Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history (seen here accepting her trophy from Barbra Streisand), when she became the first female to land the top director honor, beating the competition in her category, including her ex-husband James Cameron in the process.
Calling the huge win “the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow dedicated the award to “the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world.”
War movie “The Hurt Locker” was the toast of Hollywood on Sunday night after leading the Oscars with six honors, including Best Director and Best Picture.
The film also claimed the night’s sound awards, film editing and original screenplay prizes, as it collected six of the nine accolades it was nominated for.
“Avatar”, the world’s biggest grossing movie ever, was a triple winner and Up, Crazy Heart and Precious won double.
All the pre-show favorites won the big acting prizes with Jeff Bridges claiming Best Actor, Sandra Bullock Best Actress, Mo’Nique Best Supporting Actress and Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor.
Bigelow led what became a great night for firsts. Bullock became the first star to land a Golden Raspberry dishonor the same year as an Oscar, she picked up the Worst Actress Razzie for All About Steve on Saturday; Bridges won his first Oscar for Crazy Heart after five attempts, and 33 of 39 Academy Award winners took home their first Oscars, with The Hurt Locker trio of Bigelow, writer Mark Boal and sound editor Paul N.J. Ottosson picking up their first and second accolades at the 82nd annual prizegiving.
The full list of winners at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood is:
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Animated Feature Film: Up
Best Original Song: The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham & T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Best Animated Short: Logorama
Best Documentary Short: Music by Prudence
Best Live Action Short: The New Tenants
Best Make-Up: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall & Joel Harlow (Star Trek)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Best Art Direction: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg & Kim Sinclair (Avatar)
Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria)
Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson (The Hurt Locker)
Best Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson & Ray Beckett (The Hurt Locker)
Best Cinematography: Mauro Fiore (Avatar)
Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino (Up)
Best Visual Effects: Andrew R. Jones, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum & Richard Baneham (Avatar)
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove
Best Film Editing: Bob Murawski & Chris Innis (The Hurt Locker)
Best Foreign Language Film: El secreto de sus ojos (Argentina)
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
HERE’S A LOOK AT THE RED CARPET FASHION ON DISPLAY AT THE 2010 OSCARS!
FIRST, HOW ABOUT 29 OSCAR “THANK YOU FOR THIS AWARD” SPEECHES IN JUST 2 MINUTES!
GUNNAR AND MATTHEW NELSON KICK OFF THEIR “RICKY NELSON REMEMBERED” TOUR!
Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, stopped by Charlie’s new radio partner studios, Black Card Radio in Burbank, where Charlie’s national syndicated radio show is now recorded and distributed to the U.S., Canada, and internationally!
The Nelson twins are in the Guinness Book of World Records being part of 3 straight generations of a family who had #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Record Charts. Their grandfather Ozzie Nelson, had a #1 hit in the 30’s as a big band singer, their Dad Rick Nelson, not only had a number one song, but also in the same week that happened, had the #1 TV show, and #1 movie for another Guiness record, and the Nelson twins themselves had a #1 record with their 1990 hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love & Affection!
They’re currently getting ready to kick off a year-long national tour in Southern California with a tribute to their dad, “Ricky Nelson Remembered”, as well as their CD “Like Father, Like Sons” where they’ve recorded a dozen of their dad’s hits, as well as the bonus track, “Just Once More”!
“Fans of Matthew and Gunnar, and their dad Rick Nelson, will get chills as the twins literally channel their father’s voice and phrasing in this tribute to their Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame father with a CD full of his hits! The sound similarity of their voices with their dad’s original recordings is striking!” – Charlie Tuna
THIS 12 YEAR OLD GIRL PAINTS PICTURES OF HEAVEN SHE SAYS WERE INSPIRED BY GOD!
THE 82ND ACADEMY AWARDS THIS WEEKEND HAVE A LOT OF CLEAR CUT FAVORITES TO WIN!
