Colin Firth Wins Best Actor Bafta for 'Simple Man'

and he should win the oscar too but that seems otherwise decided. but he did beat jeff bridges this go-round




and presented by kate winslet doubles his win

Nominees Do Lunch

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Hurt Locker' Triumphs at BAFTA's

Best Picture – The Hurt Locker!!
Best Actress – Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Actor – Colin Firth, A Single Man!
Best Director -Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Film not in the English Language – Un Prophete
Animated Film – Up
Adapted Screenplay – Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner for Up In The Air
Orange Rising Star Award – Kristen Stewart
Production Design: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg & Kim Sinclair for Avatar
Original Screenplay: Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker
Outstanding British Film: Fish Tank
Supporting Actress: Mo’nique, Precious (Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire)
Makeup and Hair: Jenny Shircore for The Young Victoria
Costume Design: Sandy Powell for The Young Victoria
Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Visual Effects – Avatar
Cinematography – Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker !!
Editing – The Hurt Locker
Sound – The Hurt Locker (!)
Music – Michael Giacchino for Up
Outstanding British Debut: Duncan Jones for Moon

Oscarbation: 50 Years Ago

best picture:'"ben hur"

best actress simone signoret - "room at the top"
best actor: charlton heston - "ben hur"

best supporting actress: shelley winters -"the diary of anne frank"
best supporting actor: hugh griffith - 'ben hur"

best director: william wyler - "ben hur"

Oscarbation: Actors Pick Their Favorite Performances of the Decade

(Courtesy: New York Times Magazine)

Oscarbation: Deborah Kerr

deborah received an honorary oscar after being snubbed six times as best actress.

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At the Luncheon

Oscar Nominee Luncheon 2/15/2010

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Oscarbation Memories

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Per Time Magazine: the Great Performances of 2009

"She’s been Miss Congeniality, one of Hollywood’s best-liked stars, since her 1994 breakthrough with Speed. But Bullock, 45, never won official acclaim until she played Leigh Anne Tuohy — the Memphis, Tenn., matron who turned a lost black teen into a football star — in the true-life smash The Blind Side. During the shoot, she recalls, “something clicked, that divine moment when preparation meets with letting go and you find yourself comfortable in another person’s skin.” Now Bullock has to get used to being a Best Actress nominee. “After two decades in Hollywood,” she says, “I am just thankful that I was allowed to work for two decades. I love what I have been lucky enough to do.”




"Ah, Mr. Darcy, the “man without fault” who courted Jennifer Ehle’s Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice. The role marked Firth as a gently seductive actor but one who often loses the leading lady to a name higher on the marquee. How lucky he was, then, to get the role of George, a teacher mourning the loss of his longtime lover in A Single Man. Firth infuses this sad gay fellow with warmth, delicacy and a desperation that is all the more powerful for being so subtly expressed. “This is a very personal story about a man’s relationship with the world,” Firth says. “He has a decision that he’s made, to die, and life keeps trying to call him back.” It’s not just the role of a lifetime, well worthy of its Oscar nomination, but also a declaration that at 49, Firth is fully qualified for large, complex roles that he can play with force and nuance — and, of course, without fault.:


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Didn't Think I Had a Horse in The Best Actress Race This Year...

...but then i never thought sandra bullock would get an oscar nomination...not ever! so what a surprise. sandra has always been a favorite hollywood darling. She's appeared generally in light romantic comedies which generally are not oscar bait. her dramatic turn in this year's 'the blind side' took a 180. i think she was more than terrific in it. sure there are the nay sayers but i ask them this...would her possible win be anything more or less than that of julia roberts win in 'erin brokovitch'? not!

as for the cynics who say 'well meryl hasn't won in 27 years' THINK: kate hepburn waited 30 years between oscar one and oscar two and then went on to win another two. so that argument is patently absurd.




on charlie rose

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