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The Oscars lose Eddie Murphy as host!

Amy Wickenheiser — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:37:04 +0000

Since producer Brett Ratner has been let go following a vulgar interview consisting of anti-gay slur, Eddie Murphy has decided to step down as host of this year’s Oscars.

Murphy commented, “First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party’s decision with regard to a change of producers for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I’m sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President, Tom Sherak, stated, “I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well.”

Murphy and Ratner have previously worked together on Tower Heist.

Source: Deadline

83rd Academy Award Winners

Marcella Papandrea — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:48:08 +0000

The biggest awards of the season were just held and the winners were announced, without further waiting here are your Oscar winners for the films of 2010.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: The King’s Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Colin Firth for The King’s Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Natalie Portman for Black Swan

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Toy Story 3- Randy Newman (“We Belong Together”)

Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Social Network – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: Inception – Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Pete Bebb, Paul J. Franklin

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Inside Job – Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs

Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: God of Love – Luke Matheny

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Strangers No More – Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood

Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Wolfman – Rick Baker, Dave Elsey

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: Inception – Richard King

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Winner: Inception – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: The Social Network – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Christian Bale for The Fighter

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: In a Better World – Susanne Bier (Denmark)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: The King’s Speech – David Seidler

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Melissa Leo for The Fighter

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Inception – Wally Pfister

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Source: IMBD

New Oscar posters for the 83rd Academy Awards

Jon Peters — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:58:30 +0000

The 83rd Academy Awards will air February 27th, 2011, and for the live event airing on ABC, here’s a few new posters:

Little Black Swan-ish, huh? Hmm…

Source: DVDTown

Rumor: Oscars might move to Monday in 2013

Jon Peters — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:33:18 +0000

With the current debate amongst the NFL and the players on expanding the season from 16 games to 18, and if that does happen, in 2013 look for Hollywood’s biggest night to be on a Monday night, to avoid the type of TV market share late season/playoff NFL games bring. For the time being, it’s all just speculation.

Source: THR

A January date for the Oscars?

Jon Peters — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0000

At the Board of Governors meeting of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, committee members discussed moving the 2011 Academy Awards to a January date, instead of the usual late February slot. Why? The move would place the Oscars in front of other key award shows like the SAG and BAFTA. The move might even place the award show ahead of the Golden Globes, which will in turn, drastically reduce the amount of time for awards campaigning and would also effect how the studios time the release of their award-caliber films.

Source: Deadline

Oscars to expand visual effects category?

Melissa Molina — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:15:04 +0000

Could this be a growing trend for the Academy Awards by selecting one random category and expanding the number of nominees that can be in it? That’s the impression you could get as the category for Best Visual Effects might expand from three to five. Mind you, this is not set in stone at the moment but is something that’s heavily being considered by the Academy. Read on down below to find out why this is suddenly being considered (via Variety).:

Move would help the Oscars’ efforts to bring popular pics into the show, as the tentpoles that dominate the box office charts, like this year’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Iron Man 2,” typically are vfx-heavy.

Those favoring the change note that even though the vfx teams on a major tentpole can outnumber the cast and crew on the set, there is only one vfx category. At the same time, there are two sound categories, two screenplay categories and four for acting, so the number of names up for vfx honors isn’t out of line with other disciplines.

With so many features dripping with visual effects, do you believe that it would be a good or a bad decision to go and put in more slots for this category?

The Oscars make their way back to February

Melissa Molina — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:16:47 +0000

Those of you who were complaining about the Academy Awards arriving a little too late on the first half of the year don’t have any reason to anymore. Award organizers announced that it will be making its way back to the typical February slot. That means there will not be as wide of a gap between the voting processes like there was with the previous March scheduled date.

Nominations are expected to be announced for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on January 25th, 2011. The actual awards ceremony will now take place on Sunday, February 27th (THR).

82nd Academy Award Winners

Melissa Molina — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:55:43 +0000

The Katheryn Bigelow directed war drama The Hurt Locker ran away with the most Oscar gold this evening, including not only the coveted Best Picture category but giving Bigelow her first directorial win. This serves as quite the milestone in Oscar history as Bigelow goes down in history as the first female to ever nab herself the Academy Award for Best Director.

One of the more surprising outcomes of the night goes to James Cameron’s Avatar which got less than what was predicted by a many of us, and surprisingly getting the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Up definitely got it’s recognition, despite losing the Best Picture category, and Crazy Heart got an Oscar more of love than previously anticipated by some.

Enough of the jibber-jabber, here’s the list of all of the winners for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards below. Air out your thoughts and let us know what you think of the winners, whether or not you agree with each one as well.:

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) – Producers Mark Boal, Katheryn Bigelow, Nicolas Chartier & Greg Sharpio

Best Director

Katheryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress

Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

Best Foreign Language Film

El secreto de sus ojos (Argentina)

Best Cinematography

Mauro Fiore – Avatar (Twentieth Century Fox)

Best Animated Feature

Up - Directed by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios)

Best Original Score

Michael Giacchino – Up (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios)

Best Original Song

“The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham – Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)

Best Art Direction

Avatar (Twentieth Century Fox)

Best Costume Design

Sandy Powell – The Young Victoria (Apparition)

Best Makeup

Star Trek (Paramount Pictures)

Best Sound Editing

The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Best Sound Mixing

The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Best Editing

The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Best Visual Effects

Avatar (Twentieth Century Fox)

Donny & Jon talk Oscars!

