Brett Ratner is producing the next Oscar telecast. Brett Ratner just directed Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy in Tower Heist, and has been the rumored choice for a Beverly Hills Cop 4 movie. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Ratner asked Murphy to host the Academy Awards. The surprise is that Murphy has said yes (according to Deadline Hollywood).
Two years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided that five wasn’t enough best picture nominees. Some thought this had to do with 2008′s biggest blockbuster The Dark Knight not making the cut. Regardless, for the last two ceremonies there have been ten nominees. This year the academy says that there will be five nominees, but for there to be more that every picture over five must recieve at least 5% of the first place picks. Continue Reading
A very solid week on DVD this week, crowned by this year’s Best Picture winner, The King’s Speech, making its way on to small screens. But that’s only leading a charge that includes bombs aplenty including misfires from Peter Weir, Sofia Coppola and a colossal pile of sunk costs from Jack Black!
All that plus some very cool retro TV on DVD choices and the latest film from one of the most legendary action stars of all time. Betcha can’t guess who it is.
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Don’t get me wrong: The King’s Speech is a handsome, well-shot, well-acted, well-written movie. It’s quite good and Colin Firth deserved his statue. But, it’s also the exact kind of movie the Oscars shouldn’t be nominating in the first place, and proves that the Oscars have never been less relevant than they are now.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were hard to watch. Not because of their predictable winners but because of their horrible hosts. Last year we had some issues with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin’s one-two punch but this year has them beat. When we first heard that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were going to host the show we were worried. Very worried. And with good reason. They’re not professional comedians and they don’t have professional hosting experience and it showed! It made for a very awkward evening to say the least. See what critics around the country thought of their performance last night.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards have come and gone and the night belonged to the king! The period piece The King’s Speech won Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Motion Picture over fan favorite The Social Network. Other big winners of the night included Natalie Portman for Black Swan, and Melissa Leo and Christian Bale for The Fighter. Check out the rest of the night’s winners below…
The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture is The King’s Speech. Producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin accepted the award on behalf of the cast and crew. The trio wanted to thank their financers for taking such a huge risk on the film that didn’t seem like the obvious choice for backers.
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The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor is Colin Firth for The King’s Speech. The actor was the front runner in the category this year and previously won the Golden Globe for it. During his speech, he joked that his career had peaked and he was getting a strange feeling in his stomach that might make its way to his legs in the form of dance moves. He thanked the director, screenwriter, and Harvey Weinstein, whom he’s worked with for the past 20 years.
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The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actress is Natalie Portman for Black Swan. The actress was the front runner in the category this year and previously won the Golden Globe for her performance in the film. She thanked her parents, and everyone she’s every worked with including Mike Nichols who she called her champion for the past 10 years.
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