Oscar winners Best Actress Sandra Bullock and Best Director Kathryn Bigelow who made the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker that won six Oscars spoke to Harry Smith outside the Governors Ball about their awards and the historic night for women.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sandra Bullock, in Marchesa, with Neil Lane jewels and a Celestina clutch
Sandra Bullock, in Marchesa, with Neil Lane jewels and a Celestina clutch., originally uploaded by The Chic Spot.
Actress Sandra Bullock arrives at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. The Actress won The Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film The Blind Side. Ironically enough just a day before, on Saturday, she received two Worst Awards, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple, for her performance as Mary Horowitz in the film All About Steve, produced by herself.
Sandra Bullock's Marchesa number, complete with an embellished top seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself and paired with red lipstick, made the 45-year-old actress a favorite among the fashion critics.
Miley Cyrus with the Oscar statuette
The 17-year-old singer and actress Miley Cyrus was a presenter in the 82nd Awards Ceremony.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Chris Rock presents Gabourey Sidibe Best Actress NAACP Image Awards
Chris Rock presents Gabourey Sidibe with the award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' during the 41st NAACP Image Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
On December 15, 2009, the American actress Gabourey Sidibe was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Precious. She has already won the Best Actress Award at the Independent Spirit Awards on March 6, 2010. She has also received a nomination for a Best Actress Academy Award.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Meryl Streep as Julia Child
In 1977 Meryl Streep made her film debut with Julia, but won both critical and commercial success with her roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first Oscar win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982). So far Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, and has won two. Her current nomination is her 16th nomination for her role as Julia Child in Julie & Julia. Though it will be showdown between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock for this year's Best Actress Academy Awards trophy, there are many Oscar-watchers and forecasters who feel that Bullock is the front runner for her role in The Blind Side. But some others reasons that it is Streep's chance to shine, as the Julie & Julia star hasn't won an Oscar for nearly 30 years.
The film depicts events in the life of Chef Julia Child, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook during a single year, a challenge that she described on her popular blog. Nora Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In 2002, Powell started blogging her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Oscar hopeful Gabourey Sidibe
Actress Gabourey Sidibe, one of the hot favourites for this year's Oscar Best Actress Award for her debut role in 'Precious', attends a Tribute to Tim Burton at The Museum of Modern Art on November 17, 2009 in New York City, USA (Photo by J. McCarthy).
The 26-year-old American actress Gabourey Sidibe who made her acting debut in the 2009 film ‘Precious’ played the title character for which she has won a nomination for a Best Actress Academy Award.
In Precious, Sidibe plays the role of a physically and sexually abused sixteen-year old girl, with a four year old child by her own father and with another child on the way. The film Precious won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award and Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award.
She has also finished shooting her next film, Yelling to the Sky, a Sundance Lab project directed by Victoria Mahoney and starring Zoe Kravitz, in which she plays a bully.
For her performance in precious she has already won awards such as Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Hollywood Film Award for Rising Star Award, Iowa Film Critics Awards Best Actress, National Board of Review Breakthrough Performance Female, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Outstanding New Talent, and Women's Film Critics Circle Award for Best Young Actress.
Gabourey Sidibe at ACE Eddie Awards
American actress Gabourey Sidibe attends the 60th annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on February 14, 2010.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Pussycat Dolls perform Jai Ho
The Pussycat Dolls, the American pop girl group and dance ensemble, comprising of lead singer Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt and Carmit Bachar, released their second studio album, Doll Domination, which included the song “Jai Ho!” (Genre: Bhangra, Indian pop, dance-pop). The song, a single released on February 23, 2009, was by A. R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger and written by A.R. Rahman, Nicole Scherzinger, Ron Fair and Gulzar.
The song was recorded in 2009 by the Pussycat Dolls with English lyrics and produced in collaboration with A. R. Rahman and Ron Fair, and mixed by Peter Mokran. According to Scherzinger the single is an interpretation rather than a remix. The new version is called "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)".
The music video of the new version premiered on March 13, 2009. The video recreates the last scene from Slumdog Millionaire at a Tramway Museum in Vienna, Austria, and was directed by Thomas Kloss.
In 2009, the original version of Jai Ho, from the movie Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, beating out WALL-E's Down to Earth by Peter Gabriel, and “O... Saya”, also of Slumdog Millionaire and by A. R. Rahman.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire Team to donate 500,000 pounds for Charity
The cast and crew of the movie Slumdog Millionaire, including Producer Christian Colson and Director Danny Boyle, have put together £500,000 for the welfare of the underprivileged children of Mumbai. The fund will be donated to Plan India, an organization working for the welfare of underprivileged children in India.
Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of the struggles of the a young man, named Jamal of a Mumbai slum, looking for his lost love in the dark underbelly of the city, and his appearance in the Indian version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ (Kaun Banega Crorepati?).
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Subsequently it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival, followed by its release worldwide.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven BAFTA Awards. It is the eighth film ever to win eight Academy Awards and the eleventh Best Picture Oscar Award winner without a single acting nomination. As of 31 March 2009, the film has grossed $292,232,507 worldwide.
Anil Kapoor, who performed the role of the quizmaster in the film, said about the film, "Slumdog Millionaire is a film which epitomizes the positive spirit of children and the film's success is an inspiration and a way forward to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children of Mumbai."
