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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Jeff Bridges</title>
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		<title>International Box Office: The Oscars &amp; CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Scott Cooper, Jeff Bridges on the Crazy Heart set (top); Nick Saban, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins, Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (middle); Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s The Hurt Locker  (bottom)

Crazy Heart, The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker have all been helped at the domestic box office following their Oscar victories on March 7. Crazy Heart earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar; The Blind Side earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; while the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker won a total of six statuettes including Best Picture, Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), and Best Original Screenplay (Mark Boal).
This past weekend, John Lee Hancock&#8217;s The Blind Side took in $1.8 million at 369 screens in 11 markets for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Box Office Effect: CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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At the North American box office, Crazy Heart (above), The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker were the only three movies that benefited from their Oscar victories last Sunday.
Starring Jeff Bridges as a down-and-out country singer who strikes up a relationship with a younger woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Crazy Heart earned Bridges the Best Actor Oscar, in addition to another statuette for Best Original Song (&#34;The Weary Kind&#34; by T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham). 
More than any other film, Crazy Heart has been immensely helped by the awards season buzz. Following Bridges&#8217; win the film lost a mere 5.7 percent from the previous weekend &#8212; the smallest decrease among the top twelve films at the North American box office according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALICE IN WONDERLAND Box Office: Another $8 Million on Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Alice in Wonderland continued to lead the pack on Tuesday, March 9,  grossing nearly $8 million &#8212; $7.976m to be more exact &#8212; according to figures found at Box Office Mojo.  Tim Burton’s fantasy blockbuster had a small 11.5 percent drop from Monday. After five days, Alice in Wonderland has grossed a staggering $133 million in North America.
Alice in Wonderland stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, and the voices of Stephen Fry, Barbara Windsor,  and Michael Sheen.
At a very distant #2, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo,  took in $1.1 million (+8.9%), while Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest was  down one spot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, Susan Bridges Photo: Governors Ball 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Jeff Bridges, Susan Bridges
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		<title>Jeff Bridges&#8217; Oscar Acceptance Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Best Actor Jeff Bridges&#8216; Oscar acceptance speech:
&#34;Oh! Thank you, Academy members! Mom and dad, yeah, look! Whoo!
&#34;Thank you, Mom and Dad, for turning me on to such a groovy profession. Oh, my dad and my mom, they loved show biz so much. I remember my mom, getting all of us kids to entertain at her parties. You know, my dad sitting me on his bed and teaching me all of the basics of acting for a role in Sea Hunt.
&#34;They loved show biz so much and I feel an extension of them. You know, this, this is honoring them as much as it is me. I wanna, I wanna thank Scott Cooper, our wonderful director, for his knowledge of film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, Robert Osborne Photo: 2010 Oscar Red Carpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Jeff Bridges, Susan Bridges, Robert Osborne
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		<title>2010 Oscar Predictions</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s The Hurt Locker (top); Zoe Saldana in James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar (upper middle); Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart (lower middle); Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we&#8217;re correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of six Oscars, followed by Avatar with three (Titanic won 11 back in 1998), and Crazy Heart and Up with two each. The White Ribbon, The Cove, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up in the Air, The Young Victoria, Star Trek, Instead of Abracadabra, The Lady and the Reaper, and The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner will have one win each.
 In a few categories &#8212; such as short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, Andy Garcia: Spirit Awards Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Jeff Bridges, Andy Garcia
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, T Bone Burnett: Spirit Awards Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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T Bone Burnett and Jeff Bridges won Spirit Awards at the 25th Spirit Awards ceremony held Saturday, March 5, in Los Angeles. Bridges won the Best Actor award for his performance as a down-and-out country singer who develops a romantic relationship with a younger woman played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Both Bridges and Gyllenhaal are in the running for this year&#8217;s Academy Awards. Bridges is the odds-on favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar; Gyllenhaal is a surprise nominee for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
T Bone Burnett, who is up for an Oscar for the song &#34;The Weary Kind,&#34;  won the Spirit Award given to the  director and producers of Best First Film Crazy Heart. Scott Cooper was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRECIOUS Sweeps 25th Spirits Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Gabourey Sidibe, Mo&#8217;Nique in Precious (top); Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (bottom)

Lee Daniels&#8216; urban family drama Precious swept the 25th Spirit Awards held this evening at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. 
Precious won a total of five awards out of five nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo&#8217;Nique), and Best First Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher). Upon receiving his Best Director trophy from The Hurt Locker&#8217;s Jeremy Renner and two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, Daniels referred to the odds-on Oscar favorite:  “Kathryn Bigelow isn’t here tonight. I am.” Lucky him, though, ironically, Bigelow was not nominated last year, when her Iraq War drama was eligible for the Spirits. (There had been no Oscar buzz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Awards 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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2010 Spirit Awards
2010 Spirit Award nominations: Dec. 1, 2009
2010 Spirit Award winners: LA Live in Los Angeles on Mar. 5, 2010
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Gabourey Sidibe, Mo&#8217;Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel &#8216;Push&#8217; by Sapphire
&#160;

