Okay, so Hollywood’s best and brightest are now at home polishing their statuettes and basking in the afterglow of being appreciated. But what about the show itself? We can’t really go without honoring the best and worst of the actual awards can we?
Here are the First Annual Academy Award Awards…
It’s been quite an award show. We twittered the Oscars live from inside the Kodak theater. We posted all the best moments on the red carpet and the big winners of the night. Just in case you were looking for a full list of all the nominees and all the winners, here it is!
This year’s categories for Best Actor and Actress are, without a doubt, comprised of Hollywood’s elite. Despite predictions, with such an outstanding group of artists – how do you decide who’s performance merits the award every actor dreams of?
Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Melissa Leo, and Angelina Jolie represent some of the most powerful women in the film industry. But with an incredibly successful year starring in both Revolutionary Road AND The Reader, from her bathroom mirror with a shampoo bottle in place of a golden statue, to the stage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles…
The MUCH deserved Oscars goes to: Kate Winslet!
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The 81st Annual Academy Awards are less than one month away, and this year’s list of nominees has proven that Oscar likes to stay within familiar territory. In the main categories, which include Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Actor there are several names that have been making appearances on the Oscar ballot for years. This year, the race for the gold statue is sprinkled with record holding performers, which include actresses, Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep. Both are nominated in the Best Actress category, and between the two of them they generate a career total of 21 Academy Award nominations. The Academy has a habit of putting a few nominees through the ringer (poor Peter O’Toole), by allowing them to get close to Oscar, but no cigar. So will previous nods give a few lucky performers the edge over the competition, or will they cancel them out completely? Is it talent or friendly faces that win the Oscar?
The Screen Actors have officially announced their winners for the SAG Awards. For the most part there were no big surprises. The bottom line is that it came down to who are the most well respected actors in each category. Sean Penn and Meryl Streep are both legends in the acting world. Although people have buzzed about Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet snagged a Best Supporting Actress award, they’re no match for the Streeper when it comes to Best Actress. The love and respect other actors have for her is immense, as is with all the other winners.
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All the big dominoes have fallen. The Golden Globe Awards have been handed out, the Directors Guild (actually the best predictor of the Best Picture nominees) and Writers Guild have named their nominees, and just about every critics society has voted.
What have we learned from these big awards groups? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. This has been the least exciting Oscar race in history. Track back to week one of these power rankings. The top five in Best Picture have never changed. In fact, if we’d done a ranking before an award was given out (something for next year) this would have been the top five as well.
Normally, there’s some major shakeup somewhere along the road. Some surefire contender that falls off, but that just has never happened this year. There is no logical reason to presume that any of the top five in Best Picture won’t get nominated.
So without further ado, here are the picks. . .
