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Best Picture: Winner: The Artist (Thomas Langmann, Producer)
Actor in a Leading Role: Winner: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Actress in a Leading Role: Winner: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Directing: Winner: The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

The Academy Awards ceremony (The Oscars) was on Sunday, February 26, 2012.

Jean Dujardin: getting an Oscar is like winning the World Cup
The Artist star becomes symbol of year in which French films won global acclaim and record box office figures at home.

Billy Crystal, Jolie's leg boost Oscar audience
Billy Crystal, Angelina Jolie's leg and French silent film The Artist brought the Oscars bouncing back from recent slack viewership

Oscars 2012: What was behind Meryl Streep's upset win?
Meryl Streep, right, is congratulated by Violet Davis before accepting the Oscar for lead actress for "The Iron Lady."

Meryl Streep Oscar Wins
It took Meryl Streep 29 years, but she finally got back to the Oscar stage.

Christopher Plummer for the film “Beginners”

Golden Globes award for the best supporting actor : Christopher Plummer for the film “Beginners”.

Kenneth Branag for “My Week With Marilyn”, Albert Brooks for “Drive”, Jonah Hill for “Moneyball” and Viggo Mortensen for “A Dangerous Method” for the prestigious award at the ceremony here Sunday night was beaten by Plummer.

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Paraded up the Golden Globe Awards red carpet

On Sunday ahead of the ceremony honoring the year’s best films and TV shows hosted by acerbic comedian Ricky Gervais, hollywood A-listers including George Clooney paraded up the Golden Globe Awards’ red carpet.

Where prizes are given to actors, actresses, directors and producers in precursor of the more staid Oscars later this year, the British funnyman returns to the Golden Globe stage for the third straight year to host the champagne-soaked bash. Along with Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and numerous others were expected to walk the fashion-filled red carpet ahead of dinner and the program.

Clooney looked dapper in gray, Gervais arrived early in a crimson and black tuxedo. “Modern Family” TV star Sofia Vergara showed off a form-fitting, teal-colored Vera Wang gown and Harry Winston jewels. Many actresses wore strapless dresses or had plunging necklines and hand-tied bowties were a must among men. With black tie around his neck, of course, Uggie the dog from most-nominated film “The Artist” put his four paws on the carpet.

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2012 Movie awards calendar

2012 Movie awards calendar

38th People's Choice Awards
January 11, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and were broadcast live on CBS at 9:00 pm

69th Golden Globe Awards
will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 15, 2012, by NBC

18th Screen Actors Guild Awards
January 29, 2012 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the sixteenth consecutive year.

65th British Academy Film Awards

32nd Golden Raspberry Awards
February 25, 2012 in Hollywood to honor the worst films of 2011.

84th Academy Awards
February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.

69th Venice International Film Festival

2012 Cannes Film Festival
May 16 to May 27, 2012

Boston Red Sox BEST MOVIES

In honor of the memory of my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, which recently fell out of playoff contention, I'd like to pay tribute to the team's hometown. Boston has been the setting of a handful of great movies and I'd like to talk about seven of them here.
1. "Good Will Hunting" Matt Damon works as a janitor at MIT whose emotional issues and financial problems stifle his intellectual curiosity and ability. It has a witty script (penned by Oscar-winners Damon and Ben Affleck) and some excellent performances. The movie also established the formula that if Robin Williams has a beard, it must be a serious movie.
2. "Mystic River" Childhood friends Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon are brought back together when Penn's daughter is found dead. Clint Eastwood's doomsday dark morality tale elicited a pair of searing performances by the powerhouse Penn and...
train wreck Robbins.
3. "The Departed." Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon are both cops, but on opposite sides of the law. DiCaprio goes undercover as a flunky for mob boss Jack Nicholson and Damon as Nicholson's right-hand man, goes undercover as a police officer. Arguably Martin Scorsese's best film since "Goodfellas," this film brought the auteur back to his gangster roots and finally won him his long-deserved Oscar for "Best Director."
4. "Gone Baby Gone" Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan are two cops – and lovers – who team up to solve the disappearance of a working-class woman's daughter. Ben Affleck's directorial debut goes to some pretty dark places, but it's handled so well that you forget that the guy from "Gigli" made it all happen. Amy Ryan makes an indelible impression as the hard-living mother.
5. "Shutter Island" It's 1954 and Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are two U.S. Marshals (Mah-shulls) who go to an insane asylum to look for a missing murderess, but the two discover much more than they bargained for. Scorsese takes a shot at the psychological thriller and comes up just short of knocking it out of the park. Some weird sound design choices and a predictable ending mar an otherwise superbly crafted nail-biter.
6. "The Town" Ben Affleck, an ace thief, has to balance different parts of his life: his feelings for a former hostage, his tense friendship with his unhinged best pal and his freedom in the face of a dogged FBI agent. Affleck directs his second film and hits another home run. An astounding Fenway Park set piece and a brutal performance by "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm as the Fed make this a must-see.
7. "The Social Network" The story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's meteoric rise to the top – and the people who had to fall for him to get there. Although less Boston-y than the other movies here, David Fincher's claustrophobic masterpiece deserves every bit of recommendation I can give it. Aaron Sorkin's razor-sharp script is worth the price of admission alone.

