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[Synon]

Oscarsgalan 2010
www.oscar.com


2009 års vinnare:
Danny Boyle, regi Slumdog Millionaire

Monday, December 28, 2009: Nominations ballots mailed
Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 20, 2010: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, March 7, 2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation

www.oscar.com
www.oscar.org

Jag är en stor älskare av det underbara spektaklet som Oscarsgalan egentligen är: nomineringarna och vinnarna - vem eller vilken film står högst i gunst hos juryn? Blir det någon som får tröstpris? Vem går hem lottlös?
Till syvende och sist handlar det ju mycket om politik - se bara på Peter Jacksons Sagan om ringen: de två första filmerna vann de "mindre attraktiva" kategorierna. När det så var dags för den tredje, och sista, Konungens återkomst sopade den rent banan och tog hem alla elva kategorier den var nominerad i, bl a för Bästa film. I mitt tycke var det ren kompensation för att de andra ej fick något

Nog om det! Låt oss fokusera på kommande gala:


Första, stora snackisen kom häromveckan:

Paramount Pictures have pushed Martin Scorsese's "SHUTTER ISLAND" back from its October 2nd release day to February 19th, 2010.
The reason, well the economic climate according to studio chairman-CEO Brad Grey.

"Our 2009 slate was greenlit in a very different economic climate and as a result we must remain flexible and willing to recalibrate and adapt to a changing environment."

The move puts it out of Oscar contention for the 2010 Academy Awards.

The film is set in 1954, with Leonardo DiCaprio portraying a U.S. marshal investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. Mark Ruffalo co-stars.

Source : thehollywoodnews.com / cinema-france.com

Se även: http://www.scifinytt...?showtopic=9232



Ändringar har skett vad gäller röstningsreglerna:

2 september 2009

Oscars Bosses Change The Rules

Bosses at the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have changed the voting rules for the Academy Awards - to help make the polling for the coveted Best Picture Oscar more accurate.

The changes mean members will now be asked to rate the ten nominees in order of preference, rather than picking one outright winner.

The news comes after Academy executives extended the final shortlist from five to ten movies, starting with the 2010 ceremony.

It is hoped the new preferential voting system will help the organisation recognise "the picture that has the most support from the entire membership."

Academy executive director, Bruce Davis, says. "There are certain mathematical dangers with more nominees. You could really get a fragmentation to the point where a picture with 18 or 20 percent of the vote could win, and the board didn't want that to happen."

AND THE NOMINEES ARE... (kopierat från Cartmans post)

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney in "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth in "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman in "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Matt Damon in "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side"
Helen Mirren in "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan in "An Education"
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Penélope Cruz in "Nine"
Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air"
Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart"
Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

Best animated feature film of the year
"Coraline" - Henry Selick
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Wes Anderson
"The Princess and the Frog" - John Musker and Ron Clements
"The Secret of Kells" - Tomm Moore
"Up" - Pete Docter

Achievement in art direction
"Avatar" - Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg - Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" - Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro - Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
"Nine" - Art Direction: John Myhre - Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
"Sherlock Holmes" - Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood - Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Young Victoria" - Art Direction: Patrice Vermette - Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Achievement in cinematography

"Avatar" - Mauro Fiore
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - Bruno Delbonnel
"The Hurt Locker" - Barry Ackroyd
"Inglourious Basterds" - Robert Richardson
"The White Ribbon" - Christian Berger

Achievement in costume design

"Bright Star" - Janet Patterson
"Coco before Chanel" - Catherine Leterrier
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" - Monique Prudhomme
"Nine" - Colleen Atwood
"The Young Victoria" - Sandy Powell

Achievement in directing

"Avatar" - James Cameron
"The Hurt Locker" - Kathryn Bigelow
"Inglourious Basterds" - Quentin Tarantino
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" - Lee Daniels
"Up in the Air" - Jason Reitman

Best documentary feature

"Burma VJ"
"The Cove"
"Food, Inc."
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
"Which Way Home"

Best documentary short subject

"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province"
"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner"
"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant"
"Music by Prudence"
"Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution)

Achievement in film editing

"Avatar" - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
"District 9" - Julian Clarke
"The Hurt Locker" - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
"Inglourious Basterds" - Sally Menke
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" - Joe Klotz

Best foreign language film of the year

"Ajami" - Israel
"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" - Argentina
"The Milk of Sorrow" - Peru
"Un Prophète" - France
"The White Ribbon" - Germany

Achievement in makeup

"Il Divo" - Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
"Star Trek" - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
"The Young Victoria" - Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

"Avatar" - James Horner
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Alexandre Desplat
"The Hurt Locker" - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
"Sherlock Holmes" - Hans Zimmer
"Up" - Michael Giacchino

