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Oscars Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know!

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Join us at 6 p.m. tonight live from the Academy Awards red carpet on MTVNews.com. By Eric Ditzian Photo: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences All across La La Land in the hectic hours before the 83rd Academy Awards , nominees are putting the finishing touches on the scraps of paper containing their — fingers crossed! — acceptance speeches. Limo drivers are gassing up their rides. And somewhere inside the bowels of the Kodak Theatre, co-host James Franco (or, more likely, James Franco’s assistant) is shining his shoes. Meanwhile, you’re putting the finishing touches on your Oscar ballot or making sure your Oscar party doesn’t run out of Jesse Eisenburgers and King’s Peach Pie. Stressful! Soon, though, the action on Hollywood’s biggest night will be under way. What can you expect when the show goes live? MTV News has got you covered. Read on for everything you need to know about this year’s Academy Awards: The Live Coverage The first thing you need to know is that MTV News will be everywhere on Oscar night. To begin the evening, we’ll be launching a red-carpet live stream at MTVNews.com from 6 to 8 p.m. ET tonight, where we’ll be chatting up everyone from Natalie Portman to Christian Bale. We’ll also be taking your questions via Twitter, so tweet your questions to @MTVNews using the hashtag #oscars for a chance to see your favorite celebrities fielding your own inquiries. We’ll also be running a red-carpet fashion blog on Hollywood Crush . Once the show begins, shift over to Movies Blog for a live blog about the show itself. And, of course, we’ll be churning out loads of video, analyses and breakout stories across all our Web properties, so keep it locked to MTV News for the very latest updates about the show. The Races All week long, we’ve been previewing the major Oscar categories. Best Supporting Actress might be the tightest of all the top races, with Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”) grappling with Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”) and Helena Bonham Carter (“The King’s Speech”). Best Supporting Actor couldn’t present more of a contrast: Christian Bale (“The Fighter”) long ago locked up this win. Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”), too, is a sure bet to win Best Actor, while Natalie Portman (“Black Swan”) should coast to Best Actress victory (though Annette Bening [“The Kids Are All Right”] could play the spoiler). When it comes to Best Director , Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) is a slight favorite over David Fincher (“The Social Network”), but either of these gentlemen could walk away the victor. The same likely cannot be said about Best Picture: “King’s Speech” appears to have pulled away from “Social Network” and should end up the night’s big winner. The Rundown Deadline Hollywood has published the broad outline of the telecast, giving us a general idea of how things are going to go down. Franco and co-host Anne Hathaway will begin the evening with a pre-taped video in which they appear in scenes from the Best Picture nominees. Tom Hanks will be the first presenter, announcing both Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Other presenters include Russell Brand, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Oprah Winfrey. Hilary Swank and Kathryn Bigelow will present Best Director and then, just before the clock strikes 11:30 p.m. on the East Coast, Steven Spielberg will hand out Best Picture. So you think you have a good picture about what the Oscars are going to look like? Hopefully, but check out this TwitPic from Franco for what he simply calls “my view.” Will it be a regal evening for “The King’s Speech”? Can “The Social Network” dial up Oscar gold? Don’t miss MTV News’ “2011 Oscars Live” at 6 p.m. tonight when we’ll be chatting with your favorite Hollywood stars live from the red carpet on MTVNews.com, and stick with us all Oscar night for winners, interviews, photos and more! Related Videos Join Us Live At The 2011 Oscars! Related Photos Best And Worst Oscar Fashions The Craziest Oscar Fashions 2011 Academy Award Nominees

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‘Hall Pass’ Leads Friday Box Office