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RECOMMENDATIONS UPDATE FOR AWARDS RACE

Today's recommendations of important, interesting and eccentric stories pertaining to the awards race...

• Los Angeles Times -- Nicole Sperling and Emily Rome note that "the Academy Awards may be five months off, but the race for best foreign language film is well under way," with Monday marking the deadline for countries to submit a film for Oscar consideration. Apparently, 40 films have already been entered into the contest, with others expected to sneak in before the end of the day.

• Hollywood-Elsewhere -- Jeff Wells notes that Lars von Trier's Melancholia had its first big screening at the New York Film Festival on Monday night and fears that the film continue to be overshadowed by the the idiotic remarks made by its director at a press conference following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. (Kirsten Dunst still managed to win the fest's best actress prize but has failed to gain much Oscar traction since... then).

• Chicago Sun Times -- Roger Ebert, who has had his own highly publicized battle with cancer, screens 50/50, a dramedy about the dreaded disease, and gives it 3.5 out of 4 stars. Ebert emphasizes, "What I appreciated was the third act. Sitcoms and film comedies in general have a way of going haywire with comic desperation toward the end. This one doesn't. Director Jonathan Levine has established the characters with enough care that the audience is prepared when they reveal greater depth toward the end... 50/50 isn't completely true to life, but the more you know about cancer, the less you want it to be."

• Entertainment Weekly -- Aly Semigran favorably assesses Melissa McCarthy's performance as the host of Saturday Night Live this past weekend, noting that she "gushed -- in the same sweetly genuine way she did when she nabbed her first Emmy a few weeks go -- that she was excited to be hosting the legendary late-night institution and it was something she’d dreamed of her whole life." Semigran adds that the long-shot best supporting actress hopeful for Bridesmaids (who appears on the cover of the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine) "committed to every bit with total fearlessness, but more than anything else you could tell she was having fun, and her enthusiasm was felt by anyone who tuned in for last night’s SNL."

• New York Times -- Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi report that Moneyball, Michael Lewis' 2003 best-selling book "about challenging conventional wisdom with data" that was adapted into a hit film this year, "refuses to shuffle meekly to the remainder bin of public consciousness," and that "a generation of managers ... never really put [it] down. ... These managers are savvier with data and more welcomed in business circles in part because of the book."

• New York Times Magazine -- Adam Sternbergh catches up with Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, who is portrayed by Brad Pitt in the aforementioned Moneyball, and finds that his life after the period portrayed in the film is in some ways better than portrayed (he sits on several corporate boards and is highly in-demand on the motivational speakers circuit) and in other ways worse (the As had a horrible year this year and it seems unlikely that Beane will "win the last game of the season" any time soon).

• Where Magazine -- Marshall Heyman chats with best supporting actress hoepful Naomi Watts about her role as J. Edgar Hoover's secretary in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, which she says is small but good. "It's not a showy, flashy part, but it's a solid one. She's someone with the strenth of her convictions who stands by her words -- a woman in a man's world." Watts said that when Eastwood offers an actor a chance to appear in one of his films, "whether it's a walk-on or a tour de force role, you just have to

• Interview Magazine -- Michael Almeyeyda, a filmmaker who has collaborated with Sam Shepard on two film projects, Hamlet (2000) and This So-Called Disaster (2003), interviews the long-shot best actor contender for Blackthorn -- who was last Oscar-nominated 28 years ago! -- about his life and work.

Other notes...

• Anchor Bay Films, the little studio that handled the Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man last Oscar season, has sent out DVD screeners of its film Beautiful Boy, which played at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, was released in theaters this June, and, like the higher-profile We Need to Talk About Kevin, focuses on a parent (or parents) struggling to face the future in the aftermath of a school killing committed by her (or their) child.

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