82nd Academy Awards Make History For Women

Kathryn Bigelow, Sandra Bullock, and Mo'Nique lead the historical night for women at the 82nd Academy Awards.


Kathryn Bigelow, director of "The Hurt Locker," becomes the first woman to win "Best Director" since the establishment of the Academy Awards, the most prestigious award giving body in the entertainment industry, 82 years ago.

"The Hurt Locker" has won over "Avatar" as the Iraq war drama rules the ceremony with 6 awards while merely 3 awards have been granted to the sci-fi movie. "The Hurt Locker" wins the most coveted award of the night, "Best Picture," plus five other recognitions namely "Best Directing," "Best Film Editing," "Best Sound Mixing," "Best Sound Editing," and "Best Writing (Original Screenplay)."

"This really is, there's no other way to describe it, the moment of a lifetime. I'd like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives in a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. May they come home safe," says the triumphant Kathryn Bigelow who is only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director by Academy voters.

Because Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife, their face-off at the awarding ceremony is also fondly dubbed as the "Battle of the Exes."

Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock receives her first Oscar's "Best Actress" trophy just a day after winning the Razzie's "Worst Actress" award. She is the first actor to receive both antonymous awards in a year.

"Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?" the 39-year-old actress asked in good humor. Her Oscar winning is for the movie "The Blind Side" where she played Leigh Anne Tuohy, a real-life woman who took in the homeless black teenager Michael Oher and led him towards a great American football career. Sandra Bullock's "Worst Actress" award is for her performance in the box office flop "All About Steve."

Down-to-earth and cool, Sandra Bullock has surprised everyone when she personally received the "Worst Actress" trophy at the 30th Razzie Awards on Saturday. Her speech at the Oscars the following day has included plan of displaying her plastic gold spray painted raspberry Razzie award next to her golden Oscar statuette.

"They're going to sit side by side, as they should. You take the good with the not so good. It probably means more that both of them happened at the same time because it's the great equalizer. You know, nothing ever let's me get too full of myself."

"Best Supporting Actress" Mo'Nique has also marked a triumphant night for the female African-American actors. She is only the fifth black actress in the history of Academy Awards to win an Oscar after Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry and Jennifer Hudson.

Mo'Nique's acceptance speech has also paid tribute to Hattie McDaniel for the being the first black woman who triumphed in the most prestigious awarding ceremony:

"I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. The reason why I have on this royal blue dress is because it's the color that Hattie McDaniel wore in 1940 when she accepted her Oscar. So, for you, Miss Hattie McDaniel, I feel you all over me, and it's about time that the world feels you all over them."

Academy Awards 2010 Complete List of Winners:

BEST PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker"
BEST DIRECTING: Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Sandra Bullock "The Blind Side"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)" Argentina
BEST FILM EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE): "The Cove" Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: "Avatar" Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE): "Up" Michael Giacchino
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Avatar" Mauro Fiore
BEST SOUND MIXING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
BEST SOUND EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "The Young Victoria" Sandy Powell
BEST ART DIRECTION: "Avatar": Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
BEST MAKEUP: "Star Trek" Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): "The New Tenants" Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT): "Music by Prudence" Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): "Logorama" Nicolas Schmerkin
BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): "The Hurt Locker" Mark Boal
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG): "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: "Up" Pete Docter
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:

Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware system.

Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the iMoCap on-set performance capture system.

Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.

Björn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS:

Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.

Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures.

Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.

Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.

Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and Dr. James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.

Supermodel Interrupted: Naomi Campbell Assaults Driver

Naomi Campbell has been the subject of a "model hunt" after assaulting her driver. The supermodel has slapped his driver "like Benny Hill" while on their way to a Queens movie set last Tuesday.


According to reports, Naomi Campbell was seated at the back of the black Cadillac Escalade when she was suddenly enraged and started punching her 27-year-old chauffeur, Miodrag Mejdina. When the driver pulled over to call 911, the supermodel hurriedly jumped out of the car and fled on foot. The call has sparked a short-lived model hunt.

It was said that the model got angry because his driver refused to tell if her boyfriend was cheating on her. Her boyfriend, the Russian billionaire Vladimir Doronin, has hired the driver's service a year ago. Naomi Campbell suspected that the driver has been covering up her boyfriend's discretion.

At the end of the day, no charges was filed against the supermodel. The driver suddenly withdraw his complaint and the model hunt for the short-fused Naomi Campbell has been stopped. The once helpless chauffeur who called 911 to deliver him from the rage of his lady boss has suddenly taken all the blame for himself and issued an apology:

"I got angry and overreacted. It was a misunderstanding and I regret involving the police. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and I apologize to Ms. Campbell for causing that to happen."

After the apology, Naomi Campbell (who has not been seen since the assault), then issued a statement:

"I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past. I am pleased the driver has apologized. I would like to put the last few days behind me and move on."

As we all know, Naomi Campbell has two previous convictions of this kind. She has been sent to jail in 2008 for spitting on an officer at Heathrow Airport's Terminal. In 2007, she has also been sentenced in a New York Court to a week's community service for hurling her maid with a crystal-studded BlackBerry.

Asked if Miodrag Mejdina was paid off to drop the case against the supermodel, the driver's lawyer replied, "The statement speaks for itself. We have no further comment."

Naomi Campbell is right. She should not be held hostage to her past – she always get away with it.

Jessica Simpson Visits Anorexic Model Isabelle Caro

During her recent guesting on Oprah, Jessica Simpson shares a video clip of her visit to Paris to meet Isabelle Caro, a former model who suffered a severe case of anorexia.

