Feedback of the 83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards turned out to be quite a dull event. The audiences were not entertained and they did not enjoy as much as they did in the past years, according to a Hollywood Reporter.

In comparison to last year, the Oscar ceremony witnessed a fall of 10%. In the beginning of this year other prestigious award ceremonies such as the Grammys, the Golden Globes and others countered high ratings while Oscars just managed to make 37.6 million total viewers.

Audiences often criticized the poor presentation of young hosts James Franco as well as Anne Hathaway. The 3 hour plus event delivered a rating of 11.7 with a 11% drop in the advertiser-friendly category.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, upto now this was the worst Oscar telecast as James Franco was too detached and Hathaway as overeager.

This year, unfortunately the award winners were not new. Most of the winners had won awards in the equivalent categories in other award ceremonies earlier this year.

Christian Bale Wins Best Supporting Actor for "The Fighter" for Oscars 2011

Christian Bale won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Fighter" and it's his first Academy Award.The film is directed by David O. Russell.

The movie also stars Mark Wahlberg,Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. The movie centers on boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (Wahlberg) as well as his crack-addicted older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Bale). Amy Adams co-stars as Ward's tough-as-nails girlfriend and Mellisa Leo stars as Ward's and Eklund's scrappy mother.

"The Fighter" was nominated for 7 Oscars along with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress (for both Adams and Leo).Lately in January, Bale won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.

When Brad Pitt and Matt Damon stepped out of "The Fighter" due to conflicts in scheduling, Wahlberg suggested Bale for the role. And the role brought out great results for the actor. Just as he did in 2003's "The Machinist," Christian Bale lost an unbelievable amount of weight in order to bear a resemblance to Eklund, who, at the time, was addicted to drugs.

At the age of 13, Bale was cast in Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" as an English boy who is separated from his parents during World War II and is lost in a Japanese internment camp.From then on, he's received critical acclaim for several performances including portraying Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan's Batman films and as the yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho."

Oscars Presenters for 2011 Awards

The stars who will present the 83rd annual Academy Awards this year in February include Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei, Oprah Winfrey producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer.

The presenters announced for the ceremony have plenty of Oscar history between them.

Halle Berry won Best Actress in 2001 for 'Monster's Ball'.

Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for 'Crazy Heart' and Sandra Bullock won Best Actress for 'The Blind Side' in 2010.

Marisa Tomei won the award for Best Supporting Actress for 'My Cousin Vinny' in 1992.

Oprah Winfrey was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'The Color Purple' in 1985, and was an executive producer on 2009 Best Picture nominee 'Precious'.

15 Semifinalists for 2010 VFX Oscar Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS) recently announced that 15 films have been chosen as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards. The films include:

• Alice in Wonderland
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Shutter Island
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Clash of the Titans
• Hereafter
• Inception
• Iron Man 2
• The Last Airbender
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
• Scott Pilgrim vs the World
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• Tron: Legacy
• Unstoppable

In early January 2011, the members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, who selected the semifinalists, will narrow the list to 7.

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the 7 short listed films on January 20. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate 5 films for the final Oscar Award.

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on January 25, 2011 in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.