – ‘The Last Station’

Stanley Tucci – ‘The Lovely Bones’

Christoph Waltz – ‘Inglourious Basterds’

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

Sandra Bullock – ‘The Blind Side’

Helen Mirren – ‘The Last Station’

Carey Mulligan – ‘An Education’

Gabourey Sidibe – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

Meryl Streep – ‘Julie and Julia’

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

Penelope Cruz – ‘Nine’

Vera Farmiga – ‘Up in the Air’

Maggie Gyllenhaal – ‘Crazy Heart’

Anna Kendrick – ‘Up in the Air’

Mo’Nique – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year:

‘Coraline’

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘The Secret of Kells’

‘Up’

Achievement in Art Direction:

‘Avatar’

‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’

‘Nine’

‘Sherlock Holmes’

‘The Young Victoria’

Achievement in Cinematography:

‘Avatar’

‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘The White Ribbon’

Achievement in Costume Design:

‘Bright Star’

‘Coco before Chanel’

‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’

‘Nine’

‘The Young Victoria’

Achievement in Directing:

‘Avatar’ – James Cameron

‘The Hurt Locker’ – Kathryn Bigelow

‘Inglourious Basterds’ – Quentin Tarantino

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’ – Lee Daniels

‘Up in the Air’ – Jason Reitman

Best Documentary Feature:

‘Burma VJ’

‘The Cove’

‘Food, Inc.’

‘The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers’

‘Which Way Home’

Best Documentary Short Subject:

‘China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan, Province’

‘The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner’

‘The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant’,

‘Music by Prudence’

‘Rabbit a la Berlin’

Achievement in Film Editing:

‘Avatar’

‘District 9′

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:

‘Ajami’ – Israel

‘El Secreto de Sus Ojos’ – Argentina

‘The Milk of Sorrow’ – Peru

‘Un Prophete’ – France

‘The White Ribbon’- Germany

Achievement in Make-up:

‘Il Divo’

‘Star Trek’

‘The Young Victoria’

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):

‘Avatar’

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Sherlock Holmes’

‘Up’

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):

‘Almost There’ from ‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘Down in New Orleans’ from ‘The Princess and the Frog’

‘Loin de Paname’ from ‘Paris 36′

‘Take It All’ from ‘Nine’

‘The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)’ from ‘Crazy Heart’

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

‘Avatar’

‘The Blind Side’

‘District 9′

‘An Education’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

‘A Serious Man’

‘Up’

‘Up in the Air’

Best Animated Short Film:

‘French Roast’

‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’

‘The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)’

‘Logorama’

‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’

Best Live Action Short Film:

‘The Door’

‘Instead of Abracadabra’

‘Kavi’

‘Miracle Fish’

‘The New Tenants’

Achievement in Sound Editing:

‘Avatar’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Star Trek’

‘Up’

Achievement in Sound Mixing:

‘Avatar’

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘Star Trek’

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’

Achievement in Visual Effects:

‘Avatar’

‘District 9′

‘Star Trek’

Adapted Screenplay:

‘District 9′

‘An Education’

‘In the Loop’

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’

‘Up in the Air’

Original Screenplay:

‘The Hurt Locker’

‘Inglourious Basterds’

‘The Messenger’

‘A Serious Man’

‘Up’

Source: BANG Showbiz

Anne Hathaway will announce this year’s Oscar nominations.

The ‘Devil Wears Prada’ star – who was up for the Best Actress Academy Award last year for her role in ‘Rachel Getting Married’ – will join Academy President Tom Sherak to announce the names of those put forward for the acting world’s most prestigious honours.

Sherak and Hathaway will reveal nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a news conference at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Beverly Hills headquarters on February 2.

While the 27-year-old actress will announce the names of the those who are nominated, the presenting duties of the main ceremony fall to Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

The comedians will be the first people to co-host the event as a pair since the first Oscars show in 1929.

Steve joked: “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin.”

Steve – who has presented the show twice before – earned an Emmy Award nomination for his first turn in 2001, but it will be the first time ‘30 Rock’ star Alec has taken on hosting duties.

