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86th AcademyAward Nominees
Best motionpictureof the year:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best animatedfeature filmof the year: The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises
Performanceby an actor ina leading role:
Christian Bale,American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio,
The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor,12 Years a Slave
MatthewMcConaughey,
Dallas Buyers Club
Performanceby an actor in asupporting role:
Barkhad Abdi,Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper,American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12Years a Slave
Jonah Hill,The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared LetoDallas Buyers Club
Performanceby an actress in
a leading role:
Amy Adams
American Hustle
Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock
Gravity
Judi Dench
Philomena
Meryl Streep
August: Osage County
Performance byan actress ina supporting role:
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence,
American Hustle
Lupita Nyongo, 12 Yearsa Slave
Julia Roberts,
August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Her Gravity Nebraska
By Gina [email protected]@ginaljoseph on Twitter
Oscar is warming up to Frozen.Having taken in the anima-
tion award at the British Acad-emy of Film and Television
Arts and nearly a billion dollarsat the global box office, Disney
Animation also could w in theAcademy Award for best ani-mated feature with its Frozentale inspired by Hans Christian
Andersens The Snow Queen.Still, surprises are a given
at the Academy Awards cer-emony, which this year airslive at 7 p.m. March 2 on ABC(WXYZ-TV).
I think its going to be a closerace, said Butch Hartman, cre-ator and executive producerof Nickelodeons popular car-toon series, The Fairly Odd-parents and T.U.F.F. Puppy,and a graduate of Anchor BayHigh School.
Also nominated for top hon-ors in the animation category -
which was created in 2001 - areThe Croods (20th CenturyFox), Despicable Me 2 (Uni-
versal), Ernest & Celestine(GKIDS) and a second WaltDisney film The Wind Rises.
Im really pulling for myfriends but Im also excited forthe others who are all multital-ented, said Hartman, duringa phone interview from his of-fices in Burbank, Calif. Thosefriends are Chris Sand-
ers, co-writer and director ofCroods, and Cinco Paul, co-
writer of Despicable Me 2.I went to school with Sand-
ers, Hartman said, of the pres-tigious California Institute ofthe Arts that they attendedalong with other renowned an-imators like Tim Burton. Hes(Sanders) one of the best artistsIve ever seen.
Sanders also directed Howto Train Your Dragon, andLilo & Stitch, both successfulfeatures which Hartman attri-
butes to Sanders ability to con-vey his visual style to his teamof artists and voice actors. Di-recting is all about getting emo-tion out of actors but animationdirectors have to get emotionout of a drawings. Hartmansaid.
So what might have started
out as drawings of funny pre-historic characters soon beamea moving story about theCroods family, who are forcedto embark on a journey of a life-time when the cave that has al-
ways shielded them from dan-ger is destroyed.
The Despicable Me 2 se-quel marks the return of theformerly villainous Gru (SteveCarell), who becomes a dot-ing father to his three adopteddaughters. The talents he onceemployed for evil are largely
wasted in his new role as a jam-and-jelly maker.
Then there are the storytell-ing talents of Hartmans friendCinco Paul, who teaches impro-
visation at the California highschool attended by Hartmansdaughter. Hes an amazinglytalented guy, Hartman said.
Hes great at telling jokes andhas a fantastic imagination. Hecreated all those yellow guys.He thought of that.
Hartman, who just finishedfilming the ninth season of his
beloved cartoon Farely Odd-parents and the third seasonof T.U.F.F., said its reallyhard to say who will win theOscar this year as all the nom-inated films feature great sto-ries.
Ernest and Celestine is aheartwarming story about anunlikely friendship. It starts
beneath a vill age inhabitedby bears where there exists asubterranean community ofmice who steal from their ur-sine neighbors and particularly
value their teeth. When Celes-tine, an orphaned mouse study-ing dentistry but dreaming of
art, meets a sensi-tive, talented bearnamed Ernest, theinterests they sharelead to a bond be-tween them thatchallenges the tradi-tional enmity betweentheir species.
Then theres Frozen.Its a very old story
about an ice queen thatsbeen updated, Hart-man said.
Sisters Elsa and Annaenjoy an idyllic life in theenchanted kingdom ruled
by their parents until El-sas magical ability to cre-ate ice and snow aroundher proves a threat tothose she loves. Emergingfor her own coronation af-ter several years ofself-imposed iso-lation, Elsa fleesher home in dis-tress when heruncontrollablepowers trans-form the king-dom into a fro-zen realm.
