Road Rage & Links To Hollywood

Road Rage – City Rag

Zsa Zsa Gabor Refuses Leg Amputation Surgery – Pop Eater

Kelly Brook Is A Very Good Shopper – IDLYITW

Sandra Bullock Wants Ryan Gosling Back? – Daily Fill

Jessica Simpson Is Drunk Again – The Superficial

Justin Bieber Is Sorry For Flipping The Bird – ICYDK

Miranda Kerr Walks The Catwalk 2 Months After Baby – Amy Grindhouse

Vanessa Hudgens Talks About Her Tattoo – Hollywood Life

Christina Hendricks Shows Off The Cleavage – Girls Talkin’ Smack

Natalia Kills Talks About Life On The Road – OMG Blog

Matthew McConaughey Wears Tighty Whities – Popbytes

Drag Queens Revolt Against Lady Gaga – Anything Hollywood

Is This A Photo Of Banksy? – Celebs.com

Blake Lively Honored By Chanel – Celebrity Smack

Miranda Kerr’s Mom Legs Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather

Britney Spears For V Magazine – Holy Moly

Elton John Is Breastfeeding His Baby?!? – Holly Baby

Happy Birthday Jessica Biel! – F-Listed

Andy Dick Caught During Sexual Act In A Bathroom – Why Fame

Paula Abdul Calls 911! – Wonderwall

Who Looked The Best At The Oscars? – Betty Confidential

10 Celebrity Couples That Make My Skin Crawl – College Candy

Jimmy Fallon Is WINNING! Duh! – Allie Is Wired

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Meh-gan Fox & Links To Hollywood

Meh-gan Fox – City Rag

David Arquette Had His First Beer At 4 – Pop Eater

Olivia Wilde Is Leaked – IDLYITW

Lindsay Lohan In JJ Magazine – Girls Talkin’ Smack

Justin Bieber To Fans: Whatever – Popbytes

OMG, Crying On Cue: Natalie Portman – OMG Blog

Irina Shayk Doesn’t Shave Her Legs – The Superficial

Cameron Diaz Loves Porn – Holy Moly

Pregnant Kim Zolciak Only Wearing Underwear – Amy Grindhouse

Michelle Pfeiffer Gets Trashed – ICYDK

Kim Kardashian Suing Old Navy? – Drunken Stepfather

Steven Tyler Is Excited About ‘American Idol’ Top 24 Picks – Wonderwall

Emmy Rossum Talks Slippery Sex Scenes – F-Listed

Lady Gaga Rocks New York – Betty Confidential

Justin Bieber’s Next Movie Role: A Tattooed Pirate? – Hollywood Life

Brooke Mueller Moved Back In With Charlie Sheen – Anything Hollywood

Khloe Kardashian Having Infertility Troubles? – Holly Baby

Minka Kelly Trains For Charlie’s Angels – Celebrity Smack

Drew Barrymore Has A Nice New Friend – Celebs.com

Lourdes & Madonna’s Closet Capers – Celebrity Baby Scoop

The Many Looks Of Dakota Fanning – Daily Fill

The Oscars: A Cheat Sheet – College Candy

Kim Kardashian Looks Awful Without Makeup – Why Fame

Rihanna & Ryan Phillippe Hooking Up For Months – Allie Is Wired

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The Top 10 Most Embarrassing Projects from the 2011 Oscar Nominees

The Huffington Post have come up with a list of the 10 most embarrassing projects that some of the nominees from the 2011 Oscars have been in. Take a look and see if you have seen any of them…

Christian Bale in ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’
I bet you didn’t know Christian Bale was in ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.’ Maybe that’s why he’s so angry all the time.

Michelle Williams on ‘Dawson’s Creek’
I get it, it’s where she got her start. But did anyone think Jen Lindley would end up becoming one of her generation’s most nuanced actors? Unfortunately we can’t say the same for James Van Der Beek.

Jeff Bridges in ‘Tron: Legacy’
It’s embarrassing enough that ‘True Grit’s Jeff Bridges was in the first ‘Tron’ 20 years ago, but he had to go and do it again?

