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The Academy Awards, with a focus on the acting categories and performance contenders. Oscar Nominees and Winners: for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress___By Dana Kaminski___
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Listed, printable Oscar winners from the 82nd Academy Awards with the category nominees listed as well…from the films of 2009.

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…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…

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Bridges didn’t need to win it for a ‘sum of the acting parts’… This one, in Crazy Heart, was that specific, deep, seamless, real. An Oscar winning performance, for a solidly Oscar-able actor. [speech transcript]

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…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…

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And this is your welcoming embrace and there’s no way I can ever thank you enough, but I can start right now…

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I will put a photograph for now, to represent what I considered to be exceptional about this Oscar year.

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Katherine Hepburn quoted here: ‘You always win an Academy Award for the wrong role.’Here’s a video with two Oscarologists from the LA Times, on when Oscars® have been awarded for different performances than the role for which the actor wins an Academy Award for. L.A. Times’s Pete Hammond and Tom O’Neil, on video about the Acting Oscars, at the Hollywood Museum.

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Out of deference to longevity of relationship, and also because he is so smart about film, I am putting up Jeffrey’s final predictions for who will win the Oscar. He has a site called Hollywood-Elsewhere…

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It was always a winner, anyway, as they opened the envelope and named that one Oscar come-and-get-it-at-the-podium, at the Academy Awards…Whether they stated it as such, or not. So. This year it will be stated outright–
:: And The Winner Is ::

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Preferential Voting, New To Oscar Voters, And Us All…
Thankfully, Oscarologist Pete Hammond understands how it works, and explains it in a simple way.

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I Tweeted A Day-Before-Oscars Question:
‘What Oscar Nominated Acting Performance Knocked Your Socks Off?’
Here are some of the tweets that I got back:

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I think I see Stephen Lang working hard not to laugh, in this video. Look, his eyes are smiling!

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A comic by Doug Savage about the Oscars and choosing actors that win for longevity rather than recent performance.

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The inscription reads: Beauty is just a snip away. Here’s the photo, and For An Article On This Art Piece and What It’s About
…Click Link To Hollywood Actor Prep…

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Thanks to Oscar.com, you can print out these 9 bingo cards, and play during the show.

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Adam Shankman, who is directing the Academy Awards show this year, just just put word about this out on Twitter:

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