A stu-dio is al-
ways go-ing to buya movie first,
based on the story. Thats whythis race is going to be close.Theyre all very popular sto-ries.
Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street
Directingis all aboutgettingemotion outof actors butanimationdirectorshave to getemotion outof a drawings. Butch Hartman
By Gina [email protected]
@ginaljoseph on Twitter
The movie stars will shineon screen but its the fanswholl get celebrity treatmentat the Red Carpet Extrava-ganza at MJR Southgate Dig-ital Cinema 20 on Oscar night,March 2.
For the past 15 years, MJRhas hosted a live ABC broad-
cast of the Academy Awardsceremony. The gala eventbenefits local chari ties includ-ing the Southgate Commu-nity Players, the Overture So-ciety, Ballet Americana andthe Downriver Council for theArts. Movie fans get star treat-ment by getting to watch theceremony on a brilliant and
very large screen and enjoya selection of food that wouldeven get awards from Oscarchef Wolfgang Puck.
This is one of our biggestfundraisers, said Chris Rollet,who sits on the board of direc-tors for the Southgate Com-munity Players and helps outannually with the event. Thisyear we have 2 0 rest aurantsparticipating.
That means folks will bedining on everything from
chicken wings and pizza tocaramelized French toast anda chocolate fountain. Last yearguests enjoyed mashed pota-toes - served in champagneglasses and dusted with suchtoppings as bacon and cheese,selected from the mashed po-tato bar.
The party is always a sell-
out and lots of fun, said Rol-let. What would a red carpetevent be like without costumesof some kind? There have beenall kinds.
We had a couple Lincolnsand someone from the Brides-maids and Silver LiningsPlaybook said Rollett, whos acontest judge this year. Prizesinclude MJR gift cards: $100for first place; $50 for secondand $25 for third. This yearsparty is likely to see a few
wolves f rom Wall Street andperhaps an American hustler.
We enjoyed starting thisparty 15 years ago with theNews Herald and every yearit has grown better and bet-ter, said Michael Mihalich,president and founder of MJRDigital Cinemas. It is the nextbest thing to being there.
Tickets for the Red Car-pet Extravaganza at MJRSouthgate Digital Cinema20 are $25 in advanceand $30 at the door. Tocharge by phone, call734-282-4727 andonline at scpon-stage.com.
Movie fans are celebrities at MJRs Oscar party Oscar TriviaCourtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesand MJR Digital Cinemas:
Frozen
The Croods
Pop
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Audiences purchased8,553,600ounces of poppedpopcorn
Candy Plain M&Ms (16,322bags) out-sold peanut M&Ms (9,962bags),while Sour Patch Kids outsold bothat 28,018 packages
The first color filmto win best picture?
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The only brothers nominatedfor acting Oscars?
River Phoenix (1988) Joaquin Phoenix (2000, 2005,2012)
The only sequels to winbest picture?
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Most Oscar nominationsfor any living person?
John Williams gothis 49th nod for bestoriginal score forThe Book Thief (2014)
M a c o m b d a i l y . c o m / D a i l y t r i b u n e . c o m / T h e O a k l a n d p r e s s . c o m
2014 Oscar PreviewBest motion picture nominees
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony,hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, airs 7 p.m. March 2 on ABC
86th AcademyAward Nominees
Achievementin directing:
American Hustle,
David O. Russell
Gravity,Alfonso Cuarn
Nebraska,Alexander Payne
12 Years a Slave, SteveMcQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street,Martin Scorsese
Achievementin music writtenfor motion pictures(Original song):
Alone Yet Not Alone, AloneYet Not Alone, Bruce Broughton
and Dennis Spiegel
Happy, Despicable Me 2,Pharrell Williams
Let It Go, Frozen,Kristen Anderson-Lopez
and Robert Lopez
The Moon Song, Her,Karen O and Spike Jonze
Ordinary Love, Mandela: LongWalk to Freedom, Paul Hewson,
Dave Evans, Adam Clayton
and Larry Mullen
Adapted
screenplay:Before Midnight, RichardLinklater, Julie Delpy,
Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Cooganand Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave,
John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street,Terence Winter
Originalscreenplay:
American Hustle,Eric Warren Singerand David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, CraigBorten & Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
Bestdocumentaryfeature:
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom
Best foreign
language film
of the year:
The Broken Circle
Breakdown,Belgium
The Great Beauty,Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine
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