Natalie Portman in ‘No Strings Attached’
If Natalie Portman loses the Best Actress Oscar, fingers will start pointing to this rom-com with Ashton Kutcher. There’s a reason why A.O. Scott calls her “the only Golden Globe-winning actress to simulate sex on screen with two former members of the cast of ‘That 70s Show.’”

James Franco on ‘General Hospital’
It’s really hard to fault James Franco for this since it’s all part of his larger performance art master plan.

Nicole Kidman in ‘Batman Forever’
It would have been fine if she played opposite Christian Bale’s Batman, but she got stuck with Val Kilmer.

Mark Ruffalo in ‘Rumor Has It…’
Before he was seducing Julianne Moore away from Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo was playing opposite Jennifer Aniston in this movie that irresponsibly associates itself with The Graduate.

Amy Adams in ‘The Wedding Date’
In this movie that apparently came out in 2005, Amy Adams was billed under Debra Messing.

Javier Bardem in ‘Eat Pray Love’
Somehow I don’t think Javier Bardem’s immense acting skills landed him this role in Eat Pray Love.

Helena Bonham Carter in ‘Planet of the Apes’
When your husband is Tim Burton and you star in all of this movies, some of them are bound to be terrible.

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The 2011 Oscar Nominations

The nominations for the 83nd Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning by Mo’Nique and Academy President Tom Sherak and as usual there was no big surprises.

The only surprises was the likes of Julianne Moore, Andrew Garfield, Christopher Nolan and Ryan Gosling all getting snubbed and left out in the dark.

The King’s Speech leads the pack with twelve nominations, True Grit comes in second with ten while The Social Network and Inception have eight each.

Anne Hathaway and James Franco will host the ceremony when it airs live February 27 on ABC. Who do you think will win each category?

Nominations after the jump!!!

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Awesome Oscars & Links To Hollywood

The Oscars Should Be Awesome – City Rag

Julia Stiles In A Bikini – The Superficial

Selena Gomez Bares Her Cleavage – Hollywood Life

Steve Harvey’s Ex-Wife Bashes Him On Youtube – Celebs.com

Mad Men Season 5 Has Yet To Renew – Celebrity Smack

Justin Bieber Pays $750 For What?!? – Anything Hollywood

First Look At Selma Blair’s Baby Bump – ICYDK

Bret Michaels Undergoing Heart Surgery – Wonderwall

Lindsay Lohan Shows Off Her Crack Shorts – Drunken Stepfather

Kate Hudson Sports Baby Bump – Holy Moly

Montana Fishburne Pretended To Drink Bleach – Amy Grindhouse

Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Kendra Rice – F-Listed

OMG, Seize The ‘Party In The USA’ – OMG Blog

Idina Menzel Talks Motherhood – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Suri Cruise Wants A Mink Coat – Holly Baby

James Franco Made A Sex Tape At 19 – Pop Eater

Chelsea Handler Has A New Man? – Why Fame

Celebs In Bikinis – Betty Confidential

Now You Can Have Your Pot & Drink It, Too – College Candy

Taylor Swift & Jake Gyllenhaal Reunite – Allie Is Wired

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Cuth The Cake & Links To Hollywood

Cuth The Cake – City Rag

‘Dancing With The Stars’ Wants Lindsay Lohan – Pop Eater

Christine Teigen Is New Here, Not Really – IDLYITW

This Was Almost John Mayer – The Superficial

Kim Kardashian Prayed Her Breasts Wouldn’t Grow – Amy Grindhouse

Leighton Meester Dresses Like A Boy – ICYDK

Ashley Greene, I’m Onto You – Drunken Stepfather

The Oscars: Now More Boring Than Ever – Popbytes

Tiger Woods’ Mistress Addicted To Love – Holy Moly

George W. Bush Jokes His Way Through Facebook Interview – Hollywood Life

Ben Affleck Makes Wife Do All Of The Christmas Shopping – Holly Baby

Phil Collins Approves Of Taylor Lautner – Hollywire

14 Things Celebrities Taught Me in 2010 – College Candy

Playboy Bunny Convicted Of Murder In 1982 Dies – Zelda Lily

Madonna’s Hard Candy Gym Opens – Celebrity Smack

Boone Farm Hart Is A Nice Name Too – Celeb News Wire

Uma Thurman’s Stalker Arrested – Wonderwall

Paris Hilton To Get Married? – Why Fame

Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Denise J. – F-Listed

Daria Werbowy Loves Getting Naked – Betty Confidential

OMG, They Finally Kissed: Teddy & Ian – OMG Blog

Nicole Kidman Saved Keith Urban From Drug Addiction – Anything Hollywood

Mariah Carey Reveals Pregnancy Craving – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Lindsay Lohan Seeks Restraining Order Against Paparazzi – Allie Is Wired

