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Pictures from Elton John's Oscar Viewing party arrivals.
 --   Jamie Foxx and Stacey Dash.   Kimora Lee.  Betty White.  Kelly Osborne.   Serena Williams.  Wil.I.Am (It bothers me to spell this) <3  Source.
 OSCARS Discussion Post Apparently this place has links to watch the Oscars. Here Too. And here And here as well And here. Not sure if I'll update with the winners since I'm sure you can just check twitter trends to find out. But who knows. Plus since LJ goes slow editing is super duper hard. Here is a list of the nominees: http://oscar.go.com/media/2010/html/print10.html PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT LJ WILL RUN SLOW DURING THIS EVENT. PLEASE DO NOT POST A ZILLION TIMES HOW SLOW ONTD IS RUNNING. THAT DOES NOT HELP. 
 Paula Patton and Robin Thicke  Mariska Hargitay  Anika Noni Rose  Deborah Ann Woll  Mo'Nique and Sidney Hicks  Anna Kendrick  Virginia Madsen  Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon  Amanda Seyfried  Zoe Saldana  Zac Efron  Brian Geraghty  Joel Madden and Nicole Richie  Vera Farmiga  John Lasseter and Ed Asner  Michele Lee and Jason Reitman  Sigourney Weaver  Ryan Reynolds  Jeremy Renner  James Cameron and Suzy Amis  Maggie Gyllenhaal  Carey Mulligan  Lee Daniels and Clara Daniels  Elizabeth Banks  Quentin Tarantino and Diane Kruger  Sandra Bullock  Tyler Perry  Sam Worthington and Natalie Mark  Miley Cyrus  Tina Fey  Molly Ringwald  Zoe Kravitz and Lenny Kravitz  Steve Carell and Nancy Carell  Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick  Jake Gyllenhaal  Tom Ford  Penelope Cruz  Rachel McAdams  Helen Mirren  Queen Latifah  Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney  Jane Seymour  Gabourey Sidibe  Jennifer Lopez  Charlize Theron  Kathryn Bigelow  Meryl Streep  Jeff Bridges and Susan Geston  Demi Moore  Kate Winslet  Kristin Stewart  Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey  Taylor Lautner  Keanu Reeves  Gerard Butler  Matt Damon and Luciana Damon  Cameron Diaz  Chris Pine  Morgan Freeman  Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka  Source: http://www.oscars.org/ http://www.gettyimages.com/ Oscars Discussion Post: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/44760768.html Live Stream: http://www.justin.tv/reboundtv#r=pgGB0z0~ http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=2119
 Just a week ago, Sacha Baron Cohen — the alter ego of Borat and Brüno — was announced as an Oscar presenter by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Now, suddenly, Baron Cohen has vanished from that list. Why is he gone from the show? Because one of the broadcast's producers was scared he might offend gazillionaire Best Director nominee James Cameron. An insider familiar with the Oscar telecast tells Vulture that an Avatar sketch planned by Baron Cohen and Ben Stiller was nixed yesterday by show producer Bill Mechanic, who worried that Cameron would be so offended by it that he might even walk out of the Oscar broadcast on live TV. So what skit could possibly so incense the HMFIC? Our insider informs us that Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female Na’vi, with Stiller translating “her” interplanetary speech. As the skit went on, though, it would become clear that Stiller wasn’t translating properly, because Cohen would grow ever more upset. At its climax, an infuriated Baron Cohen would pull open “her” evening gown to reveal that s/he was pregnant, knocked up with Cameron’s love child, and would go on to confront her baby daddy as if s/he were on Jerry Springer. Mechanic, now both a producer of motion pictures and of this year’s Oscar telecast, was head of Twentieth Century Fox when Cameron’s Titanic famously went massively over budget and over schedule, so he’s well acquainted with Cameron’s sense of humor — or lack of it. “Let’s just say that Cameron isn’t known to be, shall we say, ‘self-deprecating,’” explained one insider familiar with the decision to cut the sketch. Academy spokesperson Toni Thompson would only confirm that Baron Cohen was no longer presenting, but Baron Cohen’s spokesman, Matt Labov, tells Vulture that “I hate to use the term, because it's so ubiquitous, but there were ‘creative differences.’ Nothing acrimonious, but both sides felt that since they couldn’t agree, [Cohen] might as well remain in London.” (Calls to Mechanic's office were not returned at deadline.) So in case you’re ranking celebrity senses of humor at home, you can now safely put Cameron below Eminem. if Avatar wins a single non-technical award I'm gonna dropkick my TV ... could James Cameron even tell a story without an eight trillion dollar budget? source
 LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Acclaimed sound mixer Dakota Fanning at the 46th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at Millennium Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The night's winners were The Hurt Locker, Grey Gardens, and Mad Men.          Laughing at, not with, Inglourious Basterds' producer Lawrence Bender. Source