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" - Music by Reinhardt Wagner and Lyric by Frank Thomas
"Take It All" from "Nine" - Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year

"Avatar"
"The Blind Side"
"District 9"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
"A Serious Man"
"Up"
"Up in the Air"

Best animated short film

"French Roast"
"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty"
"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)"
"Logorama"
"A Matter of Loaf and Death"

Best live action short film

"The Door"
"Instead of Abracadabra"
"Kavi"
"Miracle Fish"
"The New Tenants"

Achievement in sound editing
"Avatar" - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
"The Hurt Locker" - Paul N.J. Ottosson
"Inglourious Basterds" - Wylie Stateman
"Star Trek" - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
"Up" - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Achievement in sound mixing

"Avatar" - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
"The Hurt Locker" - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
"Inglourious Basterds" - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
"Star Trek" - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Achievement in visual effects

"Avatar" - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
"District 9" - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
"Star Trek" - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Adapted screenplay

"District 9" - Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
"An Education" - Screenplay by Nick Hornby
"In the Loop" - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" - Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
"Up in the Air" - Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Original screenplay

"The Hurt Locker" - Written by Mark Boal
"Inglourious Basterds" - Written by Quentin Tarantino
"The Messenger" - Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
"A Serious Man" - Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"Up" - Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter - Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Picture Distribution Company Nominations

"Avatar" 20th Century Fox 9
"The Hurt Locker" Summit Entertainment 9
"Inglourious Basterds" The Weinstein Company 8
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Lionsgate 6
"Up in the Air" Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios 6
"Up" Walt Disney 5
"District 9" Sony Pictures Releasing 4
"Nine" The Weinstein Company 4
"Star Trek" Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment 4
"Crazy Heart" Fox Searchlight 3
"An Education" Sony Pictures Classics 3
"The Princess and the Frog" Walt Disney 3
"The Young Victoria" Apparition 3
"The Blind Side" Warner Bros. 2
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" 20th Century Fox 2
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" Sony Pictures Classics 2
"Invictus" Warner Bros. 2
"The Last Station" Sony Pictures Classics 2
"The Messenger" Oscilloscope Laboratories 2
"A Serious Man" Focus Features 2
"Sherlock Holmes" Warner Bros. 2
"The White Ribbon" Sony Pictures Classics 2

Edited by Wylie Times, 02 February 2010 - 15:58.

[Fiskrens]

Det blir "medelsvensson" som vinner, alltså. En film som delar juryn och får mest 1:or men också många 10:or kommer att förlora mot en som de flesta tycker är hyfsat bra och får många 3-5:or. Om de har jämn viktning, vill säga.

[Synon]

Ja, vi får se om det blir en skräll när vinnaren för Bästa film koras

Bara början på september och redan stött på två st spekulationer om Oscars-kandidater! Ovan nämnda Shutter Island var en och här nedan kommer nästa:

Telluride peaks like 'Slumdog' hard to predict
Colorado festival is adjusting to awards expectations

By Jay A. Fernandez

Sept 3, 2009, 02:00 PM ET

With the afterglow of "Slumdog Millionaire's" stunning Oscar run, the Telluride Film Festival launches its 36th iteration Friday. So just how much pressure and attention is on the unassuming fest, which runs through Monday?

The triumphant campaign for Danny Boyle's best picture winner was triggered by its last-minute inclusion in Telluride last year. And with award-winning films such as "Juno" (2007), "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), "Walk the Line" (2005) and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) launched from the Colorado mountain aerie over the past few years, the "Slumdog" slam dunk has only increased speculation about the festival's magic touch.

"If you go back through the history of the festival, there have been films almost every year that came out of nowhere," said Gary Meyer, who serves as festival director with Tom Luddy. "There's now going to be an expectation that we will have to deal with, of people saying, 'Oh! Is that film going to win an Academy Award for best picture?' The answer will be: 'We don't know. We hope a whole bunch of them do, right?' But we're not looking for Oscar bait per se."

Awards predictions may be a perennially fruitless endeavor, especially as early as September, but one of the wild cards at this year's Telluride could be Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air."

The film is not included in the Telluride lineup, which, following the fest's tradition of keeping mum until the last minute, was released Thursday.

But "Air," which Paramount plans to release in December, is rumored to show up in an unannounced preview slot. That should provide both the high glamour factor, with star George Clooney turning in a performance pulling award whispers behind it, if Reitman's previous two films, "Thank You for Smoking" and "Juno," are any indication.

With its follow-up Toronto screening, "Air" will look to trace the path of "Juno," which bounced from Telluride to Toronto on its way to $227 million in global boxoffice, four Oscar nominations and one win for screenwriter Diablo Cody.

