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Image of Victory.Jennifer hudson grabs her Oscar!!
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Jennifer Hudson ,The dream girl that came true!!!
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Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson took the stage at the Kodak Theater, breathlessly thanking God twice for her DreamGirls win and saying her grandmother was her inspiration.
“If my grandmother was here this evening to see me now… she was my biggest inspiration for everything because she was a singer and she had the passion for it, but she never had the chance,” said Hudson, 25, breaking into tears. “And that was the thing that pushed me forward to continue.”
Thankfully Hudson took off that hideous tinfoil caplet before accepting her award. Not only was her jacket a fashion “don’t,” it also covered up her curvaceous body.
Hudson was one of several voluptuous women who stole the show from the string of skinny sirens who usually rule Hollywood’s most glamorous soiree.
Little Children star Kate Winslet, 31, clad in a figure-hugging mint green Valentino gown, acknowledged that she’s a “record-breaker,” winning more Oscar nominations for her generation than any of her pint-sized contemporaries.
“It’s amazing. This kind of stuff isn’t supposed to happen to someone like me who comes from a small town and was told I was only going to get parts for fat girls,” she said.
Devil Wears Prada nominee Meryl Streep can be equally proud to throw her Oscar weight around. The 57-year-old actress has been nominated 14 times.
“And I’m a size 14, so it all matches,” she said.
Then there was Hudson who put on 20-plus pounds for her role as Effie. Hudson said she slimmed down for the red carpet the old fashioned way: hard, hard work.
“I worked with my trainer, LaFonza Alston in Chicago through the summer,” she told Ryan Seacrest during a red carpet interview. “I’d get up at 4 in the morning, go running for an hour and then go back to the gym at one o’clock.”
Hudson dropped 25 pounds by eating salads, grilled chicken and nuts – and by making sure her food portions were no bigger than her hand.
“You’ve got to work for it,” she says. “And I’m a firm believer: If it’s not worth working hard for, it’s not worth working at all.”
Complete list of winners at the 79th annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:
Best Motion Picture: “The Departed”
Lead Actor: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Lead Actress: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Directing: Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”
Foreign Language Film: “The Lives of Others,” Germany
Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, “The Departed”
Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Animated Feature Film: “Happy Feet”
Art Direction: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Cinematography: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Sound Mixing: “Dreamgirls”
Sound Editing: “Letters From Iwo Jima”
Original Score: “Babel,” Gustavo Santaolalla
Original Song: “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth,” Melissa Etheridge
Costume: “Marie Antoinette”
Documentary Feature: “An Inconvenient Truth”
Documentary Short Subject: “The Blood of Yingzhou District”
Film Editing: “The Departed”
Makeup: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Animated Short Film: “The Danish Poet”
Live Action Short Film: ” West Bank Story”
Visual Effects: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
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Jean Hersholt Award (Oscar statuette): Sherry Lansing.
Honorary Academy Award (Oscar statuette): Ennio Morricone.
Helen Mirren Wins Best actress award for The Queen!!
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After winning every award under the sun, it must be hard to come up with an original acceptance speech, but Best Actress Helen Mirren pulled it off. “You know, my sister told me that all kids love to get gold stars,” she said, “and this is the biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had in my life.”
She went on to credit the woman she played so convincingly in The Queen: “For 50 years and more Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. … If it wasn’t for her, I most certainly wouldn’t be here.” Holding up her statue, she said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen.”
Class act.
RAZZIES AWARDS AWARDS ,HOLLYWOOD IN ITS WORST!! BASIC INSTINCT2 NABS 4 RAZZIES!
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LOS ANGELES — Sharon Stone should have trusted her first Basic Instinct and left it alone, according to voters of the Razzies, which mocks the worst of Hollywood.
Basic Instinct 2 won four Razzies on Saturday, including worst picture and worst actress for Stone.
The Wayans brothers comedy Little Man placed second with three Razzies, including shared prizes by Shawn and Marlon Wayans for worst actor and worst screen couple.
A follow-up to Stone’s career-making 1992 hit, Basic Instinct 2 revived her femme-fatale predator for a murder thriller set in London, with relatively unknown British actor David Morrissey inheriting the victim’s mantle from Michael Douglas, the star of the first film who did not return for the sequel.
Razzies founder John Wilson said that while Stone still looked good in her late 40s, the movie had no other reason to exist.
“Yes, she still has some excuse to drop her robe, but the dialogue, the story, the overall attitude of the character is cartoon-like,” Wilson said. “You have to sort of wonder, is she vamping the movie or does she think she’s giving a serious performance? Is she the lone person on the project who got the joke?”
The other Razzies for Basic Instinct 2 were worst screenplay and worst prequel or sequel.
Along with the Razzies for the two Wayans, Little Man also won for worst remake or rip-off because it essentially took the premise of a Bugs Bunny cartoon about a pint-sized hoodlum masquerading as a baby and expanded it to feature length, Wilson said.
The images of Marlon Wayans’ grafted head on a 2 1/2-foot man’s body were creepy rather than comical, Wilson said.
“I will admit there is ’so stupid it’s funny,’ but there is also ’so stupid, get out of my face,’ and that’s what this movie is,” Wilson said.
Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, a Hollywood darling a few years ago with such blockbusters as The Sixth Sense and Signs, was named worst director and worst supporting actor for his fantasy flop, Lady in the Water.
Unable to get Disney, which made his previous hits, to back Lady in the Water, Shyamalan decamped to Warner Bros., which produced the movie that was based on a bedtime story the filmmaker dreamed up for his children.
The movie follows the plight of a mythical water nymph that turns up in a swimming pool at an apartment complex, whose residents band together to send her back to her otherworldly home.
Shyamalan has a pivotal role as a writer whose book will one day bring salvation to humanity.
“He cast himself as the savior role of the film on top of everything else,” Wilson said. “Shyamalan falls into one of the traps that’s almost guaranteed to win you a Razzie, when you let your ego run rampant as that man did.”
Carmen Electra won for worst supporting actress for Date Movie and Scary Movie 4, the latter featuring her as a character that spoofs Shyamalan’s The Village.
Robin Williams’ road-trip comedy RV was chosen as worst excuse for family entertainment.
HOLLYWOOD LATINA,Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna at The Oscars 2007
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HOLLYWOOD PORTRAIT ,Will Smith and family.
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HOLLYQUEER ,Melissa Etheridge and Tammy LYnn Michaels at The Oscars 2007
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Melissa Etheridge arrives with her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels. The singer, who’s up for her song “I Need to Wake Up,” for An Inconvenient Truth.
Playing it real,Sacha Baron Cohen with girlfriend Isla Fischer
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