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Comedy bags $4.6 million; Nic Cage’s ‘Drive Angry’ flops in ninth place. By Shawn Adler Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson in “Hall Pass” Photo: Warner Bros. Oscar weekend is typically a time for movie insiders to recognize high-brow, dramatic fare. But no matter who takes home the statues Sunday night, it’s the raunchy, hilarious team behind flicks like “There’s Something About Mary” and “Kingpin” who are taking home the gold. “Hall Pass,” starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, topped all comers at the Friday-night box office with an estimated $4.6 million from 2,950 screens. If form holds, it will be the first # 1 opening for writing/directing duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly since 2000’s “Me, Myself and Irene.” Not far behind in second place, Liam Neeson’s “Unknown” managed to punch up nearly $3.9 million from 3,043 screens in its second week of release. Two years after dominating the February box office with “Taken,” the secretly badass star should push “Unknown” past $40 million total by the end of the weekend. While America’s love affair with Neeson waxes, however, its relationship with Nicolas Cage may have waned irrevocably. New release “Drive Angry,” featuring the Oscar winner turned action star’s latest wackadoo performance , was good enough for only $1.6 million and ninth place. The weak opening is the latest in a string of recent flops for Cage, including “Season of the Witch” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” In third place, “Just Go With It” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston pulled in $3.3 million. Rounding out the top five, “Gnomeo and Juliet” and “I Am Number Four” earned $3.16 million and $3.14 million, respectively. With a new “Director’s Fan Cut” , out this weekend only, Justin Bieber managed to hold strong at sixth place, as his 3-D concert flick “Never Say Never” scored $2.7 million. The flick’s cumulative gross should breeze past $60 million this weekend. Among Oscar hopefuls, “The King’s Speech” (eighth place) continued its impressive run. The presumptive favorite at the Academy Awards brought its total to $108 million with a $1.9 million Friday haul.

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Oscar Nudity: X (and NC-17) Rated Oscar Nominees [PICS]

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Academy likes to spray its golden shower of recognition onto films that deal with “serious” issues but don’t push the skinema envelope. The tiniest whiff of an NC-17 can send Hollywood producers into a cutting room frenzy of piranha-esque proportions, and it’s the three B’s they usually skeletonize in their dig for Oscar gold. This year, Blue Valentine was released initially as an NC-17, but when awards talk started buzzing around star Michelle Williams , the film was changed to an R. Mr. Skin ain’t afraid of no X, so we’re proud to present this tribute to the skintrepid blue movie pioneers of the Academy Awards! The only X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture is 1969’s Midnight Cowboy , starring Jon Voight as a baby-faced hustler. Jon’s dreams might have been shattered by the mean streets of New York, but we’re still enchanted by the magical mammage of his first john (Jane?), played by Brenda Vaccaro . X-rated skinema took a twisted turn with Stanley Kubrick ’s antisocial opus A Clockwork Orange (1971) , nominated for Best Picture. Alex had a taste for the sex as well as the ultraviolence, and his perverted fantasies naturally include plenty of boobies for the droogies. Director Roberto Bertolluci and actor Marlon Brando were both honored by the Academy for their parts in Last Tango in Paris (1973) but we think Maria Schneider deserves a special lifetime skinchievement award for her full frontal fearlessness in this wanktastic classic. In more recent times, the X rating has been replaced by the less xxxplicit sounding NC-17. Henry & June (1990) , the first film ever released with an NC-17, is also the only one to be nominated for an Academy Award (for cinematography). There’s plenty of (well-lit) skin in this celebration of la vie boheme (aka bisexual horndoggery) in 1920s Paris. Perhaps someday a randy redeemer will come along and liberate the Academy from their hangups, and a titillating tide of nudity will come washing over the Oscars like a cleansing flood. But until that sexcellent day, blue movies (and Mr. Skin) stand stiffly alone. We can only get down on our knees and, uhm…pray. Stay tuned for more Academy-Award winning nudity all this week on the Mr. Skin blog !

