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Posted: 24 Feb 2013 01:46 AM PST

LOS ANGELES: The last "Twilight" film won the dubious honor Saturday of being awarded seven Razzies, Hollywood's anti-Oscar Golden Raspberry prizes, handed out on the eve of the real Academy Awards.

"Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" won worst film, worst director for Bill Condon and worst actress for Kristen Stewart, as well as worst supporting actor, worst screen couple, worst screen ensemble and worst remake/rip-off or sequel.

The film fell short of last year's clean sweep of all 10 categories for "Jack and Jill" starring Adam Sandler - who won this year's worst actor for "That's My Boy," which also took the worst screenplay.

Worst supporting actress at the 33rd annual Razzies show - held just down the road from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre where the 85th Academy Awards take place Sunday - went to singer Rihanna, making her big screen debut in "Battleship."

The winners of nine of the 10 categories were chosen by emailed ballots from 657 voting members in the United States and 19 other countries.

The worst remake/rip-off or sequel winner was decided by a poll conducted on movie review website RottenTomatoes.com, where nearly 70,000 votes were cast, according to Razzie organizers.

Nominees who failed to win a Razzie included veteran diva Barbra Streisand for worst actress in mother-son road movie "The Guilt Trip," while Sandler beat rivals including Nicolas Cage and Eddie Murphy to worst actor.

Besides "Twilight," the other films shortlisted for worst movie of 2012 were "Battleship," family movie "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure," "That's My Boy" and "A Thousand Words" starring comedy veteran Murphy.-AFP

Records and firsts

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:22 PM PST

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, who is best known for creating the animated TV shows Family Guy and American Dad!. The awards are given out by the Beverly Hills, Los Angeles-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

First Oscars

When the Academy Awards were handed out on May 16, 1929, movies had just begun to talk. The inaugural ceremony took place in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles; guest tickets cost US$5. The Best Actress and Best Actor awards went to Janet Gaynor for her performances in Sunrise and Seventh Heaven, both from 1927, and Street Angel from 1928, and to Emil Jannings for The Last Command and The Way Of All Flesh. The Warner Bros film The Jazz Singer received a special award as the "pioneering outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionised the industry".

The Academy had ruled it was ineligible for the best picture award because it was thought it would be unfair to let sound films compete with silents.

1939

This was one of the most celebrated years in American film history, encompassing such classics as The Wizard Of Oz, Stagecoach Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Ninotchka, Wuthering Heights and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Gone With The Wind, director Victor Fleming's almost-four-hour blockbuster, was the longest feature released up to that time and was the year's big Oscar winner. It was also the first colour film to win the Best Picture trophy. The film earned 13 nominations and won eight competitive awards (and two special citations) – of which both were records for the time. It held the record for Oscars until Gigi won nine of them in 1957.

Categories

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented for the first time at the ceremony held in 1938. The honour went to Darryl F. Zanuck. The first special award to honour a foreign language motion picture was given in 1947 to the Italian film Shoeshine. Seven more special awards were presented before Foreign Language Film became an annual category in 1956. The Animated Feature Film award was added in 2001, with Shrek winning the Oscar.

Breaking records

The 1959 epic Ben Hur set an Academy Award record by winning 11 Oscars, a benchmark matched in 1997 by the blockbuster Titanic. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King also won 11 Oscars – from 11 nominations – in 2003.

Meryl Streep holds the record for most acting nominations (17), and has won three. Katharine Hepburn earned 12 nominations and won four times. Ingrid Bergman is next with three Oscars from seven nominations. Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male star, with 12 nominations and three wins. Walter Brennan also won three, but from only four nominations.

2012 facts

The Best Picture award went to The Artist. Michel Hazanavicius also won Best Director for the film and its lead, Jean Dujardin, won Best Actor. Dujardin had the smallest amount of dialogue for a speaking role – a mere two words – of any winning performance in the sound era. For his role in Beginners, Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer became the oldest winner in an acting category at the age of 82.

An electronic first

In September 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new online voting system would be used for the 2013 Oscars ceremony. In a transitional process, the academy's 6,000 members also will be able to use traditional paper ballots to nominate and select the 2012 winners. Until now, Oscar ballots have been mailed around the world to academy members – directors, actors, screenwriters, producers and other leading film industry figures – with results tabulated by hand by the Pricewaterhouse-Coopers accounting firm. – Reuters

Hollywood prepares for its Oscars close-up

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 07:57 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD: The stage is set for the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday, with Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo" bidding to edge out Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" at the climax of Hollywood's awards season.

The red carpet is rolled out and ready for Tinseltown's finest to strut and preen before the Oscars show, widely seen as one of the least predictable in recent memory following a bumper movie year.

British songstress Adele shone at rehearsals on the eve of the heavily musical night, when she will sing 007 theme "Skyfall" and legendary diva Barbra Streisand will give her first Oscars performance for 36 years.

"Can I get more piano at the very beginning actually?" the 24-year-old said after sound checks at the Dolby Theatre, where the cast of Oscar-nominated musical "Les Miserables" also practiced, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Out front, on the closed-off section of Hollywood Boulevard, armies of technicians and workers have put the final touches to the red carpet where Spielberg, Affleck and dozens of fellow nominees gather before the show.

Spielberg, bidding for his first best picture Oscar since "Schindler's List" in 1994, tops the nominations with 12 nods for "Lincoln" - but "Argo" has cleaned up in Hollywood's awards season so far, despite having only seven.

Although he started the season two months ago in front, Spielberg may have to settle Sunday for the best director award - one that Affleck cannot beat him to, having not been nominated in the category, in a perceived snub.

But again here there could be an upset, with rivals including Taiwan-born Ang Lee for "Life of Pi," David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook," or even Austrian dark horse director Michael Haneke for Cannes-topping "Amour."

One near-certainty Sunday is that "Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis will be named best actor, a record third for the British-Irish actor after wins in 1990 for "My Left Foot" and in 2008 for "There Will Be Blood."

For best actress, the early favourite was Jessica Chastain, playing a CIA agent hunting Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty," but the clever money is now on Jennifer Lawrence for her turn in "Silver Linings Playbook."

The best supporting actress race is more open, although Anne Hathaway is probably still the frontrunner for her heart-wrenching turn in "Les Miserables," which is also nominated for best picture.

The most unpredictable race of all is perhaps for supporting actor, with Hollywood legend Robert De Niro tipped by some for playing Cooper's father in "Silver Linings Playbook."

But strong rivals in the category include Austrian Christoph Waltz as a white bounty hunter who frees Jamie Foxx's black slave in Quentin Tarantino's blood-spattered "Django Unchained," as well as Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln."

On the foreign front, the clear frontrunner is "Amour," which won the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival for its heart-wrenching portrayal of an elderly couple coping with encroaching physical and mental illness.

Its French female lead, Emmanuelle Riva, could even cause an upset in the best actress category, some critics believe. Riva, who will be 86 on Sunday, is coincidentally also the oldest ever best actress nominee.

"Amour" ("Love") is also among the nine films nominated for best picture, although it is not seen as a favorite there.

On a more colourful note, the best animated feature contest is widely seen as a battle between Scottish-themed princess adventure "Brave" and "Wreck-It Ralph," about a video game villain fed up with being the bad guy.

The fast and fun movie pays subtle homage to generations of computer games, in a feel-good story appealing to both mainstream cinema-goers and hard-core animation filmmakers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - AFP

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