Referring to Steve’s musical abilities, Alec joked: “I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.”

Among the actors expected to receive nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards – which take place on March 7 – are Meryl Streep for ‘Julie and Julia’, Christoph Waltz for ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and George Clooney for ‘Up In The Air’.

Critically acclaimed drama ‘Precious…’ – which stars Mariah Carey – is being widely tipped to receive the nod for Best Picture.

Source: BANG Showbiz

Its time to make an early prediction for the 2010 Oscar Race. The guesses for Best Actor Nominations will really be exciting this time !

The 82nd Academy Awards will take place on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will host the show. Our list of favourites comprises of some of the renowned actors who have already captured the imagination of movie fans!

Our Predictions for 2010 Oscar Best Actor Nominees are:

George Clooney for ‘Up in the Air’

George Clooney portrayed the character of Ryan Bingham, a career transition counselor. The film’s main theme is that it is an imperative to find connections and relationships in life. Clooney played the role of a man who makes his living traveling to workplaces around the country and conducting employee layoffs. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics.

Morgan Freeman for ‘Invictus’

Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, is based on Nelson Mandela’s life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Morgan Freeman starred as South African President Nelson Mandela. He has been nominated for Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in the category of Best Actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis for ‘Nine’

Daniel Day-Lewis starred in Rob Marshall’s musical adaptation Nine as film director Guido Contini. Approaching the age of fifty, Guido Contini is facing a midlife crisis that is stifling his creativity and leading him into a variety of complicated romantic involvements. The film has received mixed reviews from critics

Jeremy Renner for ‘The Hurt Locker’

Jeremy Renner played the rolf of Staff Sergeant William James in American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, ‘The Hurt Locker’. The film follows a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War. He has won a nomination for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

Colin Firth for ‘A Single Man’

Colin Firth starred as George Falconer in ‘A Single Man’. ‘A Single Man’ is the story of George, a middle-aged British college professor who has struggled to find meaning in his life since the sudden death eight months earlier of his longtime partner, Jim. Firth was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the 66th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in the film.

It seems that most of the actress who are likely to be contending for the Best Actress Nominations in ‘The 82nd Academy Awards’ have received widespread acclaim from film critics. Our list of favourites compirses of some of the renowned actress who have already captured the imagination of movie fans!

The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010.

Our Predictions for 2010 Oscar Best Actress Nominees are:

Meryl Streep for ‘Julie & Julia’

She portrayed the character of the late Julia Child in the comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron, ‘Julie & Julie’. In 2004, Child was the inspiration for The Julie/Julia Project, a popular cooking blog by Julie Powell that, along with Child’s own memoir, in turn inspired the 2009 feature film Julie & Julia.

Carey Mulligan for ‘An Education’

She gained widespread recognition for playing the role of Jenny Miller in 2009 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Lone Scherfig, ‘An Education’. Mulligan was twenty-two when she was cast as Jenny; who is sixteen in the film.

Marion Cotillard for ‘Nine’

She played Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award for Best Musical-winning musical ‘Nine’. The film has received moderate reviews from critics.

Hilary Swank for ‘Amelia’

Swan played the lead role in 2009 dramatized biographical film of the life of Amelia Earhart, ‘Amelia’. Hilary Swank took on the role of Executive Producer, working closely with Director Mira Nair.

Gabby Sidibe For ‘Precious’

American actress who made her acting debut in the role of Claireece “Precious” Jones in the 2009 film ‘Precious’. The film portrays 16-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) who lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional family.

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony may be one of the longest with 10 best picture nominees. It is more tough now to guess the contenders for Best Picture Nominations. The predictions will really be interesting this time !

We have sorted out ten movies as the contenders for Best Picture Nominees of 82nd Academy Awards.

Our Predictions for 2010 Oscar Best Picture Nominees are:

Avatar

Avatar is centered around the themes of imperialism and biodiversity. The movie had been in development since 1994 by Cameron, who wrote a 114-page scriptment for the film. Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics.