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Oscar Nudity: Actresses Dig for Oscar Gold Playing Strippers and Hookers [PICS]

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Though he is considerably less bald and golden, Mr. Skin has at least one thing in common with Mr. Oscar: an abiding love of onscreen ladies of the night. Common sense in Tinseltown states that if an actress wants the gods of the Academy to smile upon her, she should play a stripper, a hooker, or a nun. We here at Skin Central are biased towards the strippers and the hookers ( though nuns aren’t always so bad ), so we’re turning on the red light for this skinspiratonal sampling of actresses who’ve gone from walking the streets to walking the red carpet. Perhaps the most famous cinema call girl is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990) . Julia charmed the Academy into a Best Actress nom after charming Richard Gere out of his pants as the ultimate hooker with a heart of gold. Body double Shelly Michelle serves most of the skin in this flick, but in one scene Jules lets a definite nip slip while rolling in the sack. Elisabeth Shue also works hard for her money- hard enough to win an Oscar for her performance as a streetwalker in Leaving Las Vegas (1996) . The scene where she pours Nicholas Cage a tequila body shot in the desert sun still has Mr. Skin all hot and bothered. Way back in her Hanoi Jane days, Jane Fonda got liberated as a happy hooker in Klute (1971) – and got a little gold man for her trouble. Most of Jane’s nudity in the film is woefully under-lit, but her nice perky lil’ right nip pops up in this well-lit scene. More recently, Marisa Tomei took off her top to pay the bills in The Wrestler (2008) . Mr. Skin thought that Marissa’s hooters were rays of sunshine in the otherwise relentlessly downbeat film, and the Academy must have agreed, since they rewarded her with an Oscar nom. Grab a handful of sweaty bills, because we’ve barely stroked the tip of the nude iceberg of skinema sex work , and Mr. Skin is gonna make it rain! Stay tuned for more Academy-Award winning nudity all this week on the Mr. Skin blog !

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Oscar Preview: David Fincher Vs. Tom Hooper For Best Director

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Though ‘King’s Speech’ is the established front-runner, ‘Social Network’ director may be more deserving of Academy Award. By Eric Ditzian Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” Photo: Sony Pictures Can we begin speaking about the Best Director race by shouting out a man whose mug won’t be thrust up on the screen when the Academy Award category is presented on Sunday night? Would that be dredging up sour — at this point, moldy — grapes? Too bad! Let’s kick off this installment of MTV News’ Oscar previews by stating something that should not be forgotten: “Inception” director Christopher Nolan got robbed. Dude made maybe the brainiest popcorn flick in history — one whose story shifted between five separate realities, yet managed both to avoid being excessively confusing and to reward further viewings. It grossed over $820 million worldwide and earned Nolan directorial nods from the Golden Globes, Directors Guild of America and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). And yet, no directorial Oscar nod? Please! A Best Picture nomination at the Oscars is welcome, surely, but simply not enough. Mr. Nolan, we’ll pour one out for you and continue on with the preview. That snub aside, only two directors ever really had a chance to triumph in this category — Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech” and David Fincher for “The Social Network” — and on Oscar night, either one could win. In Hooper’s favor is the fact that “The King’s Speech” has established itself as the general front-runner, leading the field with 12 Oscar nominations and dominating the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Producers Guild Awards and the DGAs, among others. The DGAs are historically a very accurate predictor of the Best Director winner at the Oscars; only six times has the DGA winner failed to win the Oscar, most recently in 2002 when Rob Marshall (“Chicago”) won the DGA but lost out to Roman Polanski (“The Pianist”) for the Oscar. What’s more, Oscar blogger Sasha Stone points out that only once before — with “Gladiator” in 2000 — has a Best Picture winner with 12 nominations lost out on the Directing award. So if we accept that “The King’s Speech” is a lock to win Best Picture, we’d be taking on serious odds if we argued Hooper will lose to Fincher. Our heads, then, tell us Hooper will come out on top. Yet our hearts keep telling us the “Social Network” director will end up the victor. Not because he won the BAFTA. Not because we think voters don’t have a vested interest in punishing Fincher for declining to endure the tiresome glad-handing traditionally expected of nominees and instead going off to shoot “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in Scandinavia. No, we have a feeling Fincher is going to eke out a win because he’s the most deserving nominee. Like Nolan, Fincher weaved together several different realities — in his case, one Harvard-based present and two lawsuit-consumed flash-forwards — gracefully and without a touch of audience bewilderment. Credit, of course, also has to go to scribe Aaron Sorkin and editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (all of whom are nominated in their respective categories), but Fincher is a known control freak and, in the end, “The Social Network” is his baby. His storytelling facility combined with his movie’s au courant theme of digital, often insincere interconnection at the expense of compassion and true relationship-building make for a potent combination. With “The King’s Speech” and “The Fighter” potentially dominating the major categories, voters might well decide “The Social Network” deserves some top-tier love in the form of a Fincher win. In fact, we’re going to take a risk, avoid any fence-sitting and call it: David Fincher will win this year’s Oscar for Best Director. Will it be a regal evening for “The King’s Speech”? Can “The Social Network” dial up Oscar gold? Don’t miss MTV News’ “2011 Oscars Live” at 6 p.m. Sunday, February 27, when we’ll be chatting with your favorite Hollywood stars live from the red carpet on MTVNews.com, and stick with us all Oscar night for winners, interviews, photos and more! Related Videos Join Us Live At The 2011 Oscars! Related Photos 2011 Academy Award Nominees

