BRILLIANT!
Here is the EOnline video in which Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe tells Gerard Butler she’d “hit that”!
It’s about 2 minutes in!
On 03.12.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
On 03.10.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
In what will go down as one of the more controversial Academy votes for best picture, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker ran roughshod over James Cameron’s Avatar on Sunday night in a race that initially was thought of as a cakewalk for the 3D extravaganza.
Talk about a money gap: Since its release in June, Bigelow’s taut Iraq War drama has mustered a measly $14.7 million at the US box office, while her ex-husband’s years-in-the-making epic has in three months grossed $721 million stateside and a whopping $2.6 billion worldwide. Only his other tour de force, Titanic, comes close, with a $1.8 billion worldwide haul.
On the budget side, too, the discrepancy was huge, hers costing $15 million and his $300 million or thereabouts.
So what happened?
A lot of folks were asking that in the wake of Tom Hanks’ bolt to the stage to blurt out the final winner at the end of the overlong, 3-and-a-half hour awards show. The audience hardly had time to gasp before being herded to the exits. Not since, Shakespeare in Love outshone Saving Private Ryan, or Ghandi edged E.T. or, MOST notably, Crash beat Brokeback Mountain has there been such an eyebrow-raising finale.
No doubt there will be a lot of theories, conspiratorial and not, bandied about, even though we arguably never will know what precise mixture of factors contributed and in what percentages.
Even so, The Hurt Locker’s messages were clear and clearly portrayed, and distributor Summit did an excellent job in mounting an awards campaign that appealed to Academy voters across the various industry categories.
Then there’s that preferential voting system, which likely skewed the outcome toward the indie pic. Avatar might have garnered more first-place ballots than any other contender, but probably just as likely it appeared way down on the ballots of other voters who didn’t wish to see it win. The Hurt Locker probably was high on most everyone’s list, benefiting when the second and third place entries were scooped up and re-assigned.
Also playing a role in the selection might have been a predilection for the perceived underdog, and a charming, talented, articulate woman at that, over the self-styled king of the world who no doubt rubbed some Academy members the wrong way the last time he was onstage brandishing the Oscar.
The very idea that a female helmer made the kind of movie heretofore the exclusive reserve and prerogative of male directors also might have been too tantalizing to resist.
More appealing was that a little pic with a difficult story managed the feat of amassing enough dough to shoot under adverse conditions in the Middle East while Fox for years was signing the checks for a helmer hunkered down in a high-tech hangar in West Los Angeles.
Bigelow’s crew faced suspicious crowds, curfews and fusillades; Cameron’s crew faced a bunch of computers.
What do you think? Was the right decision made?
On 03.07.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Tonight’s the big night!
Let’s see how I do!
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges
Best Actress – Sandra Bullock
Best Film – Avatar
Best Director – ok…..i’m hedging here, but I am sticking with Kathryn Bigelow
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress – Well……DUH…….Mo’Nique
A lot of them are an almost surefire lock this year but there’s my two cents worth!
On 03.07.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Again Hollywood………..this is how you do it!
Sandra Bullock has been crowned top of the flops at the 30th Razzie Awards in Los Angeles, the annual eve-of-Oscars spoof which pays homage to the very worst of Hollywood.
Bullock – who could complete an unprecedented double on Sunday if she wins a best actress Oscar for her performance in The Blind Side – delighted guests at Los Angeles’s Barnsdall Theatre by appearing to collect her award on Saturday night.
The 45-year-old also handed out DVD copies of her offending performance in the box office flop All About Steve to guests.
“I’ll show up again next year if you promise to watch the movie and really consider if it was the worst performance of the year,” said Bullock after receiving her “Razzie,” a plastic gold spray painted raspberry.
“And if it isn’t, I’ll give back the Razzie,” added Bullock, revealing that she had ducked out of a charity dinner with Hollywood powerbroker and producer Jeffrey Katzenberg to attend the awards.
“Now I’ve got to get back to that event, because you know, it’s Jeffrey Katzenberg and he can basically prevent me from ever working again,” Bullock quipped.
Bullock also picked up a Razzie for worst screen couple in partnership with All About Steve co-star Bradley Cooper.
It was the first time a worst actress recipient had appeared in person to collect their Razzie since 2005, when Halle Berry walked off with the award for her performance in Catwoman.
On 02.04.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
There were still some surprising snubs in this years Oscar noms…………a few that I am really ticked about and some that just gets a raised eyebrow. Here’s the list…….
- The Blind Side being nominated for Best Picture is bulls**t plain and simple.
- Julianne Moore NOT being nominated in the Supporting Actress category was nothing short of requiring a call to Amnesty International for Human Rights violations! Maggie Gyllenhall being nominated in her place for a GOD AWFUL performance in Crazy Heart was what put my fingers on the phone!
- Viggo Mortensen being locked out of Best Actor and The Road being locked out of everything was another travesty. Not even a Best Adapted Screenplay nod? The film itself is standard Oscar fodder which makes this all the more surprising!
- Last year Gran Torino and this year Invictus? The Academy really seems to have it in for Clint these days!
What are your thoughts? Let us know!
On 02.02.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
The 2010 Oscar noms have been announced, and there were no real surprises of a major magnitude, except for both Up and The Blind Side being nominated in the Best Film category!
All major noms are listed below…………….
BEST PICTURE
“An Education”
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren for “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan for “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe for “Precious”
Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”
DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron for “Avatar”
Lee Daniels for “Precious”
Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Matt Damon for “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson for “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer for “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci for “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Penelope Cruz for “Nine”
Vera Farmiga for “Up in the Air”
Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
Anna Kendrick for “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique for “Precious”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Ajami”
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos”
“The Milk of Sorrow”
“A Prophet”
“The White Ribbon”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Up”
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
“An Education”
“District 9″
“In the Loop”
“Precious”
“Up in the Air”
SCREENPLAY (Original)
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The Messenger”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
ART DIRECTION
“Avatar”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“The Young Victoria”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Avatar”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The White Ribbon”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove”
“Food Inc.”
“The Most Dangerous Man in America”
“Which Way Home”
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”
FILM EDITING
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
MAKEUP
“Il Divo”
“Star Trek”
“The Young Victoria”
MUSIC (SCORE)
“Avatar”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“Up”
MUSIC (SONG)
“Almost There” from “The Princess & the Frog”
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess & the Frog”
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36″
“Take it All” from “Nine”
“The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“French Roast”
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
“The Lady and the Reaper”
“Logorama”
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“The Door”
“Instead of Abracadabra”
“Kavi”
“Miracle Fish”
“The New Tenants”
SOUND EDITING
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Up”
SOUND MIXING
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“Star Trek”
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