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10 Actors That Are Overdue An Oscar

Ever since the Oscars started there has been debate over people winning for certain roles, most people agree that a lot of actors win just because they are overdue an Oscar for previous roles instead of the role they actually win for. Here is a list of 10 actors who are way overdue an Oscar.

10. Glenn Close:

Nominated For: The World According to Garp (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Why She’s Overdue: One of the best actresses of the 1980s, she’s had a resurgence of fame and awards recognition through her excellent work on FX’s Damages. Does anyone think that if she got a juicy role like Patty Hewes on the big screen that she wouldn’t excel? She may have gone through a career lull pre-FX, but she’s back in a big way and when Damages ends, a young writer/director could help her find Oscar glory by writing a role specifically for her, much like Scott Cooper did for Bridges with Crazy Heart. She clearly hasn’t found a big screen role worthy of her dramatic ability in years but as she continues to take up mantle space with her Damages work, it only seems like a matter of time before someone taps her for something important on the big screen.

Next Project(s): Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2010)

9. Leonardo DiCaprio:

Nominated For: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), The Aviator (2004), and Blood Diamond (2006)

Why He’s Overdue: Is it possible for an actor in their mid-30s to be considered overdue? Leo’s Titanic co-star certainly was when she finally won her Oscar and DiCaprio has proven that he has the dramatic chops to be considered one of the best actors of his generation and not merely for his nominated work. He was robbed of nominations for both Titanic and The Departed and is currently delivering spectacular work in Shutter Island. If things had gone a little differently and he had been nominated for Titanic and The Departed and Shutter Island had come out last Fall as originally planned, we could be talking about Leo’s SIXTH nomination and just how overdue he is no matter his young age. It only seems a matter of time before he finally gets the part that lands him the Oscar. I bet it happens before he turns forty.

Next Project(s): Inception (2010) and Prisoners (2010)

8. Annette Bening:

Nominated For: The Grifters (1990), American Beauty (1999), and Being Julia (2004)

Why She’s Overdue: Because I’m tired of her taking stupid roles in junk like Running with Scissors and The Women and an Oscar would get her the parts she deserves. Bening is clearly more talented than the parts she’s been offered but she also clearly takes time between Oscar-ish films. It’s time for #4 and if she continues working to #5, she’ll have to be considered overdue merely by being in so many great films. Like a lot of people on this list, Bening has to be considered overdue merely for the breadth of her long, varied career. Like Bridges, she may need someone to write a juicy dramatic role for her specifically to finally get to the podium.

Next Project(s): The Kids Are All Right (2010), Hemingway & Fuentes (2010), and State of the Union (2010)

7. Ralph Fiennes:

Nominated For: Schindler’s List (1993) and The English Patient (1996)

Why He’s Overdue: Is anyone else surprised that Fiennes didn’t find a part for at least one more nomination in the 2000s? He arguably should have been more widely considered for a supporting nod for In Bruges but, unlike a lot of actors (although like several on this list), he didn’t seem that concerned about taking Oscar bait roles, choosing more complex films like Spider, The Constant Gardener, and The White Countess (we’ll ignore Maid in Manhattan like everyone should). But Lord Voldemort never lost his acting chops and is clearly one of the best alive at his craft. This is merely a case of a great actor waiting for a great part. I have a feeling the next time he gets nominated, he wins. With several major 2010 films, he’ll be back in the public eye in a big way and maybe the right producer will finally find him that part, although he may have found it for himself with his directorial debut of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, in which he’ll play the lead, Oscar-friendly role.