Donny Broussard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:26:23 +0000

Donny:

Every year, we as movie fans are treated to a plethora of films that are guaranteed to work better than a bottle of Ambien. Yep, I’m talking about the Oscars.

Every once in a while, the Academy gets it right, but for the most part, they pick flat tearjerkers. Basically, if you’re a filmmaker interested in getting into the Oscar race, all you have to do is pick a subject that is sad, painful or boring. In a world where a film like The Dark Knight doesn’t get thrown into the running because it’s a superhero movie, I’m not sure increasing the number of nominees is going to change a thing.

When it comes to the Best Picture category, I’m never satisfied. This year, because of the added number of nominees, there are some flicks that I’m rooting for. But, sadly, I’m not sure they have a chance.

If you closely look at Oscar history, it’s littered with films centered on characters that have dysfunctional families, are terminally ill, mentally ill, at war, live in a year that has long since passed, have had multiple biographies written about them, were pulled from a script adapted from a novel or perhaps even a character that endured terrible hardships as a child only to spend a good part of his adult life searching for his long-lost love. Basically, Precious (based on the novel Pushby Sapphire) is the perfect Oscar nominee, but what do I know? I’m just a movie fan.

If it were up to me, I’d give the best picture Oscar to Inglourious Basterds or Up in the Air. EvenDistrict 9 would be a refreshing change of pace from the boring cinematic sleepers that usually win.

I’m excited that Jeff Bridges was nominated, and George Clooney was pretty stellar this year too, but how many times do we need to see Meryl Streep up there on the Oscar stage?

The director category is going to be interesting as well. I’d love to see Quentin Tarantino or Jason Reitman walk away with the Oscar.

Jon:

One of the things that was exciting about this year’s Oscars on paper was the expanding on the Best Picture category from five films to 10. What films would now be included that in year’s past would not have had a shot was pretty exciting to me, especially since I saw so many good films that were deserving. Then the nominations came out, making reality a deep fear I had, which was that really mediocre films would get championed.

The Blind Side has to be one of the worst Best Picture nominees in a long time, and while I liked the film, it’s quite an average production. Great story, yes, but pretty much standard studio fare.District 9 is an interesting choice, too. Science-fiction films rarely get such honors like this film has, but the Academy short-sighted itself with that pick over two universally better sci-fi films: Moon andStar Trek. I have been the minority on District 9. I felt it was confused with its handling of the documentary aspects and action film aspects, but those films I’ve mentioned have a more pleasing quality and are more emotionally involved.

But what’s new? In the history of the Academy Awards, the Academy has had a long and storied history of choosing odd titles, let alone picking winners that in time were actually that year’s weaker choice. Ordinary People over Raging Bull, anyone? In time, no one will remember Slumdog Millionaire. 2008 will be remembered as the year of The Dark Knight, a film not nominated for Best Picture.

The dual nomination for Pixar’s Up is confusing. Why Best Picture and Best Animated nominations? One or the other, please. I actually preferred Princess and the Frog, Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox over Up, a film I really cherish. I would be really happy to have had The Messenger, Goodbye Solo and (500) Days of Summer replace Up, The Blind Side and District 9 for Best Picture. My winner? Up in the Air.

Outside of my quibbles with that category, I’m really excited to see the battle royale in the Best Director category. James Cameron, Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Jason Reitman and Lee Daniels are all deserving of their nominations. I look forward to seeing that play out. But the overall nominations look pretty strict to a few select films, showing that 2009 wasn’t the best of years. As a fan of film, I’ll be watching.

The Times nice enough to publish our thoughts in there magazine, you can reread them here.

Haneke takes on the internet

Melissa Molina — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:41:50 +0000

Funny Games director Michael Haneke is switching around what he wants to handle next. He previously was attached to helm a picture about humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged, but Screen Daily reports that the director pulled out of the project. This apparently is due to the fact that once the director saw a Canadian film revolving around a similiar topic, he decided to completely ditch it.

Now talk is swirling about that The White Ribbon director is taking on a different film altogether that revolves around the internet, said to be shot in different locations around the world. The feature is to be handled under Les Films Du Losange with a script that should be completed later on during this year. The White Ribbon got it’s expected recognition from the Academy this year for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The two categories the film was nominated for was not only Best Foreign Language Film but also Best Cinematography.

And the nominees are…

Melissa Molina — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:53:18 +0000

For most movie buffs everywhere, this is one of the things we look forward to as we pull ourselves slowly out of the winter months. The Academy Awards, love it or hate it, is part of the Hollywood DNA that a lot of people are still highly attracted to for whatever reason it may be. Despite the bad wrap that a lot of disgruntled fans have given it, we still eat it up each year from the announcement of the nominees to the final envelope being opened for that year’s Best Picture.

