Here's What

I haven't posted in a while, but I feel as though I NEED to do a here's what! 

why? because of Lupita... 

The style icon of the award shows graced the carpet again tonight at the MTV Movie Awards.... mixed feelings right? 

The Shoes are stunning and make her already flawless skin tone, even more flawless, but this dress... The fringe bottom, the geometrical shapes, the sequenced shoulders, and black trimming. It is just not the Lupita we are use to seeing... put since she is wearing it, it seems to be acceptable. I need to prepare myself for shapes this summer- it's gonna be big.

oh and this picture... gave me life tonight.( I did not watch the awards- I just googled those who I wanted to see.)
Leto can do no wrong, seewt baby Jesus!... no literally, he looks like Jesus.

"I'd Like To Thank The Academy"

All 6,000 members of the academy for coming together last night and wrapping up the award season in a memorable night. From the red carpet to the Ellen as Glinda (like Galinda without the Ga) the good witch to the selfie that broke twitter, the 86th annual Academy Awards were a hit!

Let's start with the red carpet! Luckily this go around there weren't many blunders! Lupita Nyong'o kept up her fashionista power by wear a stunning powder blue deep V pleated Prada dress. 

her best accessory of the night? 

Her Oscar of course! Lupita took home her first Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave (Best Motion Picture Winner!) 

Fellow Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Jennifer Lawrence, redeemed her self from the Golden Globes. In a fitting pellum  style red Dior dress! with her signature backwards necklace. 

But in true jlaw fashion, much like Sandra Bullock, couldn't defy gravity...

Lawrence Fell just after getting out of her limo! at least she has an amazing sense of humor and laughed it off! 

Speaking of Sandy B. SHE. LOOKED. FLAWLESS.

Bullock stunned everyone (like always) in this Navy McQueen gown. Sandra's film Gravity took home the most awards (6) for the night, expect for the category Sandra was in, Best leading Actress. Maybe next...she'll be lucky

With that we move on to THE Liza Minelli in a blue satin pant suit? with matching her. granted, this look is uh, well a tad... ugly. Liza can do no wrong. She has hit the age, status and mental state to do what ever she wants and it be acceptable. 

 

Liza was at the Oscars because her late mother, Judy Garlands, film- Wizard of Oz (ring ant bells) was honored

Liza (left) and Mama Judy (right)

with a beautiful rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow sung by P!nk, Who looked as amazing as she sounded. 

In Ellie Saab's 2013 Fall Couture Sparkling Red plunge V gown. 

After Pink sang somewhere over the rainbow in the most simplistic way, which isn't usually how pink does thing, yet she was honoring a film classic not her acrobatic skills--Ellen graced the staged dressed as Glinda the Good Witch (Like GAlinda, without the GA --All you Wicked Fans know what I am talking about.)

Ellen is too perfect... even though her original tux looked like she pulled it right off the rack from Behind the Candelabras costume wrack. 

love you Ellen, but do you know what I love a little more than you... your OSCAR SELFIES! 

look at this! look at HER! Look at THEM! Bradley, Jen, Mrs. Streep, Julia, Leto, The Jolie-Pitts, Channing, Kevin Spacey, Lupita and ...her brother??? yay for Junior but him an dLupita should have switched places.! 

and we can't for get about the Liza Selfie. Gays, lesbians, and Thespians all around the world went hysterical... I know I did. 

Speaking of Gays/Lesbians/Thespians going hysterical... 5. WORDS. BETTE. MIDLER. AND. IDINA MENZEL... or should I say Adele Mezi... way to go John Travolta. First Bette Midler Graced the red carpet in a stunning Reem Arca gown 

then switched to an more appropriate dress to Sing Wind Beneath My Wings for the In Memoriam tribute

Bette Did BETTEr than Idina Menzel. Sorry girl, but you were a tad off... perhaps because she was distracted by John Travolta butchering her name

or every note that Idina--I mean Adele Mezie didn't hit while singing Let It Go, from the hit Disney movie Frozen-- Kristin Chenoweth became happier and happier. probably not, because their 'feud" is faux... I know because they tweeted each other in 2013. 

Even though Menzel's performances wasn't Menzel worthy, all of us theatre people know how phenomenal she can sing, and are letting it go (get it). Frozen won Best Animated Motion Picture and Best Original Song.

