Oscar Official Posters From 1960 to 2008
Presenters At The Kodak Theatre
The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Presenters at the Kodak Theatre will include all four of last year’s winners in the acting categories - Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker.
George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Cameron Diaz will be among the presenters at the Feb. 24 ceremony at the Kodak Theatre, Oscar officials announced Thursday.
Hollywood icons Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese and Denzel Washington will also take to the stage, said telecast producer Gil Cates and film academy President Sid Ganis.
Other presenters named are Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah Hill, Dwayne Johnson, James McAvoy, Queen Latifah, Seth Rogen, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, John Travolta and Renee Zellweger.
Jon Stewart was previously announced as the show’s host.
This will mark Stewart’s second stint as Oscar host. Stewart hosted the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002.
“Jon was a terrific host for the 78th Awards,” said Cates. “He is smart, quick, funny, loves movies and is a great guy. What else could one ask for?” said producer Gil Cates.
The show will also feature performances of the year’s five nominated songs. ‘Enchanted’ star Amy Adams will sing ‘Happy Working Song’, one of the film’s three nominated tunes. Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders will perform ‘That’s How You Know’, and Jon McLaughlin will sing ‘So Close’, also from ‘Enchanted’.
The stars of Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, will perform their song ‘Falling Slowly’. Jamia Simone Nash, along with the IMPACT repertory Theatre of Harlem, will sing ‘Raise It Up’ from August Rush.
Writers Strike Oscar Deal
Looks like the Oscars is going ahead. As in going ahead in recognisable, tear-fuelled, gushy form rather than someone reading a press release announcing the winners and then sticking the statues in the post.
The Academy Awards President Sid Ganis is now positive that the ceremony, the 80th one in fact, will go ahead despite the ongoing writers strike.
‘Things are looking very, very good now,’ said Ganis at the celebration luncheon.
Concerns that the dispute - which is over royalties on DVDs, internet broadcasting and other new technologies developed since the last big walk-out in 1988 - would scuttle the biggest awards ceremony of the year is good news for the industry, but bad news for the BAFTAs, which no doubt expected to become the big self-congratulatory show this year.
Yeah, right. Like that was going to happen. Besides, they’re going to give everything to Atonement, which was the visual equivalent of having your legs waxed.
2 Oscar Shows
In case the writers’ strike isn’t over by Oscars night on the 24th February, academy president Sid Ganis has formed a contingency plan.
Gannis stated there will be two Oscar shows:
‘The show we would love to do and … a show that we would prefer not to do’.
If the strike is over, then the Oscars will follow its usual format of glitz, glamour and thankful speeches. If not, a show consisting of, ‘history and packages of film and concepts that are not normally ones that we would have for the show if we were moving straight ahead,’ will be aired.
Michael Moore won’t attend Oscars without writers’ cooperation
Uncertainty rules the Academy Awards as “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” led Tuesday with eight nominations each, two other best-picture contenders trailed with seven, and a writers strike left the fate of the show itself up in the air.
Yet a sampling of reaction from nominees made one thing sound definite: Stars and filmmakers will skip the Oscars if the ceremony does not have the blessing of striking writers.
Hollywood’s most glamorous night could go the way of the Golden Globes, whose telecast was scrapped because stars remained steadfast in support of writers and refused to come. If stars boycott and Oscar organizers push ahead with a broadcast ceremony, it could end up as a glorified clips show with no one on hand to collect their trophies and gush their thanks.
9 Foreign Language Films Advance in 2007 Oscar Race
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 80th Academy Awards. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Austria, ’The Counterfeiters’
Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Brazil, ’The Year My Parents Went on Vacation’
Cao Hamburger, director
Canada, ’Days of Darkness’
Denys Arcand, director
Israel, ’Beaufort’
Joseph Cedar, director
Italy, ’The Unknown Woman’
Giuseppe Tornatore, director
Kazakhstan, ’Mongol’
Sergei Bodrov, director
Poland, ’Katyn’
Andrzej Wajda, director
Russia, ’12’
Nikita Mikhalkov, director
Serbia, ’The Trap’
Srdan Golubovic, director
Members of committe will view the shortlisted films and select the five nominees for the category.
Oscar Awards 2008 Poster
The poster for the 2008 Oscar Awards has arrived, and this time it was conceived by legendary motion picture poster illustrator Drew Struzan and executed by his son, Christian.
For more than 30 years, Drew Struzan has created some of cinema’s most memorable advertising posters, including the one-sheets for all six of George Lucas’ ’Star Wars’ films and, most recently, the key art for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming feature, ’Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’.
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