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Oscars 2012 Red Carpet
Feb 27th
For the 84th annual Academy Awards, celebrities walk the red carpet, pose for the hundreds of waiting photographers and chat with reporters. Couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to excited up-and-comers like Jessica Chastain and Shailene Woodley made to Oscars Red Carpet. It doesn’t get bigger than this when it comes to star-studded events. The best part of any award show is seeing what everybody is wearing. No particular gown stood out but then I didn’t see anything that would fit the hideous category either. Lets see who got right? Meryl Streep dazzled the red carpet with a Golen sparkling Gown. George Clooney is as handsome as ever walked with his girlfriend. Green, which is not an easy color to pull off, worked for Viola Davis. Her emerald Vera Wang popped against her burnished skin and was fitted at the hips like a coat of latex paint. Octavia Spencer is the best dressed in her gorgeously draped Tadashi Shoji with an ultra flattering sequined starburst at the waistline and foxy train. Michelle Williams wear a Coral strapless Louis Vuitton with a peplum waist. To view the Oscars Red Carpet gallery click More >
The 2012 Oscar Winners for 84th Annual Academy Awards
Feb 27th
2012 Oscar Winners: The Artist topped the Oscar Winners list of the 84th Annual Academy Awards for the year 2012. “The Artist,” won five Academy Awards, including best picture. The film also took home Oscars for best directing for Michel Hazanavicius, the lead actor award for Jean Dujardin and trophies for costume design and score.
Meryl Streep, 62, won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” “Oh, come on,” Streep said of the standing ovation she received. “When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America say, ‘Oh, no, not her again,’ ” Streep said. “But whatever.” May expected that this award may go to Viola Davis from “The Help.” But “The Help” won an Oscar in the name of Octavia Spencer as the best supporting actress.
The full list of this year’s big Oscar winners:
Best Picture: The Artist
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners More >
The 2012 Oscar nominations are announced for the 84th Academy Awards
Jan 24th
The 2012 Oscar nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are announced Tuesday morning with big names like Goerge Clooney, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt got the nominations for best actor. Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Michelle Williams also bagged nomination in the best actress category. The Golden Globe winner “The Artist” got 4 oscar nominations in best director, best actor, best supporting actress and in best film categories.
Best Director Nominees
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Alexander Payne – The Descendants
Terrence Malick – Tree of Life
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris More >
Natalie Portman and her Fiancé Benjamin Millepied are now parents of a Baby Boy!
Jun 15th
Natalie Portman has given birth to her first child who is a baby boy according to PEOPLE magazine. Benjamin Millepied, the father of the child whom Portman met on the sets of Black Swan and got engaged few months back while announcing her pregnancy. Benjamin Millepied is a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet, choreographed the dances and played her partner on screen in Black Swan for which Natalie Portman won the Oscar Award.
“I have always kept my private life private but I will say that I am indescribably happy and feel very grateful to have this experience,” Portman said when announcing her pregnancy.
“We got along right away; she’s very, very professional, not difficult, there’s no attitude there,” Millepied told Vulture of first working with More >
Oscars 2011: James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host the Event!
Feb 23rd
Oscars 2011: The annual Academy awards presentation is a week away and ABC has released the full and final promo. The unconventional Duo of James Franco and Anne Hathaway will be hosting the show.
Anne Hathaway revealed in an interview that she and her co-host James Franco are hoping to get a few laughs but they won’t be following Ricky Gervais. “I can guarantee that if you’re looking for someone to call people out, we’re not your hosts,” Hathaway said. “I think that humor is really difficult to pull off, and I’m not particularly adept at it. I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it. Also, I don’t mean to sound overly serious, but I am the youngest host in history and I have no business being cynical or calling anyone out. I certainly haven’t earned the right to do that.”
Hathaway said that she and Franco didn’t have to come up with the jokes for the big night. “The show was pretty much laid out when we were asked. More >
Razzie Nominations:The Twilight saga: Eclipse got highest nominations!
Jan 28th
The yearly anti-Oscars i.e., Razzie nominations are out! The Twilight Saga: Eclipse scored nine nominations Monday for the Razzie awards that recognize the worst films of the year. Eclipse has a tough competitor to get golden Raspberry as “The Last Airbender” also got 9 nominations.
Razzie Nominations 2011: The other films nominated for the worst film of the year are “The Bounty Hunter” starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex and the City 2, and the Twilight parody Vampires Suck.
The worst actor category nominees are Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson from Twilight, along with Jack Black for Gulliver’s Travels, Ashton Kutcher for Killers and Valentine’s Day and Gerard for The Bounty Hunter.
And the worst actress nominees are Jennifer Aniston for The Bounty Hunter and The Switch, Miley Cyrus for The Last Song, the four lead actresses of Sex and the City 2, Megan Fox for Jonah Hex and Kristen Stewart for Twilight. More >