Isabelle Caro has made headlines when she posed nude at 62 pounds for an anti-anorexia billboard.


Along with her friends Ken Paves and CaCee Cobb, Jessica Simpson listens to Isabelle Caro as she tells her story in French. Then the interpreter shares:

"There was the fashion designer who told her you need to lose ten kilos if you want to be in the fashion world. She really decided to stop eating and to lose weight. So that's how she ended up being an anorexic. Three years ago she was in a coma. The doctor said that there was no hope left, but she survived. And after that, she decided that she had to start eating, little by little... And now Isabelle is trying to pass a law in Parliament which says that you can't model when you're too skinny."

Brought to tears by her story, Jessica Simpson tells the brave Isabelle Caro, "To us, what you're doing right now makes you one of the most beautiful people that we have ever seen."

After watching the clip, a teary-eyed Jessica Simpson tells Oprah Winfrey:

"It makes me very emotional because just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful - the pressure that the media puts on women - is so unfair and so disgusting."

Costar Rubs Shoulders With Sandra Bullock, His Long-Time Crush

An unknown actor named Aaron Quinton gets the chance to costar in The Blind Side. Aside from major exposure, his casting in the family and football drama is also an opportunity to act with Sandra Bullock, the Oscar-nominee whom he had a crush for a long time.


Attending the recent NAACP Image Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Aaron Quinton tells PEOPLE about his acting experience with Sandra Bullock. The costar is apparently overwhelmed with joy as he gushes:

"I've been a fan of hers for years – I was in love with her for years!

"She's just awesome. She's the most caring, loving individual that I know. She's one of the most beautiful women inside and out that anybody can have the pleasure of knowing, meeting and working with, and I felt so honored to be in that position."

Aaron Quinton is 25 years old and 6'8". In The Blind Side, he plays the young real-life Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher.

Since costarring in the movie, fans of the film recognizes him even in his everyday life. The usual topic of conversation is, of course, Sandra Bullock.

"When people see me they're like, 'Oh my god, It's you, from The Blind Side! I love you, we loved your movie – Oh my god, how was it working with Sandra?' That's what I get the most. And I'm like, 'Sandra? Don't even get me started...' " Aaron Quinton says laughing, rolling his eyes and pretending he's had his fill of Sandra Bullock. "No, it's truly been a blessing."

Seriously. How is it like working with Sandra Bullock?

"She stays professional as well as not letting it get to her head. She's real serious and humble about what she does, but she's also a humble individual. She's not up in the clouds, unreachable, you can't talk to her, you can't approach her. Anybody can speak to her and she'll speak to them. She'll love and care for anybody and respect anybody, and I love her for that. She's just real."

For a starting actor like Aaron Quinton, the Best Actress contender for the coming Golden Globe Awards serves as a lovely inspiration.

Though he admits to having a big crush on his costar, he also knows his limit. Upon learning that the Hollywood A-list actress has been married with motorcycle builder Jesse James since 2005, he could only see Sandra Bullock as a shining star whom he is lucky to work with and befriend.

"So I found out she was married and I was like, 'Okay, I'll settle for friendship.' "


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Victoria's Secret Models Walk At Prada's High-Fashion Runway

Voluptuous lingerie supermodels of Victoria's Secret prove to us that boobs are not just their best assets as they project to make a smooth transition into high-fashion.

Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Doutzen Kroes – three gorgeous women who have been excluded from the runways because they are "too big" – walk in the Prada Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear fashion show at the Women's Fashion Week in Milan on Thursday.


Miuccia Prada has one thing in mind when these type of models were cast:

"It's normal clothes – the silhouette of the 90s, but using many different kinds of models who are much more womanly."

So there it goes. Despite the "uber sexiness" of these Victoria's Secret Angels, they still reflect the kind of bodies closer to regular women, that is, with breasts and bottoms.

Following the trend of replacing androgynous and emaciated models with fuller ones, Prada also tries to redefine "sexy" with a mixed collection of clothes that include winter coats, Mad Men style A-line dresses, lady-like skirt suits, and even odd-looking dress with lots of black and white frills around the chest.

"Our vision of what is sexy in women is getting narrower. It is all about bows and frills and clichés now. Women can't seem to give these clichés up. It's just my take on what's happening today. That's all," says the influential designer.

Meanwhile, Doutzen Kroes says she was happy to walk in the show and see "a change in more healthy looking women on the runway." The voluptuous model has previously told reporters that she rarely does runway shows she might have done so when she was "11 or 12" because she doesn't fit the current runway sample size.

Sport's Illustrated Model Brooklyn Decker Tries Acting For Major Film

Sports Illustrated covergirl Brooklyn Decker tries her hand at a high-profile acting gig. She will act alongside Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, and Nicole Kidman in the upcoming romantic comedy Just Go With It.


Originally entitled The Pretend Wife, the movie features the 22-year-old model as the love interest of Adam Sandler. To win her heart, Adam Sandler hires Jennifer Aniston as the fake wife he is about to divorce and her children as his fake family.

Scheduled for filming beginning this month and for release on Valentine's Day 2011, Brooklyn Decker is very excited with her feature film debut. She has tweeted about her acting project when she arrived in Los Angeles for shooting:

"That's why I'm in L.A. now and so excited to get started! The cast has been AMAZING and welcoming. I can't stop gushing about everyone involved!"

Brooklyn Decker has previously guest-starred on Ugly Betty, Royal Pains, and Chuck. Aside from her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, she has also modeled for Victoria's Secret, The Gap, Intimissimi, Cosmopolitan, FHM, Glamour, and Teen Vogue. She is married to tennis champ Andy Roddick.


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