The acceptance speech from husband and wife writing duo, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez   was too cute

MUST WATCH ACCEPTANCE SPEECH!!!

This year at the Oscars had many amazing heartfelt acceptance speeches. From Mathew, Leto and Lupita. they said what they needed to say and made us all have goosebumps and genuinely happy for them.

Mathew Mcconaughey's beautiful speech. ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT 

But the best acceptance of all wasn't even words, yet a jump! from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen 

No more award shows for a while... well at least not many important one. TONY's IN JUNE!!! 

I cannot wait for the movies of 2014 that will make us all stop and think like many of the films nominated this year. 

Here is the full Winning list:

via Google. 

86th Academy Awards winners

Best Picture	12 Years a Slave
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Leading Role	Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Animated Feature	Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
Best Cinematography	Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Best Costume Design	The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
Best Directing	Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Documentary Feature	20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers)
Best Documentary Short	The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Best Film Editing	Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
Best Foreign Language Film	The Great Beauty (Italy)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Best Original Score	Gravity (Steven Price)
Best Original Song	Let It Go - Frozen
Best Production Design	The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Best Animated Short Film	Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Best Live Action Short Film	Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Best Sound Editing	Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
Best Sound Mixing	Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
Best Visual Effects	Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
Best Adapted Screenplay	12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Best Original Screenplay	Her (Spike Jonze)

86th annual Oscars!

I have been not been as dedicated to this blog as I have wanted to be. Partly because of pure laziness, and mostly because of school work and actually work when I come home all I do is sleep! But with the 86th Annual Oscars tomorrow--I know, it's March already, woah! I couldn't not post about the biggest night in Hollywood and the last respected award show until June (The Tony's). But before we talk about the best if the best let's talk about the best of the WORST! Yup, I'm talking about the The 34th annual Goldan Rasberry Awards "Razzies"! 

Here are the nominees! 

Worst Picture:
"After Earth" - sci-fi film starring Will Smith and son Jaden Smith
"Grown-Ups 2" - ensemble comedy, starring Adam Sandler, David Spade and Kevin James
"The Lone Ranger" - adventure film starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer
"A Madea Christmas" - comedy starring Tyler Perry
"Movie 43" - ensemble comedy, starring Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and Emma Stone

Worst Actress in a Leading Role:
Halle Berry - "The Call" and "Movie 43"
Selena Gomez - "Getaway"
Lindsay Lohan - "The Canyons"
Tyler Perry - "A Madea Christmas"
Naomi Watts - "Diana" and "Movie 43"

Worst Actor in a Leading Role:
Johnny Depp - "The Lone Ranger"
Ashton Kutcher - "Jobs"
Adam Sandler - "Grown-Ups 2"
Jaden Smith - "After Earth"
Sylvester Stallone - "Bullet To The Head," "Escape Plan" and "Grudge Match"

Worst Supporting Actress:
Lady Gaga - "Machette Kills"
Salma Hayek - "Grown-Ups 2"
Katherine Heigl - "The Big Wedding"
Kim Kardashian - "Tyler Perry's Temptation"
Lindsay Lohan - "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Scary Movie 5"

Worst Supporting Actor:
Chris Brown - "Battle Of The Year"
Larry The Cable Guy - "A Madea Christmas"
Taylor Lautner - "Grown-Ups 2"
Will Smith - "After Earth"
Nick Swardson - "A Haunted House" and "Grown-Ups 2"

Worst Screen Combo:
"Grown Ups 2" - the entire cast
"Movie 43" - the entire cast
"Scary Movie 5" - Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen
"A Madea Christmas" - Tyler Perry and EITHER Larry The Cable Guy OR That Worn-Out Wig and Dress
"After Earth" - Jaden Smith and Will Smith on Planet Nepotism

Worst Director:
The 13 people who directed "Movie 43"
Dennis Dugan - "Grown Ups 2"
Tyler Perry - "A Madea Christmas" and "Temptation"
M. Night Shyamalan - "After Earth"
Gore Verbinski - "The Lone Ranger"

Worst Screenplay:
"After Earth" - screenplay by Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan, story by Will Smith
"Grown Ups 2" - written by Fred Wolfe, Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy
"The Lone Ranger" - story and screenplay by Ted Elliott, Justin Haythe and Terry Rosso
"A Madea Christmas" - written by Tyler Perry
"Movie 43" - written by 19 "screenwriters"

Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel:
"Grown Ups 2"
"Hangover III"
"The Lone Ranger"
"Scary Movie 5"
"Smurfs 2"

I was shocked by The Call...I liked it, but Halle Berry isn't and never was that great of an actress... Let's just say that none of those nominated for  Razzies are attending the oscars with honors! The Razzies are and will be announced on Oscars Eve (today!!!) you can watch online at the Razzies YouTube page! 

