A video montage of the 2012 narrative films made by women such as Vera Farmiga, Angelina Jolie.
Statistics of Academy Awards and women directors: There were 5 female directors of Best Picture-nominated films from 2007 to 2010…

With Kevin Kline and Mike Myers. ©AMPAS

Every Year, The Oscars® Get A New Poster Design, Designated Just For That Year
May I Introduce You The 83rd Oscars® Poster?
Here’s another poster that I especially like…

…To my amazing husband Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what’s popular in order to do what’s right. And baby, you were so right…

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.

Preferential Voting, New To Oscar Voters, And Us All…
Thankfully, Oscarologist Pete Hammond understands how it works, and explains it in a simple way.

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

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

The inscription reads: Beauty is just a snip away. Here’s the photo, and For An Article On This Art Piece and What It’s About
…Click Link To Hollywood Actor Prep…

Thanks to Oscar.com, you can print out these 9 bingo cards, and play during the show.

Adam Shankman, who is directing the Academy Awards show this year, just just put word about this out on Twitter:

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…

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]

Home : Press : Press Releases Final Oscar® Ballots Mailed to Academy Members Beverly Hills, CA (February 10, 2010) — Final ballots for the 82nd Academy Awards® were mailed today (February 10) to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 [...]

Will CGI Acting Be Recognized As Oscar-Worthy Acting At The Academy Awards?
Is Performance Capture something that will compete for acting recognition, alongside traditional acting? Compete equally for Oscars in the acting categories?
That’s a question that been zinging around Hollywood, especially after Avatar’s recent surge into the mix.
James Cameron leaked a photo of his actress, Zoe Saldana…

From official Academy of Motion Pictures press release, the eligibility rules:
“To be eligible for 82nd Academy Awards® consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by…”

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.

Predictions of 2009 Oscar winners, and more (including what determines whether they’ll watch or not!) from The Telegraph UK:…

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.

Subtitle of this post could be: “I’m MRS. Norman Maine”… See the film clip, at end of this Oscar Prep post.

One myth, whether true or not, is that Bette Davis remarked that the derriere, specifically, of the statuette; reminded her of the same body part of one of her ex-husbands. (It certainly doesn’t look like my ex’s.)

“This was very different for me in so many ways because here I was being given that opportunity that I have waited a lifetime for, the opportunity to carry the film. So everything mattered that much more to me. I was that much more involved in all of it. There’s all kind of utter nonsense that goes on on-set but, somehow, you get the darn thing in the can anyway….”

I noticed that they all worked together, as if knitted together. It was my first sense, and desire, to be part of an acting ensemble. And, the role that Sinatra played, it was like a drop of ink on a piece of blotter paper. Just filled up the part. With an ease, and an intensity that never felt intense, at all. Magically alive.

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.

Well, I was drawing from my life, too, from my mom. We were the only black family in Central Falls, Rhode Island in 1965. She had to fight doctors who wanted to experiment on us when we were sick, and she had to fight parents who saw us as thugs and bad influences on their children, though we were just rambunctious, creative kids. She had to fight teachers who just didn’t see our intelligence at times.

(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…

…6 The fable-like structure of the film has the strength and simplicity of a fairytale….9 The profound hatred or mistrust of corrupt wealth and the consequent adoration of lucky poverty could not have a better dramatic demonstration….10 The new air of magical realism is about to crush photographic realism in the movies.”

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”…