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Why Brad Renfro was cut out of the Oscar tribute montage

Brad Renfro

Why was late actor Brad Renfro cut from the video tribute at Sunday’s Oscars?

“It was really an editing decision because we can’t fit everyone in,” a rep for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said. “There was no specific reason.”

The montage featured footage of late actors, including Heath Ledger, who passed away a week after Renfro.

Renfro died of a heroin overdose in his L.A. home January 15th.

The actor made his big film debut, opposite Susan Sarandon, in 1994’s The Client. His film credits include Sleepers, Apt Pupil and the acclaimed independent film Ghost World.

What do you think? I know that I only recognized a few of the names, but afterwards, I knew that Brad was missing from the montage. What a disservice to his career!

Posted Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 5:17pm
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The 80th Annual Academy Awards – 2008 Oscar Winners!

Renee Zellweger

Best Motion Picture
WINNER: “No Country for Old Men”
· “Atonement”
· “Juno”
· “Michael Clayton”
· “No Country for Old Men”
· “There Will Be Blood”

Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”
· George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
· Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
· Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah”
· Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”

Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
WINNER: Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose”
· Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
· Julie Christie in “Away From Her”
· Laura Linney in “The Savages”
· Ellen Page in “Juno”

Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
WINNER: Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men”
· Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
· Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War”
· Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild”
· Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton”

Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
WINNER: Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton”
· Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There”
· Ruby Dee in “American Gangster”
· Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement”
· Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone”

Achievement In Directing
WINNER: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for “No Country for Old Men”
· Julian Schnabel for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
· Jason Reitman for “Juno”
· Tony Gilroy for “Michael Clayton”
· Paul Thomas Anderson for “There Will Be Blood”

Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: “No Country for Old Men” by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
· “Atonement” by Christopher Hampton
· “Away From Her” by Sarah Polley
· “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Ronald Harwood
· “There Will Be Blood” by Paul Thomas Anderson

Original Screenplay
WINNER: “Juno” by Diablo Cody
· “Lars and the Real Girl” by Nancy Oliver
· “Michael Clayton” by Tony Gilroy
· “Ratatouille” by Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco
· “The Savages” by Tamara Jenkins

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song)
WINNER: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for “Falling Slowly” from “Once”
· Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for “Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted”
· Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas for “Raise It Up” from “August Rush”
· Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for “So Close” from “Enchanted”
· Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for “That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted”

Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score)
WINNER: Dario Marianelli for “Atonement”
· Alberto Iglesias for “The Kite Runner”
· James Newton Howard for “Michael Clayton”
· Michael Giacchino for “Ratatouille”
· Marco Beltrami for “3:10 to Yuma”

Achievement In Cinematography
WINNER: Robert Elswit for “There Will Be Blood”
· Roger Deakins for “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
· Seamus McGarvey for “Atonement”
· Janusz Kaminski for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
· Roger Deakins for “No Country for Old Men”

Achievement In Film Editing
WINNER: Christopher Rouse for “The Bourne Ultimatum”
· Juliette Welfling for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
· Jay Cassidy for “Into the Wild”
· Roderick Jaynes for “No Country for Old Men”
· Dylan Tichenor for “There Will Be Blood”

Achievement In Costume Design
WINNER: Alexandra Byrne for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
· Albert Wolsky for “Across the Universe”
· Jacqueline Durran for “Atonement”
· Marit Allen for “La Vie en Rose”
· Colleen Atwood for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

Achievement In Art Direction
WINNER: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
· Arthur Max and Beth A. Rubino for “American Gangster”
· Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer for “Atonement”
· Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock for “The Golden Compass”
· Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson for “There Will Be Blood”

Best Animated Feature Film
WINNER: “Ratatouille”
· “Persepolis”
· “Surf’s Up”

Best Animated Short Film
WINNER: “Peter & the Wolf”
· “I Met the Walrus”
· “Madame Tutli-Putli”
· “Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)”
· “My Love (Moya Lyubov)”