[Synon]

broadwayworld.com

Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman & More to Receive Academy Governors Awards

Friday, September 11, 2009; Posted: 08:09 AM - by BWW News Desk

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted tonight to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis. All four awards will be presented at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards event on Saturday, November 14, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.

"These four individuals have each, in their own unique way, made lasting impressions on the motion picture industry and audiences worldwide," said Academy President Tom Sherak. "I'm thrilled that the Academy's Board selected them to be honored at our new Governors Awards event, which will be full of memorable moments celebrating their accomplishments."

...........

The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given to an individual for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding servIce To the Academy."

The Thalberg Award, a bust of the motion picture executive, is given to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production."

Kanske skulle testa?

The Hollywood Reporter

Oscar bleacher seats to be chosen randomly

Applicants may register as many as four people

Staff report

Sept 10, 2009, 06:45 PM ET
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will once again use a random drawing to choose 700 fans to sit in the bleachers on the red carpet at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Beginning Monday and continuing through Sept. 20, fans can enter the drawing at www.oscars.org/bleachers.

After the red carpet arrivals, everyone seated in the bleachers will be invited to watch the Academy Awards telecst, set for March 7 at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland, at a nearby location.

To be eligible for the random drawing, an individual must complete the application form in its entirety. Applications may only be submitted online. Forms may not be returned via U.S. mail, fax or private delivery service such as UPS or FedEx.

Applicants may register as many as four people; however, only one form will be accepted per person or group.

Those whose names are selected in the random drawing will be notified in early October. They will then be required to submit additional information for security purposes prior to final approval. Eligible attendees will receive a confirmation letter in early December with information pertinent to the event.

Only those individuals who have been preapproved by the Academy will have access to the bleachers. Those who wait overnight to attempt admittance will not be granted entry.

In previous years, as many as 20,000 fans have applied online for the limited number of red carpet seats.

Någon som sett denna?

The Hollywood Reporter

Japan nominates 'Nobody' for Oscar
Cop drama hopes to follow in 'Departures' footsteps

By Patrick Frater

Sept 10, 2009, 10:49 PM ET
HONG KONG -- Japan, the country which enjoyed two Academy Award wins last year, has selected the Ryoichi Kimizuka-directed "Nobody to Watch Over Me" ("Dare Mo Mamotte Kurenei") as its contender for the 2009 foreign-language Oscar race.

A suspense drama starring Koichi Sato as a cop protecting a teen from the media as a murder trial cranks up, "Nobody" was produced by Fuji TV and released by Toho in January. As with most Fuji films it is sold internationally by Pony Canyon.

Kimizuka is better known as a screen writer, notably for the "Bayside Shakedown" series that Fuji TV also produced.

Last year's foreign-language award was won by "Departures" ("Okuribito") while the animated short film award went to "The House of Small Cubes" ("Tsumiki No Ie").

Edited by Synon, 11 September 2009 - 17:32.

[Georgia]

Sveriges Oscarskandidat presenteras | Kulturnyheter | SvD

På tisdagen avslöjar Svenska filminstitutets vd Cissi Elwin Frenkel vilken film som blir Sveriges kandidat till kampen om Oscarsstatyetten för bästa icke engelskspråkiga film. Kampen väntas stå mellan kritikerfavoriterna "Flickan", "Man tänker sitt" och "Prinsessa" som alla har haft premiär under hösten.

Om inte Filminstitutets Oscarsjury väljer ut publikfavoriten "Män som hatar kvinnor", en film som redan setts av 6 miljoner biobesökare i 35 länder och därmed skulle ha ett visst försprång.

En av årets mest omtalade svenska filmer, Lukas Moodyssons "Mammut", kan inte komma i fråga eftersom dialogen till största del är på engelska.

Vilka fem filmer som till slut nomineras till en Oscars tillkännages efter nyår.

[Synon]

Jag skulle bli mycket förvånad om det inte blir Män som hatar kvinnor med tanke på all uppmärksamhet den fått, även "over there"
Men man kan aldrig veta hur de tänker

[Fiskrens]

De ofrivilliga” Sveriges Oscarsbidrag

Juryn har sagt sitt. Det blir "De ofrivilliga" som skickas till Academy of Motion Picutres Arts and Science i hopp om att vinna en Oscar för bästa film på annat språk än engelska.

Trevligt, något oväntat val . Har inte sett den än, låg på "min lista" men jag hann glömma bort den. Gillade bitvis hans förra, Gitarrmongot - nu ska jag definitivt se den här.

[Cartman]

Bra film faktiskt. Får se hur stor chans den har att bli nominerad.

