VIDEO: Hurt Locker Beats Avatar for Best Picture and Best Director Wins
Posted on Mar 07, 2010 @ 10:00PM - 1 comment
Talk about David beating Goliath!
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Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker snagged the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars during Sunday night's telecast of the 82nd Academy Awards, besting ex-husband and friend James Cameron and his film Avatar.
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A stunned and grateful Bigelow made her way to the stage to give thanks to the people who helped her along.
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Adding to her disbelief, Bigelow had to quickly turn around less than a minute after walking off the stage to join the rest of The Hurt Locker team as they accepted the statue for Best Picture.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: 90210 Hottie AnnaLynne McCord Jokes About Her 12 Oscar Nominations
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The QVC Red Carpet Style party was held under the stars at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills Friday night and the celebs weighed in on their Oscar favorites. 90210 hottie AnnaLynne McCord reminded RadarOnline.com exclusively that she has multiple nominations this year. "I actually have 12 nominations," AnnaLynne joked. "I have five lead actress nominations, and five supporting and two best picture for a film I didn't do. No one knows the difference."
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Jokes aside, she weighed in on her favorites for the Academy Awards airing Sunday. "There is only one pick for the whole night, every award should go to one person, not me actually, although that would be awesome James Cameron. James Cameron is the reason I wanted to be an actress. I saw Titanic when I was nine [yes she is that young!]. I hope they win all nine awards. James Cameron is the best director that ever walked this planet. I truly believe that."
Dancing With the Stars beauty Karina Smirnoff is on the other side of the most interesting competition in recent Oscar memory. "I like The Blind Side," Karina told RadarOnline.com. "But I love The Hurt Locker and I love the fact that The Hurt Locker is directed by the woman who used to be married to the director of Avatar, James Cameron. I think the whole marital competition is great, you go for the girl power!"
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The QVC Red Carpet Style party brought out Oscar-nominated Anna Kendrick who was adorable in a Phillip Lim dress and told RadarOnline.com that she was "excited" about the show on Sunday.
Her Twilight co-stars Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz showed up, and despite not hanging together inside the party, AnnaLynne and Kellan were super friendly with each other and chatted inside the hotel lobby side by side with each other on a sofa.
Denise Richards, Joan Collins, Holly Robinson Peete, Kristie Swanson, Jessica Lowndes, Angie Harmon, Eric Stonestreet and even RadarOnline.com favorite Tila Tequila all partied the night away and left with the coveted QVC gift bag that included a Kodak Easy Share Z950, a Dennis Basso blanket and KJL by Kenneth Jay Lane jewelry.
VIDEO: Roger Ebert Speaks For The First Time in 4 Years, Thanks To A Computer
Posted on Mar 02, 2010 @ 05:03PM - 2 comments
The world’s most famous movie critic, Roger Ebert, is speaking for the first time through a computer since he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and left with a disfigured face, RadarOnline.com has confirmed.
Ebert, who lost his voice, and ability to eat and drink four years ago, appeared on The Oprah Show to a standing ovation.
Oprah Winfrey asked the smiling Ebert how he felt. Ebert then typed in his answer on a computer and a computer voice read out his response: “Terrific!”
Oprah then asked if he remembered his last words. The ever joking Ebert said through the computer “No I don’t because I didn’t realize at the time they were going to be my last words. I probably spoke them to Chaz (his wife) then as they wheeled me to the operating room. They probably were ‘I love you.’” But, he continued, “on the other hand, they may have been ‘Good morning doctor’.”
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Roger has his meals in private through an intravenous tube four times a day, but he still has a vivid memory of being a kid and drinking A&W Root Beer. His brother-in-law says “when the Lord took away your ability to drink, he gave you that memory.”
Roger goes to two to four movie screenings a day and writes for 200 newspapers. So his voice is still heard around the world.
He tells Oprah that he talks in his dreams. “I’m talking all the time that’s just like it was in life. You can never shut me up,” he said through the computer.
But what would an interview with Roger Ebert be like without seeing his Oscar Predictions:
Best Supporting Actress Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Actress Sandra Bullock, Blind Side
Best Actor Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart
Best Director Kathryrn Bigelow
Best Picture The Hurt Locker
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Roger, who is now cancer free, plans on attending the Oscars. And, while he reports on a appearence obsessed industry, Ebert says he will not have any reconstructive surgery on his face.
In a powerful statement he says “nobody looks perfect, we have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.”
James Cameron's Past & Current Wives Buddy Up At Writers Guild Awards
Posted on Feb 20, 2010 @ 07:50PM - Add a comment
It was a lovefest at Saturday night's Writer Guild Awards in Los Angeles, and no one seemed friendlier than two of James Cameron's wives.
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Wife #3, director Kathryn Bigelow and wife #5, Titanic costar Suzy Amis chatted up a storm and posed for cozy pics. Avatar director Cameron has taken five walks down the aisle, RadarOnline.com can report. He and Amis have been wed since 2000.
In what may be a sign of what's to come at the Academy Awards next month, the Bigelow-directed The Hurt Locker won for best original screenplay, Mark Boal took home the prize; and the best adapted screenplay went to George Clooney's Up In the Air.
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2010 Oscar Nominations
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Photos of the 2010 Oscar nominees and the rolls that got them noticed.
Divorced Couple James Cameron & Kathryn Bigelow Make Oscar History -- Will Compete Against Each Other
Posted on Feb 02, 2010 @ 08:00AM - 2 comments
Directors James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow will make Oscar history when they become the first previously married couple to go up against one another in both the best picture and director categories during the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
And although Cameron’s $300 million blockbuster Avatar recently beat his own Titanic to become the highest grossing movie ever, Bigelow’s war movie The Hurt Locker – which only cost $9 million to make – could snatch both awards on Hollywood’s biggest night.
