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The Trailer for Oscar Contender ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ Will Probably Make You Cry

Ahhh, great use of U2’s “Where The Streets Have No Name” in this trailer! Can’t wait for this. Also, Sandra Bullock’s haters should brace themselves for another possible Oscar nomination for her performance here. I spied her crying in the trailer!!!

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High-res From left to right: Best Actress Kathy Bates for ‘Misery,’ Best Actor Jeremy Irons for ‘Reversal of Fortune,’ Best Supporting Actress Whoopi Goldberg for ‘Ghost’ and Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci for ‘Goodfellas.’

From left to right: Best Actress Kathy Bates for ‘Misery,’ Best Actor Jeremy Irons for ‘Reversal of Fortune,’ Best Supporting Actress Whoopi Goldberg for ‘Ghost’ and Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci for ‘Goodfellas.’

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Oscar’s Attention Irks Gas Industry

“Gasland,” a low-budget documentary about alleged perils of natural-gas drilling, is up for an Oscar on Sunday, much to the chagrin of energy executives.

In fact, the natural-gas industry is so infuriated by the film that officials mounted an unsuccessful effort earlier this month to have it barred from the Academy Awards.

Continue reading… WSJ

Ricky Gervais Writes a Fake Oscar Monologue for James Franco and Hathaway

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FRANCO: There were some great kids’ movies this year. I took a five year old to see Toy Story 3 last week.
HATHAWAY: Did you enjoy it?
FRANCO: No it was ruined for me because the little brat was screaming and crying all the way through the film saying, “Who are you?” “You’re not my daddy.” “Take me back to the park where you grabbed me…”
[Laughter]
HATHAWAY: Oh James, you are a card. And your slightly risky jokes are not threatening because you’re one of us. And you are so handsome.

This is the second-best fake Oscar monologue we’ve read this award season.

“It’s hard to not take it personally. It’s very hard not to take it personally. You know, there’s a lot of stuff that people say and do but this is sloppy journalism because this is not a hidden thing. Everybody kind of knows. People in Somalia know, people in China know, because I, I know it’s hard to believe, because I am a world-wide person whose known. Because there wasn’t anyone like me and it was 70 years between Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win, and me. So this omission, I don’t know what to say, there’s nothing I can say except you’re sloppy in your work and you’re supposed to be better than this. This is the New York Times. It’s not some bozo paper from Hoochie-Coochie Land.” - Whoopi Goldberg, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in the blockbuster film Ghost.
The New York Times did an article on the subject entitled “Hollywood’s Whiteout”, in which they discussed the very small amount of African American winners over the years. They listed every one…except for Whoopi Goldberg. - Check out the clip from The View @ Mediate
 

“It’s hard to not take it personally. It’s very hard not to take it personally. You know, there’s a lot of stuff that people say and do but this is sloppy journalism because this is not a hidden thing. Everybody kind of knows. People in Somalia know, people in China know, because I, I know it’s hard to believe, because I am a world-wide person whose known. Because there wasn’t anyone like me and it was 70 years between Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win, and me. So this omission, I don’t know what to say, there’s nothing I can say except you’re sloppy in your work and you’re supposed to be better than this. This is the New York Times. It’s not some bozo paper from Hoochie-Coochie Land.” Whoopi Goldberg, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in the blockbuster film Ghost.

The New York Times did an article on the subject entitled “Hollywood’s Whiteout”, in which they discussed the very small amount of African American winners over the years. They listed every one…except for Whoopi Goldberg. - Check out the clip from The View @ Mediate