[Fiskrens]

Därför var ”Låt den rätte” inte valbar

[Synon]

Jaha, ja då får jag väl lov att se den

[Synon]

Notera söndag 7 mars 2010 i kalendern för då är det dax!

Som vanligt blir det i Kodak Theatre, Hollywood och ABC som står för sändning. Hoppas nu att kanal 9 återigen visar det i svensk tv!

Oscar 2010 Dates

Academy President Sid Ganis has announced that the 82nd Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010.

The ceremony will once again take place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by ABC in the United States.

The new March date has been set so the 2010 Oscar ceremony will not compete with the Winter Olympics, which in the US will be televised by NBC in February. The Academy reportedly plans to return its awards ceremony to late February in 2011.


Key dates currently scheduled for the 2010 Oscars are:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009: Official Screen Credits forms due

Monday, December 28, 2009: Nominations ballots mailed

Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT

Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed

Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon

Saturday, February 20, 2010: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation

Tuesday, March 2, 2010: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT

Sunday, March 7, 2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation

Gällande svenska bidrag:

SvD
Publicerad: 15 september 2009


De senaste tio årens svenska bidrag till Oscarsnomineringen:

2009: "De ofrivilliga" (regi: Ruben Östlund)

2008: "Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick" (Jan Troell)

2007: "Du levande" (Roy Andersson)

2006: "Farväl Falkenberg" (Jesper Ganslandt)

2005: "Zozo" (Josef Fares)

2004: "Så som i himmelen" (Kay Pollak: blev Oscarsnominerad)

2003: "Ondskan" (Mikael Håfström; blev Oscarsnominerad)

2002: "Lilja 4-ever" (Lukas Moodysson)

2001: "Jalla! Jalla!" (Josef Fares)

2000: "Sånger från andra våningen" (Roy Andersson)


14 svenska filmer har blivit nominerade till en Oscar för bästa utländska film. Fyra har vunnit. Här är hela listan:

+ "Jungfrukällan" (regi: Ingmar Bergman, 1960; vinnare)

+ "Såsom i en spegel" (Ingmar Bergman, 1961, vinnare)

+ "Kvarteret Korpen" (Bo Widerberg, 1964)

+ "Käre John" (Lars-Magnus Lindgren, 1965)

+ "Ådalen '31" (Bo Widerberg, 1969)

+ "Utvandrarna" (Jan Troell, 1971)

+ "Nybyggarna" (Jan Troell, 1972)

+ "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (Jan Troell, 1982)

+ "Fanny & Alexander" (Ingmar Bergman, 1983, vinnare)

+ "Pelle erövraren" (svensk/dansk, Bille August, 1988, vinnare)

+ "Oxen" (Sven Nykvist, 1991)

+ "Lust och fägring stor" (Bo Widerberg, 1995)

+ "Under solen" (Colin Nutley, 1999)

+ "Ondskan" (Mikael Håfström, 2003)

+ "Så som i himmelen" (Kay Pollak, 2004)

[Peak]

Givetvis så skall ju "Låt den rätte..." diskas. Den är väl den enda svenska filmen med en chans att vinna, så...

Pah.

[Synon]

Trolig Oscars-kandidat?
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

“PRECIOUS” BECOMES OSCAR CONTENDER AFTER TORONTO WIN
Monday, September 21, 2009

Lee Daniels' drama Precious, which had already been showered with awards at the Sundance Film Festival, added the top People's Choice prize from the Toronto Film Festival to its collection on Saturday. The award immediately put it into contention for next year's Oscars. (Last year's TFF winner was Slumdog Millionaire.) It also virtually assures a best-actress nomination for newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, who plays the title role. In the documentary category, Michael Moore's latest, Capitalism: A Love Story, was edged out by Leanne Pooley's The Topp Twins, about a pair of New Zealand lesbian country singers.

Kina har valt sin film, Forever Enthralled. Tredje gången gillt då för Chen?

Låter som en intressant film så denna ska jag nog försöka se.

China picks 'Forever Enthralled' for Oscars
Chen's biopic of Mei Lanfang stars Zhang Ziyi, Leon Lai

By Steven Schwankert
Sept 26, 2009, 04:48 AM ET

BEIJING -- The People's Republic of China selected director Chen Kaige's Peking opera biopic " Forever Enthralled" to represent it in the annual run for the best foreign language Academy Award, China's Film Bureau announced Saturday.

Chen's ("Farewell My Concubine") biopic of China's most famous Peking opera performer stars Beijing-born pop star Leon Lai in the title role as Mei Lanfang. The film also stars Zhang Ziyi. It is a co-production between China Film Group and Taiwan's China Magnetics Corp. Co.

