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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Oscar Ceremony 2010</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/oscar-ceremony-2010/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Farrah Fawcett &quot;In Memoriam&quot; Snub: Academy Issues &quot;Apology&quot; (of Sorts)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/farrah-fawcett-in-memoriam-snub-499/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/farrah-fawcett-in-memoriam-snub-499/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:12:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23187</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to People Online, Farrah Fawcett's family, friends, and fans have received &#34;an apology&#34; from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who reportedly was responsible for the inclusions and omissions in the &#34;In Memoriam&#34; segment of Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. As previously mentioned in this blog and elsewhere, Fawcett was left out of the tribute. Among those criticizing the omission [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/farrah-fawcett-in-memoriam-snub-499/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pedro Almodóvar, John Hughes&#039; Alumni: Oscar Ceremony 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/pedro-almodovar-john-hughes-oscar-ceremony-787/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/pedro-almodovar-john-hughes-oscar-ceremony-787/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:02:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23138</guid> <description><![CDATA[On the positive side, it was good to see Pedro Almodóvar (above, with Quentin Tarantino) introducing some of the Best Foreign Language Film nominees, the speech by art director Robert Stromberg &#8212; who survived some unspecified deadly illness &#8212; was quite moving, and it was interesting to see John Hughes' alumni in 2010 in an otherwise poorly presented tribute. (A tribute for the recently deceased [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/pedro-almodovar-john-hughes-oscar-ceremony-787/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Horror Movies: Oscar Ceremony 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-taylor-lautner-and-horror-movies-902/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-taylor-lautner-and-horror-movies-902/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:01:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23137</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart clearing her throat didn't bother me like it did some people, but the horror movie tribute that followed felt completely out of place in a ceremony that didn't feature any horror films in the running for Best Picture. Perhaps a sci-fi homage would have been more appropriate, considering Avatar and District 9, but then The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Stewart and Taylor Lautner [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-taylor-lautner-and-horror-movies-902/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar In Memoriam Tribute: Jean Simmons-Jennifer Jones Mix-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-gaynor-jean-simmons-jennifer-jones-239/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-gaynor-jean-simmons-jennifer-jones-239/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:36:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23097</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Simmons, Paul Newman in Until They Sail Jean Simmons, who died this past January, was remembered in this year's In Memoriam segment at the 2010 Oscar ceremony. Well, great. Simmons was a fantastic actress. As far as I'm concerned, she stole Hamlet from Laurence Olivier, Elmer Gantry from Burt Lancaster, and Spartacus from Kirk Douglas. But why an image of Jennifer Jones in The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-gaynor-jean-simmons-jennifer-jones-239/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Picture THE HURT LOCKER: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal&#039;s Oscar Acceptance Speeches</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22984</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture: The Hurt Locker. Oscar acceptance speeches: Mark Boal: Thank you so much. This has been such a dream. Beyond a dream for all of us who have lived for so long with this story. And, you know, we had this fantasy of making our film our way with the talent that we hoped to have. And hopefully, we would find a distributor and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22982</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's Best Director Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar acceptance speech: &#34;This really is&#8230; There's no other way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime. First of all, this is so extraordinary to be in the company of such powerful, my fellow nominees, such powerful filmmakers who have inspired me and I have admired for, some of whom, for decades. And thank you to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sandra Bullock&#039;s 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-oscar-acceptance-speech-949/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-oscar-acceptance-speech-949/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:30:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22979</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Actress Sandra Bullock's Oscar acceptance speech &#34;Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have the most incredible ride with rooms full of artists that I see tonight and that I've worked with before and I hope to work with in the future, who [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-oscar-acceptance-speech-949/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeff Bridges&#039; Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:19:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22977</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Actor Jeff Bridges' 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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Animated Short LOGORAMA: Nicolas Schmerkin&#039;s 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/logorama-nicolas-schmerkin-oscar-acceptance-493/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/logorama-nicolas-schmerkin-oscar-acceptance-493/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:47:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22971</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best animated short film Logorama: Nicolas Schmerkin's Oscar acceptance speech &#34;Good evening. It doesn't look like, but it's a French film. Sorry about the accent. I'm the producer of the film, so I have to thank the 3,000 non-official sponsors that appear in the film. And I have to assure them that no logos were harmed in the making of the project. &#34;This award has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/logorama-nicolas-schmerkin-oscar-acceptance-493/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Mark Boal &#8211; 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:57:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22950</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Original Screenplay, The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal's Oscar acceptance speech. &#34;Oh my god. Wow, thank you Academy. You honor me and humble me with this. More than, more than you know. I was a reporter back from Iraq with the idea for a story about these men on the frontlines of an unpopular war. &#34;I thought it might make a movie. The result wildly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mark-boal-777-oscar-acceptance-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pete Docter&#039;s Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pete-docter-oscar-acceptance-speech-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pete-docter-oscar-acceptance-speech-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:29:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22940</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Animated Feature Up: Pete Docter's Oscar Acceptance Speech &#34;Boy, never did I dream that making a flip book out of my third grade math book would lead to this. Boy. It's incredible being here, it's just me right now, but please picture this whole stage full of the most amazing cast and crew you've ever