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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Oscar’s best pictures — from ‘Wings’ to ‘The Departed’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This compilation video steps through every single Academy Award-winning best picture from “Wings” to “The Departed.”
It proves that Oscar sometimes selects great movies. And at other times, not so great ones.
Enjoy!
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Oscar now free to haul out its red carpet
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With the Writers Guild strike officially over, Hollywood will now be able to do what it does best — celebrate itself.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss plans for its Feb. 24 Oscar telecast on ABC.
Stars are now free to walk a red carpet, free to come forth and present awards to each other, free to close down blocks of streets in Hollywood for the last weekend in February.
Gwinnett County’s Jamia Simone Nash, 11, a co-star in “August Rush” is expected to leave Atlanta on Monday for Hollywood. She only returned home in the last couple of days from the Grammy Awards. But on Feb. 24, she’ll be singing the Oscar-nominated song “Raise It Up” from “August Rush” on the Oscar telecast. Variety says Oscar voters will be “floored by the song’s chilling gospel arrangement” and by Nash’s “soulful vocals.”
Are you looking forward to the Oscar show and its traditional red carpet? Who do you want to see looking their best? George Clooney? Julie Christie? Jamia Nash?
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