James Franco Posted This Himself…
It’s a recording of his singing a song that was going to be part of the Academy Awards® broadcast…and has since been cut.  How cool is it that James Franco put it on the net, singing ‘warts’ and all??

Best, Dana Please share with others. Thank you. I also have a blog for actors called Hollywood Actor Prep. (link)

The King’s Speech featurette: With film scenes and ‘behind the scenes’.

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:

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

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]

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.

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…

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….

This Weekend Is Considered A Precursor To What Awards Will Win At The OscarsThe Golden Globes are on Sunday, NBC.
The Critics Choice Awards are on Friday, VH1.
Tom O’Neil, at The Envelope, Explains The Pattern Of Oscar Prediction

Probable BEST ACTOR Oscar Nominee:: Jeff Bridges::
His Acting Career, in film stills…mighty impressive…

They have acting in common, and a double-a in both of their last names. They may also both have Acting Category, Oscar nominations this year.

“…Getting nominated for the Oscar and winning the New York Film Critics Circle and some others — I can’t tell you how amazing that was. You want to talk about elation. To this day, it’s still surreal. You know, way back in the middle of my huge, dark hiatus, which people didn’t think was a hiatus, people would ask me, “Are you bitter towards Hollywood?”…”

It says, on the very back page; in the final little blurb that a CPA named Tony Knapp, listed nine million dollars, for Sean Penn’s”Gay Lessons”, in ‘Milk’.As kooky as so much EX-cess Hollywood can seem…I don’t know…This one just administers a bit of a jolt. Something ’bout, it’s simplicity of description.

Interested in seeing the real person, that Sean Penn played in the movie “Milk”?
The Gus Van Sant movie is up for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category; as is Sean Penn, for Best Actor.
This is from the documentary called “The Life And Times Of Harvey Milk”.

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE   Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” Meryl Streep in “Doubt” PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Amy Adams in “Doubt” Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Viola Davis in “Doubt” Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case [...]

Marlon Brando won an Academy Award for “On The Waterfront”, and he did accept it. He is so beautifully, surprised and honored. What a time it was, for movies…What a time it was, for acting.

Oscar’s Best Actor Nominees Discuss The Answer Amongst Themselves…

That meant no multiple takes. No re-shooting anything, even if it wasn’t right. Or mistakes were made. It also meant that Mickey Rourke had to be an even better actor than credited. Unlike any other movie, there weren’t multiple scenes to choose from…

When an actor is exceptional, the audience CAN’T tell whether it is the actor or the person. That is the way you can tell a magnificent performance. As soon as you stop “watching the actor”…