On the road to Oscars

Tomorrow for someone who loves the movies (like myself) is a huge day as it is the Oscars ceremony!!!!
Eventhough I plan tomorrow to make my own predictions (or wishfull thoughts) about who should win the award I thought that it would be fun today to share with you some Oscar fun facts....so....
As you already know Greece  after 15 years with "Dogtooth" has a foreighn language movie nomination, but the country with the most foreighn language movie nominations is France (34) while the country with the most foreign language movie awards is Italy (10)

One of my favorite actresses is Katharine Hepburn, who is the only actress who has won four best actress awards.

On the other hand the sound mixer Kevin O' Connel has been nominated 18 times and yet has won 0....

Last year Kathryn Bigelow was only the fourth woman to ever receive a nomination for best director(it is a man's world...even in the movies) and fortunatelly won it for the movie "The Hurt Locker", which is the movie that was nominated for nine Oscars and managed to win the 6!!!! a considerable number if you think that so far is the movie with the lowest budget that has ever made such an Oscar success!!!

Another actress that I absolutely love,adore, respect, ....is Meryl Streep who is the actress with the most nominations: 16 in total, 13 for best actress and 3 for best actress in a supporting role. So far she has won 2 awards 
Woody Allen is the one who has the most nominations for Best Screenplay (and not as an actor...ironic???)

This year "True Grit" has the youngest and oldest acting nominees : Hailee Steinfeld turned 15 last month, and Jeff Bridges is 62. In case they win (I don't think so though they were really good) they will have only 45 seconds infront of the 3300 seats of the Kodak Theatre, to thank their families, agents, co-actors, etc etc etc. However if Jeff Bridges win this year will be the only actor who have won a best actor academy award for a role that has been already awarded: in the original version of "True Grit" of 1969 John Wayne won the Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn
soooo what do you think???? do you think that something this year will happen that will be discussed through the years???
if you want to know more about this year's ceremony go to:
http://oscar.go.com/

dramatic kisses

&

oscar wishes

mdq

Vanity Fair Hollywwod Issue Cover

 Every year the magazive  Vanity Fair  just before the Oscars makes an issue that it is about who is hot at the moment at the movies industry. For example in this year's cover we see Oscar's hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco  or newcomer star of the Social Network Jesse Eisenberg , Mila Kunis of the Black Swan and many others....

Actually one of my all time favorite covers was the one of 2001, with some of the Hollywood legends like Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave,Catherine Deneuve, Kate Winslet,Cate Blanchett, Sophia Loren ,and also Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz,Gwyneth Paltrow, and Chloë Sevigny photographed by the also legendary Annie Leibovitz

In 2003 another great Vanity Fair cover came out, with all the Hollywood "Alpha Males" (at the moment)....

as you can see  Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks,  Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Hugh Grant, Matt Damon,Dennis Quaid, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Cruise are depicted again in a cover taken by Annie Leibovitz

This Vanity Fair "tradition" began back in 1995 with this  cover named "Hollywood - Highest- The class of 2000"



Some of the "newbies" ladies like Sarah Jessica Parker before Sex & the City, or Nicole Kidman before the surgeries are super hot stars today....  I think that some of them are really art statements.....

in the same philosophy are the covers of 1996,

of 1997

and another favorite of mine the one of 1998, with the 2011 Oscar best actress nominee Natalie Portman, and the unbelievably young and totally different Vince Vaughn (he is the one sitting on the armchair between Joaquin Phoenix and Djimon Hounsou)

take a look also at these:

and last but not least, and once again one of my all time favorite covers of all magazines the 2006 Tom Ford  cover

So now, you  understand the reason of why I am so excited to see every year the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue.....Don't you????

kisses & wishes

mdq