Hooray, Melissa Leo won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this evening for a great performance in The Fighter. This is Melissa’s first Academy Award. She was nominated two years back for Frozen River, a movie we enjoyed immensely. Kirk Douglas presented the award to Melissa. And the other nominees were: * Amy Adams in “The […]
Wally Pfister won the Oscar for Cinematography (Inception). The other nominees in the Cinematography category: * “Black Swan” Matthew Libatique * “The King’s Speech” Danny Cohen * “The Social Network” Jeff Cronenweth * “True Grit” Roger Deakins
Alice in Wonderland won the first Oscar this evening – for Art Direction. Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara The other nominees were: # “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan # “Inception” Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug […]
Folks, the biggest annual event of the motion picture industry – the 83rd Academy Awards aka Oscars – is upon us. Oscars are the granddaddy of movie awards. You get an Oscar once and all your life and, hey, even on your epitaph, there’s the prefix Oscar-Winner attached to your name. Can it get any […]
The India vs England ICC 2011 World Cup Cricket match in Bengaluru (India) today is one of the finest one-day matches we’ve ever seen. (See the full coverage of the match here) Who’d have thought the match would end in a tie! Un-F*cking-Believable. The fortunes of the two teams kept seesawing this way and the […]
India won the toss and elected to bat in the 2011 ICC World Cup match against England at Bengaluru today. By God, what a crowd at the Chinnasamy Stadium on this Sunday. The Bisi-bele-bath Kannada crowd is on a big high. Lot of excitement in the air. England Batting *12:238PM EST – Andrew Strauss is […]