#82nd Academy Awards

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Up (2009, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

19/05/2024

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RDJ’s Oscar snub in 2010

Folks, do you have any information on why Robert was not nominated at the 82nd Academy Awards? He won a Golden Globe for Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (one of the 2 categories for a leading role) for Sherlock Holmes (rating 7.6 on IMDB) and was completely ignored at the Oscars. How the heck did that happen?

By comparison, Ryan Gosling was nominated this year for Barbie, also a comedy, with a 6.9 rating on IMDB.  Are they telling us that this acting was superior to RDJ’s Sherlock?!?

No offense to Ryan, all actors who give good performances deserve awards, but this situation is not okay.

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Paul N. J. Ottosson

is a Swedish sound designer. The recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, he has worked on more than 130 films since 1995.

Wins：82nd Academy Awards, 2009

Best Sound Editing — The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Mixing — The Hurt Locker (shared with Ray Beckett)

85th Academy Awards, 2012

Best Sound Editing — Zero Dark Thirty

Nominations：77th Academy Awards, 2004

Best Sound Editing — Spider-Man 2

82nd Academy Awards, 2009

Best Sound Editing — The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Mixing — The Hurt Locker (shared with Ray Beckett)

85th Academy Awards, 2012

Best Sound Editing — Zero Dark Thirty

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Berlin Flashback: Golshifteh Farahani Debuted at the Fest in ‘About Elly’

The film’s director, Asghar Farhadi, would win the Silver Bear for directing, and the film would go on to become Iran’s official Oscar submission for best foreign-language film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

BY GREGG KILDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2023 | 4:15AM

Golshifteh Farahani visited Berlin in 2009 for 'About Elly,' which THR picked as an Oscar frontrunner. AXEL SCHMIDT/DDP/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani — who returns to the Berlinale this year to serve on the jury headed by Kristen Stewart — found herself in the middle of several controversies when she first visited the festival in 2009 as one of the stars of Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly.

At the time, there was some speculation over whether the film, which followed a group of middle-class Iranians on a vacation to the Caspian Sea, would be banned in Iran. Appearing before the press, Farahani called the speculation “a storm in a teacup,” while director Farhadi blamed the media for stoking the controversy, saying: “I think they really blew things up out of all proportion. I am quite confident the film will not have difficulties in Iran. In fact, it is being shown in Tehran tonight, after the premiere in Berlin.”

Farhadi, who went on to win the festival’s Silver Bear for directing, proved correct, and About Elly ultimately was chosen by Iran as its official submission for best foreign-language film at the 82nd Academy Awards. But Farahani did not fare as well. She also faced criticism from Iranian authorities for her role in Ridley Scott’s 2008 Middle East-set spy thriller Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, in which she appeared without a hijab. It became an open question whether she’d be allowed to return to her homeland. “I don’t have any problems in going back to Iran. I’ve never had such problems. It’s just propaganda,” the actress, then 25, insisted.

But that was not the case, and Farahani —  who went on to star in such films as Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 Paterson, the 2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and 2020’s Extraction — was forced to flee to Paris, which has been her home ever since. “For the first time in my life, I appreciated being a woman,” she told The Guardian in 2012. “Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of;­­ it washes away all of that and you are free.”

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General Roscoe Robinson Jr. (October 11, 1928 – July 22, 1993) was the first African American to become a four-star general in the Army. He served as the US representative to the NATO Military Committee. He served as commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division and Army, Japan.

Born and raised in St. Louis, he attended Stowe College for one semester. He studied at Saint Louis University for a year and transferred to the US Military Academy at West Point. He graduated with a BS in Military Engineering. He graduated from the advanced course at the US Army Infantry School. He graduated from the Command and General Staff College. He received his MA from the University of Pittsburgh in Public and International Affairs. He graduated from the National War College.

He served in the Korean War as a platoon leader and rifle company commander. He received the Bronze Star. He became an instructor in the Airborne Department of the Army Infantry School. He served as commander of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He received the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, 11 Air Medals, and two Silver Stars.

He served at the National War College as the executive officer to the Chief of Staff. He served on the headquarters staff of the US Pacific Command in Hawaii before becoming commander of the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg.

He was promoted to major general and assigned to command the 82nd Airborne Division. He was the first African American to command the 82nd Airborne Division. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, US Army Europe and Seventh Army. Promoted to lieutenant general, he served as the commanding general of the US Army, Japan, and IX Corps. He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

He completed 34 years of service in the military when he retired (1985). He was awarded with the Defense Distinguished Service Medal and a second Army Distinguished Service Medal.

