Hammond: Oscar Hopefuls Swarm Hollywood Awards Gala

Across town as President Barack Obama was drawing every celebrity not in contention for awards this season, the 15th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala was taking place at the Beverly Hilton and all the Oscar hopefuls who agreed to show up to accept an award werethere in their Monday finest as this was a place to be seen if you want an ego boost at this early point in the season. With 19 above and below the line categories to plow through this was a surprisingly fun show that if it didn’t already exist, Hollywood would have to find someway to invent. Billed as the”official” kickoff to awards season ( if you don’t count all those film festivals we have just been through), The Hollywood Awards, created – and basically chosen – by Executive DirectorCarlos de Abreu (who with Janice Penningtonfounded the Gala and accompanying Film Festival) are the result ofa months-long negotiation between him and the studios and distributors who are using this early opportunity to get key positioning for the players they hope to advanceduring the long awards season leading ultimately to Oscar. The only caveat is that to get the award you have to agree to show up. This year de Abreuhas his pulse on some real contenders and handed out acting awards to, among many others, Michelle Williams, George Clooney and Christopher Plummer who all could realistically be consideredclose to front runners in their respective categories. A real highlight of the show was when Marilyn Monroe’s Oscar-nominated Bus Stop (1956) co-star Don Murray showed up to present Hollywood Actress of the Yearto Williams who plays the iconic star in The Weinstein Company’s My WeekWith Marilyn.”I’m the last of the the on-screen lovers of Marilyn Monroe and I stilljust happen to have a body that actually works, “the 82-year old actorsaid to much laughter. “Michelle re-created momentsI was so intimately familiarto me as I spent 14 months working withMarilyn. There’s not one thing in this film that’s not truthful. It was a revelation. Michelle’s performance made me appreciate Marilyn Monroe so much more.” Williams, noticeably nervous, said her friends always wanted to see her win a award so she couldbasically sweat through the experience. She did well thoughclosing with atouchingperception about Monroe. “It seems to me that all Marilyn Monroe wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress and she studied so hard and never really there,” shesaid adding that it wasironic Williams herself could get this kind of recognition that so eluded thestar she played. In his acceptance as Hollywood Actor of the year for The Descendants, Clooney kept inserting the word “lucky” into his speech. “I was lucky to land on a hospital show on Thursday nights at 10 on NBC that changed my career. I was lucky to workwith these people. I was lucky to get this part. I was lucky to work with Alexander Payne. And I am lucky to be here with all of you,” he said. Clooney also commented on how bad everyone looked on the giant projection screen behind the podium. I have said it before and I will say it again , these speeches are a really good wayfor the winners to practice giving theirspeeches for the Golden Globeswhich will be held in the same room just 2 1/2 months later. And if that’s the case perhaps the most effective speech would have to be the one 81 year old Christopher Plummer gave in accepting his Supporting Actor of the Yearhonor forBeginners near the top ofthe show.” It’s nice to get this early in the ceremony because it’s way past my bedtime. I want to thank the invisible committee for seriously risking their reputationsin givingme this plaque. I loved doing this film because I have never been this relaxed in front of a camera,” he said. Co-star Ewan McGregor presented it to him and got laughs saying he was nervous meetingPlummer because “I wondered if he liked my version of ‘the hills are alive with the sound of music’ in Moulin Rouge”. Supporting Actress honoree Carey Mulligan, shooting Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in Australia flew in to accept her award for Shame from Christoph Waltz saying “I begged and begged (director) Steve McQueen for the part and even followed him into a taxi and pretended I was going to Soho.” Some of the most amusing moments of the night were watching the French honorees from The Artist trying to thank Harvey Weinstein (who wasin the audience)for making the film possible. Receiving his award from co-star Penelope Ann Miller Breakthough Director winner Michel Hazanavicius thanked ” Horvey Win Steen” while his leading actor and Spotlight Award winner Jean Dujardinasked ” Do I have to talk? It’s a silent movie. My english is rusty but I want to thank Harvey Whine Stin.” Glenn Close , who is hoping to nab her sixth Oscar nomination this year for Albert Nobbs, flew in for one night from the NY set of Damages to accept the Hollywood Career Achievement Award and said,”It’s humbling and kind of confusing. If anything it points up the fragility of it all,” as she went on to thank all her make up and hair people, the cinematographers, her parents, her first film director George Roy Hill and her husband David Shaw who she said figured out the secret to her success when he observed, “IKNOW what it is. It’s all about the hair.” Some of the best speeches of the night belonged to presenter Anne Hathaway who eschewed the teleprompter for her own cleverly written notes in presenting 50/50 star Joseph Gordon-Levitt with the Breakthrough Actor of the Year award, slyly pointing out he has actually been in the business 20 years,and a very bearded Ben Affleck whobegan hisCinematographer of the Year presentationto The Tree of Life’s Emmanuel Lubezki by saying how he had been mistaken for Jerry Bruckheimer when he drove up to the hotel. In presenting Young Adult writer Diablo Cody’s Screenwriter of the Year award , Quentin Tarantino got big laughs quoting NY Times critic A.O.Scott’s review of her not-so-successful Juno follow up, Jennifer’s Body. ” Scott wrote ‘Do you thinkDiablo Cody isa great writer? Wellonly if you think Quentin Tarantino is a great writer’. Well I do and I DO,” he said. The final award to the ensemble cast of The Help was another highlight. Co-star Viola Davis accepted for the large group with heartfelt remarks about the toll theawards season takes. “Something you lose in self-promotion and the Oscar push and publicists is that this is a collaborative art. There’s a sense of trust that in order to make the art form work you couldn’t do only yourself, ” she said with tears welling up. “Rather than arguing about billing, trailers, locations, you’re all in this together. This cast is 99% women and we all walked away loving each other.” Director of the Year Bennett Miller told me after getting his award from co-star Jonah Hill that he felt good about how Moneyball turned out, despite all its checkered history (original director Steven Soderbergh departed just days before production was to begin). To be standing up there with this award was a real triumph for Miller. With all this Hollywood glitz and glamour it seems odd no one has stepped up to televise the event, even with Starz as the main presenting sponsor . In fact Starz head honcho Chris Albrecht opened the evening and couldn’t help but notice the star-studded room. The only problem is that in order to get them to show up you have to give them an award. That’s really Hollywood.

