I wanted to put some funny stuff on my blog, since I hadn’t in a while. Hey, it’s a Sunday and it’s almost Spring. Shall we have a few laughs??
Best,
;~Dana
Actor in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Animated Feature Film
Art Direction
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Documentary (Feature)
Documentary (Short Subject)
Film Editing
Christoph Waltz, A German Television Actor, Won Another Award… An Academy Award For Acting Performance In A Supporting Role
Oscar and Penélope that’s an über bingo. I always wanted to discover some new continent and I thought I had to go this way, and then I was introduced to Quentin Tarantino, who was putting together an expedition that was equipped by Harvey Weinstein and Lawrence Bender and David Linde, and he put this script in front of me and he said, “This is where we’re going, but we’re going the other way.”
So Brad Pitt helped me on board and Diane Kruger was there Melanie Laurent and Denis Menochet and Bob Richardson and Sally Menke and Adam Schweitzer and Lisa Kasteler. Everybody helped me find a place. Universal and The Weinstein Company and ICM and Quentin, with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer, took this ship across and brought it in with flying colors and that’s why I’m here.
And this is your welcoming embrace and there’s no way I can ever thank you enough, but I can start right now. Thank you.
Oh! Thank you, Academy members! Mom and dad, yeah, look! Whoo!
Thank you, Mom and Dad, for turning me on to such a groovy profession. Oh, my dad and my mom, they loved show biz so much. I remember my mom, getting all of us kids to entertain at her parties. You know, my dad sitting me on his bed and teaching me all of the basics of acting for a role in Sea Hunt.
They loved show biz so much and I feel an extension of them. You know, this, this is honoring them as much as it is me. I wanna, I wanna thank Scott Cooper, our wonderful director, for his knowledge of film and country music and for his ability to instill self-confidence in his actors. I thank you for that. Scott, where are you? Raise your hand, man. Yeah! Scotty! Thank you for that, Scott man! And thank you for assembling such a wonderful cast. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin, wherever he is backstage. And Bobby Duvall, so wonderful you guys brought your heart and soul. I want to thank Barry Markowitz, our wonderful DP, he did such a brilliant job. Judy Cairo, our producer, and Fox Searchlight, our wonderful, our wonderful distributor. Thank you guys for keeping us all together and for making it all happen. T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton for bringing all of that great music and those wonderful musicians to the party, man.
My wonderful team that’s kept me together. Jean Sievers, David Schiff, Rick Kurtzman, CAA, Bob Wallerstein, Loyd Catlett, Tarra Day and Roger Love, man.
Thank you, guys. And I especially want to thank my gorgeous wife, Sue, we’ve been married 33 years. We have a beautiful family. Three girls, Isabelle, Jessie and Hayley. Thank you, guys. I wouldn’t be up here without you. Thank you so much.
Onstage Speech: Performance by an actress in a supporting role
CATEGORY: Performance by an actress in a supporting role
SPEECH BY: Mo’Nique
FILM: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics. I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it. Ricky Anderson, our attorney of Anderson & Smith, thank you for your hard work. My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what’s popular in order to do what’s right. And baby, you were so right. God bless us all.
Here is Sandra Bullock’s Acceptance Speech:
Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have the most incredible ride with rooms full of artists that I see tonight and that I’ve worked with before and I hope to work with in the future, who inspire me and blaze trails for us. Four of them that I’ve fallen deeply in love with I share this night with and I share this award with.
Gabby, I love you so much. You are exquisite. You are beyond words to me. Carey, your grace and your elegance and your beauty and your talent makes me sick. Helen, I feel like we are family through family and I don’t have the words to express just what I think of you. And Meryl, you know what I think of you and you are such a good kisser.
I have so many people to thank for my good fortune in this lifetime and this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I know. To the family that allowed me to play them, the Tuohy family, I know they’re in here and you’ll probably hear her in a minute. Maybe not. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to… the family that made this film that gave me the opportunity to do something different. John Lee Hancock, Gil Netter, Alcon, Warner Bros., the actors, everyone who’s shown me kindness when it wasn’t fashionable, I thank you. To everyone who was mean to me when it wasn’t… George Clooney threw me in a pool years ago. I’m still holding a grudge. But there’s so many people to thank.
Not enough time, so I would like to thank what this film is about for me which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from. Those moms and parents never get thanked. I, in particular, failed to thank one. So… if I can take this moment to thank Helga B. for not letting me ride in cars with boys until I was 18 because she was right. I would’ve done what she said I was gonna do. For making me practice every day when I got home. Piano, ballet, whatever it is I wanted to be. She said to be an artist, you had to practice every day, and for reminding her daughters that there’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. So, to that trailblazer, who allowed me to have that. And this. And this. I thank you so much for this opportunity that I share with these extraordinary women and my lover Meryl Streep. Thank you.