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
  (500) Days Of Summer - Producers: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe
  Amreeka - Producers: Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan 
*  Precious &#8211; Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness
  Sin Nombre &#8211; Producer: Amy Kaufman 
The Last Station &#8211; Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meuer
 BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) 
A Prophet (France) &#8211; Director: Jacques Audiard
* An Education (UK/France)- Director: Lone Scherfig
Everlasting Moments (Sweden) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges Discusses CRAZY HEART in GUITAR AFICIONADO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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This year&#8217;s probable Best Actor Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, who plays  troubled country singer Bad Blake in Scott Cooper&#8217;s Crazy Heart, graces the cover of the upcoming issue of Guitar Aficionado, in which the veteran actor is interviewed.
Referring to his career as an actor and his passion for music, Bridges says, &#34;I  dug what an actor did, but it took me a while to feel it, to truly appreciate  the craft and the preparation.  Plus, I was still playing music a lot, and  I guess I had a hard time choosing: was I an actor or a musician, or could I be  both?”
As for his Crazy Heart character, Bridges explains, &#34;Bad Blake is one  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betting Oscar Odds for THE HURT LOCKER, AVATAR, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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At easyodds.com you can bet on who will win the 2010 Oscar. Things look good for Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Kathryn Bigelow, Christoph Waltz (1-20), Mo&#8217;Nique, and The Hurt Locker. Meryl Streep and Avatar come in second place, not far behind the top choices in their respective categories.
At the other end, things don&#8217;t look all that good for Morgan Freeman (25-1), Jeremy Renner (28-1), Helen Mirren (80-1), Gabourey Sidibe (20-1), Quentin Tarantino (33-1), Jason Reitman (150-1), Lee Daniels (150-1), Matt Damon (40-1), Penelope Cruz (33-1), or Maggie Gyllenhaal (40-1). And the odds are totally against District 9 (150-1), An Education (150-1), and A Serious Man (200-1).
Photo: The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)
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		<title>Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Carey Mulligan: Oscar 2010 Presenters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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 Oscar nominees Crazy Heart&#8217;s Jeff Bridges, The Blind Side&#8217;s Sandra Bullock, Invictus&#8216; Matt Damon (above),  Up in the Air&#8217;s Anna Kendrick, An Education&#8217;s Carey Mulligan and Inglourious Basterds&#8216; Quentin Tarantino will be presenters at the  2010 Academy Awards.
Jeff Bridges received his fifth Oscar  nomination for his lead performance in Crazy Heart. He&#8217;d previously  earned a Best Actor nomination for Starman (1984) and  Best Supporting Actor nominations for  The Last Picture Show  (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Contender (2000).
Sandra Bullock,  Carey Mulligan and Anna Kendrick are first-time nominees, Bullock and Mulligan in the Best Actress category for The Blind Side and An Education,  respectively, and Kendrick for her supporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan, FISH TANK, A PROPHET: BAFTA 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank (top); Carey Mulligan in An Education (upper middle); Colin Firth in A Single Man (lower middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (bottom)

