Sandra Bullock announces the winner for Best Actor in a Lead Role.
And the winner is…
COLIN FIRTH for his role in The King’s Speech.
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2011 Oscars – Randy Newman wins Best Original song
AR Rahman, Florence Welsch and Gwyneth Paltrow perform the last two tracks nominated in the Best Song categories. The first one is “If I Rise” is from the film “127 Hours,” Music by A.R. Rahman. Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong.
The second track is called “Coming Home” from “Country Strong,” Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey. Nice Gwyneth!
Jennifer Hudson then presents the award for Best Original song to Randy Newman for “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3,”
“I’m very grateful and surprised. My odds aren’t great. I’ve been nominated twenty times, and won twice.”
2011 Oscars- Documentary winners
Oscar nominee Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal present the award for Best Documentary Short Feature to “Strangers No More”
Best Live Action Short Form goes to Luke Matheny for his work on “God of Love”
“Gosh I should’ve got a haircut. Thanks to the Academy for this amazing honour. To my fellow nominees.”
Continuing on the documentary categories, talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey presents the award to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs for the “Inside Job”. Before doing his thank yous, Charles had a go at the “fraudsters” still on the loose. To those who aren’t in jail after causing the financial crisis over three years ago. He then went on to do thanks yous, “Thank you all for this profound honour. Let the record show, I’m not wearing jeans.”
2011 Oscars- The Social Network, Inception win again
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman present the awards Best Original Score to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their work “The Social Network,”
“Wow. Is this really happening? When we finished our work on The Social we were so happy with our work. Now to be in the company of such talent is so humbling and flattering beyond words. David Fincher. Thank you so much.”
Matthew Matthew Maconahay and Scarlett Johansson present the award for Best Sound Mixing to those involved in Inception: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick. For the award in Achievement in Sound Editing, the winners is Richard King for his work on Inception.
“I owe this a thousand percent to Chris Nolan. I just want to thank you for making great movies and for inviting me along for the ride. I want to thank my sound editing crew who I share this award with. I want to thank my wife and my son Sam too. Thank you.”
2011 Oscars – The Social Network, The King’s Speech win
Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Aaron Sorkin wins for his work on The Social Network.
David Seidler wins the Academy Award for The King’s Speech. “This is terrifying. My father always said to me I’d be a late bloomer”. The audience laughs. “I believe I am the oldest person to win this award. I hope this record is broken quickly and often. I would like to thank her majesty the queen. I would like to thank all the stutterers around the world. We have a voice. We have been heard.”
2011 Oscars- Melissa Leo wins Best Supporting Actress
The legendary Kirk Douglas gets a standing ovation. He thanks James Franco and thinks Anne Hathaway is gorgeous. He presents the award for Best Supporting Actress to Melissa Leo for her role in The Fighter.
“You pinched me. Wow. Mine. For me? You’re pretty good looking yourself. What are you doing later on? Oh my, oh my God. Oh wow really, really, really, really, really, truly wow. I know there’s a lot of people that said a lotta real real nice things to me for several months now, but I’m just shaking in my boots here. Ok, alright. Thank you David O. Russell. I want to thank the actors, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, he might run out for a second, Amy, my sweet sister Adams, Jack, our lovely daughters. OK. Yeah, I am kind of speechless. Golly sakes, there’s people up there too. When I watched Kate two years ago, it looked so fucking easy. Whoops. Alice Ward, your beautiful family that opened your hearts. I saw Mick here earlier. Dick, a shout out for Nana? Alright Dick’s not in the room.
Thank you so much, opening your hearts to all of us to make this film. I thanked David, I’ll thank him again. My family, my beautiful son who is traveling right now in South America and can’t join me. It’s ok, I’m ok Jack. My Mom and my Dad and my brother and my friends and my family. I want to thank the very most of all, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences, the Board of Governors, and all their members, whom many of you are here today. This has been a extraordinary journey in getting to know what the Academy is about and first and foremost, thank you Academy, because it’s about selling motion pictures and respecting the work! Thank you so much.”
2011 Oscars- Alice in Wonderland, Inception win
Tom Hanks presents the first award of the night for the Achievement in Art Direction. The Oscar goes to Alice In Wonderland.
“Why didn’t I lose those twenty pounds. First of all to all the other nominees, all of you guys deserve to be up here.”
