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

Oscar® Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Hailee Steinfeld, TRUE GRIT–Yes, agreed, she really was a lead actress in TRUE GRIT. This little girl pulled the whole film along. I guess they felt she would have a better chance of winning as a Best Supporting Actress…

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:

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…

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…

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.

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…