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April 12, 2012

What are you?


Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld is a quarter Filipino.
You can't really see it on her, but check out her brother

February 22, 2012

Child Oscar Nominees

*under the age of 18 at the time of the ceremony

Competitive



Jackie Cooper
Age: 9
Film: SKIPPY
Award: Best Actor
Date of Birth: September 15, 1922
Date of Ceremony: November 10, 1931

*as of 2012, only child to be nominated for Best Actor


Bonita Granville
Age: 14
Film: THESE THREE
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: February 2, 1923
Date of Ceremony: March 4, 1937


Brandon de Wilde
Age: 11
Film: SHANE
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: April 9, 1942
Date of Ceremony: March 25, 1954


Sal Mineo
Age: 17
Film: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: January 10, 1939
Date of Ceremony: March 21, 1956


Patty McCormack
Age: 11
Film: THE BAD SEED
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: August 21, 1945
Date of Ceremony: March 27, 1957


Patty Duke
Age: 16
Film: THE MIRACLE WORKER
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: December 14, 1946
Date of Ceremony: April 8, 1963


Mary Badham
Age: 10
Film: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: October 7, 1952
Date of Ceremony: April 8, 1963


Jack Wild
Age: 16
Film: OLIVER!
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: September 30, 1952
Date of Ceremony: April 14, 1969


Tatum O'Neal
Age: 10
Film: PAPER MOON
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: November 5, 1963
Date of Ceremony: April 2, 1974

*as of 2012, the youngest person to win a competitive Oscar


Linda Blair
Age: 15
Film: THE EXORCIST
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: January 22, 1959
Date of Ceremony: April 2, 1974


Jodie Foster
Age: 14
Film: TAXI DRIVER
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: November 19, 1962
Date of Ceremony: March 28, 1977

* interesting note: Foster played the character that Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for in the television series, "Paper Moon" in 1974
*since her first nomination, she has been nominated three more times and won 2 Best Actress Oscars


Quinn Cummings
Age: 10
Film: THE GOODBYE GIRL
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: August 13, 1967
Date of Ceremony: April 3, 1978


Justin Henry
Age: 8
Film: KRAMER VS. KRAMER
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: May 25, 1971
Date of Ceremony: April 14, 1980

*as of 2013, the youngest person ever to be nominated for a competitive Oscar


Anna Paquin
Age: 11
Film: THE PIANO
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: July 24, 1982
Date of Ceremony: March 21, 1994


Haley Joel Osment
Age: 11
Film: THE SIXTH SENSE
Award: Best Supporting Actor
Date of Birth: April 10, 1988
Date of Ceremony: March 26, 2000


Keisha Castle-Hughes
Age: 13
Film: WHALE RIDER
Award: Best Actress
Date of Birth: March 24, 1990
Date of Ceremony: February 29, 2004


Abigail Breslin
Age: 10
Film: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: April 14, 1996
Date of Ceremony: February 25, 2007


Saoirse Ronan
Age: 13
Film: ATONEMENT
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: April 12, 1994
Date of Ceremony: February 24, 2008


Hailee Steinfeld
Age: 14
Film: TRUE GRIT
Award: Best Supporting Actress
Date of Birth: December 11, 1996
Date of Ceremony: February 27, 2011


Quvenzhané Wallis
Age: 9
Film: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Award: Best Actress
Date of Birth: August 28, 2003
Date of Ceremony: February 24, 2013



***Juliette Lewis was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for her work in "Cape Fear". She didn't make our list, despite being 16-years-old during filming, because she was 18 at the time of the ceremony.


Non-Competitive
*a miniature version of the Oscar, which stood 7 inches tall
*these Honorary Juvenile Oscars were given for body of work for the previous year


Shirley Temple
Age: 6
Date of Birth: April 23, 1928
Date of Ceremony: February 27, 1935


Mickey Rooney
Age: 18
Date of Birth: September 23, 1920
Date of Ceremony: February 23, 1939

*although he was no longer a child when he accepted his award, he was 17 during the previous year, and the Academy decided to award him the Juvenile Oscar
*has since been nominated for four Oscars and received the lifetime-achievement Honorary statue in 1983


Deanna Durbin
Age: 17
Date of Birth: December 4, 1921
Date of Ceremony: February 23, 1939


Judy Garland
Age: 17
Date of Birth: June 10, 1922
Date of Ceremony: February 29, 1940

*after receiving her special juvenile award, she went on to receive two Oscar nominations in her career


Margaret O'Brien
Age: 8
Date of Birth: January 15, 1937
Date of Ceremony: March 15, 1945


Peggy Ann Garner
Age: 14
Date of Birth: February 3, 1932
Date of Ceremony: March 7, 1946


Claude Jarmen, Jr
Age: 12
Date of Birth: September 27, 1934
Date of Ceremony: March 13, 1947

Ivan Jandl
Age: 12
Date of Birth: January 24, 1937
Date of Ceremony: March 24, 1949


Bobby Driscoll
Age: 13
Date of Birth: March 3, 1937
Date of Ceremony: March 23, 1950


Jon Whiteley
Age: 10
Date of Birth: February 19, 1945
Date of Ceremony: March 30, 1955


Vincent Winter
Age: 7
Date of Birth: December 29, 1947
Date of Ceremony: March 30, 1955


Hayley Mills
Age: 14
Date of Birth: April 18, 1946
Date of Ceremony: April 17, 1961

*Mills was the last child to receive the special Oscar. The Academy has since decided against giving them out

July 6, 2011

Flick of the Day

Film: TRUE GRIT
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper
Year: 2010


Synopsis: A young girl hires a bounty hunter to track down her father's killer.