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography goes to Inception.
2011 Oscars red carpet
Michelle Williams in Chanel. Getty Images
Oscar night is here! The 83rd Academy Awards are just about to get going at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angelas, but before all the movie action happens, we need to see what our favourite celebs are wearing and saying on the red carpet. Nobody is disappointing this year, that’s for sure. Here’s what’s happening.
Michelle Williams and Amy Adams are looking really good tonight. Michelle is nominated in this Best Actress in a Leading Role category. She’s wearing Chanel tonight.
Mandy Moore is getting loads of rav reviews for her dress by Monqiue Lhuillier.
Mark Ruffalo just chatted to E’s Ryan Seacreast. Besides taking pictures for Twitter, he said his wife actually convinced him to take the role in The Kids Are All Right. Good work wifey, it scored him an Academy Award nomination.
Jennifer Hudson looks absolutely beautiful in that bright number by Versace. Definitely a best dressed nominee, I’d say. On the colour she said, “I think we call it tangerine orange. I am excited. Nervous and all of that.” She’ll be presenting an award again tonight.
Best Supporting Actor nominee Geoffrey Rush on The King’s Speech “I think this should be a film and not a play. We put the wheels into motion and it seems as though all the right people drifted towards the project. It fell into place in a rather beautiful way”.
Just seen Scarlett Johansson looking beautiful in her plum dress by Dolce & Gabbana.
Oscars 2011- It’s the King’s Speech vs Black Swan.
Two days to go until the film industry’s big night… the Oscars. So I found myself heading off to the movies the other night to see the King’s Speech, ahead of the Academy Awards. It then makes it easier to make a judgment about a film, find out what all the hype is all about and then one can formulate an opinion as to whether it’s deserving or not. Look, Colin Firth is superb in the role, as are Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter in their roles respectively. However, for me, I preferred Black Swan. I thought Darren Aronovsky’s film was incredible, dark as it may have been. His vision came to life, it sparked debates, conversations and I would imagine that is what any filmmaker would love to achieve. So it will come down to Tom Hooper and Darren Aronovsky in the battle for best director and Black Swan versus The King’s Speech for the best film of the year. It looks like The King’s Speech is the firm favourite, but I really believe Black Swan has been hugely underrated. Mila Kunis was overlooked, but Natalie Portman will come out on top I believe. Who else do you think will be successful at this year’s Oscars?
I must also just say well done to the film distributors in South Africa. All the big titles and contenders at this year’s Academy Awards have been brought to our screens ahead of the ceremony and that is usually not the case. I’ve now seen three of the big nominees. I just need to make a plan to see The Fighter before Sunday. Remember, I’ll be up and at it, blogging, tweeting throughout the night. Do join me!
Believe the hype, Black Swan is the business
Last night I was invited to a screening of the highly acclaimed film, Black Swan. The event was held at the Nu Metro Hyde Park cinemas, in association with Fox Studios and the South African Ballet Theatre. What a fitting occasion for the Ballet Theatre Company. Not only has a film like this put ballet back in the spotlight again, but also they announced at the event that after a very difficult period, financially, the National Lottery would be funding them for the year. Plus they were celebrating their tenth birthday at the event. There were a couple of ballet dancers doing the rounds at the event, posing for pics and doing a few short numbers. This pictures was taken on my Blackberry Bold.
I’ve watched Natalie Portman clean up so far at all the major award shows, ahead of the Oscars later this month, but I didn’t want to set my expectations too high so I went in with an open mind. Wow! That is where I will start. This movie is fantastic. First of all, in addition to Portman, who plays the role of Nina Sayers, the other cast members are also really strong. The list includes Mila Kunis (Lily), Vincent Cassel (Thomas Leroy), Barbara Hershey (Erica Sayers). Winona Ryder has a small role in the movie too. The film tells the story of Nina Sayers, who after many years of trying finally gets her big break. She’s cast in the lead role of the ballet company’s new production, “Swan Lake”. Leroy, the director of the production, thinks she is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan, but he is worried about how she will portray the Black Swan. While she has the ability to do so, she battles to relax and let go. While Nina might be battling to become the Black Swan in the production, a supportive, but needy mother; several encounters with free-spirited, Black Swan personified Lily; their growing rivalry and Leroy’s persistence and advances, all see Nina ‘morphing’ mentally into the Black Swan.
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