This will be Chen's third time representing China at the Oscars, having been previously nominated for "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Promise." No Chinese mainland film has ever won the best foreign language award, although Ang Lee's Mandarin-language "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," entered on behalf of Taiwan, won in 2001.

"Forever" faces two other Mandarin-language entries this year: Hong Kong's pick, Yonfan's "Prince of Tears"; and Taiwan's official selection, Leon Dai's "No puedo vivir sin ti."

Mei, who died in 1961, made his name playing dan, or female roles, and was the last great male performer to do so after Peking opera was sexually integrated in the early part of the 20th century.

Edited by Synon, 27 September 2009 - 20:34.

[Synon]

Italien har valt Baarìa (2009) och Spanien El baile de la victoria (2009) - The Dancer and the Thief

Oscar entries increase before deadline - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
Trueba, Tornatore films bid for Spain, Italy

By JOHN HOPEWELL, MICHAEL DAY
Posted: Tue., Sep. 29, 2009, 2:39pm PT


Countries are rushing to get their foreign-language film Oscar entries into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences before Thursday's 5 p.m. PT deadline.

A slew of pics have been announced in the last five days, including Giuseppe Tornatore's big-budget Sicilian epic "Baaria," which will represent Italy, and Fernando Trueba's "The Dancer and the Thief" for Spain.

"Baaria," which opened the Venice Film Festival, depicts sweeping social changes in the eponymous Sicilian village where Tornatore grew up. It has been described as his most ambitious work since "Cinema Paradiso," which won the foreign-language Oscar in 1989.

Produced by Medusa on a $37 million budget, it's one of the most expensive Italian films in years.

The pic, chosen by Anica, the org that reps the Italo industry, has received mixed reviews. In contrast, its main rival, Marco Bellocchio's "Vincere," has won consistently strong notices from international critics.

"The Dancer and the Thief," selected by Spain's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is the first fiction feature in seven years from Trueba, who won a foreign-language Oscar for "Belle epoque" in 1994.

Produced by Cristina Huete and sold by 6 Sales, "Dancer" is a romance between two ex-cons and a mute wannabe ballet dancer.

China has chosen "Forever Enthralled," the Chen Kaige-helmed biopic about Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang.

Pic, starring Leon Lai, bowed on Dec. 4 and earned $17 million at the local box office.

It was chosen by the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

Movie reps Kaige's third run at the Oscar following "Farewell, My Concubine," which also concerned Peking Opera, and fantasy epic "The Promise."

Cannes' Directors' Fortnight player "Ajami" won the Israeli Film Academy's Ophir Awards, making it the country's automatic Oscar nominee.

Co-directed by Israeli Yaron Shani and Palestinian Scandar Copti, it's a politically sensitive choice in the region.

Kino Films is releasing the gritty crime drama in the U.S.

The film beat Samuel Maoz's much-touted Venice Golden Lion winner "Lebanon."

The other Oscar hopefuls unveiled recently are Australia, "Samson and Delilah," Warwick Thornton; Albania, "Alive," Artan Minarolli; Argentina, "The Secret in Their Eyes," Juan Jose Campanella; Austria, "For a Moment, Freedom," Arash T. Riahi; Bolivia, "Southern Zone," Juan Carlos Valdivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Night Guards," Namik Kabil; Chile, "Isla 10," Miguel Littin; Croatia, "Donkey," Antonio Nuic; Czech Republic, "Protector," Marek Najbrt; Estonia, "December Heat," Asko Kase; Iceland, "Reykjavik Rotterdam," Oskar Jonasson; Iran, "About Elly," Asghar Farhadi; Macedonia, "Wingless," Ivo Trajkov; Norway, "Max Manus," Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning; Philippines, "Grandfather Is Dead," Soxie Topacio; Russia, "Ward No. 6," Aleksandr Gornovsky; Slovakia, "Broken Promise," Jiri Chlumski; Venezuela, "Libertador morales, el justiciero," Efterpi Charalambidis.

Foreign-language Oscar nominations will be announced Feb. 2, and the Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theater on March 7.

[Synon]

Oscar short documentary contenders named

Short list includes 'Tell Them Anything You Want'
By Gregg Kilday
Oct 9, 2009, 08:21 PM ET

Author Maurice Sendak, whose childrens' book "Where the Wilds Things Are" arrives on the big screen next Friday, also is the subject of one of eight short documentaries that will contend for Oscar honors at the 82nd annual Academy Awards.

Spike Jonze, who directed "Wild Things," is one of the directors of the short-listed film, "Tell Them Anything You Want, A Portrait of Maurice Sendak," that made the cut.