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Oscar dream comes true
The 81st Academy Awards will forever remain in the History of Indian cinema. It is a turning point not only for A.R. Rahman, but almost all of the talents that are almost unrecognized by the international community of film lovers, fans, critics, and all others having something to do with movies, music and all other mediums of entertainment.
A R Rahman (Allah Rakha Rahman) won two Oscars for the Best Original Song “Jai Ho” and the Best Original Score. Rahman played many instruments and he joined accomplished performers like Zakir Hussain, M.S. Vishwanathan, Ramesh Naidu, etc. in his early career.
Rahman shot into fame in 1992 by providing music score and sound track to Mani Ratnam’s Roja. It was followed by some of the spectacular scores for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies before he shot into international fame.
“Rahman is the first one who has broken the cliched form of Indian songs”, said Slumdog lyricist Gulzar, who wrote the lyrics of Jai Ho and shared the Oscar with A R Rahman.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Dedicated to Rasool Pookutty and A.R.Rahman
Hurray...!!! Dedicated to Rasool Pookutty and A.R.Rahman, who raised the credit of India with Oscar Awards..., originally uploaded by ArunaR.
The original author of this picture notes dedicated this to "Rasool Pookutty and A.R.Rahman, who raised the credit of India with Oscar Awards". He says, "Rasool Pookutty, a Mumbai based sound engineer ( hails from a small village called Vilakkupaara in Quilon district, Kerala) has proved his ability in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and has got the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Sound mixing for his work in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Music maestro A.R.Rahman, one of the most prolific and successful film composers in India has bagged the Oscar for Music composing..."
Oscars 2009: A R Rahman
Indian composer A R Rahman, who received two Oscars, for the Best Song and the Best Original Score, praised the city of Mumbai which inspired the book "Q&A", and subsequently the film. He praised all the people from Mumbai and the essence of the film, which is about optimism and the power of hope and our lives.
Slumdog Millionaire creates history winning 8 Oscars
The underdog Slumdog Millionaire, produced at a cost of only $14 million, bagged 8 Oscars out of the 10 nominations. The Slumdog won Oscars for the Best Picture (producer Christian Colson), Best Director (Danny Boyle) Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), Best Original Score (A R Rahman), Best Song (Jai Ho, A R Rahman), Best Sound Mixing (Resul Pookutty and his team), Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which led with 13 nominations and produced at a cost of $150 million, had three wins, for Visual Effects, Art Direction and Makeup.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Black Actresses at the Oscar: Supporting Role
Black Actresses at the Oscar Supporting Roles from 1936 to 2008:
African American actresses nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences for Best Performance by an Actress in Supporting Roles.
Top row: Hattie Mcdaniel (Gone with the Wind), Ethel Waters (Pinky), Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life), Beah Richards (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?).
Second Row: Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Mellie), Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek), Margaret Avery & Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple).
Third Row: Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies), Queen Latifah (Chicago), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda).
Fourth Row: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Ruby Dee (American Gangster), Viola Davis (Doubt), Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).
Photo uploaded to Flickr.com by oscary2008 on 25 Jan 09, 7.21PM PST & text edited from notes.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire: A R Rahman
The “Mozart of Madras” (as TIME Magazine called him), music composing genius A R Rahman who composed the music for Slumdog Millionaire and playback singer Sukhwinder Singh have been invited to perform at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, as newspapers reported. Rahman and Sukhwinder Singh will perform the song ‘Jai Ho’ at the Oscar Evening.
Rahman received the three Oscar nominations for the music he composed for British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches Bollywood style musical Slumdog Millionaire. While one nomination is for best original score, two are for the best original songs “Jai Ho” and “O Saya”.
The honor of being the first Indian music director to be nominated for three Oscars is the rare recognition of A R Rahman, who attributes his success and fame to divinity.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire bags 10 Oscar Nominations
Slumdog Millionaire received TEN NOMINATIONS for the 81st Academy Awards, second only to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", that led the pack with 13 nominations.
Slumdog Mmillionaire, a Mumbai-based rags-to-riches romance, came in second in the 81st Academy Award Nominations with 10 nominations. Out of these, A R Rahman bagged three Oscar nominations. They are one for original music score and two nominations in the original song category. The songs are Jai Ho with lyricist Gulzar and O Saya with lyricist Maya Arulpragasam (Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, popularly known as M.I.A.). O Saya was performed by A R Rahman and M.I.A., while Jai Ho, featured Sukhwinder Singh, Tanvi Shah and Mahalakshmi Iyer.
Meanwhile the cast and crew of the film, including the director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson, are in Mumbai where the film was made and where it was being premiered.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a time-tripping fantasy, received the most with 13 nominations. For a full list of Academy nominees visit Oscars.com
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Cate Blanchett, Oscar 2008
Adds a viewer to the original post on Flickr, "Cate Blanchett walking the red carpet during Oscar 2008. She is a brilliant actress. How can you not commend her for her acting skills. I love this women, acting is not something that you are just born with, its something you have to train, practice, craft and work effortlessly towards and indeed that is what she has done. Thanks so much for posting this photo of her."
Emily Blunt, Oscar 2007
Oscar 2007, Actress Emily Blunt of "Devil wear Prada" fame walks on the red carpet.
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