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Rejoice! Grown-Ups Officially Qualifies for Best Picture Campaign

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 248 feature films have qualified for this year’s Best Picture Oscar race — a surprising downturn from recent years. (To wit, 274 films in 2009, and 281 in 2008.) But let’s face it: Like everything in Hollywood, we are dealing in quality, not quantity. With this in mind, let’s hear it for the official 2010 nomination ballot wherein the likes of Grown-Ups , The Bounty Hunter , Furry Vengeance and Hot Tub Time Machine will share space with The Social Network , The King’s Speech , Black Swan and the rest of the cognoscenti’s informally sanctioned seasonal darlings. They’re all after the jump if you want to see anything in particular you want to launch a dark-horse campaign for. [ Why Did I Get Married Too , FTW. ]

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Read a Chunk of the Un-Produced Captain Beefheart Film Script

This weekend, the legendary avant-garde bluesman Don Van Vleit, better known as Captain Beefheart, passed away . While his distortion-soaked, eccentric take on rhythm and blues was often cinematic in its own right, Beefheart almost had a brush with acting as well. In the early 60s, inspired by the success of films like Easy Rider , Frank Zappa and Beefheart holed up and worked on a script for a film called Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People . The script was never produced, but a huge chunk of it is available online and it’s every bit as fun and weird as fans would hope.

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VIDEO: New, Painful Short from Oscar-Nominated Don Hertzfeldt Tackles Dental Surgery

If you have a high tolerance for stick-figure violence, Wisdom Teeth is today’s must-watch video. The latest short from Oscar-Nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt (of Rejected fame) premiered at Sundance and is now part of a Showtime program called Short Stories . Despite Hertzfeldt’s excellent track record, I’ll admit I had a tough time getting psyched to watch even a slapstick cartoon about dental surgery because well, sometimes the dentist really is that scary. But rest assured, the animator’s unmatched knack for comic absurdity makes it completely worthwhile and the ridiculous ending will have you in…stitches. I’m sorry.

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Watch Anne Hathaway Make a Bunch of Public School Kids Scream

Anne Hathaway Incites Child Mob

Filed under: Anne Hathaway , Academy Awards Anne Hathaway put her life in danger yesterday in NYC — telling a huge throng of excited children that they just won a free trip to Hollywood to sing at the Oscars … and they went WILD!!! Okay, so the 5th graders weren’t much of a threat … they’re… Read more

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The 2011 Oscars Contenders For The Original Song Category

The 2011 Oscars Contenders For The Original Song Category-It has been announced that a total of 41 songs are contending for the best original song category at the 2011 Oscar Awards. The most-awaited 2011 Oscars will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 27 February. According to reports, three of the contenders The 2011 Oscars Contenders For The Original Song Category is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Social Network, Kids Are All Right Get Awards Boost From NY Critics Circle

More awards! Hoo-ahhh ! This time it’s the august New York Film Critics circle doing the laurel-fitting, delivering its best-of-2010 prize to the redoubtable Social Network . Like their peers out in Los Angeles , the NYFCC also went with best director David FIncher and best actor Colin Firth; The Kids Are All Right took over from there, winning three prizes including best actress for Annette Bening. Jacki Weaver was cruelly stiffed in supporting actress once again in favor of The Fighter ‘s Melissa Leo, though Animal Kingdom did win best first feature for David Michod. So that’s nice. Click through for the full list of winners.

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Awards, Awards, Awards: Critics Choice Blacks Out, NY Critics Weighing In

Awards! So many awards. What will we do with all these awards? Awards everywhere! Awards in your refrigerator, awards in your morning coffee. Awards clogging the 405 and the Holland Tunnel. Sarah Palin shot and killed an award last night on TV. The Metrodome roof didn’t collapse under the weight of snow, as you’ve heard; it was actually from a storm that dumped 17 inches of awards on Minneapolis. And now look: More awards!

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Late Night Highlights: Johnny Depp Tells David Letterman the Worst Joke Ever

Last night, Johnny Depp promoted The Tourist by telling David Letterman a crazy joke that Al Pacino repeated daily on the set of Donnie Brasco . Elsewhere, Helen Mirren kissed Jay Leno (and then he made an erection joke), Carrie Fisher gave Craig Ferguson a scrotum key chain, Conan Jerseyfied a staffer, and Michael C. Hall sang the creepiest Christmas song ever.

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Bored? Academy Launches Oscar Countdown

Leave it to AMPAS to supplement your winter workplace malaise with its new Oscar Countdown, a procrastination-friendly feature recounting all 82 Academy Award ceremonies — one day at a time until the 83rd annual ritual next February. Fun fact from the first show: “270 people attended the event, mostly Academy members. Guests of members were invited to attend at a slight charge of $5 to their hosts.” That would be $63.95 in 2010 dollars. What a deal, or something. [ Oscars.org ]

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