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My heart was in my throat a few seconds before they announced the winner maybe it’s because I predicted she would win. Well, Sandra Bullock got the award alright but I didn’t expect her victory would be overshadowed by Kathryn Bigelow’s unprecedented win. It really took me by surprise that James Cameron’s Avatar was given the snub by the Academy Award judges and rightfully so I think. So Oscar was a night of many firsts, the first time a woman won Best Director and the first time James Cameron’s ex-wife beated him in his own ball game. Such a sweet success for Kathryn!

Here is Sandra Bullock pushing her grocery cart just like any ordinary day. Doesn’t she looks so normal and calm? I’m surprised she even has the time to shop her groceries.  If I was her I would be a wreck of nerves at this very moment. After all, the Academy Awards is only days away and everyone is rooting for her to win the Best Actress Award.  Right now she’s just being ordinary. There’s no hint that she would be attending the biggest moment of her movie career on Monday except for the cart full of healthy foods.  She has to eat healthy of course to be able to fit in whatever fabulous gown she’s going to wear. I wonder if there’s an e cigarette hidden in there somewhere to help her calm her nerves on the big night. What do you think?

Anyway, I’m rooting for her all the way. She was so wonderful in her movies last year. Goodluck, Sandra! I hope you win!

Angelina Jolie is a picture of health these days. She looks really blooming which is natural for a woman in love. She looks so vibrant and lovely that she wouldn’t need a finger pulse oximeter to monitor her health at this time of her life. Just look at those pink cheeks, the twinkling eyes, and that infectious laugh. At 34, she is in optimum health which she needs to be in order to keep up with her six children, her grueling filming schedule, her charity works, and keeping the hottest man in the planet, aka Brad Pitt, satisfied. LOL!

She and her partner Brad Pitt are currently in France. While she is shooting her next film, The Tourist, Brad plays the doting daddy to his children. I have seen their picture in the internet and aren’t they a lovely family? To think that they have six children in between them. Of course, they must have an army of nannies but if they are good parents then I think they make it a point to talk to all six of them one by one. That can be so tiring and I should know. I have only one child and it’s already hard for me.

I know a lot of rumors are circulating about the couple and that it’s all just for show but if they are real the rumors are not true then she is setting a high standard for all the other moms. She’s proof that some women really have it all. What do you think?

Of course, Sandra Bullock was nominated for Best Actress. I’m hoping she would win this year. No, I’m not only hoping but I’m predicting that she will win the Best Actress Award! This is definitely her year as I have watched both the Blind Side and The Proposal and was surprised that both were really good. You know the feeling when you ware excited about a movie as it has been hyped so much and everybody seems to love it only to find out after watching it that it was really not worth your time. Then you wonder are you the only person in the world who didn’t like it? Are you still normal?

I have so watched so many movies like that (an example that I can remember off the top of my head is the movie, Paranormal Activity) and sometimes I just don’t watch movies anymore because I’m afraid to be disappointed again and again.

But Sandra Bullock on The Proposal changed all of that. I thought it was like another romantic-comedy movie but this movie really stuck to me and so did Sandra Bullock’s role as the loathsome boss, Margaret Tate.
And who could ever forget this scene?

Don’t you agree that this is the most embarrassing scene in movie history but yet she pulled it off with class and was able to get away with it admiringly? I can’t believe she still has a body like that as I surely can even remember watching her when i was only about 10 years old or so. I’m now 28 so that must have been 20 years ago but even if I’m decades younger  I tell you that my body is definitely not like that – heck, it’s not even close!

Anyway, I can’t stop talking about The Proposal but she’s even not nominated for her role there. She’s nominated for her role as Mrs. Touhy in the true-to-life drama, The Blind Side. I only watched that movie because I remembered how good she was on The Proposal. I thought she can’t pull off two good movies consecutively but she proved me wrong big time. The recent Critics Choice Award proved that she definitely awed the judges. She tied with veteran awardee, Meryl Streep (with an impressive 2 Oscars and 7 Golden Globe awards under her belt), which only means that Meryl might be a brilliant actress but there was definitely something in Sandra Bullock that they can’t resist giving an award to her too. If Critics Choice Award was hesitant to give the award to Sandra Bullock alone I think the Academy Awards would be bolder.
To the Oscars judges, yes it’s okay to give the award to Sandra Bullock alone and her alone. Meryl Streep might be attracting awards to her name like a magnet attracting iron ores but I’m sure she’ll understand that Sandra Bullock’s time has arrived.

