November 29, 2010

James Franco and Anne Hathaway to Host
the The Academy Awards 83rd Annual Oscar ® Show.

Beverly Hills, CA - James Franco and Anne Hathaway will serve as co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced on November 29, 2010. Both have previously appeared on the telecast but not in hosting capacities.

"James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons - fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27," said Cohen and Mischer. "We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that."

Franco, who currently can be seen in "127 Hours," will be making his second appearance on an Oscar telecast. His other film credits include "Eat, Love, Pray," "Date Night," "Milk" and "Pineapple Express." Franco is also known for his portrayals of Harry Osborn in the "Spider-Man" trilogy.

Hathaway will be making her fifth appearance on an Academy Awards telecast. She was recently seen in "Alice in Wonderland" and in "Love and Other Drugs." Hathaway's other film credits include "Bride Wars," "Becoming Jane," "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Princess Diaries." She was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her lead performance in "Rachel Getting Married."

Gus Summers is the Host and Broadcast Producer for The "IN Show, an entertaining broadcast that covers all things exciting and enlightening. When Gus isn't busy covering current events and interesting people, you'll see him out and about enjoying all that the City of Angels has to offer. For any questions, comments, or program ideas, he can be reached at gus@theinshow.com.

Oscar

83RD ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
SIDEBARS.

Beverly Hills, CA - Toy Story 3 is the third fully animated feature film nominated for Best Picture. Previous nominees were Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Up (2009). Beauty and the Beast and WALL-E (2008) each received a total of six nominations, the most for a fully animated feature to date. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), which combined live action and animation, also had six nominations.

For only the second time since 1951, when individual producers rather than companies were first cited in the Best Picture nominations, a producer has received two Best Picture nominations in the same year. Scott Rudin has been nominated for The Social Network and True Grit. In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola and Fred Roos received Best Picture nominations for both The Conversation and the eventual winner, The Godfather Part II.

With their nominations for Best Picture, Directing and Writing for True Grit, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen join Warren Beatty, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson and Oliver Stone in having been nominated in those three categories for two different films. Only Stanley Kubrick has been nominated in those categories for three different films (Dr. Strangelove in 1964, A Clockwork Orange in 1971, Barry Lyndon in 1975). The Coens were previously nominated for No Country for Old Men (2007).

In the acting categories, eight individuals are first-time nominees. Four of the nominees (Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Rush and Nicole Kidman) are previous acting winners. Jeff Bridges, Colin Firth and Jeremy Renner were also nominated last year.

Javier Bardem's nominated performance is in Spanish. Five performers have won Academy Awards for roles using spoken languages other than English. They are Sophia Loren (1961, Actress in Two Women), Robert De Niro (1974, Supporting Actor in The Godfather Part II), Roberto Benigni (1998, Actor in Life Is Beautiful), Benicio Del Toro (2000, Supporting Actor in Traffic) and Marion Cotillard (2007, Actress in La Vie en Rose). In addition, Marlee Matlin received the 1986 Leading Actress award for a performance almost entirely in American Sign Language. The other nominees have been Marcello Mastroianni (1962, Actor in Divorce - Italian Style; 1977, Actor in A Special Day and 1987, Actor in Dark Eyes), Sophia Loren (1964, Actress in Marriage Italian Style), Anouk Aimee (1966, Actress in A Man and a Woman), Ida Kaminska (1966, Actress in The Shop on Main Street), Liv Ullmann (1972, Actress in The Emigrants and 1976, Actress in Face to Face), Valentina Cortese (1974, Supporting Actress in Day for Night), Isabelle Adjani (1975, Actress in The Story of Adele H. and 1989, Actress in Camille Claudel), Marie-Christine Barrault (1976, Actress in Cousin, Cousine), Giancarlo Giannini (1976, Actor in Seven Beauties), Ingrid Bergman (1978, Actress in Autumn Sonata), Max von Sydow (1988, Actor in Pelle the Conqueror), Gerard Depardieu (1990, Actor in Cyrano de Bergerac), Graham Greene (1990, Supporting Actor in Dances With Wolves), Catherine Deneuve (1992, Actress in Indochine), Massimo Troisi (1995, Actor in The Postman [Il Postino]), Fernanda Montenegro (1998, Actress in Central Station), Catalina Sandino Moreno (2004, Actress in Maria Full of Grace), Penelope Cruz (2006, Actress in Volver), and Rinko Kikuchi (2006, Supporting Actress in Babel).

Alan Menken’s nomination for Original Song is his fourteenth in that category, with four wins. If he were to win a fifth award, he would move ahead of Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mercer and James Van Heusen, each of whom won four awards in the Song category. Menken also has five nominations and four wins in the Original Score category.

• Best Picture Release Dates:

• Winter's Bone - June 11, 2010

• Toy Story 3 - June 18, 2010

• The Kids Are All Right - July 9, 2010

• Inception - July 16, 2010

• The Social Network - October 1, 2010

• 127 Hours - November 5, 2010

• The King's Speech - November 26, 2010

• Black Swan - December 3, 2010

• The Fighter - December 10, 2010

• True Grit - December 22, 2010

Gus Summers is the Host and Broadcast Producer for The "IN Show, an entertaining broadcast that covers all things exciting and enlightening. When Gus isn't busy covering current events and interesting people, you'll see him out and about enjoying all that the City of Angels has to offer. For any questions, comments, or program ideas, he can be reached at gus@theinshow.com.