Next Project(s): Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Cemetery Junction (2010), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I (2010), and Coriolanus (2010)

6. Laura Linney:

Nominated For: You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007)

Why She’s Overdue: Because it needs to happen now. I’m worried that Linney is passing that threshold where she’ll stop getting juicy dramatic roles much like Glenn Close did in the 1990s. It’s tough for actresses of a certain age to find parts as good Linney did in the 2000s, including in un-nominated but great work like Mystic River and The Squid and the Whale, along with her amazing performance on HBO’s John Adams. Laura Linney is one of those rare actresses who makes everything she’s in just a bit better. This one seems like a needed director/actress match-up. If the right writer/director could find the right way to exploit Linney’s remarkable sensitive intellectualism, she could easily start writing an acceptance speech.

Next Project(s): Sympathy for Delicious (2010), Morning (2010), and The Details (2010)

5. Johnny Depp:

Nominated For: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Why He’s Overdue: Much like DiCaprio, Depp could have easily been nominated for more than three to date with several great performances ignored, especially in the 1990s before he started making big money for Hollywood. He may only have three nods, but when you add in a career that also includes great work in films like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Public Enemies (all three better performances than the three for which he was nominated), it becomes clear that Depp is overdue for an acceptance speech. Like several names on this list, Depp winning an Oscar seems nearly inevitable. It will be more surprising if his career ends without one. It’s just a matter of time, although continuing to do Pirates movies and sticking with Tim Burton through the less impressive second half of his career may make that time a little longer.

Next Project(s): Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Rum Diary (2010), Rango (2011), The Tourist (2011), and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

4. Tom Cruise:

Nominated For: Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Magnolia (1999)

Why He’s Overdue: Are we over the couch insanity yet? I know you think Tom Cruise is crazy and I’m not going to argue that but there are plenty of mentally unhinged actors with well-deserved Oscars and Cruise has delivered with very few career rough patches for a quarter-century now. It seemed likely to happen in the 2000s after the one-two punch of Jerry Maguire and Magnolia raised the actor’s critical profile significantly but Cruise had some hurdles in the last decade, ones that it seems would be easy to overcome in the next decade if he makes the right career decisions and stops going on daytime talk shows. Cruise has always been a director’s actor – he delivers when paired with talented filmmakers like Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson, Cameron Crowe, or P.T. Anderson. He needs to pair up with those kind of talented artists more often and he’ll find the part that finally gets him the Oscar he should have won for Magnolia.

Next Project(s): Knight and Day (2010) and Mission: Impossible IV (2011)

3. Joan Allen:

Nominated For: Nixon (1995), The Crucible (1996), and The Contender (2000)

Why She’s Overdue: With three nominations in six years, it seemed like Joan Allen was merely tallying them up until she would finally win a trophy. Sadly, the 2000s didn’t turn out that way but this actress is far too talented to retire without an Oscar. Allen didn’t help herself by limiting her film work and popping up in disasters like Death Race, but high acclaim for her TV work on Georgia O’Keeffe will hopefully put her back on the radar of producers that are producing Oscar bait films. Allen isn’t much older than Susan Sarandon was when she got her “overdue” role in Dead Man Walking. That kind of tough intellectual role would be perfect for Allen to finally get her date with Oscar.

Next Project(s): Good Sharma (2010)

2. Peter O’Toole:

Nominated For: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982), and Venus (2006)

Why He’s Overdue: Seriously? Because he’s 77, been nominated eight times already, and has been a part of the film industry for five decades. He’s one of the few true living legends and he probably should have won for Venus a few years ago (and probably would have if they hadn’t already given him an actual Honorary Award for career achievement). The only question with O’Toole is if someone will write him the right part again. Here’s all I have to say about that – Christopher Plummer is older and he got his first nomination this year and starred in a Best Picture nominee in Up. There’s definitely still time for O’Toole. The only question is which filmmaker out there is willing to write him the ninth nomination?

