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My Red Carpet Winner

Cameron Diaz! She really surprised me with this sparkly, golden number. I love it!

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Sandra v. Meryl: Round One

Oscar night Round One: The Red Carpet. Who is your winner?



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The best of the Red Carpet

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Will you watch?

Happy Oscar Day!!!

I love the Academy Awards and will be watching (as usual) every minute of it live—from the moment the stars hit the red carpet to the very last award is handed out. With the battle for Best Picture this year, who wouldn't be able to watch?!

Herewith are my Oscar picks for the major categories:

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Geroge Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Director
James Cameron, Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious: based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

Best Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy, Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell,Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Original Score
James Horner, Avatar
Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino, Up

Best Original Song
Music and lyrics by Randy Newman, "Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
Music and lyrics by Randy Newman, “Down in New Orleans” fromThe Princess and the Frog
Music by Reinhardt Wagner and lyrics by Frank Thomas, “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36
Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, “Take It All” from Nine
Music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart

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Vanity Fair, Vogue meet 'Nine'

The women of the upcoming film "Nine" grace the covers of my monthly magazines for November. A barely recognizable Penélope Cruz (Oscar winner) is on the cover of Vanity Fair, while she joins Nicole Kidman (Oscar winner), Marion Cotillard (Oscar winner) and Kate Hudson (Oscar nominee) for the cover of Vogue.

The movie, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, which itself is based on the film "8 1/2", comes out in December and also stars Daniel Day-Lewis (double Oscar winner), Dame Judi Dench (Oscar winner), Sophia Loren (Oscar winner) and Fergie.

Watch the trailer here. It screams Oscar!

(photos via VF.com, EW.com)

Oscars 2010

Yes, it may be a bit early to mention next year's awards show, but it was announced today that the 2010 Academy Awards will air March 7. The last three Oscars have been in late February. 

Leslie Unger, a spokesperson for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who distributes the awards, said the change was to avoid conflicts with the 2010 Winter Olympics.

According to the AP, nominations will be announced Feb. 2. It's way too early to predict the actors and actresses on that list, but I'm already anticipating it!

Reese on Elle!

One of my acting favs, Reese Witherspoon, graces the cover of Elle's April edition! Titled "Big Love," I'm guessing the article will have Reese opening up about her life with Jake Gyllenhaal (post-divorce with Ryan Phillipe and post-Oscar win). She looks great!

(photo via Elle)

Kate, Sean visit Oprah

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Backstage

I'll add more as it becomes available, but below is Kate's backstage Thank You cam immediately after winning and behind the scenes with previous Best Actress winners Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry and Marion Cotillard, Best Actor Sean Penn and Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz. The final video is Kate's interview with the press. Congrats again Kate!

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KATE WINS!

Within minutes of her long overdue Oscar win, Kate Winslet's Wikipedia page was changed. Congrats Kate! You completely deserve it!

Check back for more Oscar coverage.

(photo via Entertainment Weekly, videos via Oscars, E!Online)

OSCAR WEEK!!!

The Academy Awards will be given away in one week! I'm so excited! To see all the nominees and predict the winners click here. I will be making my Oscar predictions sometime within the next seven days, so look out for those!