When Is The Oscars 2010 and Predictions

Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (top); Zoe Saldana in James Cameron’s Avatar (upper middle); Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart (lower middle); Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we’re correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of six Oscars, followed by Avatar with three (Titanic won 11 back in 1998), and Crazy Heart and Up with two each. The White Ribbon, The Cove, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up in the Air, The Young Victoria, Star Trek, Instead of Abracadabra, The Lady and the Reaper, and The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner will have one win each.

In a few categories — such as short film nominations — the field is wide open because the nominated films have received little publicity and the winner will be decided by those relatively few Academy members who have watched all five nominees. That’s also why Best Foreign Language Film nominee The White Ribbon can be bypassed not only by A Prophet, but by some lesser-known effort such as The Milk of Sorrow or The Secret of Her Eyes. Unless a major upset takes place, however, The Cove has its Best Documentary Feature Oscar guaranteed.

Among the locks are Up in the Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score categories, Christoph Waltz, Mo’Nique, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeff Bridges, Up in the Air for Best Adapted Screenplay, Avatar for Best Visual Effects, and the Crazy Heart song "The Weary Kind."

Sandra Bullock is a near-lock for The Blind Side, but Meryl Streep may pull an upset for her Julia Child in Julie & Julia. In the technical categories, Avatar and The Hurt Locker are near-locks in almost all of them.

Iffier categories are Best Picture, with Avatar and — to a considerably lesser extent — Inglourious Basterds as possible winners; Best Original Screenplay, which could well go to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds; and Best Makeup, which may go to The Young Victoria.

For a little more detailed predictions, check out our 2010 Oscar Predictions tag.

Note: The predictions below were originally posted on March 2.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon

Best Documentary: The Cove

Best Animated Feature: Up

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker

Best Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up

Best Song: "The Weary Kind" by T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham, Crazy Heart

Best Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair, Avatar

Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar

Best Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Editing: Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Avatar

Best Makeup: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, Star Trek

Best Live Action Short: Instead of Abracadabra

Best Animated Short: The Lady and the Reaper

Best Documentary Short: The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

Photos: The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment); Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox); Crazy Heart (Lorey Sebastian / 20th Century Fox); The Blind Side (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros.)

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When Is The Oscars 2010 and Predictions

Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (top); Zoe Saldana in James Cameron’s Avatar (upper middle); Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart (lower middle); Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we’re correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of six Oscars, followed by Avatar with three (Titanic won 11 back in 1998), and Crazy Heart and Up with two each. The White Ribbon, The Cove, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up in the Air, The Young Victoria, Star Trek, Instead of Abracadabra, The Lady and the Reaper, and The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner will have one win each.

In a few categories — such as short film nominations — the field is wide open because the nominated films have received little publicity and the winner will be decided by those relatively few Academy members who have watched all five nominees. That’s also why Best Foreign Language Film nominee The White Ribbon can be bypassed not only by A Prophet, but by some lesser-known effort such as The Milk of Sorrow or The Secret of Her Eyes. Unless a major upset takes place, however, The Cove has its Best Documentary Feature Oscar guaranteed.

Among the locks are Up in the Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score categories, Christoph Waltz, Mo’Nique, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeff Bridges, Up in the Air for Best Adapted Screenplay, Avatar for Best Visual Effects, and the Crazy Heart song "The Weary Kind."

Sandra Bullock is a near-lock for The Blind Side, but Meryl Streep may pull an upset for her Julia Child in Julie & Julia. In the technical categories, Avatar and The Hurt Locker are near-locks in almost all of them.

Iffier categories are Best Picture, with Avatar and — to a considerably lesser extent — Inglourious Basterds as possible winners; Best Original Screenplay, which could well go to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds; and Best Makeup, which may go to The Young Victoria.

For a little more detailed predictions, check out our 2010 Oscar Predictions tag.

Note: The predictions below were originally posted on March 2.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon

Best Documentary: The Cove

Best Animated Feature: Up

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker

Best Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up

Best Song: "The Weary Kind" by T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham, Crazy Heart

Best Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair, Avatar

Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar

Best Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Editing: Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Avatar

Best Makeup: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, Star Trek

Best Live Action Short: Instead of Abracadabra

Best Animated Short: The Lady and the Reaper

Best Documentary Short: The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

Photos: The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment); Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox); Crazy Heart (Lorey Sebastian / 20th Century Fox); The Blind Side (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros.)

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Kyle Kuric Dunk Video

It felt good to be in the Hall again, didn’t it?

This year’s gift of basketball was unwrapped last night, and the Cards began their final season in Freedom Hall with a 80-68 win over nearby Georgetown College.

I really like openers with perennially tough and feisty in-state rivals like G-Town –pre-season ranked #7 NAIA and with several Louisville and Kentucky guys on their roster. You know it’s one of the games of their year–in certain cases, their lives and future basketball memories.

Hell, at the half, Georgetown led 35-31 , had rebounded us even ( though 2″ shorter per man), and looked a step quicker and more disciplined than the Cards on offense. They wanted this game.

