81st Academy Awards

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Tom. Live @ ABS-CBN at 9:45am??? i'm not sure though

they'll be featuring of course the annual 81st Academy Awards or The Oscars...

I'm so Excited!

Here's an Excerpt from Wikipedia

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony will be held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best films of 2008. It is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony will be televised in the United States on ABC. Australian performer Hugh Jackman is set to host the ceremony for the first time. Academy Award-nominated producer Laurence Mark has been tapped to produce and Academy Award-winning writer/director Bill Condon to executive-produce. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the nominations with a total of 13. Slumdog Millionaire received ten, The Dark Knight and Milk received eight, and Doubt, The Reader, and Frost/Nixon each received five. The animated film WALL·E received six, tying it with Beauty and The Beast for the most nominated animated film in Oscar history.

The Academy hopes to rework the ceremony through an entirely new production team sworn to secrecy. The ceremony has received recent controversies prior to its broadcast, most notably the Academy's alleged snubbing of films such as The Dark Knight and Doubt, threats from a possible Screen Actors Guild strike, and fear of the Oscar telecast's recent low viewership.

AND HERE ARE THE MAJOR NOMINATIONS:

Best Picture
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director
• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry - The Reader
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best Actor
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Best Actress
• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Supporting Actor
• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay
• WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
• Happy-Go-Lucky – Mike Leigh
• Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
• In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black
Best Adapted Screenplay
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• The Reader – David Hare
• Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
• Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
Best Animated Feature
• Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
• WALL-E – Andrew Stanton
Best Foreign Language Film
• Revanche (Austria) in German – Götz Spielmann
• The Class (France) in French – Laurent Cantet
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) in German – Uli Edel
• Departures (Japan) in Japanese – Yojiro Takita
• Waltz with Bashir (Israel) in Hebrew – Ari Folman



There You Go I Hope my lucky Guess Winners would go home happy...