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Oscar the Grouch

Here’s the list of winners for the Academy Awards:

Best picture Winner:
“The King’s Speech” (The Weinstein Company), A See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role Winner:
Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role Winner:
Christian Bale in “The Fighter” (Paramount)

Performance by an actress in a leading role Winner:
Natalie Portman in “Black Swan” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role Winner:
Melissa Leo in “The Fighter” (Paramount)

Best animated feature film of the year Winner:
“Toy Story 3” (Walt Disney), Lee Unkrich [Read more…]

My Book: The Movie (Oscar Edition)

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Ruffalo contemplates the ceiling with a "what have I done?" look

Now Showing at “My Book: The Movie” on Marshal Zeringue’s Campaign for the American Reader Blog

Here,Thelma Adams shares some casting ideas for an adaptation of her new novel, Playdate:

Inspired by the upcoming Academy Awards, I’m casting my book from current Oscar nominees. Playdate began with a simple movie pitch: Shampoo meets Mr. Mom. Clearly, Warren Beatty and Michael Keaton have aged out of playing my stay-at-home-dad (SAHD) protagonist. And the book has grown well beyond its one-sentence premise, so that each character, male and female, child and adult, became their own ornery being.

Cast Lance, the SAHD, and the rest of the book falls into place. This modern, easy-going dad loves his daughter Belle, is trying to father another child with his distracted wife Darlene, and has Tantric sex with Wren, the wife of Darlene’s business partner Alec. See  Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right as the charming sperm donor trying to wiggle his way in to his biological children’s nuclear family after a lifetime of casual sex, and there are the seeds of Lance.

What about Lance’s Tantric sex partner? [Read more…]

New Racetrack Odds on who’ll win the oscars

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Jan 26 2011 | 18:57 pm

Here are the latest racetrack odds on the top Academy Academy contests based upon the Oscar predictions of our team of experts from leading media. Click HERE to see their forecasts in all 24 categories

BEST PICTURE
“The King’s Speech” – 2/5
“The Social Network” – 4/1
“The Fighter” – 20/1
“True Grit” – 25/1
“Black Swan” – 40/1
“Inception” – 50/1
“Toy Story 3” – 80/1
“The Kids Are All Right” – 85/1
“127 Hours” – 90/1
“Winter’s Bone” – 100/1 [Read more…]

goldderby.com final stretch Oscar predix

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Predix from top experts

Here are the latest Oscar predictions from these top experts: Thelma Adams (Us Weekly, Thelmadams.com), Tim Appelo (Hollywood Reporter), Erik Davis (Cinematical), Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Scott Feinberg (ScottFeinberg.com), Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood), Tariq Khan (Fox News), Joseph Kapsch (Zap2It), Dave Karger (Entertainment Weekly), Peter Knegt (Indiewire), Kevin Lewin (WENN), Guy Lodge (In Contention), Michael Musto (Village Voice), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby, The Envelope), Kevin Polowy (NextMovie), Steve Pond (The Odds, The Wrap), Paul Sheehan (Gold Derby), Keith Simanton (IMDB), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Kris Tapley (In Contention), Anne Thompson (IndieWire)  Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Chuck Walton (Fandango), Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood-Elsewhere), Susan Wloszczyna (USA Today).

Click HERE to see the racetrack odds based upon these predictions. Click HERE to see how our pundits fared predicting nominations. (Congrats to Steve Pond for leading the way!)

BEST PICTURE
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception” — Simanton
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech” — Adams, Appelo, Ebert, Feinberg, Hammond, Karger, Khan, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, Musto, O’Neil, Pond, Sheehan, Tapley, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Walton, Wloszczyna
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network” — Davis, Kapsch, Polowy, Stone, Travers, Wells
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan”
David O. Russell, “The Fighter”
Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech” — Adams, Ebert, Feinberg, Hammond, Khan, Musto, Pond, Tapley, Walton, Wloszczyna
David Fincher, “The Social Network” — Appelo, Davis, Kapsch, Karger, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, O’Neil, Polowy, Sheehan, Simanton, Stone, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Travers, Wells
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “True Grit”

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges, “True Grit”
Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network”
Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” — Adams, Appelo, Davis, Ebert, Feinberg, Hammond, Khan, Kapsch, Karger, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, Musto, O’Neil, Polowy, Pond, Sheehan, Simanton, Stone, Tapley, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Travers, Walton, Wells, Wloszczyna
James Franco, “127 Hours”

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right” — Adams, Hammond, Thompson, Travers
Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone”
Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” — Appelo, Davis, Ebert, Feinberg, Kapsch, Karger, Khan, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, Musto, O’Neil, Polowy, Pond, Sheehan, Simanton, Stone, Tapley, Tourtellotte, Walton, Wells, Wloszczyna
Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, “The Fighter” — Adams, Appelo, Davis, Feinberg, Hammond, Kapsch, Karger, Khan, Knegt, Lewin, Lodge, Musto, O’Neil, Polowy, Pond, Sheehan, Simanton, Tapley, Thompson, Tourtellotte, Travers, Walton, Wells, Wloszczyna
John Hawkes, “Winter’s Bone”
Jeremy Renner, “The Town”
Mark Ruffalo, “The Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech” — Ebert, Stone

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Latest Oscar Predix

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Oscar the Grouch

My pix in bold & blue

BEST PICTURE

“Black Swan”

“The Fighter”

“Inception”

“The Kids Are All Right”

“The King’s Speech” XX

“127 Hours”

“The Social Network”

“Toy Story 3”

“True Grit”

“Winter’s Bone”

BEST DIRECTOR

“Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky

“The Fighter,” David O. Russell

“The King’s Speech,” Tom Hooper XX

“The Social Network,” David Fincher

“True Grit,” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen [Read more…]