Brian Abercrombie And Kristen Anderson Get Actors Ready For Their Oscar® Close-ups…
Fitness trainers that ready actors for the Red Carpet. [video]

Actors George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendricks, all nominated for Oscars® for Acting, all for their performances in Up In The Air.
The movie itself is also Oscar® nominated for Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay; Jason Reitman is up for Best Director….and more…

Oscar® Nominated Best Supporting Actress, Anna Kendrick discusses Up In The Air character traits …in this Hollywood Actor Prep video.

In Case You Were Wondering When The Academy Awards Were This Year…I made a reminder.

Every Year The Oscars® Hosts A Luncheon For All Oscar® Nominees
Here’s the full yearbook photo from this year’s Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon.

George Clooney early on as an actor, when he was (very very very very) young. His headshot. Is he 12 years old, ya think?

Yes, Actor Jeff Bridges Does Some Awesome Acting, And Singing, In Crazy Heart.
For another version of this same song, The Weary Kind; but performed by one of the writers of the song, Ryan Bingham: Click on this link for another post at Oscar Prep.

I will mention what a rocking good time he and Bridges made, as two country singers onstage. The scenes of where Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell are together, singing…
These 2 videos were made by people who were in the audience during the filming of the Crazy Heart concert scenes. See the cameras and crew?
The music was great, and they both were sexy as heck.

I Enjoy This Type Of Stuff, Hope You Do, Too.

I Have Been Watching As Many Nominated Performances As I Can
And I will post my reviews, and my choices for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress…In the week before the Academy Awards…

At The Open Call For Dancers For The Academy Awards Show
I had originally posted information about this for all interested dancers, here, on Oscar Prep.
There’s a few more photos, at my other blog, called Hollywood Actor Prep.

District 9 Came In With The Additional 5 That Were Added This Year To Best Picture… Some Critics Think That It Has Belonged All Along. Here is the original short, of District 9, made by Neill Blonkamp, who directed and co-wrote the movie. Lastly, the teaser-trailer that was came out before the film was released. [...]

The Blind Side, One Of Ten Oscar© Nominated Films For Best Picture If you click on the image of ‘The Blind Side’ screensaver, it will open in its own page for you to copy or download. Please share + thanks… Dana

A site called ‘oscarsijmen’ made up a list of all actors that were ever nominated for an Oscar©.
Here is the list, by name.

And the Oscars still won’t be attracting younger audiences, because they put the director of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ on as Oscar director.
Is dancing an Oscar category??
I hope I wind up wrong…
No app or Facebook page is going to make some 40 year old dance routine hip…

Here’s Oscar Nominated For Best Actor, Jeremy Renner, in an early music video, of Pink’s. He plays a sexy guy, no lines, tiny part, sexy looking. Bi-ig cowboy hat.
Interesting… When I put Renner’s name into YouTube’s search pane, I got a slew of mashups, made by what seemed to be very hip teenage girls. Made prior to The Hurt Locker.
[early acting videos]

The Hurt Locker, Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, already won a Directors Guild Award. It’s little David to the big Goliath, Avatar; for an Oscar,  now. Here’s The Hurt Locker film trailer; and two film clips. In case you are like most of America, and haven’t seen it yet. I have. I thought it was the [...]

Inglourious Basterds, Inglourius Basterds, Inglorious Bastards…
Oscar Nominated Film For Best Picture…Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino: A fantasy piece about what would’ve happened if the Jews in Germany weren’t so peaceful, a people.

Home : Press : Press Releases Final Oscar® Ballots Mailed to Academy Members Beverly Hills, CA (February 10, 2010) — Final ballots for the 82nd Academy Awards® were mailed today (February 10) to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 [...]

The trailer for the movie Precious. A downloadable poster with a black-and-white photo of Gabourey Sidibe, Oscar Nominated Actress, who played the lead role of Precious. Also the Precious website for more content.

Trailer for Crazy Heart, with lead actor Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake.