In the second half, U of L finally caught them with a wave of defensive intensity by Peyton Siva and Preston Knowles, and then gunned it in the last 6 minutes to pull away by the deceivingly wide final margin when Georgetown’s legs finally gave out.

Let truly great, good ‘ol boy head coach Happy Osbourne of Georgetown tell you a thing or two:

” I can’t tell you how much this means to our school. Our whole campus was excited. Our whole town was excited. I can’t thank Coach Pitino enough.

You guys come here all the time. It may just be another place to you guys. (Louisville natives) Crutcher and Hamilton got a chance to come here and start and play in front of their hometown. You know it’s a thrill for those guys.”

Some other insights from Happy that I totally agree with:

“A big key for them (U of L) is who steps up at the four spot. Swopshire, Buckles and those guys have got to do it……”

“Peyton Siva is going to be a super guard for them and a great leader.”

“When Georgetown and Louisville play, it’s ugly. We’re both going to push. We’re both going to press. It’s going to be physical, but it’s going to be fun.”

Let me add that it was a very loooonnng game. 2 1/2 hours and 60 fouls long. The officials called 29 in the first half–and never let up.

As with any opener, it’s so early that you have to be reading tea leaves to reach any long-term conclusions, but…

Pluses I saw clearly at court-side:

Jared Swopshire holds his own in the paint much better, and has been hitting the weights obviously. He may still be over-classed against better players than Georgetown’s–but I think he has a huge upside.

As obviously does Kyle Kuric , who Pitino raved about in the post-game presser, and who was in constant motion with 15 points and a big 7 bounds.

Peyton Siva will be one of the great ones at U of L– at some point, perhaps even this year. Every time he entered the game, he amped both the offense with his speed and assists, and the defense with swarming in -your-face pressure . His leadership kept Louisville close in the first half, and helped burst the game open in the second, with a defensive assist from Preston Knowles.

Samardo Samuels is still solid– he can still score a bunch and can also rebound if he wants to–like he did in the second half.



Some concerns:

Terrence Jennings does not appear to have improved at all–and he showed that in the few minutes he was in. But again–his upside is huge. He will be a key this season, for good or for bad…

Our rebounding still did not impress me, any more than last year. Samardo still does not dominate here. Neither did TJ. Georgetown rebounded us even in the first half. As Happy noted, the 4 spot will be a key, and Swop and Kuric appear to be the leading candidates so far.

Our perimeter shooting is still inconsistent. Pitino stated it was the opening night jitters and that this is one of his best shooting teams. But, Coach has said this same thing the last few years, and yet we have been inconsistent. I’ll have to see the proof on that one.

Overall, I think this team will be fun to watch, but will lose it’s share of games early–and maybe late too. I don’t see Elite 8’s or final 4’s this year–but I see a ton of potential that will take us potentially to a Sweet 16 this yr–and then really do some damage the following years, if Samardo and TJ come back, and we get the monster class of recruits expected these next few years.

Peyton and Preston will be fun to watch on defense.

Peyton will be fun to watch–period.

Some final thoughts from Coach Pitino:

“I think our offense is going to be very good. Last year at this time, we probably had seven or eight sets in, right now we have two. We’ve just got to go very slowly with these guys because they’re so young.”

“On Peyton Siva: He’s been turning the ball over too much. But he plays so hard, he’s so aggressive, you’ve got to give him his due. He’s trying to make plays, if you start harnessing him, he’s got to learn from his mistakes. I have no problem with him. He’s going to be a great player some day, one of the best I’ve ever coached at that position.

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Kyle Kuric Dunk Video

It felt good to be in the Hall again, didn’t it?

This year’s gift of basketball was unwrapped last night, and the Cards began their final season in Freedom Hall with a 80-68 win over nearby Georgetown College.

I really like openers with perennially tough and feisty in-state rivals like G-Town –pre-season ranked #7 NAIA and with several Louisville and Kentucky guys on their roster. You know it’s one of the games of their year–in certain cases, their lives and future basketball memories.

Hell, at the half, Georgetown led 35-31 , had rebounded us even ( though 2″ shorter per man), and looked a step quicker and more disciplined than the Cards on offense. They wanted this game.

In the second half, U of L finally caught them with a wave of defensive intensity by Peyton Siva and Preston Knowles, and then gunned it in the last 6 minutes to pull away by the deceivingly wide final margin when Georgetown’s legs finally gave out.

Let truly great, good ‘ol boy head coach Happy Osbourne of Georgetown tell you a thing or two:

” I can’t tell you how much this means to our school. Our whole campus was excited. Our whole town was excited. I can’t thank Coach Pitino enough.

You guys come here all the time. It may just be another place to you guys. (Louisville natives) Crutcher and Hamilton got a chance to come here and start and play in front of their hometown. You know it’s a thrill for those guys.”

Some other insights from Happy that I totally agree with:

“A big key for them (U of L) is who steps up at the four spot. Swopshire, Buckles and those guys have got to do it……”

“Peyton Siva is going to be a super guard for them and a great leader.”

“When Georgetown and Louisville play, it’s ugly. We’re both going to push. We’re both going to press. It’s going to be physical, but it’s going to be fun.”