Nine

The screenplay of this musical-romantic film is based on Arthur Kopit’s book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name. The star-studded cast includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.

The Hurt Locker

The story of this American war thriller was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad in the war in Iraq. The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, was shot in Jordan, within miles of the Iraq border. The movie has received widespread acclaim from film critics.

Precious

A film adaption of the award-winning 1996 novel Push: A Novel by Sapphire. Precious, directed by Lee Daniels, received largely positive reviews from critics. Precious has multiple producers – with twelve in total which includes     Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Heller and Tyler Perry.

Invictus

Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a biographical drama film based on Nelson Mandela’s life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Morgan Freeman stars as the then South African President Nelson Mandela.

Up in the Air

‘Up in the Air’, directed by Jason Reitman, is about a corporate downsizer and his travels. George Clooney plays the role of Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to various workplaces, a career transition counselor. the review for this movie have been generally positive.

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino, tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi political leadership. This film is set in German-occupied France. Inglourious Basterds is currently Tarantino’s highest grossing film.

Brothers

Directed by Jim Sheridan, ‘Brothers’ is a drama-war film starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. The film take inspiration from Homer’s epic poem ‘The Odyssey’.

The film is about relationship- between brothers, husband and a loving father of two, in a very sweet American family. Suddenly everything changes when Capt. Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) goes missing in Afghanistan and everyone assumes he is dead. Actually he was captured by Afgan rebels were he was forced to kill one of his own soldier.

In the meanwhile his wife Grace (Natalie Portman) gets attached to his brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal). But his unexpected return brings a twist in the story. At the end Sam says “only the dead has seen the end of war, I have seen the end of war ….. can I live again ?”

The Last Station

German biographical film about Leo Tolstoy, based on a 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini. This movie is directed by Michael Hoffman.

Public Enemies

American crime film, co-written and directed by Michael Mann, focuses on the true story of Bureau of Investigation agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale)’s attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham), and Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum).

The film portrays American crime scenario of 1933 which was referred as “the golden age of bank robbery” for John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, but they were hunted down by federal agent Melvin Purvis . The flims ends with the dying words of John Dillinger – “bye bye black bird”  the last message for his girlfriend Billie Frechette.

Lets find out how many of our guesses are going to match the list in this category. The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday February 2, 2010.

The ‘30 Rock’ star is co-hosting next year’s ceremony with Steve Martin and believes there are higher expectations on the comic actor because he has fronted the Oscars ceremony before.

He quipped: “It is all on Steve. Steve Martin has done this before, while for me it is the first time. All the pressure is on Steve Martin.”

Despite his confidence, the actor is still amazed he was given the job and keeps waiting for someone to cancel his booking.

He joked: “I am doing it until they change their mind. I do have some preparations, but it is a secret.”

Steve – who fronted the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards – and Alec are the first people to co-host the ceremony since the first Oscars show in 1929.

Producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic said: “We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars.

“Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event.”

The 82nd Academy Awards take place on March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

Source: BANG Showbiz

The comedians will be the first people to co-host the ceremony as a pair since the first Oscars show in 1929.

Steve joked: “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin.”

Steve – who has presented the show twice before – earned an Emmy Award nomination for his first turn in 2001, but this will be the first time ‘30 Rock’ star Alec has taken on hosting duties.

Referring to Steve’s musical abilities, Alec joked: “I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.”

Oscars producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic said: “We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars.

“Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event.”

Baldwin was Oscar-nominated in 2004 for his role in ‘The Cooler’ and won consecutive Emmy awards for his role in ‘30 Rock’, which Martin has also guest-starred in.

Among the actors expected to receive nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, which take place on March 7, are Meryl Streep for ‘Julie and Julia’, Christoph Waltz for ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and George Clooney for ‘Up In The Air’.

Critically acclaimed drama ‘Precious’ – starring singer Mariah Carey – is widely-tipped to receive the nod for Best Picture.

Source: BANG Showbiz