The 82nd annual Academy Awards this year appear to have more clear cut favorites in the major categories than at any time in recent memory in Tinsel Town, especially if you take your cue from all the award shows and ceremonies leading up to Oscar’s night!
By most accounts, “The Hurt Locker” will take home Best Picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow will be named Best Director. That will make her the first woman to ever win that award. Although, there still may be that “Avatar” dark horse of Jim Cameron (her ex-husband who’s been very supportive of Kathryn and her work finally getting recognition this year), that might have a very good shot of taking both golden statues home too!
The Best Actor Oscar will go to Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart,” and Best Supporting Actor to Christoph Waltz for “Inglorious Basterds”, there doesn’t seem to be much doubt there if you believe all the buzz leading up to this weekend!
Mo’Nique will win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Precious,” and Sandra Bullock will take home the Best Actress Award for “The Blind Side”, that’s almost a given based on all the awards both of them have received already!
If there’s any suspense at all, it’s in the Best Actress category where Sandra Bullock’s main competition is Meryl Streep for her portrayal of Julia Child in “Julie and Julia.”
But maybe the Academy will do what the Broadcast Film Critics did at the Critics Choice Awards: make it a tie and give the Oscar to both of them!
KIDNAP VICTIM JAYCEE DUGARD APPEARS IN HOME VIDEO ON “GOOD MORNING AMERICA”!
Jaycee Dugard was smiling and wearing a pink ball cap as she said “I want to thank you for your support and I’m doing well,” she says. “It’s been a long haul, but I’m getting there.”
The now 29-year-old was kidnapped when she was just 11 and resurfaced in August. Her mother, Terry Probyn, released a home video and direct messages exclusively to ABC, more was shown last night on ABC’s “20-20″!
The clips show Jaycee baking cookies around the holidays with her mom and sister Shayna. They’re dressed casually, laughing and having a great time. To watch it, you’d never know what the family has been through.
George Stephanopoulos also shows an image of Jaycee on a horse as part of horse therapy, which concedes that the way one approaches a horse is the way one will approach life. Working on the connection with the animal will help the patient to connect to humans while also giving them a sense of power.
Something must be working—self-educated Jaycee has received her driver’s license, is working toward earning a GED and hopes to go to college.
Terry addresses the viewer directly to explain why they’ve released this footage. “It is my desire to share our miracle with the world. But it must be done on our terms. What my family needs is privacy during our healing process,” she says, after thanking people for their support. “Please give us the time we need to heal as a family without the prying eyes of the photographers and the press. We released this video so you can see that we are happy and well. And when we have more to share, we will.
“As a mother, I am pleading for our privacy in this very public story.”
Stephanopoulos explained that it has not yet been decided whether Jaycee will have to testify against her captors, Nancy and Phillip Garrido, but it will likely depend on her state of mind and willingness to relive the past two decades as she explains it in a courtroom.
TIM BURTON’S “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” STARRING JOHNNY DEPP, OPENS THIS WEEKEND!
MATT DAMON NOT EXPECTING OSCAR, BUT WE ALWAYS EXPECT HIS MATT McCONAUGHEY TAKE!
Boston-bred Matt Damon paid off a Super Bowl bet on David Letterman wearing a New Orleans Saints jersey Friday night on the show. But he was also expecting to be on the losing end of the odds of winning the Best Supporting Actor award Sunday with his statement “not a chance in hell.”
The audience did get a Damon bonus though, his Matthew McConaughey impression, breaking out the crowd-pleaser one more time with a delighted David Letterman taking it all in!
THIS IS WHERE THE TERM MONKEY-BUSINESS PROBABLY ORIGINATED! IT’S A VERY FUNNY CLIP!
WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY? TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE LITTLE FACE!
YOU CAN HELP THIS LITTLE GUY, AND DOGS, CATS, AND PETS EVERYWHERE WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON BELOW, THROUGH THE SPCA! YOU’LL HELP SAVE THEIR LIVES!