Let me add that it was a very loooonnng game. 2 1/2 hours and 60 fouls long. The officials called 29 in the first half–and never let up.

As with any opener, it’s so early that you have to be reading tea leaves to reach any long-term conclusions, but…

Pluses I saw clearly at court-side:

Jared Swopshire holds his own in the paint much better, and has been hitting the weights obviously. He may still be over-classed against better players than Georgetown’s–but I think he has a huge upside.

As obviously does Kyle Kuric , who Pitino raved about in the post-game presser, and who was in constant motion with 15 points and a big 7 bounds.

Peyton Siva will be one of the great ones at U of L– at some point, perhaps even this year. Every time he entered the game, he amped both the offense with his speed and assists, and the defense with swarming in -your-face pressure . His leadership kept Louisville close in the first half, and helped burst the game open in the second, with a defensive assist from Preston Knowles.

Samardo Samuels is still solid– he can still score a bunch and can also rebound if he wants to–like he did in the second half.



Some concerns:

Terrence Jennings does not appear to have improved at all–and he showed that in the few minutes he was in. But again–his upside is huge. He will be a key this season, for good or for bad…

Our rebounding still did not impress me, any more than last year. Samardo still does not dominate here. Neither did TJ. Georgetown rebounded us even in the first half. As Happy noted, the 4 spot will be a key, and Swop and Kuric appear to be the leading candidates so far.

Our perimeter shooting is still inconsistent. Pitino stated it was the opening night jitters and that this is one of his best shooting teams. But, Coach has said this same thing the last few years, and yet we have been inconsistent. I’ll have to see the proof on that one.

Overall, I think this team will be fun to watch, but will lose it’s share of games early–and maybe late too. I don’t see Elite 8’s or final 4’s this year–but I see a ton of potential that will take us potentially to a Sweet 16 this yr–and then really do some damage the following years, if Samardo and TJ come back, and we get the monster class of recruits expected these next few years.

Peyton and Preston will be fun to watch on defense.

Peyton will be fun to watch–period.

Some final thoughts from Coach Pitino:

“I think our offense is going to be very good. Last year at this time, we probably had seven or eight sets in, right now we have two. We’ve just got to go very slowly with these guys because they’re so young.”

“On Peyton Siva: He’s been turning the ball over too much. But he plays so hard, he’s so aggressive, you’ve got to give him his due. He’s trying to make plays, if you start harnessing him, he’s got to learn from his mistakes. I have no problem with him. He’s going to be a great player some day, one of the best I’ve ever coached at that position.

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RAN

RAN is a music group from Indonesia that was formed on August 3, 2006. Consists of 3 members, they are Rayi, Asta, and Nino. group name is taken from the initials of their names. RAN starts appeared in Indonesia's music industry with bring a light music, easy listening and nuanced direct cheerfully stealing public attention. RAN comes with different nuances, combines of soul, pop, R&B and added a touch of hip hop. Plus the lyrics are fresh and simple, making them more easily accepted by the Indonesian music fans.

RAN famous with song titled "Pandangan Pertama". before, they succeeded in reaching the second winner in a music festival. and this song also introduces RAN  with Dondy Soedjono, the producer who then passed this demo to Universal Music Indonesia. and finally at the end of 2007, RAN released their debut album, For Your Life under management and the label of Universal Music Indonesia. And this album success in Indonesia's music industry. the songs of Pandangan Pertama, Nothing Lasts Forever and Selamat Pagi, are some songs that are often played on the radio and on television. thet are RAN's early success and now they become a new idol in the music industry of Indonesia with a very rare music performed by other musical groups in Indonesia.

Credits:
- Members are : Astono Andoko/Asta (Guitar), Anindyo Baskoro/Nino (Vocal), Rayi Putra/Rayi  (Rap & Vocal)
- Website : www.ranforyourlife.com
- Record Label : KEP Media & Universal Music Indonesia
- Hometown : Jakarta, INDONESIA
- Contact / Booking : Allvino Adrian Tamaela (+6281933002344)
- Free Mp3 Download : Pandangan Pertama
- Lyrics (Pandangan Pertama)

lama ku memendam rasa di dada
mengagumi indahmu walau jelita
tak dapat lagi ku ucap hati
bisaku diam terpesona

dan andai suatu hari kau jadi milikku
tak akan ku lepas dirimu oh kasih
dan bila waktu mengijinkanku untuk
menunggu dirimu

reff:
ku rasa ku tlah jatuh cinta
pada pandangan yang pertama
sulit bagiku untuk bisa
berhenti mengagumi dirinya

seiring dengan berjalannya waktu
akhirnya kita berdua bertemu
oh diriku tersipu malu
melihat sikapmu yang lucu

repeat *
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reff2:
oh tuhan tolonglah diriku
tuk membuatnya menjadi milikku
sayangku, kasihku, oh cintaku
she’s all that i need

dan bila kita bersama
kan ku jaga dirimu untuk selamanya
oh terima cintaku, huuu, yeah

[english lyric]

repeat reff
repeat reff2

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