I have put some last minute content up; and the PDF Downloadable Oscar Ballots are there, as well as lots of other interesting stuff.
Oscar Prep [link] only runs for two months, just before the Academy Awards, every year. For the rest of the year, I put all my focus back here.
Two Oscar Pundits discuss a long history of actors winning Academy Awards for movie performances that were really because of earlier performances, in previous film, or for longevity of acting career.
There is something to be said for longevity of career. Especially if an actor gives great performance after great performance. That, to me, says that is maestro level acting chops. Very high-level, to be held in high esteem. Longevity of acting career, with repeated high-level acting, bears a message that the great acting that the actor did in one movie wasn’t a fluke, or because of a great director, or even a good casting fit.
Seriously. An Oscar can be awarded to show that we do respect and revere our accomplished and high-level actors. To Actors, that show, repeatedly, a great artistry.
Should we also have an Oscar for being lovable? I am serious about this too. George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are so loved by the public. I love them too. Her a bit more than him, but that is just a personal thing because I think she’s a bit more real than him, more authentic.I think she works hard, very hard. Movie star status is important to the movie business. The Academy Awards are a movie-star-affair. Maybe there should be an additional movie star award, at the Oscars.
That way, the great acting performances will be the only criteria that gets rewarded by the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, and the Supporting acting categories as well. Not get all muddied up with these other categories or past performances.
I find this video interesting, and I love the history. When I started Oscar Prep, I used vintage footage from past Academy Awards, but then they put the Academy kabosh on that.
This video goes Oscar Vintage, so I dig it. Pete Hammond and Tom O’Neil really know their stuff, their Oscar® history…
(By the way, I disagree a bit with what they say about Sandra Bullock’s acting choices. That, later in another post.)
You can find these two Oscarologists, Tom O’Neil and Pete Hammond at the LA Times.
Enjoy
Dana
He’s had an interesting path to where he is now.
Here’s an excerpt from the LA Times, about this dancer, who grew up in Brentwood, California to become a recognizable name for ‘Dancing With The Stars’, and a movie producer. Someone who is a self-proclaimed workaholic, and is part of the Producer-Duo of the Academy Awards show this year.
Long before Shankman received calls from movie stars, he dreamed of being one. Growing up in Brentwood, Shankman wanted to be a child actor — something his therapist mother and his father wouldn’t allow.
“My parents couldn’t get me to stop cartwheeling up and down the aisles of restaurants,” he recalled.
His affinity for dance landed him a spot at the prestigious Juilliard School without ever having had any formal training. He dropped out about a year and a half later. Back in L.A., he began getting small jobs as a backup dancer in music videos for artists such as Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. He also got a gig as “Jack the Rubber Boy,” Rubbermaid’s dancing commercial spokesperson.
One job led to the next, and soon he was choreographing dance numbers in films. He created a short film involving dance that landed at Sundance and was soon offered his first directing job on “The Wedding Planner,” starring Jennifer Lopez.
Since then, Shankman has directed a number of movies, including “Bringing Down the House” and “Bedtime Stories.” Meanwhile, his production company has churned out popular films including “Step Up” and the upcoming Miley Cyrus film “The Last Song.”
Zac Efron, who worked with Shankman on “Hairspray” and “17 Again” and will be a presenter at this year’s Oscars, said he thinks the director is “able to connect with younger people because he’s maintained his own youthful energy.”
“I think people think of me for saccharine family movies,” Shankman acknowledged. “I’ve spent most of my career taking pretty schlocky ideas and turning them into something a little original. But I want to do something more adult than kids and animals.”
Shankman’s commercial sensibility has certainly been welcomed by the academy, which has long been trying to attract a younger viewership — Channing Tatum, who starred in “Step Up,” Cyrus, and a slew of dancers from “So You Think You Can Dance” will join Efron in appearances on the Oscar telecast.
Despite the frenetic pace of the last few months, Shankman has already been pondering his next career move.
“I think I do a lot of work so I don’t have to look at my life. I think that’s what my workaholism is about,” he said. “I’ve had the craziest year doing all these things I’d never seen myself doing, and a lot of people see me as diversifying, but I was just trying to fill up my time. And it’s not a sad thing. But my heart has now turned towards wanting to do things that make me happy.”
Source : LA Times, Amy Kaufman
If you haven’t been to my other site, called Oscar Prep, click on the name to go there now. There’s lots there, including a downloadable , printable Oscar Nominee list there, as well as an Oscar Bingo game with 9 game cards, to spice up the boring parts of the show…
Enjoy!
Dana
Well, now, Runyon Canyon has something else.
