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9 March 201082nd Academy Awards...and the winners are

 

Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Hurt Locker : Kathryn Bigelow  

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart


Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side

 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 

 Best Achievement in Directing
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker

 Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
The Hurt Locker  

 Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

 Best Achievement in Cinematography
Avatar 

 Best Achievement in Editing
The Hurt Locker 

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Avatar  

 Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Young Victoria 

 Best Achievement in Makeup
Star Trek 

 Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
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 Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Crazy Heart          T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham("The Weary Kind")

 Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker 

 Achievement in Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker 

 Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Avatar 

 Best Animated Feature Film
Up
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4 March 2010The Latest Movie News.

PENELOPE CRUZ (Broken Embraces) is in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise. Ian McShane, of HBO’s “Deadwood” is in talks to co-star as the legendary pirate Blackbeard.

KATHERINE HEIGL (Killers) is attached to star in Columbia’s One for the Money, the story of an unemployed lingerie buyer who becomes a bounty hunter. The film is based on Janet Evanovich’s novel of the same name, one of 16 in the series.

HAILEE STEINFIELD has been cast by the Coen brothers to play the lead role of Mattie Ross in their remake of the Western drama True Grit.

SUSAN SARANDON (The Lovely Bones) is in talks to star as the matriarch of the Barkley ranching family in the big-screen version of the 1960s TV series “The Big Valley.”

JUDI DENCH (Nine) will star with Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) in a new film version of the Charlotte Bronte classic “Jane Eyre.”

MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD (Live Free or Die Hard) will star in Universal’s remake of the 1982 John Carpenter thriller The Thing (which was itself remake of the 1951 classic The Thing From Another World).

ANNASOPHIA ROBB will join Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid in the drama Soul Surfer about teenage surfing champion Bethany Hamilton who lost her arm in a shark attack.

ERIC BANA (The Time Traveler’s Wife) will star with Saoirse Ronan in Hanna, the Focus Features thriller about a teenage assassin that will be directed by Joe Wright.

TAYLOR LAUTNER (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) will star in the big-screen film based on the Hasbro action figure “Stretch Armstrong,” with plans for a March 2012 release.

KEVIN COSTNER will direct and star in A Little War of Our Own, the story of a sheriff who must keep a town from exploding into violence during World War II.

JOHNNY DEPP will direct a documentary about the life of guitarist Keith Richards of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Depp previously directed The Brave in 1997.

PIERCE BROSNAN (The Ghost Writer) will join Ed Harris in the comic thriller Salvation Boulevard set in the world of megachurches.

VIN DIESEL will star in a third installment of the Chronicles of Riddick franchise. David Twohy, who wrote and directed the first two films will handle the same duties on Riddick.
 
ANNE FLETCHER is attached to direct a sequel to her 2007 film Enchanted for Disney.

COLUMBIA PICTURES is planning a film version of Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Lost Symbol,” the third book in “The Da Vinci Code” series.

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