AVATAR and HURT LOCKER lead with 9 nominations each
Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air
Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Supporting Actor Matt Damon, Invictus Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christopher Plummer, The Last Station Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress Penélope Cruz, Nine Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Best Original Screenplay Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy, Up Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Best Adapted Screenplay Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In the Loop Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9 Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious Nick Hornby, An Education Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Best Animated Film Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the Frog The Secret of Kells Up
Best Foreign Language Film El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina) Un Prophete (France) The White Ribbon (Germany) Ajami (Israel) The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Best Art Direction Avatar The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Nine Sherlock Holmes The Young Victoria
Best Cinematography Avatar Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds The White Ribbon
Best Costume Design Bright Star Coco Before Chanel The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Nine The Young Victoria
Best Documentary Burma VJ The Cove Food, Inc. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Which Way Home
Best Editing Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious
Best Makeup Il Divo Star Trek The Young Victoria
Best Score Avatar Fantastic Mr. Fox The Hurt Locker Sherlock Holmes Up
Best Song “Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman “Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman “Loin de Paname,” Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas “Take It All,” Nine, Maury Weston “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham
Best Sound Editing Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek Up
Best Sound Mixing Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best Visual Effects Avatar District 9 Star Trek
Best Documentary Short China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Music by Prudence Rabbit à la Berlin
Best Animated Short French Roast Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) Logorama A Matter of Loaf and Death
Best Live-Action Short The Door Instead of Abracadabra Kavi Miracle Fish The New Tenants
Mary J Blige sang this song 2 days ago at the "Hope For Haiti Now" charity telethon, led by George Clooney. This song is "a popular song written by Stephen C. Foster during 1854. Well-known and popular in its day,[1] both in America and Europe,[2][3] it was a favorite of both sides in the American Civil War."
Nobody does heartache quite as real and believing as MJB.
Stephen Foster - Hard Times Come Again No More Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears, While we all sup sorrow with the poor; There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; Oh Hard times come again no more. Chorus: Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, Hard Times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around my cabin door; Oh hard times come again no more. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door; Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say Oh hard times come again no more. (Chorus) There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, With a worn heart whose better days are o'er: Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day, Oh hard times come again no more. (Chorus) Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave Oh hard times come again no more. (Chorus)
It's the time of the year again, when another season of Idol begins. This will very well be the last year that things will remain the same, as Simon Cowell has made it official that he will be leaving the show next year. what bad luck for all of us who have come to love Mr Grumpy's british wit, honesty, and abrasive truth. he will be muchmuch missed. while the show is at the brink of major upheaval next year, season 9 is the time to cherish what is left of Simon Cowell.
I try not to read Rickey.org until Idol starts, and stay away from Idol until the first half of the yr when the show begins a new season. this is to prevent Idol satuaration, less someone comes out with a new album then it'd be worth revisiting those glory months of season past. And as every year begins, i subconsciously go to youtube for 'Tasia solace. oh those glory days, those gold standards of idol magic before Glambert sang with Kiss. before Carrie Underwood's Alone, there was 'Tasia's Summertime. and who can forget those golden few minutes of her sitting down on the Idol stage,in that pink halter-neck, tearing that song apart with equal ferocity and heartbreak. 'Tasia's one for the books.
and so it is, that as the new season begins and we do this all over again, we also look back at past greatness, and keep our love for the show strong; that despite the maddening group of lacklustre performances, bad but funny gimmicky performances, changes to the show, Randy's need for a Thesaurus, Kara's monkey business banging, we're on our way to witnessing greatness every year. and that is what drives us. he doesnt have to be the winner. he just have to deliver that ONE MAGICAL PERFORMANCE that will blow us away, and live up to that legacy, and we're forever enthralled and a believer.
This is the search for the next American Idol. and this one's for the fans.
David Archuleta - Imagine
Jennifer Hudson - Circle Of Life
Fantasia - Something to Talk About
Fantasia - Summertime
Fantasia - What are you doing the rest of your life.
Barbra Streisand - What are you doing the rest of your life.
i have many things i want, but if i were to really pick one for my birthday this year, i wish for a ticket to the killers concert on 24 jan. if someone were to accompany me, that would be a bonus. =)
do tell me if u r buying so that i can pre-empt myself and revise the killers catalogue for the gig!
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