Someone put up a very tall statue that looks a heck of a lot like a giant Oscar®…Except it isn’t.
Worse, it’s a skeleton. With a quote inscribed: “Beauty Is A Snip Away”.
At Awards Daily, Sasha Stone wrote that originally, she thought it was from the Guerrilla Girls, protesting how women are portrayed in movies.
The caption behind the photo is that “Beauty is just a snip away.”
I’m not sure to what it refers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a stunt by the Guerilla Girls [sic] who have, for years, been driving home the point that the Oscars have been dominated by white men for 82 years. If anyone else knows what it might be – give a shout out. This skeleton Oscar was at the top of Runyan Canyon this morning.
UPDATE: the friend who sent this in says that it says ‘beauty is just a snip away.’
And, about how it’s some cool art. Wee bit hipper than Oscar Bingo,which is on my Oscar Prep by way of Oscar.com.
That’s my taste. What do you think?
Best,
Dana
PS I snagged the elevators-in-movies-video, in my sidebar, from Sasha Stone’s AwardsDaily.com too.
PPS In case you weren’t familiar with Runyon Canyon, here’s part of a google page. See the part about “celebrities”?
“What I’m really over the moon about is that ‘Inglourious Basterds’ got eight nominations. Quentin (Tarantino) got everything he deserved: screenplay, cinematography, editing, director, best picture. For me, just finishing this film a year ago was the highlight. I don’t imagine space travel could be any more exciting.” Waltz acknowledged that he is considered a Oscar front-runner but said he was trying to “block out” any anticipation ahead of next month’s Academy Awards. “I never take anything for granted and I never try to anticipate,” Waltz said. “If I had expected to win in Cannes I would never have had that feeling of lightness and joy when they called my name. I’ve been trying to put (winning) out of my mind and so far, I think I’m doing pretty well.” However, Waltz said he will take the time to prepare an acceptance speech. Fans of the Austrian actor’s eloquent wordplay can be assured it will be as carefully planned as the staged thank-yous he gave accepting his Golden Globe, SAG and numerous other honors this year. “I think it is just a matter of respect to give these things some thought,” Waltz said. “A billion people watch the Oscars; one should make the effort to think about what you’re going to say.” THR
Waltz also talks about his perspective on getting acting work, and expresses quite an honorable regard for his acting career.
This actor says he:
Has No Lucky Charm
Is Superstition-Free
Takes Nothing For Granted
Best,
;~Dana
You may also wish to visit my other site called ‘OSCAR PREP’. Today, I added a small-performance video of Ryan Bingham, whose voice and song is very special. He wrote the songs for ‘Crazy Heart’.
…And before you go elsewhere, please remember to share. There is a charge for Hollywood Actor Prep: It’s for the reader to share with at least one person. Email (securely send this article with video), Facebook, or any other way, so that Prep reaches all actors that may benefit. Thank you for helping make a strong, supportive, actor community.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Actress Anne Hathaway, Tom Sherak Announce Oscar Nominees ©A.M.P.T.A.
For the complete list of 82nd Academy Award Nominations, all categories:
Click to go to: Dana Kaminski’s Oscar Blog called Oscar Prep, at OscarPrep.com.
TO PRINT THE LIST OF ACTING CATEGORY, OSCAR NOMINEES :
Click on the title at top of page: ‘82nd Oscar…’ . You will get a new page that looks nearly the same, except it will have this identical Oscar© list on it, with the same title and picture. Only.
Enjoy!
Dana
Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks to the SAG Awards for this transcript.
Only SAG actors vote.
The winners are listed first, under each category heading. The nominees are listed below the winner.
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Okay, so it took me about a whole day toiling with the all my blog tech to get this posted…And, yes, near the end, I was wondering out loud to inanimate objects why-ever I was ‘Doing-all-this’…I did accelerate to the question, with simultaneous head shaking…“Why, Any Of This??”…But then, by the end, when I saw the finished gallery: the actors expressions, expressiveness…well…)
I can also, clearly, see what separates real actors, from most of the other people in the world. The trait what makes them really great at acting.
I share their joy with them, when I see these photos, and I hope you will get a similar satisfaction from seeing these Golden Globes Winners:
Even if I never saw them in a movie, or anywhere that I was informed what they were.
They were born actors, and they love acting.
They also worked very hard at it. These individual actors.
They cherish being rewarded for acting. For being recognized, their true nature.
And all these other annoying assumptions?
You look at the photos, and tell me how you can. We’ll compare impressions. Leave a comment, or tweet me at my Twitter name which is @__dana__.
©HFPA
Big-And-Serious-Thank-You to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Best,
Dana
Please do share.
That’s what makes it worth it, for me. Honestly.