67th Annual Golden Globes Winners, Losers And Highlights
Posted on Jan 17, 2010 @ 12:02PM - 5 comments
As the January rain drizzled down outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel, inside there was a festive and electric atmosphere as the stars enjoyed the 2010 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards Show.
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Hosted by British funnyman and comic genius Ricky Gervais, the star studded show - broadcast in 160 countries worldwide - honors the cream of the American TV and movie worlds, and is a favorite of the awards season for many.
With the booze flowing and the relaxed party atmosphere the A-listers always seem to be more relaxed han at any of the other shows.
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The nominations, which were announced by Justin Timberlake, John Krasinski and Diane Kruger on December 15th, included all the favorites and hits of the past year.
Hit new show Glee made a first time appearance alongside awards season TV staples such as 30 Rock,Mad Men, The Office and House.
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Movies also included all the smash hits from 2009 - leading the nominations was George Clooney's Up In The Air along with Nine, Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds and Precious.
RadarOnline.com is live blogging at the Globes bringing you all the winners and losers as they are announced along with all the show’s highlights.
Keep refreshing the page for all the latest up to date exciting Globes coverage.
DVD Review: The Hurt Locker
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Pulled taut and throbbing with visceral fear, the stakes are clear from the start of The Hurt Locker, with barely a breath of relief until the credits roll.
This is exactly the effect that Kathryn Bigelow set out to create. In recent weeks, the director been awash in much-deserved awards nominations (including becoming only the seventh woman to receive a Directors Guild of America nod for a feature film) that have been showering praise on her documentary-like drama about men at war, and what drives them to it. In The Hurt Locker's DVD edition, which hit streets this week, the director opens up about her methodology in making the film, as well as some of the production nuances, hurdles and backstories.
During a behind-the-scenes segment, Bigelow explains that she wanted audiences to feel what it would be like to be in the elite bomb squad unit that the film depicts. Shot in Amman, Jordan, The Hurt Locker follows a fictional squad during a deployment in Baghdad in 2004, and offers a glimpse of their daily lives. Jeremy Renner stars as Sgt. William James, who dismantles the IEDs (Improvised explosive device) across the city, one bomb at a time. Wearing a gigantic protective suit and armed with no more than some tools and his instincts, he makes the slow walk to the bomb site in scene after scene, as his team covers him from snipers and other potential dangers.
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Sgt. James, it turns out, is a bit of a cowboy -- making up the rules as he goes along -- while his team members are less so: Sgt. JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) is more pensive, while Spc. Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) is a baby-faced soldier with the weight of the war on his shoulders. As they learn to work and survive together, each confronts his own fears, and considers what compels them to take such risks, day after day. The Hurt Locker is fundamentally about addiction to war: why people flirt with death, how it affects them, and what keeps them coming back.
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In the DVD's commentary, writer and co-producer Mark Boal explains that the script was based on his stint as a journalist embedded with a bomb squad. At the time, the Iraqis' extensive the use of IEDs took the military by surprise, making Baghdad a kind of wild West, with no protocol. And while the script is his, his discussion with Bigelow reveals her intense attention to detail and commitment to executing her vision -- starting with the financing. Largely overseas capital funded The Hurt Locker, which allowed Bigelow the freedom to do things like film in the Middle East, cast non-"marquee value" actors (as she puts it), and insist on real military equipment, versus "HMEs" (Hollywood movie explosions).
Bigelow says that she was "more than intrigued" by Boal's script as a psychological profile. What also drew her to the film was her sense that Americans weren't getting the whole picture about what was going on in Iraq. With gripping suspense, believable characters and artful cinematography, The Hurt Locker brings us a taste of life at war, far too close for comfort.
DVD Releases for Tuesday, January 12
Posted on Jan 12, 2010 @ 02:18PM - Add a comment
Halloween II (R)
Michael Myers is back and ready to take care of some unfinished family business in this follow-up to Rob Zombie’s original horror-fest. This time, there’s someone willing to stop him -- if they can catch him in time. (Tyler Mane [Michael Myers], Scout Taylor-Compton [Laurie Strode])
In the Loop (Unrated)
In this fast-paced farce, a British government minister is sent to make amends in the U.S. after an on-camera gaffe. But when he arrives on American soil, he becomes a pawn in a web of intrigue among high-ranking officials with clashing agendas. (Peter Capaldi [Malcolm Tucker], Tom Hollander [Simon Foster])
Moon (R)
Astronaut Sam Bell is about to complete a three-year mission on the moon when he suffers a near-fatal accident and encounters a clone of himself. As his support crew makes its way to assist him, he struggles uncover what his mission is really about, and what his role really is. (Sam Rockwell [Sam Bell], Kevin Spacey [Voice of Gerty])
The Hurt Locker (R)
Kathryn Bigelow’s critically acclaimed drama focuses on an elite bomb squad unit in Iraq. When their new unit leader arrives with a brash approach and ostensible death wish, his team is forced to confront their own nagging demons. (Jeremy Renner [Sgt. William James], Anthony Mackie [Sgt. JT Sanborn])
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The Hurt Locker Premiere
Posted on Jun 06, 2009 @ 09:22AM - Add a comment
Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre was the place to be Friday night for the premiere of director Kathryn Bigalow’s new action-suspense flick, “The Hurt Locker.”
Fans included Zac Efron, Charlize Theron and Stewart Townsend along with famed Titanic filmmaker James Cameron who helped launch Bigalow’s career as an action direction.
The film’s star Brian Geraghty and along with former Desperate Housewives hottie Jesse Metcalfe gushed about the Iraqi war movie to RadarOnline.com reporter Mari Cartel.