Next Project(s): Eager to Die (2010), Katherine of Alexandria (2011), and Mary Mother of Christ (2011)

1. Julianne Moore:

Nominated For: Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), The Hours (2002), and Far From Heaven (2002)

Why She’s Overdue: Because she’s one of the best actresses alive and should have won at least one already for Far From Heaven and been nominated at least one more time for A Single Man. Moore made some bad career choices in the second half of the 2000s that derailed what seemed to be a Winslet-esque run where she’d be nominated every two to three years but if anyone thinks she can’t climb to that level of regular nominee again in the 2010s, they’re crazy. Moore delivers every single time and her raised profile this year with her nearly-nominated work in A Single Man and even her hilarious guest appearance on 30 Rock. Getting her back in the public eye will hopefully put her amazing talent in the mind of a writer out there currently crafting the next great female role. In short, she’s overdue.

Next Project(s): Chloe (2010), Shelter (2010), and The Kids Are All Right (2010)

I always thought Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio already won Oscars, I don’t necessarily agree wit DiCaprio or Tom Cruise being overdue an Oscar but I agree with the rest of them.

source: The Top 10 Actors Overdue for an Oscar [Movie Retreiver]

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Oscar Curse – Win Best Actress Then Get Divorced

Yesterday it was announced that Kate Winslet and her husband of seven years, Sam Mendes, were divorcing. As we all know that if you win an Oscar there is a curse, it seems for women on top of their career dying they tend to end up divorcing. Here are some of the famous ones:

Benjamin Bratt was the lucky man on Julia Roberts’ arm when she won the Oscar for her role in “Erin Brockovich” in 2001. Three months later their relationship was over—he went on to marry Talisa Soto, while she’s had three kids with husband Danny Moder. She’s yet to be nominated for a second time, so hopefully this relationship is safe.

The second actress to fall victim to this trend? Halle Berry, who won Best Actress in 2002 for “Monster’s Ball.” She’d been dating hot musician Eric Benet for years, and the two got hitched in 2001. Shortly after winning her Best Actress Oscar, Benet started cheating on her and allegedly went to sex addiction rehab. But it wasn’t enough—the couple separated in 2003 and divorced in 2005.

Infamously, Hilary Swank forgot to thank her hubby Chad Lowe, brother of Rob, when she won Best Actress in 2000 for her role as Brandon Teena in “Boys Don’t Cry.” Still, Chad seemed ultra supportive of her, and they were the ultimate down-to-earth Hollywood couple. They had just crossed the 13-years-together mark when Hilary won again in 2005, for “Million Dollar Baby,” and she made sure to thank him, first thing. The two divorced a year later. Rumors circulated that he couldn’t handle the level of success she’d found.

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe met at her 21st birthday party—she supposedly walked up to him and said, “I think you’re my birthday present”—and got married less than a year later. Reese had already popped out two kidlets seven years later, when she won Best Actress for her role in “Walk the Line,” and the pair seemed forevers. Nope. They split eight months after she gave her acceptance speech. Many assume Ryan was cheating on her with Abbie Cornish.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise had already shocked the world by getting divorced when she won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” But she was clearly still having a hard time with the split at the time of her win. “He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge,” she told Ladies Home Journal. “But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him.” After rumored flings with Jude Law and Robbie Williams, Nicole allegedly gave Best Actor winner Adrien Brody her number backstage at the Oscars, and the two dated for a little while. She, of course, ended up getting remarried to Keith Urban.

Charlize Theron‘s relationship with actor Stuart Townsend seemed solid when she awed the Academy with her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos and won the Oscar. The two never officially tied the knot because they were waiting for same-sex couples to have the right to do the same. But Townsend said, “I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married … I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband.” Until the two sadly split up in January.

I guess that means Sandra Bullock should be worrying about her marriage to Jesse James could end up with the same faith since she won the Oscar this year.

source: Oscar Theory #5: Win Best Actress, Get Divorced [The Frisky]

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Howard Stern Calls Gabourey Sidibe ‘Fat Black Chick’

Howard Stern has decided to add his two cents on Gabourey Sidibe, who he keeps referring to as the “fat black chick“, being nominated for an Oscar and what kind of future career she could have. Well as far as he is concerned she couldn’t have a career because she is too fat.

Stern and his sidekick Robin Quivers talk about Oprah being a liar for saying Gabourey will have a successful career. They then go on to call her an enormous woman the size of a planet and discuss how everybody in Hollywood is pretending that she’s going to succeed and that they have roles for her. He then says the only part she could play is the big football player in The Blind Side 2.

