“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.)

DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“The Secret in Their Eyes” (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) – Argentina (Sony Pictures Classics)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mo’Nique for “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal for “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker – WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) – WINNER!
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) – WINNER!
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) – WINNER!
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) – WINNER!

As Oscars go, this one stuck pretty much to the script.

There were no major upsets in the acting categories. Everyone who was expected to win, won.

Kathryn Bigelow’s David toppled James Cameron’s Goliath – and made history in the process.

Bigelow became the first female director to win an Oscar for Iraq bomb drama The Hurt Locker, while Cameron’s sci-fi spectacular Avatar went away with three technical awards.

The wait for a sci-fi best picture winner continues.

Speaking after the ceremony, Bigelow said she hoped she would be the first of many female directors to win.

She said: “I’d love to just think of myself as a film-maker, and I long for the day when a modifier can be a moot point.

“But I’m ever grateful if I can inspire some young, intrepid, tenacious male or female film-maker and have them feel that the impossible is possible and never give up on your dream.”

WHO: Played by Daisy Tonge, 18.

ATTITUDE: Save the planet.

CLOTHES: Boots with twigs and leaves attached, plus ear muffs.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Dreadlocks.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘Increase the peace.’

HANGOUT: Swampy-style camp in the dormitory, where they play bongos and guitars.

ACCESSORY: Bow and arrow.

RIVALS: The Flammables.

CLAIM TO FAME: Use wind power to catch the evil Pomfrey.
THE RUDE GIRL: BIANCA

WHO: Played by Zawe Ashton, 24.
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ATTITUDE: Street smart class clowns, but with a secret vulnerability.

CLOTHES: Bling – big gold earrings and designer sportswear, including gold Adidas trainers complete with angel wings at the sides.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Huge hair.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘In your face.’

HANGOUT: Hair and nail bars.

ACCESSORY: Bling jewellery, the bigger the better.

RIVALS: The Emos.

CLAIM TO FAME: Dressing up as boys in bid to find the treasure.
THE HEAD GIRL: ANNABELLE
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WHO: Played by Talulah Riley, 24.

ATTITUDE: Earnest, but thanks to the influence of St Trinian’s, slightly naughty and rebellious.

CLOTHES: Pearls, cardigan and tweed -a young version of headmistress Camilla Fritton.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Red lipstick and sultry Forties eyes.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘Come along, girls.’

HANGOUT: Dorm, the classroom and library.

ACCESSORY: Pony.

RIVALS: No one – she thinks everyone should pull together.

CLAIM TO FAME: Possessed by dead ancestor.

THE INDIE CHICK: ROXY
Sarah Harding in St Trinian’s

WHO: Sarah Harding, 28, singer with Girls Aloud.

ATTITUDE: Too cool for school. Role model is Kate Moss.

CLOTHES: Art school meets groupie – effortless style with tiny shorts or skirts.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Bed-head chic.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘Don’t copy me.’

HANGOUT: Gigs and parties to bag a musician boyfriend or to get into a band.

ACCESSORY: Leather hotpants.

RIVALS: Posh Totty.

CLAIM TO FAME: Centre stage of the dance routine in London’s Liverpool Street Station.
THE GEEK: LUCY

WHO: Played by Ella Smith, 26.

ATTITUDE: Super-smart, using brains to make money.
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CLOTHES: Knee-length skirts with lots of pockets and pouches for pens and calculators.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Pigtails or plaits with glasses.

BUZZ PHRASE: Any Mandarin or Japanese phrase.

HANGOUT: The dorm.

ACCESSORY: Laser pen.

RIVALS: The Posh Totty.

CLAIM TO FAME: Breaking into the AD1 secret society nerve centre.
THE EMO: BETH
st trinians

WHO: Played by Jessica Bell, 20, former lead singer with punk rock/indie band The Tommys.

ATTITUDE: Constant angst.

CLOTHES: Black. Fishnet tights, studded belts and lace. Over-the-knee boots.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Spider web false eyelashes.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘The best way to celebrate life is to embrace death.’

HANGOUT: Morgue, sleeping in a coffin.

ACCESSORY: Fake dog called RIP.

RIVALS: Posh Totty.

CLAIM TO FAME: Chasing the invaders with a live bat.
POSH TOTTY: BELLA

WHO: Played by Clara Paget, 21, scouted at Daisy Lowe’s 18th party, dressed like Marlene Dietrich.
Sarah Harding in St Trinian’s

ATTITUDE: Posh and beautiful, Botoxed It-Girls in training.

CLOTHES: Killer heels and lots of designer labels.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Salon perfect.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘You look hot!’

HANGOUT: Harvey Nichols or West End bars.

ACCESSORY: Pearl Fiat 500.

RIVALS: The Ecos.

