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Celluloid Ceremonies: Quick Oscar Winners Summary

March 8th 2010 10:19
Oscars Overview by Linh

EMOTIONAL: Barbra Streisand presents a teary Kathyrn Bigelow with the Best Director Oscar at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast. Image: Getty Images.


The 82nd Annual Academy Awards has now ended as predictably as before the broadcast began.
The televised broadcast was too long, there were too few laughs from the hosts’ jokes, and too many predictable winners.

The big winner was the independent Iraq War film The Hurt Locker, its creative team and director Kathryn Bigelow.
While both The Hurt Locker and Avatar received nine nominations, The Hurt Locker won six and Avatar collected three.

MODESTY: Sandra Bullock is humbled by her Oscar win for Best Actress at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast. Image: Getty Images.


As predicted, Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar and Jeff Bridges finally took home a long overdue Best Actor golden statuette. The Best Animated Feature award went to Up and Mo’nique and Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor awards respectively.

SUCCESS: Jeff Bridges finally wins a long-awaited Oscar for Best Actor at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast. Image: Getty Images.



*The winners at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards:

6 Awards; The Hurt Locker–
Best Picture
Best Directing (Kathryn Bigelow)
Best Film Editing (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
Best Sound Editing (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
Best Sound Mixing (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
Best Writing: Original Screenplay (Mark Boal)

3 Awards;Avatar –
Best Art Direction (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair
Best Visual Effects (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Best Cinematography (Mauro Fiore)

2 Awards; Precious Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire -
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mo’Nique)
Best Writing: Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher)

2 Awards; Crazy Heart –
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jeff Bridges)
Best Original Song: ‘The Weary Kind’ (Ryan Bingham and T – Bone Burnett)

2 Awards; Up –
Best Animated Feature Film (Pete Docter)
Best Original Score (Michael Giacchino)

1 Award; The Blind Side –
Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sandra Bullock)

1 Award; Inglourius Basterds –
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz)

1 Award; The Young Victoria –
Best Costume Design (Sandy Powell)

1 Award; Star Trek –
Best Make Up (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)

Best Foreign Language Film –
The Secret In Their Eyes / El Secreto de Sus Ojos from Argentina
(Juan José Campanella)

Best Documentary Feature –
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)

Best Documentary Short –
Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)

Best Short Film; Live Action –
The New Tenants (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)

Best Short Film; Animated –
Logorama (Nicolas Schmerkin)


*Courtesy of oscar.com
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Celluloid Ceremonies: The Year of African-American Pride at the Oscars

March 7th 2010 12:28
Black Is Back In The Race by Linh

Image: Freakingnews.com.


Filmmaking is more than just a creative process but a political one as well. Films have always been political throughout the history of cinema, but it’s becoming more apparent as audiences are starting to understand the filmmaking process, thanks to technology and the demystification of films on the DVD featurettes and ‘making-of’ specials.

It’s clear that many of this year’s Oscar nominated films have one factor in common - African-American, civil rights or race-related issues.
Films such as Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, Invictus and The Princess and The Frog will no doubt contain bonus material and bonus featurettes relating to these themes when released on DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Could it be that the history-making presence of America’s first African-American President in Barack Obama has influenced or inspired many more films to feature leading roles for non-Caucasians? Does having an African-American President ease racism in the US?
Under the Bush administration, the number of Iraq-related anti-war films sky-rocketed and these films included In The Valley of Elah, Rendition, Stop Loss and Lions For Lambs.
This year, only couple of independent films, The Hurt Locker and In The Loop, appear to make political commentary on war.

Other films to feature racial tension include Avatar, Inglourious Basterds and District 9.

Here’s looking forward to films for the rest of 2010 to see what the nominees for 2011 may look like.
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Celluloid Ceremonies: 2010 Academy Awards

March 7th 2010 11:41
One of The Most Predictable Years Yet by Linh

By now, most people would have heard or seen who won what at which awards ceremony during the awards season earlier this year.
There is already a list of clear winners out of the list of this year’s Oscar nominees in the major categories.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker or Avatar
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow or James Cameron
Best Leading Actress: Sandra Bullock
Best Leading Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz

What if there were to be some surprise upsets during this year’s ceremony that completely invalidated or ran against the flow of all the previous awards such as the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors’ Guild and the Critics’ Choice Awards?

What I would love to see at this year’s Academy Awards:

Co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin have an onscreen and unscripted dispute spill over to off-stage animosity. That’s what happens if you adlib and it turns nasty.

Sandra Bullock and Carey Mulligan tie for Best Leading Actress and both engage in onstage lip-to-lip action after their acceptance speeches. Sandra Bullock brings along her Razzie Award she recently won a few days ago and introduces it to her Oscar.

District 9 wins Best Picture and the award is accepted by two scary crustacean-humanoids. Their acceptance speeches are translated with English subtitles appearing on the screen.

Jeremy Renner wins the Best Leading Actor award for The Hurt Locker and his acceptance speech is in the form of a song, which he sings while playing the piano. He’s also a really talented musician as seen in an episode of the talk-show 'The View' when he appeared as a guest.

Mo’Nique is so excited to win her very first Academy Award that she runs towards the stage, slips in her high heels, and injures herself before she makes it to the stage. The presenters quickly bring her Oscar down to where she is laying on the floor and she makes her acceptance speech there. Sometimes “break a leg” is not always good luck. Mo’Nique is fine and she recovers within a few days after the incident.

When Up is announced as Best Animated Feature, the director, producer and the writer descend from the ceiling with hundreds of coloured balloons attached to their body.

The four hour broadcast finishes on time.

Congratulations to Sandra Bullock on winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress:


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Alice In Wonderland in 3D; fantasy adventure film review

March 4th 2010 12:28
Wonderless Wanderings by Linh

MAGICAL MEANDERINGS: Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is in awe of her surroundings in the film Alice In Wonderland. Image: Walt Disney Pictures.

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2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival: Passengers (Preview Screening)

February 28th 2010 14:27
Marital Mess by Linh

DIVIDED: Tom (Cameron Daddo) and Melony's (Angie Milliken) marriage is on the rocks in the film Passengers. Image: Quantum Releasing, Passengers LLC.

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Celluloid Distribution Required: Peacock

February 22nd 2010 23:14
Quirky and Queer by Linh

Poster artwork for the drama thriller Peacock.

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Crazy Heart; drama film review

February 19th 2010 12:31
Bad Makes Good by Linh

Theatrical poster for the film Crazy Heart.

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The Hurt Locker (Advance Screening); action drama film review

February 14th 2010 08:57
War Zone Warriors by Linh

After a successful round of film festival screenings and numerous awards for the film and its cast members, The Hurt Locker has topped off the past year with nine Academy Award nominations


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Celluloid Television: The Big Valley

February 10th 2010 17:20
Big Valley Hits Big Screen by Linh

The Hollywood trend of adapting television series to the silver screen continues with Twentieth Century Fox recently announcing it will release a film version of the popular 1960s western TV drama The Big Valley
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Celluloid Television: The Smurfs Movie

February 6th 2010 17:06
Simply Smurfy by Linh

Opening titles to The Smurfs television series. Image: Peyo, Hanna-Barbera.

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