The BAFTA surprises weren&#8217;t  major surprises, except for one: the Outstanding British Film was Andrea Arnold&#8217;s gritty Fish Tank instead of the  more internationally recognized An Education. Nominated for eight BAFTAs, An Education ended up winning only one: Best Actress for Carey Mulligan, whose victory could be considered &#34;a surprise&#34; only in the sense that across the Atlantic she has no chance &#8212; or almost no chance &#8212; of winning the Oscar. 
But in her home turf, Mulligan&#8217;s chances were anything but nil. An Education has been widely praised and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, Randy Newman: Oscar&#8217;s Best Songs Not to Be Performed Onstage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Marion Cotillard won&#8217;t sing Maury Yeston&#8217;s &#34;Take It All&#34; from Nine, Jeff Bridges won&#8217;t perform Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett&#8217;s &#34;The Weary Kind&#34; from Crazy Heart, Randy Newman won&#8217;t do a rendition of &#34;Almost There&#34; and &#34;Down in New Orleans&#34; from The Princess and the Frog, and Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas won&#8217;t stage &#34;Loin de Paname&#34; from Paris 36 at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony next March 7.
Why not? Simply because this year&#8217;s Best Original Song nominees will be presented via  clips from the films in which they are sung, &#34;which is how most nominated achievements are featured within the show,&#34; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger explained Wednesday.
Why this year? Well, since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Jeremy Renner, Morgan Freeman: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Renner, George Clooney, and Morgan Freeman prove once and for all that there&#8217;s no rivalry among this year&#8217;s Best Actor nominees while sharing a joke at the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. 
 Jeff Bridges plays  an aging country singer in Scott Cooper&#8217;s Crazy Heart, and he&#8217;s the odds-on favorite to take home the Oscar. Jeremy Renner is a member of a bomb squad unit in Iraq in Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s The Hurt Locker, while George Clooney plays an expert corporate downsizer in Jason Reitman&#8217;s Up in the Air. Morgan Freeman impersonates Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood&#8217;s Invictus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woody Harrelson, Jeff Bridges, Lee Daniels: Nominees Luncheon Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Woody Harrelson, Lee Daniels, and Jeff Bridges got together at the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. 
Woody Harrelson is a Best Supporting Actor nominee for the drama The Messenger. Lee Daniels is in the running as the director of the urban drama Precious, while Jeff Bridges is a Best Actor nominee for Crazy Heart, in which he plays a troubled country singer. Bridges is this year&#8217;s favorite to take home the Oscar. He has been nominated four other times, but he has never won an Academy Award.
The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7 at  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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 Tomm Moore (bottom), Jeff Bridges (left), Sandra Bullock (center),  Peter J. Devlin (right), Richard Baneham (upper left), Jonas Rivera  (upper center) and Andrew A. Kosove (upper right) at the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. 
Tomm Moore The Secret of Kells was a surprise nominee in the Best Animated Feature category. Jeff Brides is up for a Best Actor Oscar for Crazy Heart, in which he plays a troubled country singer. Sandra Bullock is a Best Actress Oscar contender for the runaway sleeper hit The Blind Side. Peter J. Devlin is one of the Best Sound Mixing nominees for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRAZY HEART: Oscar Nominations Box-Office Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

It&#8217;s hard to tell if the Academy Award nominations have done much for most of the nominated films. Several Oscar nominees had a minor box-office increase the day the nominations were announced and smaller ones on the following day or so, but with perhaps four or five exceptions &#8212; The Blind Side, A Single Man, An Education, Up in the Air, and most notably Crazy Heart &#8212; that has been about it. Avatar has done great business in the last couple of weeks, but it&#8217;s  the kind of business the blockbuster had been doing prior to the Oscar announcement.
Curiously, the Oscar nominations  seem to have had their strongest effect by far on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Colin Firth: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Group Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Jeff Bridges were among the nearly 120 Oscar nominees gathered at the Beverly  Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills this afternoon for the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; Oscar Nominees Luncheon. The Luncheon was in honor of all   2009 Oscar nominees and special award  winners. Academy President Tom Sherak handed each nominee an official  certificate of nomination. 
Others getting  their certificate included Lee Daniels, Morgan Freeman, Jason Reitman,  Ivan Reitman, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Christoph Waltz, Woody Harrelson, The Cove director Louie Psihoyos, Pete Docter, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Precious screenwriter Geoffrey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Firth, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner at the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’   2010 Oscar Nominees Luncheon held this afternoon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This  year’s five Best Actor nominees  are in the running for the  following films: A Single Man  (Firth), The Hurt Locker (Renner), Crazy Heart (Bridges),  Invictus (Freeman), and Up in the Air (Clooney). 
George Clooney has been the US critics&#8217; favorite, but Jeff Bridges has the awards season momentum thanks to his Golden Globe and SAG Award wins, in addition to awards from several critics&#8217; groups including the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Bridges, whose film career spans about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Firth, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock: 2010 Oscar Nominees Luncheon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air