 Looks like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has clamped down hard on "The Hurt Locker" co-producer Nicolas Chartier for sending out an e-mail blast that urged colleagues to campaign aggressively for his movie to win the Oscar for best picture while it also trashed a rival film. Chartier just issued a follow-up e-mail apologizing for his "extremely inappropriate" e-mail, which violated the Academy Awards' rules, adding, "My naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first-time nominee is not an excuse for this behavior and I strongly regret it." On Tuesday, Pete Hammond reported on Chartier's first e-mail that blitzed Hollywood begging academy members to tell other voters to back "The Hurt Locker" and — in an obvious slam at "Avatar" — "not a $500M film." The academy has not yet issued a statement about how it intends to deal with this severe violation of Oscar campaign rules. Penalties could be equally harsh, including the withdrawal of some tickets to the Oscar ceremony. Below is Chartier's original e-mail, followed by his apology e-mail. I hope all is well with you. I just wanted to write you and say I hope you liked Hurt Locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and I do, so if you believe The Hurt Locker is the best movie of 2010, help us! The apology e-mail: Last week I emailed you regarding the Oscars next week, generally, and Source OK, now I'm worried :/
So the biggest non-event of the musical calendar is hapeening tonight and some of the details are pretty interesting (/if ur bored and know any of the people mentioned here).
 The Shockwaves NME Awards take place tonight (February 24) – you can follow the action on NME.COM and NME Radio. Kasabian, Hole, Paul Weller, Biffy Clyro and The Big Pink are among the acts set to perform at the ceremony, which takes place at London's O2 Academy Brixton. The artists (Arctic Monkeys, The Mighty Boosh, The Horrors and Slash are among those expected to attend) will be hitting the red carpet from 7pm (GMT), with the ceremony kicking off shortly afterwards. Kasabian and Arctic Monkeys are leading the nominations list, boasting six each (including initial nods for Best British Band, Best Live Band and Best Album). See the Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 nominations announcement for the full rundown. Highlights from the ceremony will be broadcast on TV on Friday night (February 26) and Saturday morning. Keep checking NME.COM/awards for news reports, photo galleries, video interviews, backstage blogs and more. Check out the list below to see everyone who's set to tread the red carpet as they head into the O2 Academy Brixton in London from 7pm (GMT) for the 2010 ceremony. Kaya Scodelario ('Skins') Elliot Titensor ('Shameless') Melissa auf der Maur James Buckley ('The Inbetweeners') Leigh Francis (aka Avid Merrion) Ellie Goulding Pixie Geldof Daisy Lowe Rupert Grant Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter actor) Tom Felton (Harry Potter actor) Marina And The Diamonds Little Boots Agyness Deyn Liam Fray Russell Tovey Friendly Fires Mathew Horne Ke$ha La Roux The Mighty Boosh Mark Ronson Biffy Clyro Laura Marling Mumford And Sons Hole Kasabian Paul Weller Muse Lily Allen The Big Pink Jaime Winstone Jamie T Simian Mobile Disco Blur The Specials Arctic Monkeys Slash Edwyn Collins The Horrors The Maccabees We Are Scientists The Rock White Lies Bombay Bicycle Club The Drums Shane MacGowan Johnny Depp Mick Jones Tony James Bobby Gillespie Phill Jupitus Pennie Smith Emily Eavis Sir Peter Blake Bad Lieutenant Maximo Park The Chapman Family Delphic Conor McGloin These New Puritans New Young Pony Club Plan B Blood Red Shoes Hockey Egyptian Hip Hop Chapel Club The Cheek Band Of Skulls Some arrivals:  Mark Ronson  Elly Jackson (from La Roux)  The Horrors  Cast of the Mighty Boosh  Ellie Goulding  Ke$ha  Matthew Bellamy and Dominic Howard  Marina of Marina & The Diamonds  Lily Allen  Noel Fielding and Kasabian on stage?! source
 Award shows are a strange beast. They consistently draw in huge numbers of viewers, but simultaneously get a hundred complaints (often valid) and despite having years of practice, the Academy Awards still make irritating mistakes and choices in execution. So how can we as an audience and the Oscars as a production make the effort to increase the quality and enjoyment of the show? Here’s twelve ways to make the Oscars suck a bit less.  12. Either scrap the exit music or stop being stupid about it. I’d be willing to bet my life savings that the most commonly cited complaint about the Academy Awards is the irritating, intrusive exit music that tries to play off speeches that run too long, or are just too boring. I get that you need to squeeze in time for commercials while the Awards tend to run long anyway, but here’s the deal: it’s disrespectful as hell. If I were a filmmaker that had devoted years of my life to a project and I was prodded offstage during my conclusive moment of bliss, I’d flip out on you. Respect these filmmakers. Either get rid of the music entirely and leave it up to the self-control of the award winners, or at least be fair about it. Don’t give Meryl Streep what feels like a century to ramble about her 76th Oscar while you cut off the foreign filmmaker with the unfamiliar accent. 