experienced. Jonas Rivera, producer. Bob Peterson, co-director. You guys [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pete-docter-oscar-acceptance-speech-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pedro Almodóvar, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz, Zoe Saldana: Oscar 2010 Presenters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pedro-almodovar-tom-hanks-cameron-diaz-891/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pedro-almodovar-tom-hanks-cameron-diaz-891/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:06:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22768</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pedro Almodóvar (above, with Penelope Cruz), Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Demi Moore, and Zoe Saldana will be presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony. Almodóvar, whose Broken Embraces was snubbed by Spain &#8212; their committee opted to submit Fernando Trueba's The Dancer and the Thief instead &#8212; will probably be presenting the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, which [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/pedro-almodovar-tom-hanks-cameron-diaz-891/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sacha Baron Cohen Gets Oscar Axe: Better Not Offend AVATAR&#039;s James Cameron</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sacha-baron-cohen-james-cameron-oscar-71872/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sacha-baron-cohen-james-cameron-oscar-71872/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22633</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to New York magazine's Vulture blog, Sacha Baron Cohen has been axed from the Oscar telecast because the Borat/Brüno performer who once landed on Eminem's lap was supposed to have appeared in a sketch with Ben Stiller that might have offended Best Director nominee James Cameron. The Avatar filmmaker has a reputation of being short tempered, and his blockbusting sci-fi epic is in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sacha-baron-cohen-james-cameron-oscar-71872/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Producer Nicolas Chartier Barred from Oscar Ceremony</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:43:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22556</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be denied attendance at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that &#34;should The Hurt Locker be announced as the recipient of the Best Picture award at Sunday’s ceremonies, only three of the picture’s producers will be present for the celebration.&#34; The Iraq War drama's other nominated producers are [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pine: Oscar 2010 Presenters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bradley-cooper-sam-worthington-ryan-reynolds-59871/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bradley-cooper-sam-worthington-ryan-reynolds-59871/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:42:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22551</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Bounty Hunter's Gerard Butler, The Hangover and The A-Team's Bradley Cooper, A Single Man's Tom Ford, Brokeback Mountain, Brothers, and Lovers and Other Drugs' Jake Gyllenhaal, Star Trek's Chris Pine, Henry's Crime and The Day the Earth Stood Still's Keanu Reeves, The Proposal, Buried and Green Lantern's Ryan Reynolds, and The Debt and Avatar's Sam Worthington (above) will be presenters at the 2010 Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/bradley-cooper-sam-worthington-ryan-reynolds-59871/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbra Streisand, Kathy Bates, Charlize Theron, Robert Downey Jr: 2010 Oscar Presenters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathy-bates-charlize-theron-76190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathy-bates-charlize-theron-76190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:25:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22529</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barbra Streisand (above in Funny Girl), Kathy Bates, and Charlize Theron &#8212; three former Best Actress winners &#8212; will join former Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Travolta as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Kathy Bates won her Academy Award for Misery (1990). Barbra Streisand won a Best Actress [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathy-bates-charlize-theron-76190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tyler Perry at the 2010 Oscar Ceremony</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tyler-perry-madea-oscar-ceremony-66891/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tyler-perry-madea-oscar-ceremony-66891/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:17:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22509</guid> <description><![CDATA[Playwright-turned-producer-director-actor and sometimes on-screen-drag-queen Tyler Perry (above in Madea Goes to Jail) will be a presenter at the 2010 Academy Awards. This will be Perry’s first appearance on the show. Tyler Perry wrote, produced and starred in the Darren Grant-directed the sleeper hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005. (I haven't watched the movie, so I don't know whether or not Perry played [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tyler-perry-madea-oscar-ceremony-66891/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, Miley Cyrus: 2010 Oscar Presenters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/zac-efron-kristen-stewart-lautner-cyrus-43098/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/zac-efron-kristen-stewart-lautner-cyrus-43098/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:24:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22266</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Twilight (top); Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (bottom) Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, and Miley Cyrus will be presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony. This will be Efron and Cyrus' second appearance, and Lautner and Stewart’s debut on an Academy Awards show. Orange Rising Star winner Kristen Stewart, best known for Bella Swan in Twilight [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/zac-efron-kristen-stewart-lautner-cyrus-43098/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>No Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, Randy Newman: Oscar&#039;s Best Songs Not to Be Performed Onstage</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-marion-cotillard-randy-newman-71998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-marion-cotillard-randy-newman-71998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:56:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22091</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marion Cotillard won't sing Maury Yeston's &#34;Take It All&#34; fromNine, Jeff Bridges won't perform Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett's &#34;The Weary Kind&#34; from Crazy Heart, Randy Newman won'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't stage &#34;Loin de Paname&#34; from Paris 36 at the 2010 Academy Awards [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-marion-cotillard-randy-newman-71998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>David Rockwell &amp; 2010 Oscar Show Set Photos</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/david-rockwell-2010-oscar-show-set-58117/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/david-rockwell-2010-oscar-show-set-58117/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:05:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22039</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and 82nd Academy Awards production designer David Rockwell (above, with Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman) have unveiled the set for the 2010 Oscar show. This is Rockwell's second consecutive year as the designer of the Oscar telecast set. As per the Academy's press release, &#34;light and movement, the most basic components of moviemaking, will be integrated into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/david-rockwell-2010-oscar-show-set-58117/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn: Oscar 2010 