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Charlize Theron Reveals Secret Oscar Recipe; Let’s Make Our Own!

Charlize Theron’s Best Actress Oscar win in 2003 was hardly unexpected. Roger Ebert had declared her performance as Aileen Wuornos in Monster “one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema,” and she cleaned up at the Golden Globes and Independent Spirit Awards. But there’s no denying that Theron’s win followed in a certain Oscar tradition, and in this funny clip with MTV, Theron acknowledges it as such. Let’s compare notes with the Young Adult star and come up with our own recipes for Oscar victories in the big four acting categories.

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Charlize Theron Reveals Secret Oscar Recipe; Let’s Make Our Own!

From Say Anything to We Bought a Zoo, a Brief History of Great Cameron Crowe Musical Moments

Few filmmakers use music as unabashedly and emotionally as former rock journalist Cameron Crowe , the man who turned Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” into an enduring emblem of ’80s teen longing and illuminated the power of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” as a late night bonding tune for even the most estranged of friends. Crowe’s latest, We Bought a Zoo , is no different; the instant the reverberating beats of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” kick in, lonely and sparse, turning increasingly anthemic by the verse as Matt Damon’s son is expelled from school and Damon uproots his family to a rural fixer-upper of a zoo with the promise of new beginnings, you know you’re in for yet another Crowe Moment.

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From Say Anything to We Bought a Zoo, a Brief History of Great Cameron Crowe Musical Moments