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box ‘fund food for animals for free’. This doesn’t cost you a thing.
Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here’s the web site! Please pass it along to people you know. You just might save the life of a little guy just like the one pictured above!
A LISTENER CALL FROM THE MOTHER OF A MARINE FIGHTER PILOT RECENTLY TOLD ME ABOUT HOW YOU CAN ADOPT A SOLDIER OVERSEAS AND SEND THEM A CARE PACKAGE ONCE A MONTH. FOR DETAILS, JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW!
SO WHO ARE AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED BUSINESSES IN THESE UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC TIMES?
WITH ALL THE UN-ETHICAL BEHAVIOR BY POLITICIANS AND BIG BANKS-ENRONS—AIG—IT’S TOUGH TO FIND COMPANIES YOU TRUST TO DO BUSINESS WITH! ACCORDING TO MILLWARD BROWN AND A SURVEY OF 20,000 CONSUMERS—THESE ARE THE TOP TRUSTED NAMES IN AMERICA:
AMAZON.COM
FED EX
DOWNY
HUGGIES
TIDE
TYLENOL ( and they had a disaster years ago)
TOYOTA (still)
WEBMD
PAMPERS
UPS
NOTE– NOT ONE BANK—OR INSURANCE COMPANY LISTED
ROBERT LOMBARD SENT THIS CLIP FROM THE 1988 MOVIE “THE BEAR”! THERE’S NO WORDS!
DON’T THINK OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS HAVE THAT MOTHERING, PROTECTIVE INSTINCT…..
JESSICA SIMPSON TELLS OPRAH “I FELT BETRAYED BY JOHN MAYER”!
It’s hard being Jessica Simpson. because every ounce she gains is subject to media scrutiny, her recent racist boyfriend’s remarks, and the feeling the world is still not entirely convinced that she knows the difference between chicken and tuna.
Jessica Simpson blames only herself a sit-down talk with Oprah Winfrey, “Yeah, I couldn’t read the article,” she said of John Mayer’s Playboy interview. “I heard about it and I saw some of the clips and stuff. I tried to read the article and I was so…I was so disappointed in him.
“It made me so sad and it was really discouraging, because that’s not the John that I knew. I guess it could have been a lot worse—my phone is ringing off the hook, I have to say,”
Jessica continued about Mayer, “Absolutely, I felt betrayed. I just…you know, I hope he gets his life together. He did apologize to me. I haven’t written back,” she said, ignoring Oprah’s question of whether he pulled a Joe Jonas and resorted to texting the apology. “I don’t accept it. It’s just kind of one of those things—I don’t resent him, I’m just gonna let that go, that part of my life.”
Jessica also told Oprah her lowest point of the last few years came courtesy of “People couldn’t stop talking about my weight fluctuating, It would bother any woman, I would think. The fact that I was famous last year for gaining 10 pounds is ridiculous and it’s really sad.”
On the subject of the Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson reality show, “I didn’t know what I was signing up for, but I do think that I opened myself up to the world of judgment and of people’s opinions,” she said of her ill-fated decision to be a TV Newlywed.
“In a lot of ways it is my fault and I shouldn’t expect people not to…I just didn’t know it would end up so harsh. The sad part about it is when everything came out, I didn’t want to say anything about the weight, I didn’t want to sit down and talk to anyone about it, because I felt guilty,” Simpson said.
“I just didn’t want to feed into it. I didn’t want people to let people know it was affecting me,” she said, “It’s a really hard thing for me to talk about because I celebrate women of all sizes and I think we’re all beautiful. I do believe it is something that comes from within, and something you have to find within yourself to be comfortable with yourself.”
Still, her press nightmare was not all in vain, as she credits the jean backlash with giving her the idea for her new VH1 globetrotting documentary, “The Price of Beauty”.
What she saw pass for beauty around the world affected her deeply, evidenced by the tears that streamed down her face when discussing the negative impact media can have on women of all ages—including herself.
