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The script of the 83rd Oscars was drawn three weeks back when ‘The King’s Speech’ swept the ‘BAFTA’, before winning at Golden Globe. It was written and expected that Colin Firth, Natalie Portman [Black Swan] and The King’s Speech will be going to sweep the 83rd Academy Awards. And it did happen when left behind Jeff Bridges who won last year for ‘Crazy Heart’ beating Firth’s Single Man.

The evening belonged to the British monarch ‘The King’s Speech’ with 5 awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director. Here is the full list of the 83rd Academy Award Winners.

BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
WINNER: The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
WINNER: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
WINNER: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
WINNER: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter

BEST SONG
“Coming Home,” Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light,” Tangled, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
“If I Rise,” 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong
WINNER: “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman

BEST EDITING
127 Hours, Jon Harris
Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter, Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
WINNER: The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
WINNER: Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
WINNER: Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Confession, Tanel Toom
The Crush, Michael Creagh
WINNER: God of Love, Luke Matheny
Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name (Nominees TBD)
Poster Girl (Nominees (TBD)
WINNER: Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lenno

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres

BEST MAKEUP
Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
WINNER: The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger

BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER: Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Inception, Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
WINNER: The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
WINNER: In a Better World (Denmark)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Biutiful (Mexico)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year, written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
WINNER: The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
WINNER: The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit, written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

BEST ANIMATED FILM
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
WINNER: Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe
WINNER: The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
WINNER: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
WINNER: Inception, Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

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Oscar Curse is Real! Is Portman Next? https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/26/oscar-curse-is-real-is-portman-next/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/26/oscar-curse-is-real-is-portman-next/#respond Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:39:02 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=3459

A study conducted by the University of Toronto has found that actresses who win an Academy Award break up with their husbands, boyfriends or lovers just months after winning. And if the new research is to be believed, then actress Natalie Portman, who is the hot favorite for the top award for her performance in Black Swan, could end up being the next to feel the curse.

The study showed that Best Actress winners have 63% chance of ending up divorced and that winners were proven to be 1.68 times more likely to head to the divorce court than those who were nominated but didn’t take home gold. Betting agencies are already giving punters the chance to bet on the likelihood of the newly engaged and pregnant Portman, 29, succumbing to “the curse”.

A few other actresses already affected:

2010

Sandra Bullock: Her five year marriage to Jesse James ended after her Oscar win for ‘The Blind Side’ when she discovered he had been having an affair with a tattoo model.

2009

Kate Winslet: A year after winning the Best Actress award playing a concentration camp guard in ‘The Reader’, Winslet’s marriage to director Sam Mendes ended.

2006

Reese Witherspoon: Witherspoon accepted the Best Actress award for her role in ‘Walk the Line’. By the end of the year, she had left her husband and father of her two children, Ryan Philipe.

2001

Julia Roberts: Roberts took home the Oscar for ‘Erin Brockovich’ and thanked her boyfriend of four years Benjamin Bratt in her speech. Three months later they parted ways.

Does this mean better stay away from the Oscars??

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Colin Firth Sets his feet to the Oscars https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/15/colin-firth-sets-his-feet-to-the-oscars/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/15/colin-firth-sets-his-feet-to-the-oscars/#respond Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:55:28 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=3345

It is nearly confirmed that Colin Firth and Natalie Portman would get the top honor at the Academy Awards on February 28, 2011. After the duo clinched the top actress trophies at BAFTA and earlier concluded Golden Globe Awards.

‘The King’s Speech’ expectedly won the Best Film award in addition to unpredictable Best British film of the year. The film based on the British Monarch’s triumph over his stammering struggle delivered the punch with 7 BAFTA awards out of 14 nominations.

What's next? Oscars probably!

However, the ‘Black Swan’ makers would be a little upset with the only award ‘Best actress’ which went to Portman despite 12 nominations it has received.

Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, the duo who played the speech therapist of the monarch went home with the best supporting actor and actress trophies.

But, what would have been the most satisfactory award, the best director trophy for ‘The King…’ Tom Hooper went to ‘David Fincher’, who directed ‘The Social Network,’ which also got two other awards including the best adapted screenplay to ‘Aaron Sorkin’.

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Mila Kunis: The Seducing Ballerina of ‘Black Swan’ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/07/mila-kunis-the-seducing-ballerina-of-black-swan/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/02/07/mila-kunis-the-seducing-ballerina-of-black-swan/#respond Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:06:06 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=3170

Mila Kunis, if you have seen ‘Black Swan’ you can easily remember the seducing ballerina who has given even the lead actress Natalie Portman a bump into her belly-in-dance. Though, Portman’s bump came from her relationship with boyfriend, now fiancé Benjamin Millepied.

In an interview to LA Times magazine, Mila revealed that she was never interested on taking a project to pay her bills.

‘I know people say this all the time, but it’s true: I don’t ever want to work for the sake of working,’ she told the magazine.

Courtesy: LA Times magazine

Kunis has played the same role for eight magnificent years for a 70’s show, however she was looking for some variation in her professional career and it surprisingly happened with Oscar nominated ‘Black Swan’ where she didn’t even go for a formal audition. Luckily for her the role was offered to Mila after few video meetings with the director Darren Aronofsky.