This year’s 82nd Annual Academy Awards is finally just around the corner. The nominees will be presented by the lovely Anne Hathaway and the president of the Academy Tom Sherak. Be sure to keep your eyes out on ABC at 5:30 A.M. PST and on this particular article here for up-to-date coverage on the nominees. Feel free to leave feedback, predictions of who will win, and even what you think of the Oscars.

UPDATES:

Best Supporting Actress

Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Penelope Cruz – Nine

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Director

James Cameron – Avatar
Katheryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger - Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man – Joel & Ethan Coen
Up - Bob Peterson & Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay

District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
An Education – Nick Hornby
In The Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci
Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de sus Ojos (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Animated Film

Coraline
The Princess and the Frog
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Art Direction

Avatar - Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
Nine - Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes - Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Young Victoria – Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Best Cinematography

Avatar – Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon - Christian Berger

Best Costume Design

Bright Star - Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Monique Prudhomme
Nine - Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell

Best Documentary (Feature)

Burma VJ - Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
The Cove - Nominees to be determined
Food Inc. - Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home- Rebecca Cammisa

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant – Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Rabbit à la Berlin - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Best Film Editing

Avatar - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9 - Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
Precious - Joe Klotz

Best Makeup

Il Divo - Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria - Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Best Music (Original Score)

Avatar - James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
Up - Michael Giacchino

Best Music (Original Song)

“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
“Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best Short Film (Animated)

French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) - Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama - Nicolas Schmerkin
A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park

Best Short Film (Live Action)

The Door - Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra - Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Kavi - Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish - Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Best Sound Editing

Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson
Inglourious Basterds - Wylie Stateman
Star Trek - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Best Sound Mixing

Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Inglourious Basterds - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Best Visual Effects

Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

ABC already reveal some of the Oscar nominees?

Melissa Molina — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:25:10 +0000

So the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be really going into full force at 5:30 AM PST on Tuesday, February 2nd as the nominees for the show are announced. However, ABC might have completely screwed things up with the sharp eye of a writer on Vulture who figured out that some of the possible nominees could already have been revealed.

Yes, this works too at the moment. If you go on the ABC News website, you go straight to their search engine and type in “Oscar”. From there a few results will emerge, a couple of those being actual Oscar nominated films/people that we should be finding out about in a few hours rather than now. Among those are supposedly Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, Disney’s re-emergence of 2D with The Princess and the Frog and Mo’Nique for her role in Precious.

If this is actually true, then this feels like a case of a little kid who peeked at his presents a few hours before Christmas morning. We already know a little bit of what to expect, but it won’t be as exhilarating hearing about who is nominated because it won’t be the first time we have.

You want to get up early along with myself? I’ll be up plugging away at the Oscar nominees in an article that will emerge within the next couple of hours, so keep your eyes out and come back over here in the morning to find out whether or not this was correct and who else will be part of the nominee list.

Shortlist appears for Foreign Films

Melissa Molina — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:28:45 +0000

With the February 2nd announcement of the final slate of nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards, the shortlists start popping up one after another. This time it’s the Best Foreign Language Film category, cropping up with nine that just made it into the next round of the decision making process. Check out the list below from Coming Soon.:

El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) - Dir. by Juan Jose Campanella
Samson & Delilah (Australia) – Dir. by Warwick Thornton
The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner (Bulgaria) – Dir. by Stephan Komandarev
Un Prophète (France) – Dir. by Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon (Germany) – Dir. by Michael Haneke
Ajami (Israel) – Dir. by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
Kelin (Kazakhstan) – Dir. by Ermek Tursunov
Winter in Wartime (The Netherlands) – Dir. by Martin Koolhoven
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) – Dir. by Claudia Llosa

The announcement of the final list of nominees, once again, is on February 2nd at 8:30 EST with the actual awards taking place at the Kodak Theater on March 7th.

Bringing out the Visual Effects Shortlist

Melissa Molina — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:08:11 +0000

The final announcement of nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards is slowly but surely creeping in, which means that more shortlists will be appearing just like today. This time though it appeals to the Best Visual Effects category, the more technologically appealing sector within the Academy that tends to cater more towards mainstream films that you normally would not see or wish you could see among other nominees in other categories.

There are quite a few films that did not make the cut, some of them include Watchmen, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Coraline, Where the Wild Things Are and Disney’s A Christmas Carol. The Academy Awards takes place on March 7th at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Here’s the list from Reuters.:

Best Visual Effects Shortlist

Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2012

The Shortlist for the VFX Oscar

Melissa Molina — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:21:44 +0000

Slowly but surely were starting to wind down over to the bigger lists of the Academy Awards, and one of them that always seems to be the most interesting is what gets nominated for Best Visual Effects. Variety along with the Motion Picture Academy reports the fifteen films in the running to possibly get a grab at a nomination. Here’s the list below:

Angels & Demons
Avatar
Coraline
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
District 9
G-Force
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek
Terminator: Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2012
Watchmen
Where the Wild Things Are

Of the films that were close to making the fifteen were The Lovely Bones, Night At the Museum and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Now that the list is winding down to the finalists, which ones do you think should made it and which ones do you think should not be in there at all? The Oscars will be held on March 7th, 2010 and will be hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.