Oscars 2011

The 83rd annual Academy Awards went down last night with hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco.

Winners:



The King's Speech, 4: ‘Best Picture’, ‘Writing (Original Screenplay)’, ‘Directing’, and ‘Actor In A Leading Role’ (to Colin Firth)



Inception, 4: ‘Cinematography’, ‘Sound Editing’, ‘Sound Mixing’, and ‘Visual Effects’.



The Social Network, 3: ‘Music (Original Score)’, ‘Film Editing’, and ‘Writing (Adapted Screenplay)’.



Toy Story 3, Alice In Wonderland, and The Fighter all took home 2 Oscars each (including Melissa “F-bomb” Leo and Christian Bale for both ‘Supporting Role’ awards). While Natalie Portman earned Black Swan one for ‘Actress In A Leading Role’.







Highlights:

• Anne Hathaway and James Franco's opening skit.  "You just got Inceptioned!"


• More than half of Anne's outfits.


• Kirk Douglas eating up half of the show to present one award... He's pretty fly for an old guy.


• Melissa Leo dropping the FUCK word and me being able to hear it loud and clear thanks to the lack of delay on the channel I was on.


• Justin Timberlake on stage joking, "I'm Bansky!", the anonymous graffiti artist nominated in the 'Documentary' category, but lost.


• Russell Brand translating Helen Mirren.


• Auto-tuning the movies.  You know it's the future.


• Christian Bale and his bushy beard seemingly forgetting his wife's name.


• Sandra Bullock calling Jeff Bridges an award hoarder.  Seriously, she saved the day.

Lowlights:

• Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem in matching white tuxes and not even explaining why... WHY?


• Reese Witherspoon's hair clip... So grade 8.


• Cate Blanchett's lavandar bubble dress with green barf stains.


• Jude Law and his hairline Ricky Gervais'ing Robert Downey Jr.


• Gwyneth Paltrow's "performance" with her white microphone.  And if you never did that again, that would be great.


• Corey Haim not making the 'In Memoriam' segment.  What the fuhhh?


• Tom Hooper's side screen shot while accepting his Director award.  That is just MEAN.


• Anne Hathaway turning into a "woo" girl.  "WOOOOO!!!"  One "woo" too many, girl.


• Everything about James Franco past the opening skit.

Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter at the Berlin premiere of "The King's Speech"

BERLIN - The King's Voice is looking to cash in on Colin Firth's Golden Globe winner for best dramatic actor and build some pre-Oscar buzz with a couple of high profile festival events in Europe.

Tom Hooper's period drama has been picked as the last movie night of the 40th Rotterdam Film Festival on Feb. 5 and will receive a special screening slot at the Berlin Film Festival 16 February. Area will fly to Berlin for the gala screening.

And the SAG awards went to...

This is the one time of year celebrities actually want the word "SAG" affiliated with them in magazines...



The 17th annual SAG awards (a.k.a. the Screen Actors Guild awards) went down last night with pretty much everyone who won a Golden Globe taking home a Saggy too.  No, they don't really call them that, but I do.



And the winners are:

• Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture - The King's Speech


• Outstanding Actor - Colin Firth "The King's Speech"


• Outstanding Actress - Natalie Portman "Black Swan"


• Outstanding Supporting Actor - Christian Bale "The Fighter"


• Outstanding Actress - Melissa Leo "The Fighter"

• Outstanding Cast in a Television Drama - Boardwalk Empire


• Outstanding Cast in a Television Comedy - Modern Family


• Outstanding Actor, Drama - Steve Buscemi "Boardwalk Empire"


• Outstanding Actress, Drama - Julianna Margulies "The Good Wife"


• Outstanding Actor, Comedy - Alec Baldwin "30 Rock"


• Outstanding Actress, Comedy - Betty White "Hot In Cleveland"

• Outstanding Actor in a TV Movie - Al Pacino "You Don't Know Jack"


• Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie - Claire Danes "Temple Grandin"

• Outstanding Stunts, Movie - Inception


• Outstanding Stunts, TV - True Blood

Can it be the Oscars yet??

Oscar noms

Oscar nominations were announced today and some Golden Globe nominees (and a winner) were left out including Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Mila Kunis for Black Swan, Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine, Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), and GG winner Paul Giamatti for Barney's Version.  Those people are getting drunk tonight.

Here are the people who ARE nominated though.  They'll probably get drunk too.



LEADING ACTOR

Jeff Bridges, True Grit

Javier Bardem, Biutiful

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

Colin Firth, The King's Speech

James Franco, 127 Hours



LEADING ACTRESS

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone

Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine



SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

Christian Bale, The Fighter

Jeremy Renner, The Town

Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

John Hawkes, Winter's Bone



SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, The Fighter

Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech

Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit



BEST PICTURE

Black Swan (5 nominations total)

The Fighter (7 nominations total)

Inception (8 nominations total)

The Kids Are All Right (4 nominations total)

The King's Speech (leads with 12 total nominations)

127 Hours (6 nominations total)

The Social Network (8 nominations total)

Toy Story 3 (5 nominations total)

True Grit (10 nominations total)

Winter's Bone (4 nominations total)



The 83rd annual Academy Awards are on February 27... for the full list of nominees click HERE!