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THE OSCAR WINNERS 50 YEARS AGO
March 7th 2010 02:10
Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor
Sunday night will celebrate the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, but who won fifty years ago?
The 1960 Academy Awards were presented April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Burt Lancaster won Best Actor for Elmer Gantry and Elizabeth Taylor won Best Actress for Butterfield 8.
Here are the nominees for this years awards in the most famous categories:
Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner
Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor: Matt Damon in “Invictus” Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger” Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station” Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones” Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz in “Nine” Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air” Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air” Mo’Nique in “Precious"
Directing: “Avatar” James Cameron “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino "Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman
But who will win? Roger Ebert famed movie critic makes these predictions:
‘Hurt Locker” will take Best Picture
Best Director is very close, predicted to go to either James Cameron for “Avatar” or Kathryn Bigelow for “Hurt Locker”. Did you know these two were once married?
Jeff Bridges is the pick for Best Actor for his role in “Crazy Heart”.
Sandra Bullock will win Best Actress for “The Blind Side”.
Christoph Waltz will win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Inglourious Basterds.".
Best Supporting Actress, the predicted Oscar winner is Mo’Nique for her performance in “Precious”.
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