With Kevin Kline and Mike Myers. ©AMPAS

The Academy’s Actor Oscar® Winners Group Portrait Photo ©A.M.P.A.S.®

83RD ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEES TO BE HONORED AT ACADEMY LUNCHEON Beverly Hills, CA – Nineteen of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among more than 140 Oscar® nominees who will gather at noon on Monday, February 7, at the Beverly Hilton when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors this [...]

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

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg makes a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, while actor Jesse Eisenberg (Best Actor Oscar Nominee) hosts the show. VIDEO.

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]

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

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

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 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…

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…

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.

Best Supporting Actress Film
Nominees:
Mo’Nique (“Precious”),
Penelope Cruz (“Nine”),
Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air”),
Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air”),
Julianne Moore (“A Single Man”)
…
All other Golden Globe categories and nominees are here in a printable list.

Actors Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando, in the cab scene from “ON THE WATERFRONT”. [VIDEO]
In the lifetime of these two brothers’ relationship, this is no the most dramatic day. From the earlier event, which destroyed their bond; to this event, where the emotional truth of it is communicated, acknowledging their uncrossable fissure, forever.

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.

Tiny little moments, that strung together, make up the years in movies…pieces of nearly all of the very best films of this past year! On YouTube…Didn’t this guy put together a wonderful Oscar nomination show-piece?

    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 [...]

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…

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.

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”…