Oscar Ceremony 2010 Articles

Best animated short film Logorama: Nicolas Schmerkin’s Oscar acceptance speech "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. "This award has [...]

Best Original Screenplay, The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal’s Oscar acceptance speech. "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. "I thought it might make a movie. The result wildly [...]

Best Animated Feature Up: Pete Docter’s Oscar Acceptance Speech "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 [...]

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 — their committee opted to submit Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief instead — will probably be presenting the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, which [...]