2011 Academy Award Nominations

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

*Black Swan

*The Fighter

*Inception

*The Kids are All Right

*The King's Speech

*The Social Network

*127 Hours

*Toy Story 3

*True Grit

*Winter's Bone


Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

*Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)

*Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)

*Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)

*Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

*Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)


Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

*Javier Bardem (Biutiful)

*Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)

*Colin Firth (The King's Speech)

*James Franco (127 Hours)

*Jeff Bridges (True Grit)


Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

*Christian Bale (The Fighter)

*John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)

*Jeremy Renner (The Town)

*Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right)

*Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)


Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

*Amy Adams (The Fighter)

*Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)

*Melissa Leo (The Fighter)

*Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

*Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)


Achievement in Directing:

*Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

*David O. Russell (The Fighter)

*Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

*David Fincher (The Social Network)

*Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)



Best Animated Feature Film of the Year:

*How to Train Your Dragon

*The Illusionist

*Toy Story 3







Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:

*Biutiful (Mexico)

*Dogtooth (Greece)

*In a Better World (Denmark)

*Incendies (Canada)

*Hors la Loi (Algeria)



Adapted Screenplay:

*127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)

*The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

*Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)

*True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

*Winter's Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini)


Original Screenplay:

*Another Year (Mike Leigh)

*The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silverand Paul Tamasy)

*Inception (Christopher Nolan)

*The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)

*The King's Speech (David Seidler)


Best Short Film (Animated):

*Day & Night Teddy Newton

*The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang

*Let's Pollute Geefwee Boedoe

*The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

*Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois


Best Documentary Short Subject:

*Killing in the Name

*Poster Girl

*Strangers No More

*Sun Come Up

*The Warriors of Qiugang







Best Documentary Feature:

*Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)

*Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)

*Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)

*Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)

*Waste Land Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)


Best Short Film (Live Action):

*The Confession Tanel Toom

*The Crush Michael Creagh

*God of Love Luke Matheny

*Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt

*Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite


Achievement in Art Direction:

*Alice in Wonderland

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

*Inception

*The King's Speech

*True Grit


Achievement in Cinematography:

*Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)

*Inception (Wally Pfister)

*The King's Speech (Danny Cohen)

*The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)

*True Grit (Roger Deakins)


Achievement in Costume Design:

*Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)

*I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)

*The King's Speech (Jenny Beaven)

*The Tempest (Sandy Powell)

*True Grit (Mary Zophres)


Achievement in Makeup:

*Barney's Version

*The Way Back

*The Wolfman


Achievement in Film Editing:

*Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)

*The Fighter (Pamela Martin)

*The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)

*127 Hours (Jon Harris)

*The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)


Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):

*How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)

*Inception (Hans Zimmer)

*The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)

*127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)

*The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)


Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):

*Coming Home from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

*I See the Light from Tangled Music and Lyric by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

*If I Rise from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

*We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman


Achievement in Sound Editing:

*Inception

*Toy Story 3

*TRON: Legacy

*True Grit

*Unstoppable


Achievement in Sound Mixing:

*Inception

*The King's Speech

*Salt

*The Social Network

*True Grit


Achievement in Visual Effects:

*Alice in Wonderland

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

*Hereafter

*Inception

*Iron Man 2

James Franco & Anne Hathaway New Oscars Hosts

Oscar telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced just now that "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27. We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that."

Anne Hathaway recived her first nomination as Best Leading Actress for her role in Rachel Getting Married back in 2009, and James Franco's performance has generated Oscar buzz for his role in this year's 127 Hours directed by Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle.

Details On Fiona Apple's Upcoming Album

Fiona Apple and her new album's co-producer Charley Drayon open up recently about how they got together and about the creative process, they're search for a new sound.

Fiona said:

"He (Charley Drayton) is my partner now in music. We're working together producing my next album, and the way that I feel with him has influenced the way I write. I've written things that are a little more challenging for me to play and a little more challenging for me to sing because I know that he's going to be with me and that I'm going to get that feeling of focus and dedication to every single thing that I get when I'm around him.”

And then Charley added:

“A little over a year ago I did a gig with Fiona and [keyboardist] Dave Palmer, just a trio. For some time she'd been looking to perform her music in a different way than the original formula, which I believe may have been research toward a new path for ideas to flow musically. And during that phase I felt she'd soon find new territory to explore and create.

Not long after, she called and asked if I would listen to some new songs and ideas she'd been working on. The song treatments were piano and vocal only and on my first listen, I not only thought they were amazing, but also that they could have been released just as they were. I thought her fans would love that as well. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed to be one of the first to hear the body of work, although once I landed back on my feet, I realized the challenge in front of me.

Fiona expressed wanting to incorporate minimal instrumentation to the new material. She asked me how I would join rhythm to the pieces and if any ideas came to me, would I share them with her? She was already in producer mode.

A few weeks later I told her I had some ideas to investigate, so we went into the studio and it all began to unfold. In two weeks we'd pretty much built strong treatments for half of the songs. The feeling I had was like being on a great first date, one night after the next. She liked the character and space we were constructing. Eventually, I began to wonder when we would hit a bump, but some universal force left the path wide open for us to grow deeper into the journey.

At the end of two straight weeks, we looked at each other, exhausted but buzzing on something we'd never been on before, and she said she wanted to continue working on the project together.

Fiona and the material have exposed a much wider spectrum of my musical vocabulary, even to my surprise at times. Seldom does a musical experience reach my soul in the way Fiona's has. I'm blessed to have this chapter in my life."

Spring 2011!
The wait is almost over!!!!!

Fiona Apple's New Album In 2011

5 years after her last official album, the extraordinarily Extraordinary Machine, Billboard.com is reporting that Fiona Apple is prepping the release of a new album by Spring 2011.

First came the news from a recent profile in Modern Drummer Magazine of Fiona
Apple's drummer and co-producer Charley Drayton, on the article they state that
"Drayton, who has toured with Apple since 2006, co-produced and mixed the record, as well as played on it".

And then the second news about the album came from singer-songwriter Michelle Branch, who twitted that "Hate to brag but I heard a couple new Fiona Apple tracks today. Amazing" and also that "Apple's new material should be worth the wait", she shared this info from her Twitter account on Sept. 12, which was one day before Fiona's 33rd birthday.

The tittle of the album and an exact release date is still not known, Spring means the album could be release on either March, April or May 2011, but obviously these are big, big news and I can't wait to hear new music from Fiona!