West Point named the “General Roscoe Robinson Jr. Auditorium” in his honor. The Roscoe Robinson Health Clinic at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg is named in his honor. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Near Dark (1987)

In 2009 the war drama The Hurt Locker won six Oscars, including Best Picture, becoming the lowest-grossing movie to ever sweep the Academy Awards. What’s more astonishing is that in the Academy Awards’ 82nd year, Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow became the very first & only woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director. Five years later it’s still a feat that somehow has not been repeated.…

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82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California - March 7, 2010

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Happy 82nd Birthday to Academy Award Nominated and Golden Globe Nominated actor Ryan O’Neal! ^__^

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#ThrowbackTuesday #throwback #tbt Actress Stana Katic arrives on the red carpet at the 82nd annual Academy Awards, March 7, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (©️ Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images) #StanaKatic #drstanakatic (στην τοποθεσία Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpN1HLsjXHR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)

14/11/2023

Moonlight is a 2016 film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

The film was positively criticized and won numerous awards, including the Best Film Award from the National Society of Film Critics, the Golden Globe for Best Drama and three Oscars for Best supporting actor, for best non-original screenplay and for best film: it is the first LGBT-themed film to obtain this recognition (after Philadelphia), as well as the first with a cast entirely made up of African Americans, and the second for the highest grossing low (behind The Hurt Locker which won in 2010).

Chiron is an African-American child originally from Liberty City, called "Little" by everyone. He and his mother live together in a Miami neighborhood marked by drugs and violence.

As an adult Chiron becomes a drug dealer in a bad neighborhood of Atlanta and there he tries to live on his own, armed with his faithful revolver.

In 2003, Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote a semi-autobiographical play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, partly to deal with the death of his AIDS-stricken mother.

After the release of his first film, Medicine for Melancholy in 2008, Barry Jenkins wrote several screenplays, none of which went into production. He and producer Romanski began brainstorming sessions via video chat twice a month about his projects, and shortly thereafter Jenkins began work on the script for McCraney, which he learned about through Borscht's Miami arts collective. After consulting with McCraney, Jenkins wrote the first draft of the film during a month-long stay in Brussels.

Jenkins sought financing for the film throughout 2013, finding success after sharing the script with Plan B Entertainment executives at that year's Telluride Film Festival. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner became producers of the film, while A24 undertook to finance it and handle worldwide distribution, which also marked the company's first production.

The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and subsequently at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, and at the New York Film Festival in October.

The film was chosen as the opening film of the 2016 Rome Film Festival. Its first television appearance took place on 4 March 2018 on Sky Cinema with the title Moonlight - Tre storie di una vita.

On the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film receives 98% of positive professional reviews with an average rating of 9.00 out of 10 based on 384 critics, while on Metacritic it obtains a score of 99 out of 100 based on 53 criticism.

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82nd Annual Academy Awards-Show(2010) pics,,,

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because everyone’s dash needs Slow-Moana and Slow-M’Auli’i

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Lieutenant General Daniel James III (September 7, 1945 - August 1, 2017) became the first African American to be named Director of the Air National Guard. He was the son of Daniel James Jr., the first African American four-star general in the Air Force. In 2006 his notable 38-year career came to an end once he decided to retire.

He was born in Tuskegee to Daniel and Dorothy James. He had one sibling. He enlisted in the Air Force where he served as an active duty member. He entered the Air Force Academy where he remained for a year until enrolling at the University of Arizona. He earned his BA in Psychology and was a distinguished graduate of the university’s Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, through which he earned his commission as a Second lieutenant in the Air Force.

He received his pilot wings at Williams Air Force Base after completing his Undergraduate Pilot Training. He served as a forward air controller at the Cam Ranh Bay Air Base. He flew more than 500 combat hours during the Vietnam War. Upon return to the Williams Air Force Base, he became a squadron instructor pilot for the 82nd Student Squadron. He became a squadron flight training class commander. He worked at the Air Force Headquarters as an air operations staff officer. He served at the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base as a squadron assistant flight commander.

He flew over 300 combat missions in Southeast Asia and 4,000 hours. He left active duty and joined the Texas Air National Guard, where he became the operations group commander of the 149th Fighter Wing and Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard, where he remained until 2002. His last position before retirement was Director of the Air National Guard at the Pentagon, a position that put him in power of 88 flying units throughout the US, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

He received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Distinguished Service Medal; the Legion of Merit; and the Distinguished Flying Cross, which was presented to him by his father, in addition to multiple other recognitions.

He was survived by his wife, Dana, and son, Daniel. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California - March 7, 2010

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Happy 82nd Birthday to Academy Award Winning, BAFTA Winning, Emmy Winning, 3x Golden Globe Winning actress Faye Dunaway! ^__^