Posts Tagged ‘Oscars’

69th Golden Globe Awards - winners

The 69th Golden Globe Awards was another successful event awarding multiple awards to deserving films, actors and actresses and filmmakers this year. However, some big names failed to make the cut as they appeared to be snubbed from Golden Globe glory.
Now let’s get down to business. First stop, the winner for best movie in [...]

King’s Speech Most Awarded Movie in Oscars 2011

King’s Speech is the biggest winner in this year’s Oscars, garnering 4 Oscars, several of which are the major awards. Bagging the Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), Best Original Screenplay, It seems that King’s Speech was the judges’ favorite in this year’s Oscar.
Many may have found this controversial as it [...]

Natalie Portman May Soon Be an Oscar Winner

It is not a secret that the gorgeous and brilliant Natalie Portman has recently won the Best Female Actor in a Lead Role Award in the recently concluded Screen Actors Guild Awards. It seems that Natalie is a strong bet for the Oscars as the nod by the Screen Actors Guild makes for a strong [...]

Martin-Baldwin tandem for the Oscars: funny

In the earlier weeks of November last year, Brandneusense reported that the sum of the ages of this year’s presenters is 115. Many people thought that the two actors have already lost their game and may be too old to meet the standards of the new and evolving Hollywood audience.
But this Academy Awards night, these [...]

Hurt Locker is the Biggest Oscar Winner this 2010

The 82nd Academy Awards had shown us that Hurt Locker is the biggest winner in this year’s Academy Awards. Hurt Locker won the Best Director and the Best Picture running away with the biggest awards in the ceremony.
Brandneusense would like to congratulate the following winners in this year’s Academy Awards:
Actor in a Leading Role: [...]

Mo’Nique wins Oscars, 5th black woman in history

Mo’nique or Monique Imes, the comedienne who was the gem shining brightly in the movie “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” becomes the fifth black woman to win an Oscar.
The feat was first accomplished by Hattie McDaniel in the classic “Gone with the Wind”, and when the full bodied funny woman accepted the [...]

SAGS hail Basterds, Bullock and Bridges

The Screen Actors Guild Awards had just honoured Inglorious Basterds, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges building the buzz for the upcoming Academy Awards.
Brad Pitt’s (who just broke up with Angelina Jolie) satiric comedy, trumped An Education, Nine, The Hurt Locker and Precious, winning the top film prize awarded by the guild’s 120,000 members. Though Tarantino’s [...]

Penelope Cruz almost passed out at the Oscars

We all know Penelope Cruz for her feisty female roles and curvaceous body, but she claims that she almost fainted in the Oscars earlier this year.
Penelope Cruz won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress this year, for her role in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona”. As momentous as that event is, the actress [...]

Oscar duo’s ages sum is 115

When it was announced that Steve Martin (1945) and Alec Baldwin (1958) are the hosts of the 2010 Oscars, the world had its share of dropped jaws.
Maybe the crowd was expecting more youthful hosts than these two actors who have lived at least half a century already.
Other options that were considered other than [...]

Slumdog No More… Almost

After much acclaim in the highly prestigious Academy Awards, Slumdog Millionaire director and stars are now engaged in real-life drama.
Stars Rubina Ali, 9 and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10 are child wonders off of the slum until director Danny Boyle turned their life around. Not only had the children become stars but the director and producers [...]