Academy Awards- In January for the year 2011?

Well…most of us might still be relishing the moments of oscar 2010, but the schedule for Oscar 2011 could undergo a makeover.

There are reports that there's a possiblity that 2011 Academy Awards could be shifted to January after the discussion at the Board of Governors meeting of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.In its 82 year history, the ceremony typically is held either last weekend of February or a few weeks afterward in the last week of march.

It could be a smart move for the awards perhaps making it the first most important (it is the most important)awards of the season, with SAG Awards(Jan 30th) and BAFTA'S (Feb 13th). The move can be seen as a major challenge to the Golden Globe Awards to increase that glamorous spot.

For the fans it maybe good news, but for film studios & voters it will put a ceiling on the time they have for voting as well as mean screeners will have to be posted earlier. In the era of several movies been rescheduled for copious reasons it could mean many of the 'major' releases who target the voting period to be released may have to think again releasing on a different date. Movies like Coen Brother's True Grit remake, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere both December release dates for USA may need to change this.

2011 Oscars are still currently been scheduled for 27 February and American Beauty Producer and TV Producer Don Mischer have been confirmed to produce the oscar ceremony.

Oscar Winning Documentary 'The Cove' Faces Serious Protests

The Cove, an Oscar-winning documentary dealing with the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, is creating serious fuss as it finally secures a release in Japan

Protests by fisherman from the town of Taji, Wakayama, Japan, the location of the annual dolphin cull, dissuaded Japanese distributors from releasing the film into cinemas. In an attempt to tackle the protesters , Unplugged Pictures, which took on the doc, agreed to pixel-out fishermen’s faces in the Japanese version, but the temper has only increased as the June 26th release date approaches. Street protests as well as  sabotage threats have insisted two theatres to cancel bookings of the film.

The rage has now intensified to right-wing activists, who say the film is unpatriotic. The Society to Seek the Restoration of Sovereignty stated that the work deliberately distorts Japanese people’s food culture, and depicting this will hurt countless people’s feelings.

Ric O’Barry,a former dolphin trainer on the TV show Flipper, whose crusade against the cull encouraged The Cove ,is reasonably disturbed. He stated that its not right that a minority of extremists could take this right away from them.Also doing so is an apparent threat to democracy.

Also,the protest has now encouraged a counter campaign by 50 film directors and journalists.Well..looks like the publicity is not likely to damage The Cove’s commercial prospects.

The Best Oscar Speeches for 2010

Just like the Oscar Awards, the Oscar speeches are the ones that everyone looks forward to while receiving the awards.Inspiring and true oscar speeches are the ones that actually move the audience while watching the academy awards.

Here are the some of the Best and Splendid Oscar Speeches made this year by the winners:

Screenwriter Mark Boal Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Picture for The Hurt Locker:
"We had this fantasy of making our film our way with the talent that we hoped to have, and hopefully, we would find a distributor and somebody might even like the movie.So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we ever imagined in our wildest dreams."

Sandra Bullock Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Actress for the Blind Side:

"Did I really earn this, or did I just wear ya'll down?What this film was about for me, which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from.I thank my Mother for not letting me ride in cars with boys until I was 18, because she was right I would have done what she said I was gonna do."

Jeff Bridges Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Actor for Crazy Heart:

"Thank you,Mom and Dad.They loved show biz so much and I feel an extension of them. You know, this, this is honoring them as much as it is me."

Pete Docter Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Animated Feature Film for Up:

"Boy, never did I dream that making a flip book out of my third grade math book would lead to this.Thanks so much to Disney and to Pixar Animation Studios for believing in this oddball film."

Kathryn Bigelow Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker:

"I would not be standing here if it wasn’t for Mark Boal, who risked his life for the words on the pageand wrote such a courageous screenplay that I was fortunate enough to have an extraordinary cast bring that screenplay to life. I’d just like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. And may they come home safe."

Elinor Burkett Receiving the Oscar Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Music by Prudence:
"In a world in which most of us are told and tell ourselves that we can’t.Liyana, the band behind this film, teaches us that we’re wrong. Against all odds they did, so we can."

Mo’Nique Receiving the Oscar Award Best Supporting Actress for Precious:

"First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics.Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it."

Juan José Campanella Receiving the Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos):
"I want to thank the Academy for not considering Na’vi [the language in Avatar] a foreign language, first of all.And for letting us spend three great days in the company of incredible filmmakers."

Christoph Waltz Receiving the Award for Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds:
"Oscar and Penélope that’s an uber bingo".

Mo’Nique Receiving the Award for Best Supporting Actress for Precious:

"First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics.Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it."

Best Documentary:The Cove

The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film that is written by Mark Monroe and directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos.It is based on the yearly killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji,Wakayama, in Japan from the point of view of anti-dolphin-hunting campaigner.

The film focuses the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is many times superior than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic.Also research has revealed that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan each year in the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by using spears as well as knives over the side of small fishing boats.Portions of the film were filmed clandestinely during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.

In addition to winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, the documentary also won the U.S. Audience Award at the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival in Jan 2009.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

The tag line for the movie 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire' is "Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is....Precious."

Many a movies come and go. But an infrequent few arrive like gifts, sent by some cosmic messenger to stir the senses, arouse compassion and send viewers into a world made radically new by refreshed attentiveness and empathy. Such is the movie 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire' which surely qualifies as the most aching, poetic and incredibly beautiful film of the year.

Mo’Nique’s performance in this movie has been much appreciated that she went on to receive the Best Actress in a Supporting Role.In this movie, Mo’Nique plays the mother to an overweight, uneducated, black 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe).The dysfunctional family lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

For her performance, she has won several awards including a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)Award. She is the sixteenth African American actress to be given a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,and the fourth to win.