Presenters</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/penelope-cruz-kate-winslet-sean-penn-23981/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/penelope-cruz-kate-winslet-sean-penn-23981/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:58:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21873</guid> <description><![CDATA[Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn &#8212; the three living performers who won Oscars in the acting categories last year &#8212; will return as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony on March 7. Heath Ledger won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. He'd previously been nominated in the best actor category [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/penelope-cruz-kate-winslet-sean-penn-23981/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeff Margolis: Pre-Oscar Show Executive Producer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-margolis-pre-oscar-show-producer-8991/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-margolis-pre-oscar-show-producer-8991/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:29:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21694</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeff Margolis will executive produce the red carpet arrivals show "Countdown to the Oscars 2010" for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar ceremony producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. "Countdown to the Oscars" will air on ABC at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, right before the Oscar telecast. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' press release, &#34;Margolis is an award-winning producer-director [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-margolis-pre-oscar-show-producer-8991/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Dancer Alert! Upcoming Auditions for Oscar Show</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dancer-auditions-495/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dancer-auditions-495/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20786</guid> <description><![CDATA[This just in, from the Academy's publicity department: Open dance auditions for the 82nd Academy Awards® telecast will be held on Friday, January 22, and Saturday, January 23, at CenterStaging in Burbank, California, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today. Cast dancers will perform live during the Academy Awards show on Sunday, March 7, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &#38; Highland Center®. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dancer-auditions-495/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Danette Herman &#8211; Oscar Ceremony Coordinating Producer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-danette-herman-116/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-danette-herman-116/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:33:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20776</guid> <description><![CDATA[Danette Herman will serve as coordinating producer for the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. According to the Academy's press release, Herman &#34;Herman has served in various capacities on the Academy Awards telecast for more than 30 years.  She served as co-producer for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ inaugural Governors Awards, held in November 2009, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-danette-herman-116/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Marc Shaiman to Be Telecast Music Director</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-marc-shaiman-telecast-music-director-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-marc-shaiman-telecast-music-director-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18757</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will be the music director for the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Shaiman received Original Score Oscar nominations for The American President (1995), The First Wives Club (1996), and Patch Adams (1998), in addition to nominations in the Original Song category for &#34;A Wink and a Smile&#34; from Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-marc-shaiman-telecast-music-director-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Hash Hamilton to Direct Oscar Telecast</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/hash-hamilton-direct-oscar-2010-telecast-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/hash-hamilton-direct-oscar-2010-telecast-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:03:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hamish Hamilton will direct the 2010 Academy Awards telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced. It will be Hamilton”s first time directing the Oscar show. Among Hamilton's credits are the “MTV Video Music Awards” and the “MTV Europe Music Awards,” in addition to live concert performances by the likes of U2, Neil Diamond, Josh Groban, Stevie Wonder, and Christina Aguilera, among others. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/hash-hamilton-direct-oscar-2010-telecast-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: David Rockwell to Design Oscar Show</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/david-rockwell-designer-oscar-2010-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/david-rockwell-designer-oscar-2010-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:46:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18455</guid> <description><![CDATA[David Rockwell will serve as production designer for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Rockwell served in that same capacity last year. Rockwell's set design work includes the Broadway productions of Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Rocky Horror Show, as well as the upcoming Elf and Houdini. His firm also designed the Kodak Theatre [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/david-rockwell-designer-oscar-2010-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to Host Oscar Telecast</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-oscar-2010-telecast/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-oscar-2010-telecast/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:24:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18272</guid> <description><![CDATA[Steve Martin in The Pink Panther 2 Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will act as co-hosts at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced. Steve Martin hosted the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards shows, earning an Emmy nomination for the first stint. He has also served as a presenter several times, most recently at the 2009 Oscar [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-oscar-2010-telecast/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Adam Shankman, Bill Mechanic to Produce Academy Awards Telecast</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/adam-shankman-bill-mechanic-oscar-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/adam-shankman-bill-mechanic-oscar-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:47:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17695</guid> <description><![CDATA[Adam Shankman (right) and Bill Mechanic will produce the 2010 Academy Awards telecast, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak has announced today. As per the Academy's press release, this will be the &#34;first major Oscar show involvement&#34; for both of them. Shankman’s directorial credits include Bedtime Stories (2008), Hairspray (2007), A Walk to Remember (2002) and The Wedding Planner (2001). His [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/adam-shankman-bill-mechanic-oscar-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Dates</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dates/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dates/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:34:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9256</guid> <description><![CDATA[**Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron: Oscar 2010 Photos** Academy President Sid Ganis has announced that the 82nd Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The ceremony will once again take place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &#38; Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by ABC in the United States. The new March date has been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-dates/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>13</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