Now on to te Oscars! The Acadamey Awards, the most elegant night in Hollywood- where te speeches are shorter and the celebrities are sober! This years host Ellen Degeneres will sure make the night ever most memorable. (I guarantee that by her hosting, more will tune in) I have every nominee in the Oscars tab on the side- so I'm not posting again-too many! 

I'm not sure who will take home an Oscar, the Golden Globes isn't always an indicator of who will take home the Golden statue. I'm rooting for American Hustler; I love the entire cast! I also want Lupita Nyongo' to take an Oscar home, along with Jared Leto! They wild make the most talented mixed babies ever!!! 

With performances from BETT MEDLER! P!nk, U2, Indina Menzel (I worship her!) and other this Oscars is sure going to he one to remember! Eek! Can't wait! T-minus 28 hours!!! (It is not 2pm on 3/1/14). 

But what we all lol forward too is the red carpet! With a different crowd than the Golden Globes and a more formal dress code than the SAGs I cannot wait to see who is wearing who and if some of our favorites can redeem thsemelves (cough cough Julia Roberts). 

Let's hope Lupita can continue to shock us all! 

Lupita first graced the red carpet at the Golden Globes in Ralph Loren... 

She woke up like this....

Then again at the Sag Awards! BOW DOWN BITCHES 

And at the BAFA awards...FLAWLESS 

So at the Oscars can only get better...maybe she will have Leto Drunk in Love by the end of the night...is it racist that I used Beyoncé lyrics for the best dressed black woman in Hollywood? 

ANYWAYS! Jlaw and Julia Roberts need to redeem themselves! 

Look at her stunning face, fierce hair and awful dress! With her looks and personality she needs to a dress that screams JLAW! She did a little better at the SAG awards...but still bored 

Still stunning! My #WCW for life! 

...And Julia, deep breath in and EXHALE! I'm not sure why but she has been all over  the worst dress list this award season! 

The white tshirt-- which probably coast more than my car ruined this dress! 

And this power pink jump suit is just a no. That all I can say is no! 

The red carpet talk begins at 6 on 3/2/14!!! 

I'll be watching the red carpet closely on various channels as I am getting ready for the oscars to begin! 

How will you be spending Oscar Sunday? I'll be eating Chicken Fried rice with my best friend in the most elegant over sized mixed matched sweats! 

Here's What...

1. Lupita Nyong'o took home the Actor at the SAG awards Saturday night. She was up against Oprah for her role in Lee Daniels he Butler, JLaw, and Emma Thompson. Nyong'o, 30, won for her role as Patsey in 12 Yeas a Slave. With this being the first Award season Nyong'o  has been to, her stunning looks, and amazing tatlent isn't all that we are noticing... Lupita and 30 Seconds to Mars front man & and award winning actor Jared Leto have been friendly on the red carpets...

Lupit and Jared, aren't they stunning together?

Lupita on the SAG red carpet in Gucci

fun fact about Lupita: 30 year old Yale graduate, is Kenyan, yet was born in Mexico City Mexico!

 2. My typewriter. I know, it is only exciting for me, but this is my blog, so bite me. A friend of mine had an electric typewrite that was just sitting in his garage and wasn't being used, so he just gave it to me! For anyone who knows me, knows I have been wanting a type writer for a while! I have already had some fun with it...


-Goal is to write thank you letters with it, annually to those who have been amazing to me!






3.Kylie Minogue's single 'Skirt' from her 'Into the Blue' album was leaked on a Spanish tumblr site. Minogue, 44, has had some of the most iconic pop songs over the past 2 decades. The 'Into the Blue' album is as flawless as Kylie. Cannot wait to blast it in my car on my way to work and class daily for a month! thank you goddess Kylie! Listen for yourslf- Skirt single

And the Academy goes to...