The list of 2010 Oscar Nominees has been released. The 82nd Academy Awards or popularly known as the Oscars is the much awaited event for movie fanatics all over the globe. I’m sure thousands of people are going to tune in on their television on March 7, 2010 for the 2010 Oscar Awards. It will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and will be hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. I’m excited about the hosts for this year because I’m a big fan of both Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. I expect to be entertained for the duration of the show because of them.

Here is the list of Oscar Nominees for 2010.

Best actor in a leading role Oscars 2010 nominees
* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)
* George Clooney in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Colin Firth in “A Single Man” (The Weinstein Company)
* Morgan Freeman in “Invictus” (Warner Bros.)
* Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Best actor in a supporting role Oscars 2010 nominees
* Matt Damon in “Invictus” (Warner Bros.)
* Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
* Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones” (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
* Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Best actress in a leading role Oscars 2010 nominees
* Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.)
* Helen Mirren in “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Carey Mulligan in “An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)
* Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Best actress in a supporting role Oscars 2010 nominees
* Penélope Cruz in “Nine” (The Weinstein Company)
* Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)
* Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year Oscars 2010 nominees:
*“Coraline” (Focus Features) Henry Selick
*“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson
*“The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements
*“The Secret of Kells” (GKIDS) Tomm Moore
*“Up” (Walt Disney) Pete Docter

Best in art direction Oscars 2010 nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
*“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
*“Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
*“Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
*“The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Best in cinematography Oscars 2010 nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore
*“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson
*“The White Ribbon” (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger

Best in costume design Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Bright Star” (Apparition) Janet Patterson
*“Coco before Chanel” (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
*“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme
*“Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood
*“The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Sandy Powell

Best Director Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) James Cameron
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino
*“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Lee Daniels
*“Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Jason Reitman

Best documentary feature film Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Burma VJ” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
A Magic Hour Films Production Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
*“The Cove” (Roadside Attractions)
An Oceanic Preservation Society Production Nominees to be determined
*“Food, Inc.” (Magnolia Pictures) A Robert Kenner Films Production Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
*“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
A Kovno Communications Production Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
*“Which Way Home” A Mr. Mudd Production Rebecca Cammisa

Best documentary short subject Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
A Downtown Community Television Center Production Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
*“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
A Just Media Production Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
*“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” A Community Media Production Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
*“Music by Prudence” An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
*“Rabbit à la Berlin” (Deckert Distribution) An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Best in film editing Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
*“District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke
*“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz

Best foreign language film of the year Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Ajami”(Kino International) An Inosan Production Israel
*“El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production Argentina
*“The Milk of Sorrow” A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production Peru
*“Un Prophète” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production France
*“The White Ribbon” (Sony Pictures Classics) An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production Germany

Best in Makeup Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Il Divo” (MPI Media Group through Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
*“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
*“The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Nominees (Original score)
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) James Horner
*“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
*“Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
*“Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Nominees (Original song)
*“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
*“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
*“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36″ (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner. Lyric by Frank Thomas
*“Take It All” from “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
*“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) A Lightstorm Entertainment Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
*“The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.) An Alcon Entertainment Production Nominees to be determined
*“District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
*“An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production Nominees to be determined
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production Lawrence Bender, Producer
*“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
*“A Serious Man” (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
*“Up” (Walt Disney)A Pixar Production Jonas Rivera, Producer
*“Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) A Montecito Picture Company Production Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Best animated short film Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“French Roast”A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production Fabrice O. Joubert
*“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” (Brown Bag Films) A Brown Bag Films Production Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
*“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production Javier Recio Gracia
*“Logorama” (Autour de Minuit) An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin
*“A Matter of Loaf and Death” (Aardman Animations) An Aardman Animations Production Nick Park

