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

How much of "nothing" is enough???

Well.... this weekend the weather forecast was heavy rains, so I decided to stay home and do absolutely "nothing"....
that means, that I decided that I would not work at all, I wouldn't even pass the door of my workshop, that I would not go for the usual weekly shopping, that I would not make any plans to go out on Saturday night or that I would miss the usual Sunday  lunch with my brother's family....
The plan was to do "nothing".................
but "nothing" has a different meaning for each one of us....
so my "nothing" includes:
not one, not two but four long walks with my dog
at least one hour each day of hugging and cuddling with my cat
watching some episodes of my favorite TV series, like:



 

"Detroit 1-8-7", "Law & Order SVU", "Parenthood", "Grey's Anatomy", "The Good Wife", "Southland"

reading a blog that my friend Maslinda suggested, which tells you how to "Blog Like A Pro With 100 Tips" ( very intersting I suggest that you read it too)

speaking, planning and gossiping, for at least one hour on the phone with one of my best friends di Depux,

Christy

chatting several times during the 2 days through facebook, phone, or sms with my niece Christy who lives in Patra,

creating a playlist for my i-pod, and listening to it while washing the dishes and cleaning the food cabinet,

voting for my favorite movies for the Oscars at the "New York Times"  site (Do Not forget to vote for "Dogtooth" in the foreign movie category and soon I ll explain why)

making microwave pop-corn and eating them while watching the movie "True Grit"

and last but not least writing this post!!!!!!

Sunday is still on for the next 11 hours here in Athens, which means that  I 'll still have the luxury to do my kind of nothing

what is your kind of nothing????

kisses & wishes

mdq