Oscar 2007 Performers: Beyoncé, Melissa Etheridge, James Taylor
Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin has announced the show’s musical performers at the upcoming 2007 Academy Awards.
Beyoncé will perform “Listen” (music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, lyric by Anne Preven), one of three Original Song nominees from the musical Dreamgirls.
Jennifer Hudson will be singing “Love You I Do” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Siedah Garrett), also from Dreamgirls.
Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, and other Dreamgirls cast members will perform “Patience” (music by Henry Krieger and lyric by Willie Reale).
Melissa Etheridge will perform “I Need to Wake Up” from the global-warming documentary feature An Inconvenient Truth. Etheridge wrote the music and lyric for the nominated song.
Accompanied by singer-guitarist James [...]
by Andre Soares | February 21, 2007
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Oscar 2007 Presenters
Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
AMPAS has announced the — supposedly complete — roster of presenters at the upcoming Oscar ceremony, which will be held next Sunday, February 25, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
The updated list consists of: Ben Affleck, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jessica Biel, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz,Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., and Kirsten Dunst.
Also, Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Al Gore, Eva Green, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hugh Jackman, Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, James McAvoy, Tobey Maguire,Clive Owen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Seinfeld, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Meryl Streep, John [...]
by Andre Soares | February 21, 2007
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Oscar 2007: “Shorts!” in New York City
Maestro by Geza M. Toth (top); West Bank Story by Ari Sandel (middle); Too Few of Us by Borja Cobeaga (bottom)
The New York City version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ annual “Shorts!” program, featuring the year’s Oscar-nominated narrative short films, will be presented on Saturday, February 17, at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
The screenings will be hosted by none other than Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter columnist, Turner Classic Movies host, and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
The screening films are:
Short Film (Animated)
The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (a Danish poet travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto [...]
by Andre Soares | February 2, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Ari Sandel, Borja Cobeaga, Film Awards, Geza M. Toth, Maestro, Robert Osborne, Shorts, The Danish Poet, Too Few of Us, West Bank Story
Oscar 2007: Makeup Symposium in Hollywood
Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth (top); Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (middle); Christopher Walken in Click (bottom)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will for the first time present the 2007 Oscar nominees in the makeup category at a special symposium at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 24, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Makeup Symposium will be hosted by Makeup Branch Governor Leonard Engelman, whose film credits include The Witches of Eastwick, Batman Forever, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The event will screen clips of each nominated film, and audience members will be able to ask questions to the nominated makeup artists (subject to availability), who will also take part in a panel discussion.
The 2007 nominees for [...]
by Andre Soares | February 2, 2007
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Oscar 2007: Helen Mirren and the Academy Luncheon
Following a wild — but unfulfilling (see how bored she looks?) — lifetime of food, sex, and murder, Helen Mirren settles down after being elected Queen of England.
More than 100 individuals nominated for the 2007 Oscars — including 16 of the 20 nominees in the acting categories — are expected to attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual nominees luncheon at noon on Monday, Feb. 5, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Among those who’ll have to mind their table manners are Leonardo DiCaprio, Peter O’Toole, Will Smith, Penélope Cruz, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Adriana Barraza, Abigail Breslin, Rinko Kikuchi, Alan Arkin, Mark Wahlberg, and Jackie Earle Haley. Plus directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 2, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Helen Mirren, Nominees Luncheon, Peter Greenaway, Sex, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Queen