Sunday, March 07, 2010 - Posts
Sandra Bullock won the best actress Oscar, and her first Academy Award, on Sunday for her role as a suburban mom who takes in a homeless black teen and guides him to a football career in the "The Blind Side."
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Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga "The Hurt Locker."
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Sandra Bullock paid her dues in Hollywood for more than 20 years. She was rewarded Sunday, winning the best-actress Oscar for playing a tough white Southern woman who adopted a black child in “The Blind Side.”
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Jeff Bridges, the affable and well-liked star of “Crazy Heart,” won the best actor Academy Award Sunday night, an honor that has eluded him four times before. His first nomination came nearly 40 years ago in 1971.
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AFP - Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" dominated the 82nd Academy Awards here Sunday, scooping six Oscars including best picture on a historic night in Hollywood.
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The Dude finally has an Oscar.
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TODAY Show's style editor Bobbie Thomas shares her thoughts about the standout gowns. Rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 and see what other readers thought.
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"The Hurt Locker" won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, capping a historic Oscar ceremony that saw the low-budget Iraq war drama vanquish the sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar."
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Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker," took the Oscars by storm on Sunday winning six of the major film honors, including best movie and director for Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to win that honor.
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"Hurt Locker" won the Academy Award for best picture, and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, became the first woman ever to win the best director Oscar.
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Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to ever win a best director Oscar on Sunday for her work on "The Hurt Locker," the Iraq war film about a team of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs.
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The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" has won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
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Mo’Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won the same honor for “Gone With the Wind” — the first Academy Award ever given to a black performer.
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Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Sunday’s Academy Awards: She wore a gleaming, metallic, slim-fitting gown that seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself.
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"Hurt Locker" director becomes first woman ever to win Academy Award for directing. Four main acting honors are all awarded as predicted.
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The Argentine film "The Secret in Their Eyes," a thriller about a 25-year-long manhunt, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.
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Sandra Bullock won the best actress Oscar and her first Academy Award on Sunday for her role as a suburban mother who takes in a homeless black teen and guides him to a football career in "The Blind Side."
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Kathryn Bigelow has won the best-director Academy Award for her Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker."
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List of winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards:
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Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges have won the lead-acting honors at the Academy Awards.
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Jeff Bridges has won the best-actor Academy Award for his turn as a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act in "Crazy Heart."
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Jeff Bridges won a best actor Oscar on Sunday, his first ever Academy Award, for his role in "Crazy Heart" as a drunken country singer who finds redemption.
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Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Sunday's Academy Awards: She wore a gleaming, metallic, slim-fitting gown that seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself.
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Argentina's "The Secret in Their Eyes" won the best foreign film Oscar on Sunday, as the Latin American country claimed its second Academy Award with the crime drama.
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Comedy stars Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the first duo to share the Oscar stage as co-hosts in the television age, traded punch lines and barbs in Sunday's show as they gently roasted this year's nominees.
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Cablevision said WABC-TV's signal was switched back on for its 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the Academy Awards telecast began.
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year's Oscarcast, they're offering a pleasant reminder that an often overstuffed, cumbersome TV shindig can be lighthearted fun.
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Supporting actor and actress awards are handed out as predicted, but best picture and director winners remain tough to gauge.
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Christoph Waltz won a best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his role as a ruthless Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds," claiming his first ever Academy Award.
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Dark drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" earned two Oscars on Sunday, including supporting actress for Mo'Nique, as Hollywood's top film honors reached their mid-point.
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Mo'Nique won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her role as an abusive mother in "Precious," claiming her first Academy Award.
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Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar on Sunday night, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel became the first to do so for "Gone with the Wind."
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year's Oscarcast, they're offering a pleasant reminder that an often overstuffed, cumbersome TV shindig can be lighthearted fun.
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Mo'Nique won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her role as an abusive mother in "Precious," claiming her first ever Academy Award.
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Cablevision says WABC-TV's signal has been switched back on for its 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the Academy Awards telecast got under way.
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Cablevision Systems Corp customers were able to watch the live broadcast of the Oscars on Sunday after the cable company reached a last-minute deal to return WABC-TV to air in a dispute over fees.
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Villainous roles have snatched the supporting-acting prizes at the Academy Awards: "Precious" co-star Mo'Nique as a loathsome mother and "Inglourious Basterds" co-star Christoph Waltz as a sociable Nazi fiend.
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AFP - The 82nd Academy Awards got under way here Sunday with Austrian actor Christoph Waltz winning the first Oscar of a new-look show at Hollywood's Kodak Theater.