Best Live Action Short Film
WINNER: “Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)”
· “At Night”
· “Il Supplente (The Substitute)”
· “Tanghi Argentini”
· “The Tonto Woman”

Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: “Taxi to the Dark Side”
· “No End in Sight”
· “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience”
· “Sicko”
· “War/Dance”

Best Documentary Short Subject
WINNER: “Freeheld”
· “La Corona (The Crown)”
· “Salim Baba”
· “Sari’s Mother”

Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER: “The Counterfeiters” (Austria)
· “Beaufort” (Israel)
· “Katyn” (Poland)
· “Mongol” (Kazakhstan)
· “12″ (Russia)

Achievement In Visual Effects
WINNER: Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood for “The Golden Compass”
· John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”
· Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier for “Transformers”

Achievement In Makeup
WINNER: Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald for “La Vie en Rose”
· Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji for “Norbit”
· Ve Neill and Martin Samuel for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”

Achievement In Sound Editing
WINNER: Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg for “The Bourne Ultimatum”
· Skip Lievsay for “No Country for Old Men”
· Randy Thom and Michael Silvers for “Ratatouille”
· Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood for “There Will Be Blood”
· Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins for “Transformers”

Achievement In Sound Mixing
WINNER: Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis for “The Bourne Ultimatum”
· Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland for “No Country for Old Men”
· Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kanefor “Ratatouille”
· Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe for “3:10 to Yuma”
· Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin for “Transformers”

Posted Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 8:20pm
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Jessica Alba, presenting at the 2008 Oscars

Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba, presenting at the 80th Annual Academy Awards, tonight.

Posted Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 8:20pm
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George Clooney arrives with Sarah Larson for the 80th Annual Academy Awards

George Clooney

George Clooney and girlfriend Sarah Larson, arriving for the 80th annual Academy Awards.

WENN

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Posted Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 4:16pm
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Christopher Walken gets the Hasty Pudding Award

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken sang a song from “Hairspray” and spoofed a “Saturday Night Live” skit Friday night to earn Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.

At a roast before the presentation, Walken, who serenaded John Travolta last year in the latest film version of “Hairspray,” sang to a Harvard student dressed in drag.

Another cast member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University, the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe, came on stage banging a cow bell, evoking the “SNL” skit in which Walken played a music producer who called for “more cow bell.”

Walken, who joked afterward that he’d “have prepared or had a couple of drinks” if he had known what was in store, donned a copper-colored bra and brown wig. He couldn’t get into a pair of blue pumps that were supposed to be part of the outfit, doing a dance in his street shoes instead.

The Hasty Pudding roasters also had Walken read the recipe for “hasty pudding,” and asked him to show off his “psychic powers,” a play on his role in 1983’s “The Dead Zone.”

“I hope nobody’s watching,” Walken said. “I acted on this stage in a play about 20 years ago.”

In a more serious vein, he said he was “amazed and thrilled” by the honor.

The 64-year-old actor won a best supporting actor Oscar as a troubled Vietnam veteran in 1978’s “The Deer Hunter.” He was nominated again for 2002’s “Catch Me If You Can.”

Last year, he was featured in the film “Balls of Fury.”

Talisa Friedman, press manager for the Hasty Pudding drama troupe, said Walken exemplifies the Hasty Pudding spirit and the value it puts on fun.

Charlize Theron also won a Hasty Pudding award this year.

Source WENN

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Posted Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 9:09am
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Complete List of Grammy winners!