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Oscar Preview: Will Natalie Portman Fly High? Can Colin Firth Be Stopped?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Annette Bening might pose a threat to the ‘Black Swan’ star, but Firth seems to be on a one-way track to Academy Awards. By Eric Ditzian Natalie Portman in “Black Swan” Photo: Fox Searchlight Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences coalesced around two ideas in the lead acting categories: for Best Actor, it was time to anoint a man whose time had come; for Best Actress, a populist favorite deserved the career thumbs-up that only a small golden statue can deliver. And so five-time nominee Jeff Bridges finally triumphed for his unfettered turn in “Crazy Heart” and Sandra Bullock , long an American sweetheart but hardly an enduring critical fave, took home the win for her uplifting and cheesiness-eluding performance in “The Blind Side.” Oscar, of course, is as fickle a gentleman as you’ll find in Hollywood. So this year, we find in Annette Bening (“The Kids Are All Right”) a four-time nominee who’s never managed to create a voting-community consensus that, shoot, this is my year, dammit! Thus, she finds herself trailing Natalie Portman (“The Black Swan”) for Best Actress, though the winner in that category is hardly clear-cut at this point. The same cannot be said for Best Actor, in which Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) staked out an early lead that he hasn’t relinquished all awards season. As MTV News continues its week-long Oscar preview — ahead of the big show Sunday, February 27, when MTV News will be live-streaming from the red carpet at 6 p.m. ET — let’s take a closer look at the two lead acting categories. Best Actress It’s not Bening’s fault. No one can take away anything from what she accomplished onscreen in a warts-and-all portrait of a lesbian couple struggling to keep their family together; 2011 just isn’t her year. But hey, Al Pacino lost six times — including for the first two “Godfather” films and “Dog Day Afternoon” — before nabbing Oscar glory for “Scent of a Woman.” Bening will eventually get her Academy win. The trouble for the 52-year-old actress is that she’s facing off against Portman, who trained as a ballerina for 10 months, displayed a ripped physique onscreen and delivered a gutting portrayal of one woman’s psychological disintegration in “Black Swan.” It’s a far showier performance than Bening’s, and the fact of the matter is that subtly doesn’t often pay off when it comes to awards. That’s not to say it never does, and several influential Oscar prognosticators are picking Bening to pull off one of the evening’s biggest upsets. Either woman would be deserving. And don’t even get us started about why Michelle Williams isn’t at least in the running after a “Blue Valentine” performance so depressingly unnerving she should be standing outside theaters giving out free hugs. That’s just not the way the world works, and we’re going to go ahead and say a very pregnant Natalie Portman will be up onstage Sunday accepting the Best Actress win. Best Actor Bridges is back again, and you could even say his “True Grit” performance is finer and tighter than his turn in “Crazy Heart.” But Tom Hanks, he ain’t (Hanks is one of only two actors to take the category in consecutive years, following wins for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump”), especially not in a year when Firth learned to stutter and went on to dominate awards season. Seriously, the guy has barely lost even an obscure critics association award, winning at the Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and, oh, six dozen other ceremonies. Like Portman’s performance, Firth as the eventual King George VI is a flashier performance than any other in the category, save perhaps for James Franco’s (who, hey, didn’t actually lop off his arm for “127 Hours” and nixed any miniscule chance he had at an upset when he accepted a job as Oscar co-host). While we welcome Jesse Eisenberg to the ranks of the critically lauded — he’s been on our radar since a pitch-perfect debut as an anxious teen in 2002’s “Roger Dodger” — the 27-year-old actor never really had a shot to unseat Firth once the Brit’s awards-season supremacy became clear early on. What’s more, “The Social Network” peaked too early and now doesn’t have the momentum to pick up Eisenberg’s turn as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and carry it toward victory. Best Actor, then, is an easy pick — perhaps the easiest of the major categories. Say hello to Colin Firth, your Best Actor in these 83rd Academy Awards. Will it be a regal evening for “The King’s Speech”? Can “The Social Network” dial up Oscar gold? Don’t miss MTV News’ “2011 Oscars Live” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, February 27, when we’ll be chatting with your favorite Hollywood stars live from the red carpet on MTVNews.com, and stick with us all Oscar night for winners, interviews, photos and more! Related Photos 2011 Academy Award Nominees