Carey Mulligan in An Education :: Academy Award Best Actress Nominee For more about Carey Mulligan and acting, also with video of her talking about what it’s like to be a lead actor in a film, click on this link for this article at Hollywood Actor Prep: Carey Mulligan Feels Less Pressure As A Lead Actor, by Dana Kaminski.

At the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences, Exhibit Of Oscar© Winning Film Posters On Display
Here’s a look at some of the vintage eye-candy. They are all in the lobby of the Academy, in Beverly Hills. Admission is free.

Scott Feinberg is someone who I follow on Twitter, but I don’t follow his work, majorly. Only because I already have my favorite Oscarologists already, and they serve me just fine. My usual faves are also usually right on, in predictions. [I will be posting all about them, too...]

So I haven’t thoroughly checked out Scott Feinberg. I am looking on Twitter to see if he comes up with anything exceptional to add… at which point I may follow him as an Oscarologist fave.
So why put him up here?
Because he has a video. Sorry to say.

But your quiet, authentic acting gave this rom-com emotional truth; seriously elevating it from a simple confection. It made us all become you. Identify, with you.
As an actor, it put all the attention on you. Soul-to-soul.
That’s what emotional truth does, anyway.

Christopher McKay’s performance in Orson Welles was unheralded, all around. I think it slipped by in the press, and that movie was released at an unfortunate time, which, no one could’ve foreseen.
Along with the film, the other big news that got pushed aside was the acting ability, the performance, of this actor, brand new to film; who really deserved, far and away, much more notice than he got.

Actor Viggo Mortensen in The Road. Let’s start with this actor…I think he’s so artistic, and so un-Hollywood, that he gets overlooked…
He used to be married to Excene, the lead singer in a punk band. (That must really freak them out.)…I applaud your body of work…

Not just Oscar Nominated films, in this YouTube mashup…Altogether, a good year for movies…

There’s a cool feature too, to save your colored ink. If you click on the arrows at the very top of your download window, of the PDF, you’ll see an arrow that looks like it takes you to Page 2.
The arrow opens an identical Official Oscar© Ballot, in black-and-white. Your choice, on which to print…

Ryan Bingham, who wrote this song called ‘The Weary Kind’, sings it in this video.

It was written by the singer, along with T-Bone Burnett.

In ‘Crazy Heart’, this song is sung by Jeff Bridges, and he does a really fine job. But I am including this here, so you may hear a different version; one by the writer, himself.
And, because Ryan Bingham’s voice has a perfectly broken sound. Listen, to hear what I mean…

Two young women that didn’t have a SAG card until 2009. They shouldered the responsibility of an entire movie, each, as if it was an everyday thing.
Brava to Carey Mulligan for ‘An Education’, and to Gabourey Sidibe for ‘Precious’.

The Hurt Locker only made $12 million dollars, yet it is such a well-made film, that it beat out all the others for the DGA, including Avatar.
What are the considerations that go into an Oscar© win, for Best Picture? There’s some obvious ones, and there’s some subtle ones.
As I’ve always said, you’ve just gotta hope that the Academy Members watch the films, first. All of the films, I mean.

Night Before The Oscar© Nominations Announce, A Reporter From USA Today Slept Over There
As the staff at the Academy Of Motion Pictures did, and do every year apparently. And the announcers, as well.
This year, previous-Oscar-Acting-Nominee, Anne Hathaway, was announcing…

Ouch. Awfully early, I’d say. …

From The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences, The Press Release With Full Nominee List:
Beverly Hills, CA — Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, February 2) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak, Oscar® [ACTING] nominee Anne Hathaway…
The Nominees Are….

Kathryn Bigelow, or K-Big, Won The Directors Guild Award. In 62 years, no woman has ever won a DGA Award. Until now. That may change the game, as far as Oscar©’s Best Picture goes…

February 2nd, 2010 Is The Big Day When The Oscar Noms Are Announced For the 82nd Academy Awards®. ©A.M.P.A.S.® This year, the announcement will be made by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress, Anne Hathaway.