Thirty-seven films were submitted in the short doc category and on Friday the Academy's documentary branch released a list of the eight films that have been short-listed. Three to five of them will be nominated when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2.

The contenders are:

-- "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province," from filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill and Downtown Community Television Center, which looks at the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Sinchuan Province last year.

-- "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner," from Just Media, is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state's Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted suicide.

-- "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant," from Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and Community Media Productions, which follows the closing of a GM plant in Moraine, Ohio.

-- "Lt. Watada," from Chanlim Films, a portrait of a U.S. Army lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006 because he believed the war was illegal.

-- "Music by Prudence," iThemba Productions, Inc.

-- "Rabbit a la Berlin," from Bartosz Konopka and MS Films, is the story of wild rabbits that lived between the Berlin Walls.

-- "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak," from Lance Bangs, Jonze and Outside Productions.

-- "Woman Rebel," from Kiran Deol and Women Rebel Films, about women rebel soldiers in Nepal.

[Cartman]

movieweb.com - 2009 Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees Announced

October 15th, 2009.

Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The 2009 submissions are:

Albania, Alive!, Artan Minarolli, director;
Argentina, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Juan Jose Campanella, director;
Armenia, Autumn of the Magician, Rouben Kevorkov and Vaheh Kevorkov, directors;
Australia, Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton, director;
Austria, For a Moment Freedom, Arash T. Riahi, director;
Bangladesh, Beyond the Circle, Golam Rabbany Biplob, director;
Belgium, The Misfortunates, Felix van Groeningen, director;
Bolivia, Zona Sur, Juan Carlos Valdivia, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nightguards, Namik Kabil, director;
Brazil, Time of Fear, Sergio Rezende, director;
Bulgaria, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner, Stephan Komandarev, director;
Canada, I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan, director;
Chile, Dawson, Isla 10, Miguel Littin, director;
China, Forever Enthralled, Chen Kaige, director;
Colombia, The Wind Journeys, Ciro Guerra, director;
Croatia, Donkey, Antonio Nuic, director;
Cuba, Fallen Gods, Ernesto Daranas, director;
Czech Republic, Protektor, Marek Najbrt, director;
Denmark, Terribly Happy, Henrik Ruben Genz, director;
Estonia, December Heat, Asko Kase, director;
Finland, Letters to Father Jacob, Klaus Haro, director;
France, A Prophet, Jacques Audiard, director;
Georgia, The Other Bank, George Ovashvili, director;
Germany, The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, director;
Greece, Slaves in Their Bonds, Tony Lykouressis, director;
Hong Kong, Prince of Tears, Yonfan, director;
Hungary, Chameleon, Krisztina Goda, director;
Iceland, Reykjavik-Rotterdam, Oskar Jonasson, director;
India, Harishchandrachi Factory, Paresh Mokashi, director;
Indonesia, Jamila and the President, Ratna Sarumpaet;
Iran, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi, director;
Israel, Ajami, Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, director;
Italy, Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore, director;
Japan, Nobody to Watch over Me, Ryoichi Kimizuka, director;
Kazakhstan, Kelin, Ermek Tursunov, director;
Korea, Mother, Joon-ho Bong, director;
Lithuania, Vortex, Gytis Luksas, director;
Luxembourg, Refractaire, Nicolas Steil, director;
Macedonia, Wingless, Ivo Trajkov, director;
Mexico, Backyard, Carlos Carrera, director;
Morocco, Casanegra, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, director;
The Netherlands, Winter in Wartime, Martin Koolhoven, director;
Norway, Max Manus, Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning, directors;
Peru, The Milk of Sorrow, Claudia Llosa, director;
Philippines, Grandpa Is Dead, Soxie H. Topacio, director;
Poland, Reverse, Borys Lankosz, director;
Portugal, Doomed Love, Mario Barroso, director;
Puerto Rico, Kabo and Platon, Edmundo H. Rodriguez, director;
Romania, Police, Adjective, Corneliu Porumboiu, director;
Russia, Ward No. 6, Karen Shakhnazarov, director;
Serbia, St. George Shoots the Dragon, Srdjan Dragojevic, director;
Slovakia, Broken Promise, Jiri Chlumsky, director;
Slovenia, Landscape No. 2, Vinko Moderndorfer, director;
South Africa, White Wedding, Jann Turner, director;
Spain, The Dancer and the Thief, Fernando Trueba, director;
Sri Lanka, The Road from Elephant Pass, Chandran Rutnam;
Sweden, Involuntary, Ruben Ostlund, director;
Switzerland, Home, Ursula Meier, director;
Taiwan, No Puedo Vivir sin Ti, Leon Dai, director;
Thailand, Best of Times, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, director;
Turkey, I Saw the Sun, Mahsun Kirmizigul, director;
United Kingdom, Afghan Star, Havana Marking, director;
Uruguay, Bad Day for Fishing, Alvaro Brechner, director;
Venezuela, Libertador Morales, El Justiciero, Dang Nhat Minh.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Edited by Cartman, 16 October 2009 - 15:10.