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Oscar Nudity: Clara Bow Shows Things in the Very First Best Picture, Wings

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The bonerrific tradition of Hollywood nudity goes way, way back to the uninhibited 1920s, and in honor of the upcoming Academy Awards (as well as Mr. Skin’s Anatomy Awards , of course) we here at Mr. Skin have rubbed ourselves raw scouring the archives for the very apex of Academy Award-winning nudity. As tit turns out, the very first Best Picture, Wings (1927) , is also a breast picture thanks to legendary wild child and original “it” girl Clara Bow. In the film, Clara stars as a sweet young thing involved in a love triangle with two pilots, both of whom are sent off to fight in World War I. In one scene, Clara is undressing in front of a mirror when her soldier boys barge in, and as she scrambles to cover up, we get a tantalizing glimpse of her topless. It’s highly unlikely that the nip slip was intentional, but thanks to the miracle of celluloid, Clara’s “it” tits have achieved immor(t)ality. Check out more of silent film seductress Clara Bow on Mr.Skin, and stay tuned for more Oscar-caliber nudity tomorrow on the Mr. Skin blog !

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Weinstein Company Enters 2012 Razzie Race With Outer Space Horror Flick Apollo 18

Posted on February 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

That greedy old Harvey Weinstein! With The King’s Speech dominating the Academy Award nominations and looking like the front runner in most major categories next weekend, one would think the man would be content. Alas, it seems like his strong grasp over the Oscars is no longer enough and he must seize control of every awards show there is. Thus, surefire future Razzie nominee Apollo 18 .

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Dianna Agron And Studio Appointed Boyfriend Alex Pettyfer Call It Quits

Posted on February 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Ah, young love. It seems like one day you think you have meet your soulmate and no sooner do you find yourself connecting on the most intimate of levels then you learn your press obligations for the film you are both starring in are over and you are free to go your separate ways. For this reason we sympathize with young I Am Number Four stars Dianna Agron and Alex Pettyfer.

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Tara Reid No Longer Able To Introduce Jeff Bridges At The Academy Awards

Posted on February 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The greatest thing about the Academy Awards is seeing just what gimmick they will come up with every year in an attempt to boost ratings. This year of course was the selection of the very young, very talented and very easy on the eyes James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host, but it looks like something has been dropped in the process. Yes, everyone, the Oscars are no longer continuing the two year tradition of five presenters, generally former costars, presenting the “Best Actor” and “Actress” nominees (complete with 20 minute masturbatory speeches). Sigh.

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