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Lauren Bacall's Honorary Oscar

Since the Academy decided not to honor Lifetime achievement at the Oscar ceremony this year I decided to give you the presentation made to Lauren Bacall late last year. How rude of the Academy to slight her this way.


(their tribute)


(my tribute from august 16 reposted)

Santa Barbara Film Festival This Weekend

The tributes will be as follows:

Outstanding Performance of the Year – Colin Firth
Kathryn Bigelow - Director of the Year
Modern Master Award – Jim Cameron
American Riviera - Sandra Bullock
Virtuoso Award – Emily Blunt, Carey Mulligan, Saoirse Ronan Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Stuhlbarg
Cinema Vanguard – Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Stanley Tucci, Christoph Waltz


Some of my favorites being honored:

Top Ten: Scott Brown's First Day in the Senate

Best Actress Quibble: Let's Talk About Emily Blunt

how did helen mirren get an oscar nod yet again? Is anyone else as tired of her as i am? yes i picked her because this seems to be a perennial thing.

did anyone see emily blunt in 'young victoria'?

Let's Talk About Meryl

meryl broke her own record tuesday with her SIXTEENTH nomination. sure i don't agree with all of them but a fete is a fete.

the captures above each represent all her oscar nominted roles/characters.

Oscarbation: Best Picture Nominees

Oscarbation: Best Actress Nominees

Oscarbation: Best Actor Nominees

Oscarbation: Supporting Actress Nominees

Supporting Actor Nominees

Oscarbation: Director Nominees

Happy Birthday Maura and Blythe

Happy Birthday Linda

Sandra and Meryl Play the Oscar Game With Humor

LOS ANGELES – Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress Oscar, but for her, awards season is more about camaraderie than competition with her fellow nominees. Except Meryl Streep.
"With Meryl, when this whole thing started, I left her a voice mail going, 'You've got to watch your back. I'm gonna cut you. I'm gonna take you down,'" Bullock said with a laugh Tuesday after learning she and Streep were both nominated for Academy Awards. "And then she sent me dead orchids and told me to die, so I sent her a case of liquor and told her to toast to white trash."
Bullock — who kissed Streep on the lips when the two friends tied for best actress at the Critics' Choice Awards — said the best thing about collecting repeated accolades for her role in "The Blind Side" has been getting to know the other actresses she has been nominated with for the past month or more.
"You have to enjoy being with these women that you admire or love or like or have had friendships with or are just getting to know because you've got to take care of each other," Bullock said.
"No one, at least the people that I've met, no one cares about the end result or the statue," she said. "It's being able to sit in close proximity with these ladies ... and we have to go through this whole rigamarole and we just all look at each other and we get to know each other and you laugh at the absurdity of it all and how they pit women up against each other."
Despite becoming an Oscar nominee, the 45-year-old actress remains grounded. While speaking with a reporter about the Oscar nod, Bullock could be overheard telling her young stepdaughter, "I'll do your hair when I finish this."
"On one hand, it's a huge moment," Bullock said. "And on the other hand, you have to put your feet on the ground and get out of bed and do the things you always do."
The Academy Awards will be presented at the Kodak Theatre on March 7 and broadcast live on ABC.*

*(reprinted from associated press)

Let's Talk About Sandra

Longtime audience darling Bullock has never been nominated for an Oscar before but is considered the best-actress front-runner, playing a wealthy woman who takes in homeless teen Michael Oher, now a star with the Baltimore Ravens.

Bullock said "no one cares about the end result or the statue." For her, the awards run has been about rubbing shoulders with the actresses she's nominated alongside.

"You laugh at the absurdity of it all and how they pit women up against each other. We go, 'Why are they making us out to be fighting when we're just happy to share this moment?'" Bullock said. "The women I've met and gotten to know along the way have made me so happy for this business that didn't really support women for a long time. It's been really sweet. I feel really lucky to be working at this time."

Bullock is up against past Oscar winners Meryl Streep as chef Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" and Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy's bullheaded wife in "The Last Station," along with first-time nominees Carey Mulligan as a British teen involved with an older man in "An Education" and Gabourey Sidibe as a Harlem teen overcoming horrible abuse and neglect in "Precious."*

*(from the associated press)

Oscarbation: Not a Single Nomination?

not even best original screenplay??? damn!!! this film is the most original nonromantic romantic comedy in years!

My Nomination Surprises: Supporting Actress

i did the least well predicting this category. sure betty white was a long-long shot but one needs to dream and wish. at the same time there are three surprises here:

1. maggie gyllenhaal did get a nomination. this was 'the nice' surprise. i did not pick her but am happy the academy did. but julianna deserved it over her...but wait...




2. julianne moore did not get a nomination! duh! penelope cruz did? yet also deserved it over maggie.




3. penelope cruz got a nomination for 'nine'. i don't get it. she deserved it, and won, last year but not this time around. marion cotillard anyone? but over julianne?



soooo...maggie deserved it over penelope and julianna deserved over the two of them...oy!