January 15, 2011

BFCA Winners (2010 films)



BEST PICTURE
127 Hours,
Black Swan,
The Fighter,
Inception,
The King’s Speech,
The Social Network,
The Town,
Toy Story 3,
True Grit,
Winter’s Bone

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges – “True Grit”,
Robert Duvall – “Get Low”,
Jesse Eisenberg – “The Social Network”,
Colin Firth – “The King’s Speech”,
James Franco – “127 Hours”,
Ryan Gosling – “Blue Valentine”

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening – “The Kids Are All Right”,
Nicole Kidman – “Rabbit Hole”,
Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone”,
Natalie Portman – “Black Swan”,
Noomi Rapace – “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”,
Michelle Williams – “Blue Valentine”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale – “The Fighter”,
Andrew Garfield – “The Social Network”,
Jeremy Renner – “The Town”,
Sam Rockwell – “Conviction”,
Mark Ruffalo – “The Kids Are All Right”,
Geoffrey Rush – “The King’s Speech”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – “The Fighter”,
Helena Bonham Carter – “The King’s Speech”,
Mila Kunis – “Black Swan”,
Melissa Leo – “The Fighter”,
Hailee Steinfeld – “True Grit”,
Jacki Weaver – “Animal Kingdom”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – “Somewhere”,
Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone”,
Chloe Grace Moretz – “Let Me In”,
Chloe Grace Moretz – “Kick-Ass”,
Kodi Smit-McPhee – “Let Me In”,
Hailee Steinfeld – “True Grit”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Fighter,
The Kids Are All Right,
The King’s Speech,
The Social Network,
The Town

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky – “Black Swan”,
Danny Boyle – “127 Hours”,
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “True Grit”,
David Fincher – “The Social Network”,
Tom Hooper – “The King’s Speech”,
Christopher Nolan – “Inception”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Another Year” – Mike Leigh,
“Black Swan” – Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin,
“The Fighter” – Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson (Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson),
“Inception” – Christopher Nolan,
“The Kids Are All Right” – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg,
“The King’s Speech” – David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“127 Hours” – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle,
“The Social Network” – Aaron Sorkin,
“The Town” – Ben Affleck, Peter Craig and Sheldon Turner,
“Toy Story 3″ – Michael Arndt (Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich),
“True Grit” – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen,
“Winter’s Bone” – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“127 Hours” – Anthony Dod Mantle
,“Black Swan” – Matthew Libatique,
“Inception” – Wally Pfister,
“The King’s Speech” – Danny Cohen,
“True Grit” – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
“Alice in Wonderland” – Stefan Dechant,
“Black Swan” – Therese DePrez and Tora Peterson,
“Inception” – Guy Hendrix Dyas,
“The King’s Speech” – Netty Chapman,
“True Grit” – Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh

BEST EDITING
“127 Hours” – Jon Harris,
“Black Swan” – Andrew Weisblum,
“Inception” – Lee Smith,
“The Social Network” – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Alice in Wonderland” – Colleen Atwood,
“Black Swan” – Amy Westcott,
“The King’s Speech” – Jenny Beavan,
“True Grit” – Mary Zophres

BEST MAKEUP
Alice in Wonderland,
Black Swan,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,
True Grit

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,
Inception,
Tron: Legacy

BEST SOUND
127 Hours,
Black Swan,
Inception,
The Social Network,
Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Despicable Me,
How to Train Your Dragon,
The Illusionist,
Tangled,
Toy Story 3

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Inception,
Kick-Ass,
Red,
The Town,
Unstoppable

BEST COMEDY
Cyrus,
Date Night,
Easy A,
Get Him to the Greek,
I Love You Phillip Morris,
The Other Guys

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
The Pacific,
Temple Grandin,
You Don’t Know Jack

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful,
I Am Love,
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Exit Through the Gift Shop,
Inside Job,
Restrepo,
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,
The Tillman Story,
Waiting for Superman

BEST SONG
“I See the Light” – performed by Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi/written by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater – Tangled,
“If I Rise” – performed by Dido and A.R. Rahman/music by A.R. Rahman/lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong – 127 Hours,
“Shine” – performed and written by John Legend – Waiting for Superman,
“We Belong Together” – performed and written by Randy Newman – Toy Story 3,
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet” – performed by Cher/written by Diane Warren – Burlesque

BEST SCORE
“Black Swan” – Clint Mansell,
“Inception” – Hans Zimmer,
“The King’s Speech” – Alexandre Desplat,
“The Social Network” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross,
“True Grit” – Carter Burwell

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