All eyes are on Hollywood when E! goes LIVE from the 2011 Academy Awards with over seven hours of Red Carpet coverage from the industry’s most prestigious night of the year. In a year full of remarkable movies and outstanding performances, this year’s Oscars will make history when ten nominated films go for the gold, honoring the movies that millions of moviegoers flocked to see in the theaters to make 2010 one of the highest grossing years in film. Now on the eve of the Oscars, entertainment enthusiasts from around the globe prepare to tune in to E! for more than seven hours of LIVE red carpet coverage surrounding the awards. Hosts Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic, along with E!’s team of award show correspondents and 18 dedicated cameras, including one in the Goodyear Blimp, will be positioned all along the red carpet to give the world an extensive insider’s look at this year’s Oscars. From all the pre-show preparations, to the glamorous celebrity arrivals and exclusive after-parties, every star-studded moment will be featured in E!’s unparalleled coverage of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards starting Sunday, February 27 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET.
“Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2011 Academy Awards” — 11:00am to 3:00pm PT / 2:00pm to 6:00pm ET (live to both coasts)
“Live From the Red Carpet: The 2011 Academy Awards” — 3:00 to 5:00pm PT / 6:00 to 8:00pm ET (live to both coasts)
“E! After Party: The 2011 Academy Awards” — 9:00 to 10:30pm PT / 12:00 to 1:30am ET (live to both coasts)
“Fashion Police: The 2011 Academy Awards” — Premieres Monday, March 8 at 10:00pm PT/ET.
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Hollywood’s most prestigious party now has its list of honored guests. The most popular categories follow the jump. Critics/expert’s choices for most likely to win the category are starred.
It’s midnight so I’ll make my comments quick. I really wasn’t planning on watching the Oscars, but two hours into the broadcast I decided to check it out on my Tivo. The opening number with Neil Patrick Harris was a great start, loved the opening bit with Steve and Alec, very funny stuff. I was surprised that UP won Best Animated Picture, I didn’t see that one at all. The first 15 minutes of that movie was the best thing I saw all year, the problem was the rest of the movie didn’t live up to it. But I’m happy to see it win.
I loved, loved, LOVED the John Hughes Tribute. It was sad, uplifting and classy, just like the man himself.
What was the deal with Monique’s attitude? You just won an Oscar, no one cares that you didn’t like the “Politics!” Be grateful take your award and shut up!
Sandra Bullock looked awful and like she had a bad face lift and nose job, but her winning wasn’t shocking. A few weeks ago I said her nomination was because she broke the glass ceiling for women making money at the box office, so her winning the Oscar in this weak Actress year, makes sense.
Hurt Locker winning Best Picture stunned me and made me happy. Inglourious Basterds winning would have made me giddy. I thought for sure the fix was in for Avatar.
As I said in the beginning, the Animation category was the best category of the night and it was great that Up won.
90 Percent of the presenters were boring and about as bland as you could get. The one stand out moment was Robert Downey, Jr I loved his line gnomes and beautiful people – the problem is he is funny every time he’s at an event like this so it’s starting to seem a bit, I don’t know…. Ben Stiller, just no…
I liked that Star Trek got at least one award
They spread the awards around this year, seemed like almost every major film got something
The nominated music category this year was horrible, I’m glad they didn’t have musical performances this year. What was up with that odd Dancing thing towards the end it seemed so out of place.
Bring back Steve and Alec they were great together and all of their jokes worked well. Loved the don’t mess with Clooney bits.
I would give this show a solid B. It was good, fast paced – especially if you skip over all the fluff.
FROM VERA FARMIGA, Academy Award nominee for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
“I am deeply honored and humbled by this recognition and truly grateful to the Academy for their support of Up In The Air. I feel my nomination is due, in large part, to the phenomenal work of George, Anna and Jason on this film and it is especially moving to receive my first nomination in their company.”
“I’d like to thank the Academy for this extraordinary honor. Congratulations to Matt Damon on his nomination. I’m especially grateful to Clint Eastwood, Invictus producer, Lori McCreary, and the entire cast and crew of ‘Invictus.’ Most importantly, thank you to Nelson Mandela for his encouragement, his blessing and his friendship – without which, this film would not have been possible.” Did I ever mention the time that my car got wrecked at The Four Seasons while I was interviewing Morgan?
I’ll be on News Channel 8′s Let’s Talk Live show with award winning journalists Natasha Barrett and Doug McKelway. We’ll be discussing tomorrow’s Oscar Nominations. I’ll admit I haven’t followed this year’s race at all, so it’ll be mildly amusing to see what gets nominated tomorrow. I do think the race will come down to Avatar Vs. The Hurt Locker with Avatar winning. Top 10 nominations will be Precious, Avatar, The Hurt Locker, District 9, Up In The Air, A Serious Man, Invictus, Inglourious Basterds, UP, I’m still holding out hope that Star Trek somehow gets in. It’s clearly the best movie of 2009.
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