[Georgia]

Hugh Jackman Might Host the Oscars Again | WorstPreviews.com

The AMPAS people have been watching their Oscars award show lose more and more viewers each year. This string of lousy TV ratings finally broke when Hugh Jackman hosted in February. Now, they are looking to duplicate the results for the 2010 Oscars.

AMPAS went to Larry Mark and Bill Condon to produce and direct again, but Mark is busy producing a new movie and Condon is prepping his Richard Pryor biopic. So they had to turn down the offer.

DeadlineHollywood is now reporting that AMPAS is looking into the availability of Jackman to host for the second year in a row. No word on whether the Aussie actor will want to do it again, but his people are recommending against it. Stay tuned.

Source: DeadlineHollywood

[Synon]

Jag protesterar inte: han gjorde ett bra jobb

[Cartman]

Vad tycker vi om det här?

variety.com

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to host Oscars.

Duo to co-host 82nd Academy Awards.

The Oscars keep multiplying.

After the Academy increased its best picture category to 10 films and tapped a pair of producers, it announced that there will be two hosts for the 82nd annual Academy Awards -- Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin -- the first time the show has had multiple hosts since the 1987 ceremonies.

Almost immediately after Tuesday's announcement, insiders began speculating that Tina Fey -- who presented with Martin at the most recent Oscarcast and co-stars with Baldwin on "30 Rock" -- will join the team as one of its key writers. The show will air live March 7 on ABC.

Martin and Baldwin are familiar to both TV and film audiences, and both have been a presence at past Oscars.

Martin hosted the show in 2001 and 2003. Baldwin has been a presenter, and proved a lively performer on "Saturday Night Live," hosting that show more than anyone else during its run. He was considered to be on Shankman and Mechanic's shortlist after winning raves for hosting Elle's Women in Hollywood event just weeks ago (Daily Variety, Oct. 21).

Baldwin also was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for his supporting role in "The Cooler."

He and Martin also co-star in Nancy Meyers' comedy "It's Complicated," which Universal will distrib on Christmas Day. The rollout of that pic should help put a spotlight on Oscar's new hosts, similar to the cross-promotion last year when Fox's "Australia" fed into the PR machine for host Hugh Jackman.

Martin is currently touring with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers in support of his latest album, "The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo."

"I don't play the banjo but I'm thrilled to be hosting the Oscars -- it's the opportunity of a lifetime," Baldwin said.

The comedic duo replace last year's host Jackman, who helped the show enjoy a rare ratings boost.

The decision to find a replacement for the hosting gig fell in the hands of Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, who took over producing duties of the show this year from Bill Condon and Laurence Mark.

"We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars," said Shankman, who directed Martin in the comedy "Bringing Down the House," and Mechanic in a statement. "Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event."

When Martin took the stage for the 73rd installment of the show, he quipped, "Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman -- it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town."

He generally got thumbs-up from critics, but not necessarily TV audiences. The show in 2001, during which "Gladiator" won the top prize, lost millions of viewers for the first time in four years. Even more of its audience fled in 2005, making the show the least watched and lowest rated telecast since auds were measured in 1974, until the 80th ceremony established a new low point in 2008.

Oscar had a string of multiple hosts in the 1970s and '80s, with sometimes four or five people sharing the chores. The 1987 telecast was fronted by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan.

[Synon]

Hm...Steve Martin och Alec Balwin...
Vet inte riktigt vad jag ska tro om det? Steve Martin kan var ok om han inte spårar ur totalt och enbart blir påfrestande, Baldwin känns lite småtråkig. Fast det innebär ju att det kan bli en positiv överraskning

Så Carty, vad tycker vi egentligen om det här?



Oscar till Michael Jackson?
Sony vill tydligen ha med "This is it!" i kategorin Bästa film. En dokumentär egentligen, men deadlinen där har gått ut.
Jag är ganska övertygad om denna film kommer att plocka hem en Oscar eller två för de andra kategorierna den blir nominerad i pga Michaels död om inte annat (inte första gången juryn skulle göra något liknande. Politik, politik), men för Bästa film? Spontant borde det vara tveksamt, men you never know...Kan ju vara ruggigt bra och konkurrensen ljum...