CLAIM TO FAME: Seduce Pomfrey’s girl-hating gang.
THE FIRST YEARS: TANIA & TARA

WHO: Played by twins Cloe and Holly Mackie, aged 12.

ATTITUDE: Tiny anarchic tearaways. Look angelic, but are little demons.

CLOTHES: Battered school uniforms, broken straw hats, hockey sticks and weapons.

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Caked mud.

BUZZ PHRASE: ‘We rule the school.’

HANGOUT: Hammocks.

ACCESSORY: Guns hidden under pleats of their pinafores.

RIVALS: The Rude Girls.

CLAIM TO FAME: Blow up the mayor’s office.

Isabella “Bella” Swan is thrown an eighteenth birthday party by Edward Cullen, the vampire she loves, and his vampire family. While unwrapping a gift, she receives a paper cut. Jasper, although attempting a non-human diet, is overwhelmed by the scent of blood and tries to attack Bella. In an attempt to keep Bella safe from the world of vampires, Edward leaves the town of Forks. Bella becomes depressed and seeks comfort with Jacob Black, an old family friend who eases her pain over losing Edward.

Bella and Jacob begin spending a lot of time together, and Bella soon discovers that the rush of adrenaline present when she places herself in dangerous situations stimulates a hallucination of Edward’s voice. Bella begins seeking out dangerous behavior, such as motorcycle riding, to keep Edward’s voice with her. Meanwhile, Jacob finds out that he is a werewolf. Initially, he tries to keep this secret from Bella, but he eventually reveals as much as he can without betraying his pack. After Bella attempts cliff-diving, she gets caught in a riptide and is rescued by Jacob.

At the same time, Alice Cullen, Edward’s vampire sister who has visions of the future, has a vision of Bella jumping off the cliff. Presuming Bella is dead, Alice rushes to Forks to check on Charlie, Bella’s father, while Edward calls Bella’s home. Jacob answers and informs Edward that Charlie is “at the funeral”, referring to that of a man in town who had a heart attack, but Edward draws the conclusion that he means Bella’s funeral. Desperate after Bella’s supposed death, Edward flees to Italy to see the Volturi, peace-keeping vampires who would be able to kill Edward, granting him leave of a world without Bella.


Bella and Alice rush to Italy to stop Edward, and save him before it is too late. Before they leave Italy, the Volturi tell them that Bella, a human who knows of the existence of vampires, must either be killed or changed into a vampire herself. After they return to Forks, Edward explains to Bella that he only left in order to protect her, and she forgives him. The book ends with the Cullens voting in favor of Bella being changed into a vampire, much to Edward’s dismay.



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Twilight star Robert Pattinson increases tourism by 1000 per cent in Washington State town where New Moon is set..

A small logging town in the U.S. has seen an astonishing 1000 per cent increase in tourism thanks to the vampire blockbuster saga Twilight.

A year ago, Robert Pattinson was virtually unheard of aside from playing a dashing extra in the Harry Potter series of films.
Yet as of today, the 23-year-old who hails from the middle-class streets of Barnes in south west London, is about the most bankable star on the planet.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, a film sequel in which Pattinson stars as the protagonist vampire, broke the all-time record for opening day takings in America at the weekend.
The movie took an astonishing £44 million at the box office – and some £15 million of that came from midnight screenings across the country as fans queued through the night for the first possible chance to see it.

The £44 million overtook the domestic first day record previously held by The Dark Knight, the Batman film which had a £40 million opening day last year.
New Moon beat opening day box office sales in America, which is traditionally the biggest film market, from franchises such as Harry Potter, the Pirates of the Caribbean, X Men and Star Wars.

In the UK, tickets for New Moon, which went on general release on Friday, sold out in some cinemas back in September.

Director: Lone Scherfig

Running time: 95 minutes
THE problem with coming-of-age movies is that the hero is too often a passive receptor and, despite the hip oldies on the soundtrack, the result says nothing that dozens of previous coming-of-age movies haven’t already.

An Education is a glorious exception. Based on journalist Lynn Barber’s trenchant memoir, it stars Carey Mulligan as Barber aged 16, renamed Jenny and already a headstrong overachiever. Impatient with unFab 1961 Twickenham, she fancies herself more sophisticated than her friends, modelling herself on Juliette Greco, adding n’est-ce pas to her sentences at the drop of un chapeau, reports The Scotsman.

Tethered to a home where it’s pushing the boat out to unwrap the Battenberg cake, she sees university as her only escape from cello, homework and fussing parents Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour. In fact, her father seems more determined for her to get into Oxford than she is, examining everything she does through the filter of an admissions officer.