Beyonce & Solange Knowles

Album of the Year
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace — Foo Fighters
These Days — Vince Gill
River: The Joni Letters — Herbie Hancock (Winner)
Graduation — Kanye West
Back To Black — Amy Winehouse

Record Of The Year
Irreplaceable — Beyoncé
The Pretender — Foo Fighters
Umbrella — Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
What Goes Around…Comes Around — Justin Timberlake
Rehab — Amy Winehouse (Winner)

Song of the Year
Before He Cheats — Carrie Underwood
Hey There Delilah — Plain White T’s
Like a Star — Corrine Bailey Rae
Rehab — Amy Winehouse (Winner)
Umbrella — Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z

Best New Artist
Feist
Ledisi
Paramore
Taylor Swift
Amy Winehouse (Winner)

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Candyman — Christina Aguilera
1234 — Feist
Big Girls Don’t Cry — Fergie
Say It Right — Nelly Furtado
Rehab — Amy Winehouse (Winner)

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Everything — Michael Bublé
Belief — John Mayer
Dance Tonight — Paul McCartney
Amazing — Seal
What Goes Around… Comes Around — Justin Timberlake (Winner)

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group
(You Want To) Make a Memory — Bon Jovi
Home — Daughtry
Makes Me Wonder — Maroon 5 (Winner)
Hey There Delilah — Plain White T’s
Window In the Skies — U2

Best Pop Vocal Album
Lost Highway — Bon Jovi
The Reminder — Feist
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long — Maroon 5
Memory Almost Full — Paul McCartney
Back to Black — Amy Winehouse (Winner)

Best Solo Rock Performance
Timebomb — Beck
Only Mama Knows — Paul McCartney
Our Country — John Mellencamp
Radio Nowhere — Bruce Springsteen (Winner)
Come On — Lucinda Williams

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group
It’s Not Over — Daughtry
Working Class Hero — Green Day
If Everyone Cared — Nickelback
Instant Karma — U2
Icky Thump — The White Stripes (Winner)

Best Hard Rock Performance
Sweet Sacrifice — Evanescence
The Pretender — Foo Fighters (Winner)
I Don’t Wanna Stop — Ozzy Osbourne
Sick, Sick, Sick — Queens of the Stone Age
The Pot — Tool

Best Rock Album
Daughtry — Daughtry
Revival — John Fogerty
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace — Foo Fighters (Winner)
Magic — Bruce Springsteen
Sky Blue Sky — Wilco

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Just Fine — Mary J. Blige
When I See You — Fantasia
No One — Alicia Keys (Winner)
If I Have My Way — Chrissette Michele
Hate On Me — Jill Scott

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Woman — Raheem DeVaughn
B.U.D.D.Y. — Musiq Soulchild
Because of You — Ne-Yo
Future Baby Mama — Prince (Winner)
Please Don’t Go — Tank

Best Rap Solo Performance
The People — Common
I Get Money — 50 Cent
Show Me What You got — Jay-Z
Big Things Poppin’ (Do It) — T.I.
Stronger — Kanye West (Winner)

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Simple Love — Alison Krauss
Famous In a Small Town — Miranda Lambert
Nothin’ Better To Do — LeAnn Rimes
Before He Cheats — Carrie Underwood (Winner)
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love — Trisha Yearwood

Best Male Country Vocal Performance
Long Trip Alone — Dierks Bentley
A Woman’s Love — Alan Jackson
If You’re Reading This — Tim McGraw
Give It Away — George Strait
Stupid Boy — Keith Urban (Winner)

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group
Proud of the House We Built —Brooks & Dunn
How Long — Eagles (Winner)
Moments — Emerson Drive
Lucky Man — Montgomery Gentry
Sweet Memories — The Time Jumpers

Best Country Album
Long Trip Alone — Dierks Bentley
These Days — Vince Gill (Winner)
Let It Go — Tim McGraw
5th Gear — Brad Paisley
It Just Comes Natural — George Strait

Posted Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 6:06am
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The 50th Annual Grammy Awards!

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I’ve been scouring all over the internet, and so far – I haven’t found a single dress that I hate!  Some of them may be questionable, but for the most part, everyone looks beautiful!

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Will post more as I find it!

Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Alicia Keys,  Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Brooke Hogan, Rihanna, Fergie, Joey Fatone and Lisa Rinna, Melissa Joan Hart, Miley Cyrus, Natasha Beddingfield & Nelly Furtado.
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