Listed, printable Oscar winners from the 82nd Academy Awards with the category nominees listed as well…from the films of 2009.

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…

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

Film directors in this video are:
Quentin Tarentino, Kathryn Bigelow, Jason Reitman, Lee Daniels, and James Cameron.
They answer what they might have done if they hadn’t decided to direct movies. Some talk about other future plans.

In the rush and the heat, all the excitement of the Oscar wins; and the fiercely joyous passion over “Milk”‘s triumph (that seems to permeate the industry), I’d like to point out that little part of his Sean Penn’s Oscar acceptance speech, again. What Sean said about Mickey Rourke…It is these sensitive ones, who are our finest actors.
Here’s to them.

Kate Winslet, Accepting The Best Actress Award, For Her Performance In “The Reader” ::: Video:::Photos
Penelope Cruz, Accepting The Best Supporting Actress Award, For Her Performance In Vicky Christina Barcelona::Video::Photos

Includes Best Actress Kate Winslet, Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz, and ‘Milk’ Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, Director Danny Boyle, Jerry Lewis…
Oscar winners, backstage at the Academy Awards–video here:

The 2009 Oscar Winners. Well, we may all know exactly who won, on this day-after the Oscars; but in a year or so, a reference sheet may be desired…So, here they are, all in list that’s printable…

Predictions of 2009 Oscar winners, and more (including what determines whether they’ll watch or not!) from The Telegraph UK:…

She is a spirited woman in the midst of all these aging people, who are getting ready to die. She is a cherishing, loving mother, to this child who was born an old man. And, even when he’s Brad Pitt, she convinced me of her maternal love for Benjamin Button.

Viola Davis shows everything, in her character-restraining way of showing practically nothing.
She is calm, and direct, and holds back with the dignity of a black woman who is confronted, unexpectedly; and yet is able to maintain composure. All the while, letting us, the audience, get a sense of her whole life. All the burdens she experiences.

Next, they reveal: What are underlying influential factors, determinants; that motivate the members of the Academy when choosing the winner?

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.

One myth, whether true or not, is that Bette Davis remarked that the derriere, specifically, of the statuette; reminded her of the same body part of one of her ex-husbands. (It certainly doesn’t look like my ex’s.)

    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 [...]

“This was very different for me in so many ways because here I was being given that opportunity that I have waited a lifetime for, the opportunity to carry the film. So everything mattered that much more to me. I was that much more involved in all of it. There’s all kind of utter nonsense that goes on on-set but, somehow, you get the darn thing in the can anyway….”

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

Well, I was drawing from my life, too, from my mom. We were the only black family in Central Falls, Rhode Island in 1965. She had to fight doctors who wanted to experiment on us when we were sick, and she had to fight parents who saw us as thugs and bad influences on their children, though we were just rambunctious, creative kids. She had to fight teachers who just didn’t see our intelligence at times.

…6 The fable-like structure of the film has the strength and simplicity of a fairytale….9 The profound hatred or mistrust of corrupt wealth and the consequent adoration of lucky poverty could not have a better dramatic demonstration….10 The new air of magical realism is about to crush photographic realism in the movies.”

Slumdog Millionaire is intriguing, though, because it is very difficult to pin down. Some audiences, promised a “feelgood” extravaganza, have been disconcerted to find themselves watching slum children deliberately blinded with acid…

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”…