11. If it helps to fix the irritating music problem, regulate the acceptance speeches. One way to fix the exit music problem would be to regulate the acceptance speeches. Have each of the frontrunners submit a page or 1.5 page draft of their words for approval on length, and have them stick to it if they win. You can cram lots of jokes and shout-outs into that page length, and once they’re done, they’re done. If they continue past the parameters of the draft they’ve submitted, then you can play your exit music. Unless it’s Martin Scorcese. He can say whatever he wants for however long he wants. Deal with it. 10. Make the judging process a bit more transparent. We literally know next to nothing about the criteria for judging the winners of the Academy Awards. While we can generally posit what they should be looking for — the best general package of screenplay and performances, cinematography and execution — it would be nice to see what exactly they’re looking for. Ambiguity has its mystery, but when it comes down to a split decision between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, I’d like to know what exactly is more perfect about the Coen’s work than Anderson’s.  9. More Jack Nicholson cutaways. Do I need to say more? This man is half the reason I tune in on an annual basis. In fact, just shoot the entire ceremony from his reaction shots. It’ll save you a hell of a lot of money in the camera department. 8. More female hosts. Female hosts have notoriously gotten the short shrift throughout the Academy Awards history. Ellen DeGeneres was a fairly unpopular choice when she presented a few years ago, and besides Whoopi Goldberg, not many other women have gotten the chance. With the amount of popular comediennes in the limelight these days, there’s no excuse not to try your hand with one of them. My vote? Tina Fey. She’d bring the house down. Charismatic and hilarious, with a great sense of comic timing, I think Fey would nail the job. 7. Stop slighting Clint Mansell. Forget every composer who has won for best original score in the past few years; the composer responsible for the most memorable scores has been Clint Mansell. Between The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and this past year’s Moon, it’s a shame that Mansell hasn’t even been nominated, let alone won an Oscar for his work. What will it take to get this man some Academy credit? 6. Don’t be afraid to push genre films into the Best Picture category. James Cameron’s Aliens first pushed science fiction/horror into mainstream nominations, gathering seven academy award nominations. Now he’s doing it again with Avatar, alongside District 9, thanks to the expansion of nominees from 5 to 10. This is one of the best bits of improvement from the Academy this year, and I hope it’s a trend that continues. While I have my reservations about Avatar winning Best Picture, it’s good to see two science fiction films in the running for the title — they deserve it. 5. More career retrospective montages. I may be alone in this, but every time there’s a retrospective on some talented actor or director that highlights the best moments in their career, I get all geeky and moved inside. Maybe I’m just a sucker for montages, but they always get me psyched to go out and see more movies. In fact, swap out the often dull musical performances for montages, and I’d be a happy man. 4. If it’s true that you rank and file behind the Golden Globes in your awards process: cut it out. It’s generally accepted that the winners of the Golden Globes give a pretty good indication of what will win at the Academy Awards. If this is true, and the Globes/Academy criteria for judging are that similar, then boy is that dull. Why bother? I don’t mean to imply that there aren’t clear cut victors in a competition, but as a viewer, I’d like to think I haven’t already got it all figured out before you even air the awards ceremony. 3. Bring back the streaking. As far as I’m concerned, the Oscars hit their peak in 1974 and it’s all been a downhill slide ever since. 2. Begin integrating animated shorts and feature length films into the general categories. It’s awesome that Pixar’s Up has been nominated in the Best Picture category in 2010. The fact is that animation has become so sophisticated alongside its storytelling devices that I’m just as apt to be moved and transported by an animated affair as I am by a live-action film. As far as I’m concerned, film is film, regardless of the medium you choose. If cutting down on the categorical distinctions between these movies means that more animated films will be considered for Best Picture, I’m all for it. 1. Audiences: Don’t put so much stake in the winners. Audiences get outraged easily (“How could Rocky beat Taxi Driver!? How could No Country beat There Will Be Blood?!”), but you have to remember that awards don’t make a film. You will be much more apt to enjoy the Oscars if you simply consider them a celebration of motion pictures in general. Sure, there will be a winner, but that ultimately has no bearing on the quality of the films you see. And for God’s sake, who could choose between Rocky and Taxi Driver? They’re incomparably fantastic.
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