Fourteen  Academy Award nominees in the acting categories are expected to be among  more than 120  nominees gathering today at noon   for the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217;  annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. [Oscar Nominees Luncheon Group Photo.] 
 Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman,  Jeremy Renner, Sandra Bullock, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe and  Meryl Streep are expected to attend. And so are supporting nominees Vera Farmiga, Maggie Gyllenhaal,  Anna Kendrick, Woody Harrelson and Christoph Waltz. Nine supporting actress nominee Penelope Cruz was at the Spanish Academy&#8217;s Goya Awards in Madrid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WE ARE THE WORLD for Haiti: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Patti Austin, The Jonas Brothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Directed by Paul Haggis of the Academy Award-winning Crash, &#34;We Are the World 25 for Haiti,&#34; a musical fundraiser to help the devastated Caribbean nation, was recorded on February 1, 2010. The setting was the same studio as the  original 25 years earlier, Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&#38;M  Recording Studios.
The new version of &#34;We Are the World&#34; features 80 performers of various musical genres and generations. Among them are: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Hudson, A.R. Rahman, Harry Connick Jr, Gladys Knight, Patti Austin, Enrique Iglesias,  Nick Jonas, Justin Bieber, Nicole Scherzinger,  Jennifer  Nettles, Celine Dion, and Fergie.
Michael Jackson, who co-wrote the original  with Lionel Richie,  is shown in a clip that makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Actor Jeff Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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 Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Other nominees: George Clooney, Up in the Air; Colin Firth, A Single Man; Morgan Freeman, Invictus; Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker.
Whenever we went out on a limb in our Oscar nomination predictions we fell off the tree. Thanks to the Academy&#8217;s decision to be (mostly) unpredictably predictable this year, we&#8217;ve decided to stick to the tried and true in our Oscar winner predictions, beginning with the best actor category: Jeff Bridges, for both his troubled country singer in Crazy Heart and his 40+-year career as an actor in films such as The Last Picture Show, Fat City, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Fisher King, The Contender (but not King Kong).
Following critics awards in Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEAR JOHN &amp; the Top Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

Screen Gems’ romance drama Dear  John dethroned James Cameron’s Avatar at the  North American box office this weekend with a surprising $32.4 million  in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Lasse Hallström’s big-screen  adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel scored an average of  $10,913 per theater at 2,969 locations,  enough to end the impressive winning streak of Cameron’s hit epic.
At No. 2, Avatar  bagged another $23.6 million from ticket sales at 3,000 locations, a solid  weekend gross after eight weeks in release. Domestically, Fox’s sci-fi hit  flick has reached a cumulative gross of $630 million. 
New entry From Paris with Love generated $8.1 million in third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Box Office: AVATAR, New Releases, Oscar Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Channing Tatum in Lasse Hallström&#8217;s Dear John (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in From Paris with Love (bottom)

According to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo, Lasse Hallström’s romantic tearjerker Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, topped the domestic box-office this weekend, with $32.4 million in ticket sales. Avatar came at a distance second, with $23.6 million. James Cameron&#8217;s 3D sci-fier has grossed a total of $630 million after 52 days.
The $52 million John Travolta-Jonathan Rhys Meyers vehicle From Paris with Love earned a paltry $8.1 million ($2,983 per screen) on its opening weekend. Following in fourth place was Mel Gibson’s   Edge of Darkness  with $7 million, a  59.3 percent drop from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEAR JOHN Vs. AVATAR: Tearjerker Wins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

After seven weeks, Avatar&#8217;s reign at the box office may  finally be over: an estimated $6.2 million on Friday vs. $13.8 million for the tearjerker Dear John on Day One,   according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. Avatar had a small but not insignificant 16.7 percent drop from the previous Friday; even if the film rallies on Saturday &#8212; as it surely will &#8212; Avatar should end the weekend with at most $23-27 million. Outstanding for a movie on its eighth weekend &#8212; but it&#8217;ll land James Cameron’s  3D sci-fi adventure in second place nevertheless. Twelve years ago, Titanic remained on top for a total of 15 weekends.
Starring Amanda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Box Office: AVATAR Leads, Oscar Nominations Effect All But Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Colin Firth in A Single Man

All but two  movies on the top-twelve domestic box-office chart posted losses on Wednesday, according to Box Office Mojo. Obviously, the effects of Tuesday&#8217;s minor Oscar bump didn&#8217;t linger very long.
Avatar had one of the smallest drops, 1.5 percent, down to $2.647 million for a total of $603.7 million after 48 days. James Cameron’s sci-fier was followed by Mel Gibson’s  revenge thriller Edge of Darkness, which lost 19.9 percent from the previous day, with grosses of $1.1 million.  At #3, the Josh Duhamel-Kristen Bell romantic comedy When in Rome, earned 706K, a 19 percent drop.
 Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic drama The Book of Eli came in fourth, with $668K (8.3 percent drop), followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Mo&#8217;Nique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Academy&#8217;s acting nods were nearly identical to those of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. 
The best actress nominees are Meryl Streep (above), who earned her 16th mention for her portrayal of chef Julia Child in the comedy Julie &#38; Julia;  fourth-timer Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s wife in The Last Station;  and Oscar newcomers Sandra Bullock as a conservative well-to-do mom who discovers compassion after adopting an inner-city teen, Gabourey Sidibe as an abused pregnant teen, and Carey Mulligan as a 1960s London student who falls for a man about twice her age. 
Streep has two Oscars: supporting for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and lead for Sophie&#8217;s Choice (1982).  Mirren won for The Queen four years [...]]]></description>
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