Oscar Award 2012 Best Picture Winner The Artist Returns To Theaters This Mother’s Day Weekend

The Weinstein Company announced lately the re-release of Academy Award Best Picture winner The Artist on a national scale this Friday, May 11, 2012. This will be the final chance for moviegoers to experience the 5 time Academy Award winning love letter to films in a movie theater - the way it was planned to be experienced, and it is the ideal opportunity for a Mother’s Day outing.

TWC President of Marketing Stephen Bruno stated that as summer approaches, they wanted to give audiences across the country one more occasion to experience The Artist in a theater where it has charmed and entertained so many this year. This is the ideal family outing for Mother’s Day weekend.

AMPAS Changes Rules For Oscar's Best Picture Nominees

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS) has decided once more to modify the number of films that can be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

Instead of maintaining 10 guaranteed nominees, as it has been for the last two years, the academy will permit as few as 5 nominees and as many as 10 in the category. The number will be announced at the same time the Oscar nominations are revealed in January.

The modifications seems designed to eliminate films that are nominated just to fill out a field of 10. A film will now require a minimum of 5% of first-place votes to be chosen for the best picture.

Next year's nominees are scheduled to be announced on January 24th and the ceremony is set for February 26th .

2011 Academy Award Nominations For The Main Categories

The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2011.The following are the nominations for some of the main categories:

Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Best Actor In A Leading Role :
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James France (127 Hours)

Best Actress In A Leading Role :
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Best Direction:
Darren Aronofsky - (Black Swan)
David O. Russell - (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper - (The King's Speech)
David Fincher - (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - (True Grit)

2011 Oscar Predictions for the Best Picture Category

February 2011 might seem like a long, long time away, but that doesn't signify that the Oscar season hasn't kicked into gear. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences(AMPAS) announced lately 3 new electees to their Board of Governors, together with latest Oscar-winner, director Kathryn Bigelow and the next Oscars ceremony's producers, Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer.

Together with this , there are rumors as to who will host (probably Ricky Gervais) and a possible move to January.Also here are some daring predictions as to which 10 films will receive Best Picture nominations.

Toy Story 3
Inception
Another Year
The Social Network
The Fighter
Love and Other Drugs
The Way Back
Conviction
The American
True Grit

All the Best to all these movies.

At the Oscars this year…

The 82nd Academy Awards began  with The 82nd Academy Awards began  with Neil Patrick Harris's rousing musical number,  rousing musical number,  after which the co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin came on stage. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin were successful in setting a light ambience with their  sense of humor.

A chief alteration in this year's show was the increase in the Best Picture category from five nominees to ten. Decades before, the category had incorporated ten nominees and then was reduced to five. The decision to once again include more nominees came in order to take in good  films that ordinarily would not be chosen. This variation  didn’t do much to the actual show except that ten movies were introduced for the category during the ceremony instead of five.

An additional difference was introduction of the category of Original Score was displayed with music from each nominated film being played as a choreographed dance took place in the stage. The dancing itself was visually stimulating but occasionally it did not match up well with the music being played and it made for a peculiar performance overall.

Overall, the ceremony went off apparently without a hindrance; the speeches were kept short and there were no awfully embarrassing mishaps. The ceremony seems to be moving in  the direction of a more solemn show incorporating more music and dance in its place of the Oscars of old with comedic genius Billy Crystal. Every Oscar Ceremony brings new movies and new changes to the event and the 82nd Academy Awards also witnessed several modifications.

The Major Winners of Oscars 2010

	Best Direction
	Kathryn Bigelow for 'The Hurt Locker'
	Best Picture
	The Hurt Locker
	Best Animated Feature Film
	Up
	Best Actress in a Leading Role
	Sandra Bullock for 'The Blind Side'
	Best Actor in a Leading Role
	Jeff Bridges for 'Crazy Heart'
	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
	Mo'Nique for 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire'
	Best Actor in a Supporting Role
	Christoph Waltz for 'Inglourious Basterds'
	Best Cinematography
	Mauro Fiore for 'Avatar'
	Best Makeup
	Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow for 'Star Trek'
	Best Documentary Short
	Music By Prudence
	Best Documentary Feature
	The Cove

Oscar Nominations for Best Picture

Avatar
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
The Blind Side
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air