Then, during a downpour, another, smoother option pulls up beside her in a maroon Bristol and tells her that, while she shouldn’t take a lift from a strange man, he can give her cello a lift in the car and she can walk alongside and chat. Innocuous compromises are a speciality of David (Peter Sarsgaard), who is smooth, seductive and nearly twice her age. Apparently rich in a slightly shady way, he offers a shortcut to glamour, travel and excitement, and Jenny’s parents are easily charmed into letting him take her out for meals with his racy pals Danny (Dominic Cooper) and the gorgeous but fearsomely vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike).

Nick Hornby’s adaptation is funny, intelligent and bracingly unsentimental, especially when it comes to rites-of-passage clichés. Instead of the usual ecstatic sheet rummages, the film quickly cuts to the post-coitus couple, with Jenny noting: “All that poetry and all those songs about something that lasts no time at all.” Nor is she oblivious to David’s deceptions; in fact she colludes with him.

The only opposition to Jenny’s new boyfriend comes from her teachers. Emma Thompson’s tart headmistress has a touch of Thatcher battleship, while Jenny’s kindly English teacher (Olivia Williams) hates to see her prize pupil throw away an education, only for Jenny to zing back that “It’s not enough to educate us any more. You have to tell us why you’re doing it.”

This story is a cameo of a particular family at a particular time: London, the 1960s, lower-middle-class parents with a brilliant only daughter. Love was regulated. Jenny’s parents were focused on hauling their daughter – and themselves – up a notch by the education rope.

Jenny’s naivete eventually falls heavily upon her, although at no point does she completely cave in when her world crumbles. Instead the film suggests she has gained rather than lost.

This is Carey Mulligan’s big moment. She was 22, not 16 when the movie was shot but her Jenny – bright but unformed in uniform yet a chic match for Sarsgaard in upswept beehive – is the epitome of a promising young person.

Unlike most stars who originally found fame through their charm and good looks, George Clooney contemplates his graying hair and onset of middle-age with ease.

“I’m old,” the 48-year-old actor said with a laugh. “It’s an interesting thing to watch yourself grow older on screen.

“I was watching Up In The Air and I thought, ‘Jesus, who’s the old gray-haired guy?’ And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it’s starting to show.” Clooney, who is often referred to as the 21st Century’s Cary Grant, mused: “It’s funny, because most male actors work with actresses who are considerably younger. But earlier in my career I was working with a lot of actresses who were my age or older so people always thought I was older anyway; and now I’m going through this thing with people thinking I’m about 60.

“But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older.” George Clooney was his usual dry, genial self as he chatted in a suite at London’s Dorchester Hotel. He is in town for the London Film Festival opening night premiere of the animated film The Fantastic Mr. Fox, director Wes Anderson’s first venture into animation, for which Clooney supplies the voice of the title character. He also stars in two other films which are being screened at the festival, the romantic comedy-drama Up In The Air and the black comedy The Men Who Stare At Goats.
George Clooney was facing journalists on day two of the London film festival ahead of the UK premiere of his film The Men Who Stare at Goats, based on Jon Ronson’s book of the same name.

He said he was sympathetic to journalists. “I’m the son of a newsman, I grew up around news,” he said. “I can understand newspapers are losing subscribers. It’s a tricky thing, you have to sell papers, I get it.

“The problem is that there is so little reporting any more, somebody will write a story and it will be in 100’s different outlets and you have no recourse. It will be false and you’ll go ‘it’s not true’ and they’ll go ‘we’re not saying that, we’re saying a London tabloid has said it’. So they’re just reprinting and reprinting things that aren’t necessarily true.

“It used to be two reliable sources and that doesn’t seem to exist any more. I understand the problem, I understand why it happens but it certainly is an issue.”
Clooney’s co-star, Kevin Spacey, was less sympathetic. He said: “I don’t get it. I don’t understand the notion of people who might call themselves journalists who would just make up stuff. I don’t understand it as a function of a human being. I don’t understand why that’s of interest, to write something that is false. If you even bother to say ‘that story has no wit of truth to it’ they write that you denied that that story is true, which is not the same thing as saying what we wrote was absolutely wrong.

“There are some people who choose to fight these things in the courts and there are those who say ‘you know what, it’s yesterday’s news, it’s fish wrapping and I’m not going to worry about it’.”

Clooney and Spacey spoke after yesterday’s Guardian reported on a soon-to-be released film called Starsuckers in which the documentary makers fed false celebrity stories to newspapers and the majority found their way into print unchecked.

In an alternate reality, lying — even the concept of a lie — does not even exist. Everyone — from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street — speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.

This movie won’t be nominated for an Oscar and critics hate it. But as long as you don’t take yourself too seriously, you’ll be entertained and laugh throughout the film. I enjoyed it, and felt it was worth the money. But in comparison to Sandra Bullock’s last movie, “The Proposal”, “All About Steve” isn’t as good. Bradley Cooper’s character didn’t bring nearly as much to the film as Ryan Reynolds’ did in “The Proposal”. Luv Celebs