‘I was very lucky to have a show for eight years. Now I can sit back and think about what I want.’

Courtesy: LA Times Magazine (Cover Photo)

The 27-year-old actress has posed for the LA Times Magazine in a white Rick Owens dress which shows her dancer-like figure.

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The King’s Speech gets the King’s Share of Nominations at BAFTA https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/18/the-kings-speech-gets-the-kings-share-of-nominations-at-bafta/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/18/the-kings-speech-gets-the-kings-share-of-nominations-at-bafta/#respond Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:14:51 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=2820

A day after the 68th Golden Globe Awards the British version of Oscars announces the nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Art giving the very British ‘The King’s Speech’ 14 nomination the most number of nominations including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.

Check the Nominations List:

BEST FILM

  1. BLACK SWAN
  2. INCEPTION
  3. THE KING’S SPEECH
  4. THE SOCIAL NETWORK
  5. TRUE GRIT

DIRECTOR

  1. 127 HOURS – Danny Boyle
  2. BLACK SWAN – Darren Aronofsky
  3. INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan
  4. THE KING’S SPEECH – Tom Hooper
  5. THE SOCIAL NETWORK – David Fincher

LEADING ACTOR

  1. JAVIER BARDEM – Biutiful
  2. JEFF BRIDGES – True Grit
  3. JESSE EISENBERG – The Social Network
  4. COLIN FIRTH – The King’s Speech
  5. JAMES FRANCO – 127 Hours

LEADING ACTRESS

  1. ANNETTE BENING – The Kids Are All Right
  2. JULIANNE MOORE – The Kids Are All Right
  3. NATALIE PORTMAN – Black Swan
  4. NOOMI RAPACE – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  5. HAILEE STEINFELD – True Grit

SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. CHRISTIAN BALE – The Fighter
  2. ANDREW GARFIELD – The Social Network
  3. PETE POSTLETHWAITE – The Town
  4. MARK RUFFALO – The Kids Are All Right
  5. GEOFFREY RUSH – The King’s Speech

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. AMY ADAMS – The Fighter
  2. HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech
  3. BARBARA HERSHEY – Black Swan
  4. LESLEY MANVILLE – Another Year
  5. MIRANDA RICHARDSON – Made in Dagenham

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It’s ‘The Social Network’ all over at the 68th Golden Globe Awards https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/17/its-the-social-network-all-over-at-the-68th-golden-globe-awards/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/17/its-the-social-network-all-over-at-the-68th-golden-globe-awards/#respond Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:35:43 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=2747

If ‘Social networking’ site ‘Facebook’ has given a new meaning to the world by showing people a new way to do networking and connections, it also fattened its worth to $41 billion by November 2010. It is a success on any scale but to put the same on screen was always going to be tough but the film did well to write another success story on the name of Facebook.

‘The Social Network’ is all about formation of ‘Facebook’ and Lawsuits happened in the process. The film was a stellar at the 68th Golden Globe by winning the ‘Best Drama’ and two other top prizes Best Director ‘David Fincher’ and its writer ‘Aaron Sorkin’.

However, the ‘Best Dramatic Actor’ went to ‘Colin Firth’ for ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘Natalie Portman’ bellied ‘Best Actress’ Award for ‘Black Swan’.

The evening wrapped itself in emotions when final award of the evening for Best Movie Drama was presented by ‘Michael Douglas’ who is treated for throat cancer. In his short speech he said, “There’s got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation”.

But, the limelight of the evening was stolen by Ms. Portman, who wasn’t black or white but in pink for the expected prize for her act as a tortured ballerina in ‘Black Swan’.  The kind of appreciation the film has received so far and is still surging at the box-office makes it a strong contender in the coming week’s Oscar.

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Golden Globe 2011: Pregnant Natalie Portman Wins Best Actress for ‘Black Swan’ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/17/golden-globe-2011-pregnant-natalie-portman-wins-best-actress-for-black-swan/ https://www.bollywoodnites.com/2011/01/17/golden-globe-2011-pregnant-natalie-portman-wins-best-actress-for-black-swan/#respond Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:13:06 +0000 http://www.bollywoodnites.com/?p=2717

Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Award for her role as tortured ballerina in Black Swan at the 68th Golden Globe award night while Social Network took away the ‘Best Film’ trophy of the Year.
Natalie Portman at Golden Globe Awards 2011

Here is the list of the Golden Globe Winners 2011:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
“The Social Network”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Natalie Portman, “Black Swan”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”

Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
“The Kids Are All Right”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Paul Giamatti, “Barney’s Version”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Melissa Leo, “The Fighter”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale, “The Fighter”

Best Director – Motion Picture
David Fincher, “The Social Network”

Best Television Series – Drama
“Boardwalk Empire”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Katey Sagal, “Sons of Anarchy”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire”

Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical
“Glee”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Laura Linney, “The Big C”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory”

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Carlos”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Claire Danes, “Temple Grandin”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Al Pacino, “You Don’t Know Jack”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jane Lynch, “Glee”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Chris Colfer, “Glee”

Best Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network”

Best Original Song
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from “Burlesque”

Best Original Score
“The Social Network”

Best Foreign Language Film
“In a Better World,” Denmark

Best Animated Feature
“Toy Story 3”

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