“Just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful,” she began. “The pressure that the media puts on women is so unfair and so disgusting.”
As the tears came after Oprah previewed a clip dealing with a French model’s battle with anorexia, Winfrey apparently felt it was the right time to ask Simpson whether she herself ever battled with an eating disorder.
“No, I’ve tried every fad diet, every diet there is, but never to the extent where it’s unhealthy,” Simpson replied. “Do you mind saying what size you are?” Oprah asked.
“I’m a size 4. I fluctuate from 4 to 6,” Jessica said, admitting that those mom jeans actually fell on the lower end of her personal size spectrum. Which was almost too much for Oprah to bear.
“Those are size 4? And people are calling you fat in a size 4?!” Oprah asked. “Ay, ay, ay. Ay, ay, ay,” she said. “Oh my god, 8 is a goal.
Jessica’s mindset now is “Nobody else can define it but myself. Nobody’s words, nobody’s compliments, nobody’s love”—nobody’s ay ay ays?—”none of that, it’s all what I have in myself. But I’m really finally relaxed. I don’t care what people have to say about my weight, I really don’t. I think I look great.”
SO DO YOU THINK UFO’S ARE REAL OR NOT? TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FOOTAGE RECENTLY!
This Amazing video was recorded during day time in California, 7pm, you clearly can see an UFO Drone and around it 3 spheres.
“DANCING WITH THE STARS” UPCOMING SEASON PAIRINGS REVEALED!
The new season debuts on March 22 on ABC, and here are dance teams…
Kate Gosselin is paired with Tony Dovolani, but no, not that way, he’s a married man.
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin will be shaking it up with Ashly Costa (formerly DelGrosso), who returns for her fourth season.
Pamela Anderson takes her turns around the dance floor with Damian Whitewood.
ESPN’s Erin Andrews is partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, in what would be our best bet for chemistry that extends beyond the parquet.
Shannen Doherty moves her hips to a new area code with two-time champ Mark Ballas.
Winter Olympics’ golden boy Evan Lysacek will have five-time DWTS vet Anna Trebunskaya.
Style network star Niecy Nash and six-time participant Louis Van Amstel.
Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco gets two-time winner Cheryl Burke.
The Bachelor’s Jake Pavelka finds his salsa mate, Chelsie Hightower.
Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls meets season seven winner Derek Hough.
Soap star Aiden Turner deals with the show’s only 10-time pro, Edyta Sliwinska.
AND YES, KATE GOSSELIN WAS ON JIMMY KIMMEL AFTER THE “DWTS” CAST WAS ANNOUNCED!
JAMIE FOXX AND BETTY WHITE WELCOME JAY BACK TO “TONIGHT SHOW”!
SIMON COWELL’S ENGAGEMENT RUMORS STILL CONTINUE IN THE NEWS!
These Simon Cowell engagement rumors are getting hard to ignore. First a source said it wasn’t true. And then responding to another report that Simon was getting hitched to girlfriend and American Idol makeup artist Mezhgan Hussainy, his rep’s reply: “Simon does not discuss his private life.”
But now Mezhgan was spotted over the weekend wearing a giant rock on that special ring finger—which must mean there’s some truth to all these engagement rumors, right?!
THERE WAS A SERIOUS SMACKDOWN IN WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOOPS, TAKE A LOOK!
Baylor’s super freshman Brittney Griner was ejected from a game against Texas Tech after she punched an opposing player in the face.
Texas Tech’s Jordan Barncastle fouled Griner with No. 14 Baylor up 55-39 with 9:01 remaining in the game Wednesday night. As the Tech player was moving away from Griner, the Lady Bears’ standout swung and landed a punch on Barncastle’s face.
The game was stopped for about 10 minutes as officials reviewed tape. A technical foul was called on Griner and she was ejected for a flagrant foul and another technical was called on another Baylor player, Morgan Medlock.
The Texas Tech bench also got a technical for going out onto the court after the punch was thrown.