Best live action short film Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“The Door” (Network Ireland Television) An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
*“Instead of Abracadabra” (The Swedish Film Institute) A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
*“Kavi” A Gregg Helvey Production Gregg Helvey
* “Miracle Fish” (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
*“The New Tenants” A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Best in sound editing Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Stateman
*“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
*“Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Best in sound mixing Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
*“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
*“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Best in visual effects Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
*“District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
*“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Best in Adapted screenplay Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
*“An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby
*“In the Loop” (IFC Films) Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
*“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
*“Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best in Original screenplay Oscars 2010 Nominees:
*“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal
*“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Written by Quentin Tarantino
*“The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
*“A Serious Man” (Focus Features) Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
*“Up” (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Daddy has been playing Grand Fantasia online. He’s so into it and he wants me to play too. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time anymore as I’m so busy with my homebased job plus taking care of Z and managing the household. That’s what I miss most ever since I became a wife and a mother. Having the luxury of playing games and reading the books I love. It’s not their fault but it’s just that I get guilty spending too much time in front of the computer. As it is I already spend way too much time in front of the computer! I really need that time management skill which I obviously lack.

Dream Satellite is having a WATCH-ALL-YOU-CAN promo. For a one-time fee of P9,888 you can enjoy satellite TV for three years or 36 months. I have made the computations and the equivalent price per month is an unbelievable P275.00!  That’s a great deal, right? You have to pay an additional P1,500 for the installation though.

Here is the list of the channels available on Dream Satellite.

1 eTalk In House
2 ABS-CBN
3 NBN 4
4 TV5
5 GMA 7
6 CS9
7 IBC 13
8 Studio 23
9 MTV Philippines
10 DZRH-TV
11 Living Asia Channel
12 TV Maria
13 Cartoon Network Philippines
14 Nickelodeon Philippines
15 Animax Philippines
16 STAR World Philippines
17 AXN Asia
18 Hallmark Channel Asia
19 Discovery Channel Asia
20 CNN International
21 BBC World
22 Australia Network
23 CNBC Asia
24 Star Sports SEA
25 ESPN Philippines
26 Discovery Travel and Living Asia
27 History Channel Asia
28 HBO Asia
29 MAX Asia
30 STAR Movies
31 Turner Classic Movies
32 The Biography Channel Asia
33 Crime & Investigation
34 Animal Planet
35 National Geographic Channel
38 MBC Korea Entertainment
41 Deutsche Welle
51 Dream Cinema 1
52 Dream Cinema 2

After watching great movies in 2009 this is what I’ve been looking forward in 2010.

Golden Globe Nominees for 2010

Best Motion Picture — Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sadibe, Precious

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Meryl Streep, It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
Julia Roberts, Duplicity

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Matt Damon, The Informant
Daniel Day Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo-Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, Invictus
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christopher Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
Barria
Broken Embraces
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
The Maid

Best Director — Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture
Up in the Air
It’s Complicated
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino, Up
Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant
James Horner, Avatar
Abel Krozeniowski, A Single Man
Karen O. and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are

Best Original Song — Motion Picture
“I Will See You,” Avatar
“The Weary Kind,” The Crazy Heart
“Winter,” Brothers
“Cinema Italiano,” Nine
“I Want to Come Home,” Everybody’s Fine

When we still had cable I like watching Jon and Kate plus 8. I was fascinated at how could anyone manage to raise a twin and a set of sextuplet at the same time. It was definitely mind-boggling to a mother with one child like myself. As I watched I learned that it was chaotic as expected but I was still impressed at how they were dealing with it. Then I heard a lot of negative press about them. Now I heard they have some marital issues that involve cheating by both parties and it’s just a sad news because they have so many kids. I wonder what will happen to all the kids if they divorce. One thing is for sure the title of their show won’t be Jon & Kate Plus 8 anymore.

Here are some of their pictures during happy times. The kids are all so cute and adorable! I can’t believe they’re going to give it all up.