The two of them also go on to say that she should use her money from Precious to get thin, because she is sick and it’s a terrible thing what she has done to herself (they mean it’s terrible she is fat). They also say that she was seated in an aisle seat because she is too big for regular seats.

Now I’m not going to pretend that Gabourey Sidibe won’t have a hard time in Hollywood because she doesn’t look like the rest of them, but to say she won’t have a career is ridiculous — there are a lot of roles that she could do. The things that Howard Stern is saying disgust me. It takes a lot to pick on an easy target doesn’t it?

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The 2010 Oscars Winners List

You may have heard that the 2010 Oscars took place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood last night and for once they picked out all the right winners, well in my opinion at least.

Unlike most other websites I’m not going to babble on for hours about who wore what or what the speeches were like because frankly I don’t really care, I’m just happy that The Hurt Locker beat Avatar for the best picture award.

As predicted Sandra Bullock picked up the award for Best Actress, Jeff Bridges for Best Actor and Mo’Nique won for Best Supporting Actress. While perhaps a surprise win was Kathryn Bigelow being the first woman ever to pick up Best Director and beating out her ex James Cameron. The full winners list:

Best Picture – The Hurt Locker
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Original Screenplay – The Hurt Locker
Best Adapted Screenplay – Precious
Best Animated Film – Up
Best Foreign Language Film – El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Best Art Direction – Avatar
Best Costume Design – The Young Victoria
Best Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker
Best Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker
Best Cinematography – Avatar
Best Original Score – Up
Best Visual Effects – Avatar
Best Editing – The Hurt Locker
Best Documentary Short – Music By Prudence
Best Makeup – Star Trek
Best Short Film (Animated) – Logorama
Best Short Film (Live Action) – The New Tenants
Best Original Song – “The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart

And there it is – the award season is over, well for a few months at least.

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The Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs

The 2010 Academy Awards take place next month but Time Magazine have gone ahead and put up a list of the biggest 10 Oscar nomination snubs.

Best Actor: Fred Astaire, Top Hat (1935)

The Academy has traditionally thought of movie acting as dramatic acting: tearing a passion to tatters, preferably while speaking in an accent and wearing eccentric makeup. That excluded the swellegant, elegant Mr. Fred Astaire; all he did was sing and dance with greater craft and feeling than anybody in movie history. His duets with Ginger Rogers — “Isn’t This a Lovely Day” and “Cheek to Cheek” in Top Hat and “Never Gonna Dance” in Swing Time — are not just superb examples of Terpsichore’s art but among the most powerful expressions of courtship, love and loss in screen history. Astaire was never nominated for these musicals, or for any other — though the Academy did insult his dance legacy by nominating him for Best Supporting Actor for a nothing role, played long past his prime, in the 1974 disaster pic The Towering Inferno.

Best Actor: Cary Grant, His Girl Friday (1940)

Golden-age Hollywood promoted glamour all year long and then, when it came to the Oscars, rewarded anti-glamour. To understand the Academy’s prejudice against its richest resource, consider that by 1941 Walter Brennan — who specialized in playing cunning, toothless galoots — had won three Oscars, while Cary Grant had not even been nominated. By then Grant had starred in The Awful Truth, Topper, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and The Philadelphia Story — fashioning the indelible template of the attractive, self-deprecating movie male, and doing it with superb comic timing or action-adventure gruffness, as the role demanded. In His Girl Friday he’s a ruthless newspaper editor who browbeats his writer-wife (Rosalind Russell), all other journalists, the city’s mayor and cops and a condemned killer, just because … he’s Cary Grant. It’s a fast, gorgeous comic turn, for which Grant got no nomination. He would be cited for two dramatic performances, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, yet Hollywood’s greatest comic actor was never nominated for a comedy role.