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Partial list of winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards:
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The curtain rose on Sunday for Hollywood's big night, the Oscars, with family movie "Up" winning best animated film and Christoph Waltz taking the trophy for best supporting actor in "Inglourious Basterds."
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Disney/Pixar's balloon adventure blockbuster "Up" won the best animated movie Oscar on Sunday, as the studio continued its dominance of cartoons at the Academy Awards.
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Disney/Pixar's balloon adventure blockbuster "Up" won the best animated movie Oscar on Sunday, as the studio continued its dominance of cartoons at the Academy Awards.
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Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino.
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Christoph Waltz won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his role as a sociable fiend of a Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds."
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Quotes from Sunday night's 82nd annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:
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The Kardashian sisters aren't making it work for “Project Runway” fashion guru Tim Gunn. "It has a cheapness and a tawdriness," he says of their look.
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James Cameron isn’t batting an eye over the recent Oscar-vote e-mail campaign by a producer of “The Hurt Locker,” a move that got Nicolas Chartier barred from Sunday’s event.
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Millions of cable subscribers faced the prospect of Oscar night without the Academy Awards broadcast after ABC's parent company switched off its signal to Cablevision customers.
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Sandra Bullock won worst actress for "All About Steve" — on the eve of her expected Academy Awards triumph for another film — at Saturday's Razzies.
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This week: HBO launches long-awaited series about the Pacific side of World War II. Also: "Green Zone" hits theaters; "Precious," "Up in the Air" come to DVD.
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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as "Alice in Wonderland" earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for a 3-D film.
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Academy Awards voters are expected to go very big or very small on their best-picture winner Sunday, honoring either blockbuster "Avatar" or critical darling "The Hurt Locker."
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In a throwback to more competitive days, Academy Award presenters rehearsed the line "and the winner is ..." instead of the blander "and the Oscar goes to ..." for Sunday's show.
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With just hours to go before a winner is announced, “Avatar” insiders are admitting that they have doubts that the best picture prize — or any Oscar — will go to their film.
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Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Sunday’s Academy Awards: She wore a gleaming, gold, slim-fitting gown that seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself.
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Helen A.S. Popkin will blog the Academy Awards as they happen, with all the glamour, glitz, and the inevitable goofs.
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New Yorkers were in suspense on Sunday afternoon over whether they would get to watch the 2010 Oscars telecast as Cablevision Systems Corp and Walt Disney Co's ABC had not yet agreed on a new contract.
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AFP - Excitement rippled through Hollywood Sunday as a galaxy of A-list stars lit up the red carpet ahead of the 82nd Academy Awards.
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"Alice in Wonderland" held the golden key to box office receipts, smashing multiple records during its first weekend of worldwide, and easily surpassed the opening stand of all-time champ "Avatar" in North America, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Sunday
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The day before she is favored to win an Oscar, Sandra Bullock was crowned on Saturday with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009.
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Is holding an online office pool to predict Oscar winners unlawful gambling?
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AFP - 5:34pm in Los Angeles: So, here we go.. the show is about to begin. This year's producers, who have subjected the ageing ceremony to yet another revamp, have promised "the greatest Oscar opening ever".
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The Israeli-Arab co-director of "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated foreign language film, said on Sunday he should not be seen as representing Israel -- "a country that doesn't represent me" -- at the Academy Awards.
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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as "Alice in Wonderland" earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for a 3-D film.
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Robert Downey, Jr. Charlize Theron. Kathy Bates. John Travolta. Tina Fey. Matt Damon. Jake Gyllenhaal. Kate Winslet. Penelope Cruz. Tom Hanks. Jennifer Lopez. Robin Williams. Zoe Saldana. Sarah Jessica Parker.
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The big day is here.
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Sandra Bullock warmed up for the Academy Awards with a stop at the Razzies to collect a dubious honor: a worst-actress prize for her romantic comedy flop "All About Steve."
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"She's Out of My League" is that rare modern screen comedy that is better than the trailers make it appear.
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Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Sunday's Academy Awards: She wore a gleaming, metallic, slim-fitting gown that seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself.
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There are many reasons why George Clooney is one of the most popular stars in Hollywood: the crinkles around his eyes when he smiles, his soothing voice and his deep brown eyes.
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The Academy Awards is without question Hollywood's biggest night, a time when the world stops to gawk at its celluloid heroes as they arrive wearing their finest clothes and jewels, many of them hoping they'll leave with a little gold statuette on their
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The Academy Awards have gotten under way with some playful ribbing of Hollywood stars by hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
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