SONY THINKS “THIS IS IT!” DESERVES BEST-PICTURE OSCAR
Friday, October 30, 2009

Sony said Thursday that it plans to promote Michael Jackson's This Is It! concert documentary for a best-picture Oscar. The film, which received mostly solid reviews from critics when it was released on
Wednesday, is not eligible in the documentary category since the deadline for submissions was August 31, but once it completes a seven-day run in theaters it automatically becomes eligible for consideration in the best-film category (and also in the sound and editing categories, too, where it will likely be a strong contender). Meanwhile, Sony, which is distributing the movie in the U.S., said that This Is It! grossed $20.1 million worldwide on Wednesday, including $7.4 million in North America. And the Los Angeles Times reported that the studio's plan to release the movie on DVD in time for the holidays was nixed by theater owners, who have made it clear that they will fight any studio that tries to release a film on DVD less than three months after its theatrical run.

Edited by Synon, 04 November 2009 - 21:15.

[Cartman]

Är lite tveksam till att ha två värdar. Sedan är jag inte mycket för någon av herrarna. Vet inte riktigt om någon av dom passar in i sammanhanget. Kan bara utgå från hur dom är som skådespelare men det avgör ju inte hurvida dom kommer att klara av den här uppgiften eller ej. Så lite skeptisk är jag, men fortfarande optimistisk över att det ska bli bra.

[Synon]

Verkar som att det har kommit protester mot beslutet att ha två Oscarsvärdar?

OSCARS CO-PRODUCER DEFENDS DECISION TO BRING IN TWO HOSTS
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Adam Shankman maintains that he was not brought in to co-produce next year's Academy Award show because of any desire by the motion picture academy to expand or enhance the production numbers. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shankman acknowledged, "There had been a lot of speculation
surrounding the hiring of me as a signal that there might be more of the song/dance. But I don't want musical numbers unless there's an organic fit into the show." He said that when he contacted Steve Martin, who had twice hosted the Oscars, about doing the show again, he told him, "I want the show to feel that we are continuing to build on the Oscars and I'm not trying to make the MTV Movie Awards. I want there to be some level of tradition that is respected by the [Hollywood] community." Shankman added Baldwin, he said, because he "wanted to twist it up, ratchet up the funny. ... It will keep it high entertainment." By presenting two hosts, he said, would lessen the burden on each of them. "Playing them together and separately will, I think, really help in the streamlining of the show."

[Synon]

Snubblade över en artikel som handlar om vilka filmer/skådespelare som kan tänkas vara med i racet (kul att notera och se vilka som verkligen blir nominerade):

Oscars 2010: What We Think We Know

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Best Picture (ten nominees)
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
Nine
Precious
Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Rob Marshall - Nine
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabby Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Actor
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Judi Dench - Nine
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon - Invictus
Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds

[Synon]

'Up in the Air' Songs Pulled from Oscar Race
Nov 9th 2009 // 8:45PM

Well, it's November, which means the awards contenders are steadily coming out of the woodwork, and just as we have the Academy Awards to look forward to, we also have their fine print to tolerate. The first of this year's disqualifications naturally come from the music end of things, the same category that didn't see fit to honor the tremendous original scores composed for The Dark Knight last year and There Will Be Blood the year before that.

According to Kris Tapley over at In Contention, both "Up in the Air" and "Help Yourself" from Jason Reitman's Up in the Air have been pulled out of the Best Original Song race. The former was written by Kevin Renick before he met Reitman (the song is presented in the film as it was presented to the filmmaker, with homemade introduction and all), not to mention that it comes halfway into the credits when only the first song over them can qualify. (Really, AMPAS?)

And a portion of the latter had existed earlier in Sad Brad Smith's career and thus means the song itself was not created in full for the film. It's an earnest and catchy tune, used prominently in the trailers and well in the film (and now available on iTunes, cough), but it now looks like those are two more slots left to be dominated by Disney's latest...

[Georgia]

These 20 toon movies are competing for the Oscar nomination | SCI FI Wire

The people behind the Oscars released their short list of animated movies vying for the Academy Award for best animated movie, and the list of 20 contenders pretty much encompasses all of the major toons that were released this year (or are still awaiting release).

They are:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Astro Boy
Battle for Terra
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Disney's A Christmas Carol
The Dolphin - Story of a Dreamer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mary and Max
The Missing Lynx
Monsters vs. Aliens
9
Planet 51
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
A Town Called Panic
Up

The list will be winnowed down to five official nominations for the Oscar, which will be announced on Feb. 2, 2010.

Our choices? Up, Ponyo, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Monsters vs. Aliens and The Princess and the Frog. But that's just us. What do you think?

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will air March 7, 2010, on ABC.