Best Actor: Bill Murray, Groundhog Day (1993)

Selfish and snarky, Bill Murray’s Phil Connors is a Pittsburgh weatherman who plans to be in Punxsutawney, Pa., for just one day: Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. Except that the day repeats itself, with infinitely minute variations, until Phil gets it right. In a minor scandal, the film got no nominations. An Oscar should have gone to Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin for the script, which deftly balances comedy and philosophy (Is God a groundhog? Discuss), and another to Bill Murray for acting. From Caddyshack to What About Bob?, Murray had refined his amiable doofus into the minimalist modern man: his posture a question mark, his face a concrete poem of anticipated disappointment. In Groundhog Day he rises to romance and sinks to despair — and is wonderfully funny — all in the same day after day after day.

Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941)

The Hollywood screen’s all-time toughest, smartest dame, Barbara Stanwyck played comedy and pathos with equal agility, yet she never won a competitive Oscar. Her scheming adulteress-murderess in Double Indemnity, for example, lost out to the harried wife played by Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, as Hollywood chose to reward the noble victim rather than the brilliant predator. Some of her tangiest roles flew right under the Academy’s radar, like the career gal who literally screws her way up the corporate ladder in Baby Face. Her sharpest comedy performance, no question, was playing the cruise-ship con artist who seduces a hapless Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve, probably the all-time top screwball comedy. She is the devil every man would gladly play the sucker for; but neither she nor Sturges got a nomination. The movie’s only reward was immortality.

Best Director: John Ford, The Searchers (1956)

It is now widely regarded as the greatest western of the 1950s, the genre’s greatest decade. The tale of a loner searching for a missing daughter has been remade scores of times (most recently in Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness). But John Ford’s darkly profound study of obsession, racism and heroic solitude was shrugged off when it first appeared. Though Ford was Hollywood’s most honored auteur, with four Oscars as Best Director, he got nothing when he made his masterpiece. The Academy also ignored the towering performance of John Wayne as the scarred Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, who either exorcises his demons or surrenders to them in violent revenge. Wayne would finally get an Oscar for his assured but much less complex performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. But reward his most powerful role? That’ll be the day.

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)

The movie got a Best Picture nomination (losing to Rocky) — as well as nominations for Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster (Best Actor and Supporting Actress) and for Bernard Herrmann’s creepy score — but its gifted director was ignored. Like Hieronymus Bosch working with spray paint, Martin Scorsese visualized a Manhattan hellscape with steam, blood and vomit everywhere, and in the center a crazed cabbie who literally gets away with murder. By rights, Scorsese could have been nominated three times in the ’70s: for Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as Taxi Driver. But America’s most astute and passionate picture maker had to wait until 2007, and The Departed, to get a Best Director statuette. By then it might as well have been a lifetime achievement award — or the Academy’s public apology for more than 30 years of myopic calls against him.

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)

The opposite of Sally Field’s gushing “You like me, you really like me” upon winning an Oscar was Steven Spielberg’s response when his first big movie, Jaws, was nominated for Best Picture but stiffed in the Best Director category. Jaws had only become the top-grossing film since The Sound of Music a decade before, and Spielberg had managed to wrangle Bruce — the production’s balky mechanical shark — into a creature of demonic intent and satanic power. The tarring of Spielberg as a maker of “just movies” would continue through Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, for which he was nominated but lost. The year of E.T., the Academy gave the Best Picture and Director prizes to Richard Attenborough’s worthy but plodding Gandhi. Spielberg had to make his only true-life epic, Schindler’s List, before he finally won an Oscar.

Best Picture: King Kong (1933)

In 1934, for the first time, the Academy allowed 10 Best Picture nominations. All those slots, and not one of them could be filled by the greatest fantasy in Hollywood history? Cavalcade, the stately, starchy filming of a Noel Coward play, took the Best Picture award, and King Kong received no nominations at all, not even in the technical and engineering categories. So much for Willis O’Brien’s construction and stop-motion animation of the 18-in.-tall ape, which gave Kong gravitas as he battled dinosaurs on a jungle island and soul as he wooed Fay Wray and took her to the top of the Empire State Building. King Kong inspired generations of boy geniuses, from Steven Spielberg to Peter Jackson (who did a loving though oversize remake in 2005), while Cavalcade slipped into oblivion.

