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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 [...]

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:

Oscar® Nominated Best Supporting Actress, Anna Kendrick discusses Up In The Air character traits …in this Hollywood Actor Prep video.

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…

Christopher McKay’s performance in Orson Welles was unheralded, all around. I think it slipped by in the press, and that movie was released at an unfortunate time, which, no one could’ve foreseen.
Along with the film, the other big news that got pushed aside was the acting ability, the performance, of this actor, brand new to film; who really deserved, far and away, much more notice than he got.

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”)
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All other Golden Globe categories and nominees are here in a printable list.

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…

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?

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…

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