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Satine: What's his type? Wilting flower? Bright and bubbly? Or smoldering temptress?  Zidler: I'd say... smoldering temptress.

BEST FEATURE Beasts of the Southern Wild Bernie Keep the Lights On Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook BEST DIRECTOR Wes Anderson for Moonrise Kingdom Julia Loktev for The Loneliest Planet David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook Ira Sachs for Keep the Lights On Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild BEST FEMALE LEAD Linda Cardellini for Return Emayatzy Corinealdi for Middle of Nowhere Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild Mary Elizabeth Winstead for Smashed BEST MALE LEAD Jack Black for Bernie Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook John Hawkes for The Sessions Thure Lindhardt for Keep the Lights On Matthew McConaughey for Killer Joe Wendell Pierce for Four BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Rosemarie Dewitt for Your Sister's Sister Ann Dowd for Compliance Helen Hunt for The Sessions Brit Marling for Sound of My Voice Lorraine Toussaint for Middle of Nowhere BEST SUPPO...

1. Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables Born: November 12, 1982 - Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Previous Oscar acting recognition: 2009 - Best Leading Actress for Rachel Getting Married (nom) Oscar snubed performance(s): none After making an impression as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises , Miss Hathaway is just under crazy Oscar buzz thanks to her role as Fantine in Tom Hooper's adaptation of Les Misérables musical. Fantine is such a tragic meaty character: a single mother, betrayed by life, who must to sell her hair and turn into a prostitute in order to survive and to send money to her little daughter. Plus, Hathaway has one of the most iconic songs of the show and judging by the trailer, tears will be shed during her more honest version "I Dreamed a Dream" (she simply sounds truly desperate!). She has the talent, the role, the beauty and she has the voice... and according to Nathaniel Rogers from The Fil...

1. Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook Born: August 15, 1990 - Louisville, Kentucky, USA Previous Oscar acting recognition: 2011 - Best Leading Actress for Winter's Bone (nom) Oscar snubed performance(s): none After the tremendous success of The Hunger Games , where Lawrence delivers such a captivating performance, Jennifer's Oscar dream may come true not because of the critically well-received blockbuster mentioned before but because of David O. Russell's independent comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook (the big winner of TIFF). The movie is under serious Best Picture Oscar buzz and Lawrence's performance is nothing less than raved, being called the biggest standout of the whole movie. Only 22, she makes the critics forget about her youth by playing a "mature" widow with some serious problems, making a huge impression by showing a rage and a comic timing that Winter's Bones audiences never imagined she could have (I only ...

Christopher McCandless: You are the apple of my eye.

I'm sorry for being away from Cinema and Popcorn, but I had some personal issues and some college exams and it was hard for me to post something to remind you I'm still alive. The remaining Academy Awards 2013 nominees preditions: 3rd ROUND are coming. I keep watching OLD movies in order to elect my BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS and BEST ORIGINAL SCORE ever... "Shot of the Week" and "For Our Consideration" will come back too

1. Argo Director: Ben Affleck Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Chris Messina, Kyle Chandler, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Alan Arkin Synopsis: " Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis-the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA "exfiltration" specialist named Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies. " Ben Affleck's latest was ...