Best Picture: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Voted the best American comedy of all time in an American Film Institute survey 10 years ago, Billy Wilder’s fizzy farce earned nominations for screenplay, direction and Jack Lemmon’s performance as a Prohibition musician who goes on the lam disguised as a woman. (Tony Curtis, Lemmon’s partner in drag, deserved a nod too.) But the movie was denied one of the Best Picture slots, which were filled by two religious epics (Ben-Hur and The Nun’s Story), two “daring” melodramas (Anatomy of a Murder and Room at the Top) and The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, elevated sentiments and hot-button social issues seemed so much more important than an ephemeral comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and two guys in dresses. Today, it’s the ephemeral that has lasted.

Best Picture: The Dark Knight (2008)

Why did the Academy decide to reinstate the 10-film field for Best Picture in 2010? Because the year before, The Dark Knight wasn’t voted into the top five. At the time the second biggest dollar earner in movie history (now passed by Avatar), Christopher Nolan’s saturnine fantasy was a film that kids and critics alike appreciated, less as a live-action comic book than as a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. The Academy members didn’t go bats for this Batman; instead, they filled out their Best Picture cards with their favorite fallen President (Frost/Nixon), a Nazi warden (The Reader), a civil rights martyr (Milk), an old guy who gets younger (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the eventual winner, Slumdog Millionaire. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Best Supporting Actor), The Dark Knight was ignored in all major award categories, earning only doorstop prizes like Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Safe to say that the Academy won’t shut out the big action-adventure movie of 2009. Avatar is a sure nominee for Best Picture, and a likely winner.

I agree with the majority of these, I enjoyed The Dark Knight but I really don’t the movie should have gotten a nomination so I would take that off the list. Instead I would put on Alfred Hitchcock, it’s a disgrace he never got an Oscar. What do you think? Any movies or people who should have received nominations?

source: Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs [Time]

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The 2010 Academy Awards Nominations

The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced early this morning at 5:38 am in Los Angeles by Anne Hathaway and Academy President Tom Sherak.

There was no big surprises, in fact all the previous award nominations for the Golden Globes, SAGs etc are pretty much the same as the Oscar nominations.

Avatar and The Hurt Locker both lead the pack with nine nominations each, which also sees directors (and ex-husband/wife) James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow going up against each other.

Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will each co-host the ceremony which airs live March 7 on ABC. What are your picks to win the awards?

Nominations after the jump!!!

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Links To Hollywood – #195

Celebrities Give Head – City Rag

Mischa Barton Is Angry Blogging – Ninja Dude

Lindsay Lohan & Lily Allen To Make Music? – F-Listed

Mr. T. Wonders What Went Wrong – Holy Moly

Jai Ho – Oscar’s Best Song – The Video! – Popbytes

Mickey Rourke Has A New Puppy – Celebrity Smack

Jennifer Carpenter Has A Pit Tsunami – Celeb News Wire

The Jonas Brothers Are Mind-Blowingly Sexy – Websters Is My Bitch

Lindsay Lohan Is Still Looking Orange – ICYDK

Kate Moss Is Just Fat? – Celeb Warship

Britney Spears Is Made Out Of Plastic – Fatback Media

Is Ed McMahon Dying? – Hollywood Dame

Kanye West Is A Self-Driven Man – Pacific Coast News

Wired Exclusive: Only in a Woman’s World Premiere – Allie Is Wired

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Anne Hathaway In Russian GQ, Says No To Fake Tan

Now I know a lot of people don’t really like this woman but check out these photographs of Anne Hathaway from the new issue of GQ Russia.

If you still don’t think she looks good then maybe there is something wrong with me, because I think she looks hot – even with her legs spread open like muscle man Madonna.

In other news the actress who lost out on an Oscar for her role in Rachel Getting Married has said she will never use fake tan again after having a bad experience with it.

Just in case you don’t know the above image is from Anal Anne in that movie Bride Wars that she did with Kate Hudson.

As for the fake tan she says, “I had a spray tan done and I wound up looking like an orange zebra. When it came off, because I’m so pale underneath, I looked like a giraffe with leprosy. And I smelled like nachos and maple syrup the whole time. It was not a good idea.”

Anne Hathaway may not be into fake tan, but we do know she is into anal.

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