82nd Academy Awards

The 82nd Academy Awards will take place on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Show will be hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

Nominees for 82nd Academy Awards will be announced live on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:38 a.m. at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California by Tom Sherak, president of Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Best Director for 2010-Predictions

The oscars would be held within a few months,yet most movies buffs are just trying their luck to predict the nominees for the Best Director Category:

Here are a few of them:

Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker"

Peter Jackson for "The Lovely Bones"

Joel and Ethan Coen for "A Serious Man"

Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air"

Michael Haneke for "The White Ribbon"

2010 predictions for the Academy Awards

It might be too early to even mention the possibilities of who would be winning the Oscars, the forthcoming year but unofficial reports has just come up with some guesses:

The most awaited categories in this award is that of the best actor and best actress:

Best Actor:
Jamie Foxx in 'Soloist': Foxx plays the character of a schizophrenic destitute man who also is a Juilliard-trained violin prodigy.

Johnny Depp in 'Enemies': Johnny Depp portrays the role of a notorious criminal ‘John Dillinger’.

Adam Sandler in 'People':Its said that comedies don’t have a place at the Oscars,but the trailer of this movie suggests that Adam Sandler might change the cliché.

Brad Pitt in 'Basterds': Though the title of the movie sounds extremely silly,Brad Pitt isan actor constantly surprising his fans.

Mark Wahlberg in 'Lovely Bones': Mark Wahlberg exhibits his talents in this movie, and has every chance of accomplishing an Oscar.

Best Actress:
The guesses for this category seems to be only a couple..probably others would join in sooner or later...

Meryl Streep in 'Julie & Julia':Meryl Streep plays the character of the late chef Julia Childs.Meryl Streep,as usual always has a place at the Academy Awards.

Hilary Swank in 'Amelia':Hilary Swank with her portrayal of the pilot ‘Amelia Earhart’ has every possibility of achieving success in this category.

10 nominees for The Best Picture Category for Oscars,2010

Including double the nominees for the Best Picture category for the Oscars next year….Will it attract more viewers for the Oscars next year?Will this culminate in a tough competition for the judges for selecting the best picture?Whats the final event gonna be like is hard to predict!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis made the announcement on June 24th that the Oscars for 2010 to be held on March 7 will have 10 nominees for the Best Picture category. This decision was taken as the governors of the academy board felt that there were several other films which deserved to be in this category.The other qualified movies like 'Dark Knight', 'Iron-Man', 'Happy-Go-Lucky', 'The Wrestler' were left from this category due to the restriction of 5 nominees. Also,there was a debate with 'The Dark Knight', not being chosen in the Best Picture Category as it had sold $1 billion in tickets worldwide.

This brings us back to the days of 1943 when, for the 16th Academy Awards,there were 10 nominees for the best picture.The movie 'Casablanca' won the Oscars for the Best Picture that year.Those in Hollywood might feel that this is a brilliant opportunity for their movies to vie in this category.

On February 2nd, 2010 , movie buffs and those awaiting the Oscars will get to know the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn

" Everyone thought I was bold and fearless, and even arrogant... but inwardly I was always quaking.. I've never cared about how afraid I may have been inside-I've always done what I thought I should."

- Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn is a well-known actress who has to her credit, won the maximum number of Best Actress Oscar awards.She had won the award 4 times and she was nominated 12 times for an Oscar.

The movies for which she won Oscars include the following:
-The Morning Glory in the year 1933
-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in the year 1967
-The Lion in Winter in the year 1968
-On Golden Pond in the year 1981

Born in 12 May 1907,she was one of the finest American actresses of her times and has also been successful in television and stage shows.Known to be a maverick,she had deep interest in sports for instance canoeing,,tennis,diving as well as riding her bike.