One of these nominees of course. The Oscar nominees were announced this morning! I'd like to think that I wasn't the only one sitting in my 8am biology class clicking refresh over and over again. Well FINALLY, the nominee list was put up and I wasn't shocked at all. it was pretty much a copy and paste of the Golden Globes-give or take a few nominees (due to more nominee slots). American Hustle and Gravity have to most nominees, tied with 10. Congrats to all the nominees! 

86th Oscars Nominees...

BEST PICTURE

American Hustle
Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon, Producers

Captain Phillips
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers

Dallas Buyers Club
Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers

Her
Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers

Nebraska
Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers

Philomena
Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

12 Years a Slave
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers

The Wolf of Wall Street
Nominees to be determined

ACTOR--in a Leading Role

Christian Bale
American Hustle

Bruce Dern
Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio
The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS--in a Leading Role

Amy Adams
American Hustle

Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock
Gravity

Judi Dench
Philomena

Meryl Streep
August: Osage County

ACTOR--in A Supporting Role

Barkhad Abdi
Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper
American Hustle

Michael Fassbender
12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill
The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto
Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS--in a Supporting Role

Sally Hawkins
Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence
American Hustle

Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts
August: Osage County

June Squibb
Nebraska


ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Croods
Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson

Despicable Me 2
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri

Ernest & Celestine
Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner

Frozen
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho

The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Grandmaster
Philippe Le Sourd

Gravity
Emmanuel Lubezki

Inside Llewyn Davis
Bruno Delbonnel


Nebraska
Phedon Papamichael

Prisoners
Roger A. Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN

American Hustle
Michael Wilkinson

The Grandmaster
William Chang Suk Ping

The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin


The Invisible Woman
Michael O'Connor

12 Years a Slave
Patricia Norris

DIRECTING

American Hustle
David O. Russell

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón

Nebraska
Alexander Payne

12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen

The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher

Dirty Wars
Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill

The Square
Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer

20 Feet from Stardom
Nominees to be determined

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

CaveDigger
Jeffrey Karoff

Facing Fear
Jason Cohen

Karama Has No Walls
Sara Ishaq

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Edgar Barens

FILM EDITING

American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten

Captain Phillips
Christopher Rouse

Dallas Buyers Club
John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium

The Great Beauty
Italy

The Hunt
Denmark

The Missing Picture
Cambodia

Omar
Palestine

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Dallas Buyers Club
Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews


Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Stephen Prouty

The Lone Ranger
Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny


Original Score
The Book Thief
John Williams

Gravity
Steven Price

Her
William Butler and Owen Pallett

Philomena
Alexandre Desplat

Saving Mr. Banks
Thomas Newman

Original Song

"Alone Yet Not Alone" from ALONE YET NOT ALONE
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel

"Happy" from DESPICABLE ME 2
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams

"Let It Go" from FROZEN
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

"The Moon Song" from HER
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze

"Ordinary Love" from MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson

PRODUCTION DESIGN

American Hustle
Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)

Gravity
Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)

The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)

Her
K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)

12 Years a Slave
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM--Animated

Feral
Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden

Get a Horse!
Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim

Mr. Hublot
Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares

Possessions
Shuhei Morita

Room on the Broom
Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM- LIVE ACTION

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Esteban Crespo

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras

Helium
Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson

Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari


The Voorman Problem
Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

SOUND EDITING

All Is Lost
Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns

Captain Phillips
Oliver Tarney

Gravity
Glenn Freemantle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Brent Burge

Lone Survivor
Wylie Stateman
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SOUND MIXING

Captain Phillips
Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro

Gravity
Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson

Inside Llewyn Davis
Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Lone Survivor
Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
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VISUAL EFFECTS

Gravity
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds

Iron Man 3
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick

The Lone Ranger
Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

WRITING--Adapted Screenplay

Before Midnight
Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

Captain Phillips
Screenplay by Billy Ray

Philomena
Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

12 Years a Slave
Screenplay by John Ridley

The Wolf of Wall Street
Screenplay by Terence Winter

WRITING--Original Screenplay

American Hustle
Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

Blue Jasmine
Written by Woody Allen

Dallas Buyers Club
Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

Her
Written by Spike Jonze

Nebraska
Written by Bob Nelson


DiCaprio Curse... He has yet to win an Oscar, EVEN for What Eating Gilbert Grape- He deserved that Oscar! If you want to pick before the Academy Awards click here and place your balllot!