Another awards show and yes another best actor award for Mickey Rourke. I am so happy :-). He totally deserves all the awards he already has and definatly deserves the Oscar tomorrow night. So *fingers crossed* it all goes to plan and he has the Oscar in his hands.
Spirit Awards 2009 – Best Supporting Actress – Penelope Cruz
The day before her fate at the Oscars will be sealed. Penelope Cruz has just picked up the best actress in a supporting role for her performance in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”.
So not long to wait now, to see if Penelope will have another award in her hands tomorrow night.
Spirit Awards 2009 – Best Supporting Actor – James Franco
James Franco won the best supporting actor award for his role in “Milk” totally deserved it in my opinion his performance was fantastic.
Movie Quote of the Day 12
Missed posting a quote yesterday. So here is today’s, from “The Bucket List”.
“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
Dark Knight Tops $1 Billion Takings At Worldwide Box Office
Incredible to see that “The Dark Knight” has reached the $1 billion mark on the worldwide box office. I bet studio bosses were not expecting it to be as successful as this as “Batman Begins” didn’t make anywhere near as much as 1 billion dollars.
Batman movie The Dark Knight has taken more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the fourth highest grossing film of all time.
The action movie, starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, was an instant success when it was released last summer.
And now it has taken more than $1 billion in movie theatres – including $533.1 million (£372.8 million) in U.S. cinemas, and more than $468 million (£327 million) overseas.
Titanic remains the highest grossing film of all time, with takings of $1.84 billion. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is second with earnings of $1.12 billion and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is third with $1.07 billion.
Jolie And Hanks Named Most Popular Oscar Winners Ever
Probably the expected results from this poll. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie, voted the favorites for best actor, actress and supporting categories. Titanic favorite of the best picture winners.
Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts have come out triumphant in a poll to find America’s favourite ever Academy Awards winners.
Hanks has twice walked away with the Best Actor Oscar, for 1993’s Philadelphia and the following year’s Forrest Gump.
He saw off competition from Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and late star Paul Newman (The Color of Money) to be crowned America’s most popular winner of the trophy, according to a joint survey by U.S. magazine Parade and Entertainment Tonight to mark the annual ceremony on Sunday.
Morgan Freeman was named the top Best Supporting Actor for 2004’s Million Dollar Baby, seeing off Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and George Clooney (Syriana).
Roberts, who won an Oscar for her turn in Erin Brockovich in 2000, was America’s favourite Best Actress winner, beating Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line) and Jodie Foster (The Accused) to the honour.
Jolie was recognised as Best Supporting Actress in 1999’s Girl, Interrupted, and saw off Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) in the Parade poll.
1997’s Titanic remains the public’s favourite Best Film winner, ahead of The Godfather and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The Wrestler (2008) Movie Music Video
The music video for “The Wrestler” both movie and song of the same name. Appeared on youtube the other day, a friend sent me the link to it and it only had a couple of hundred views. But today when I have just clicked on the link it has over 28,000 views at the moment. This was over the past couple of days. For those who haven’t seen the fantastic music video with Bruce Springsteen in the ring:
New in Town (2009)
This movie comes out in the UK on Friday. I will be going straight to see it. It looks like it is going to be a very enjoyable romantic comedy. (Although after watching the rubbish that was “He’s just not that into you” anything could be good). But this really does look funny, and Renee Zellweger does romantic comedies very well see “Bridget Jones Diary” and even “Down with Love”.
‘Oscars list’ dismissed as fake
I wouldn’t be too sad if most of those were true. Especially for Mickey and “In Bruges”. I still hold a little bit of hope that “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” will cause a major upset to “Slumdog Millionaire” but don’t really see that happening too much.
Oscar organisers have dismissed a list claiming to reveal all those poised for Academy Awards as a “complete fraud”.
The document, circulating on the internet, names Kate Winslet as best actress for her role in The Reader.
The list, which features an authentic-looking letterhead, also claims British film Slumdog Millionaire will bag the best picture and best director prizes.
Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said it was a forgery and the event’s auditors were still counting votes.
“The document is a complete fraud,” she said.
“There are only two people there who will know the complete list of winners in advance of the envelopes being opened during the ceremony.”
Reports say the document appears to carry the signature of Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars.
Ms Unger added: “The Academy’s president is not advised of the winners in advance and no such list is created.”
Globes blunder
The document also names Mickey Rourke as best actor for his role in The Wrestler and the late Heath Ledger as best supporting actor for The Dark Knight.
Best supporting actress is named as Amy Adams for Doubt and the list also claims In Bruges will get the best original screenplay award.
It is not the first time this awards season that there have been rumours regarding supposed winners.
Golden Globe organisers were forced to apologise last month for a blunder on the awards website which suggested Anne Hathaway had won a best actress gong for Rachel Getting Married.
An asterisk had appeared by mistake on the site next to Hathaway’s name in a list of nominees, sparking a flurry of reports that she would receive the award.
Winslet, who went on to win ahead of Hathaway, has been nominated for an Oscar on five previous occasions, but has yet to take home an Academy statuette.
However, she remains the favourite for the award following her double win at the Golden Globes and success at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
As she attended a flurry of pre-Oscar parties, the actress told the BBC News website she was “permanently anxious” but “very excited” about the ceremony on Sunday.
Movies on UK TV Sat 21st – Fri 27th Feb
Movies which I think are best on this coming week. Bold are movies I have not seen but intend to watch.
Saturday 21st Feb
- Schindler’s List – Sky Movies Drama – 8pm
- Vera Drake – channel 4 – 9pm
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story – Sky Movies Premiere – 6pm
- There Will Be Blood – Sky Movies Premiere – 9.45pm
- Heavenly Creatures – BBC1 – midnight
Sunday 22nd Feb
- Vanilla Sky – channel 4 – 10.50pm
- The Rainmaker – BBC1 – 11pm
Monday 23rd Feb
- Pollock – BBC2 – 12.30am
- As Good As It Gets – Sky Movies Drama – 8pm
Tuesday 24th Feb
- American Beauty – Sky Movies Dram – 10.20pm
Wednesday 25th Feb
- From Hell – Five – 10pm-12.20am
Thursday 26th Feb
- Freedomland – Five – 9pm-11.35pm
Friday 27th Feb
Let's Go To The Movies 