The King’s Speech featurette: With film scenes and ‘behind the scenes’.

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

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

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

January 23rd Was D-day To Have Nominee Ballots In Here’s The Academy Of Motion Pictures Press Release: OSCAR® NOMINATION BALLOTS DUE JANUARY 23 Beverly Hills, CA — The 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must return their completed Oscar nominations ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers no later than 5 p.m. on [...]

(Oh! So that’s why “The Dark Knight” didn’t get an Oscar nomination.)—But what frequently happens is that only two or three movies cross that threshold. In this case, the Academy takes the movie with the lowest number of No. 1 votes and reallocates those votes to the No. 2 choices on the ballots.

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”…

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