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

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.

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

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.

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]

I Believe This Boy Is A Very Young Jeff Bridges
I admit I am a bit happy that father, and actor, Lloyd Bridges instilled a sense of acting-integrity in his sons. Because it does show, in all of their work…and at least, one of them, to be very comfortable without a shirt, on camera. (photo)

“…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?”…”

That’s a beautiful number, 2010. So was the acting this year, and I am looking forward to writing about it here, at Hollywood Oscar Prep.

Oscar Prep. It’s just like Hollywood Actor Prep, only, this site is entirely about the awards, and performance-focused. Oscar-worthy acting performances.

Acting categories. Academy Awards. 2010….Welcome back!

I hope you are all ready for another Academy Awards Season!
Hope you are ready to focus once again on the acting categories, and the great performances of this past year, in film.
Have you noticed? There are more Oscar Pundits, Oscar Sites, and Oscarologists, this year, than inhabitants on the island of Haiti…
So I think what I will do…

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

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…

Here’s Melissa Leo (video), who has already won over the hearts of many audience members, who saw the movie ‘Frozen River’; and I think she may have a shot at winning an Oscar.

The following actors never won an Academy Award: Joseph Cotton, Dana Andrews, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Margaret Sullavan, Deborah Kerr, Ida Lupino, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre…Anthony Perkins, Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Orson Welles…

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

Another Dana Kaminski jam…www.hollywoodactorprep.com/blog Tell your friends, please. Especially, if they are actors. This site is all experience-based advice.

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”…

Gary Oldman did this interview way back, when they were doing press junkets for the “The Dark Knight”.