Bradley Cooper To Become Guy From UNCLE?

Warners' top option to replace ClooneySteven Soderbergh's The Guy From U.N.C.L.E. may have lately lost George Clooney (when they ever really had him), but it is searching as though his alternative may curently have showed up. Variety are confirming that Warners have offered Bradley Cooper the role from the devastatingly suave Napoleon Solo.Robert Vaughn performed Solo in thelight-hearted spy series that went for 105 episodes between 1964 and 1968, opposite David McCallum because the intense Russian Illya Kuryakin. U.N.C.L.E. was an worldwide intelligence agency: the U . s . Network Command for Police Force. Their chief antagonists were the agents of T.H.R.U.S.H.: the Technological Hierarchy for removing Undesirables and also the Subjugation of Humanity (although that acronym never was really revealed within the series: it is a retcon in the spinoff books). The series created a sister inThe Girl From U.N.C.L.E., several cinema releases of broadened TV episodes, along with a reunion TV movie in 1983.Clooney had lengthy been mooted for that film Body of Soderbergh's allegedly final projects - but his loss has not affected Warners' plans to begin with-date of Feb the coming year. Soderbergh is planning for a fun affair having a period 60s setting, and also the author is Scott Z Burns (Contagion, The Informant!). Cooper has yet to finally sign, but we are thinking some stylish spycraft may be a stylish change-up following the celestial fight shenanigans of Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost, where he's playing fallen angel Lucifer.Burns excited lately to Not Far Off that "U.N.C.L.E. would be a really incredibly progressive, hopeful type of show... I believe we are able to perform some really awesome stuff, shooting individuals cars which fashion which aesthetic with present day cameras and technology..."Soderbergh's Contagion has gone out now.

The Vampire Journals Bite: Have the Back Story round the Tyler-Caroline Romance

Candice Accola The Vampire Diaries' Caroline and Tyler have easy chemistry on-screen, but off-camera, the kissing moments are a tad awkward for your two stars. Candice Accola notifies TVGuide.com: "It's still strange." Watch this week's Vampire Journals Bite for just about any behind-the-moments story round the Tyler and Caroline romance:

'Real Steel' Knocks Out 'Footloose' At Box Office

Matt Reeves, you are going to enter "The Twilight Zone." Warner Bros. has certainly let the correct one in by employing the "Cloverfield" and "Allow Me To In" filmmaker to direct a brand new large-screen adaptation from the classic Fishing rod Sterling television series. Deadline has got the news, confirming around the Jason Rothenberg-composed film: "Although the last Twilight Zone film was an anthology with various company directors, that one is really a large sci-fi action movie having a single free standing story that's from the original series mainly for the reason that it shares that familiarly eerie feel." Personally, I am thrilled with picking a Reeves, but I sometimes wish WB choose to go the anthology route and hired multiple company directors to supervise different "Twilight Zone" vignettes. That lately leaked wish listing of filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuaron might have designed for one heck of the dynamic moviegoing experience. In the past "The Twilight Zone" news » It was initially reported last year that Leonardo DiCaprio and the Appian Way production company could be joining with Warner Bros. to produce a new film version of "The Twilight Zone." » On hearing this news, we emerged with this own wish listing of classic "Twilight Zone" episodes we'd need to see around the giant screen. » News continued to be quiet until early October, whenever a report arrived on the scene that Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuaron were one of the company directors Warner Bros. was thinking about to helm the "Twilight Zone" remake. Ultimately, the task visited Matt Reeves. Inform us that which you think about the "Twilight Zone" news within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Warner Bros Buys Spec Script About Math Genius Alan Turing For Leonardo DiCaprio

EXCLUSIVE: To anybody by having an intention in people Enigma codebreakerswho aided win World war ii as well as the math prodigies whose work introduced towards the roll-from the earliestcomputers, your title Alan Turing holds a lot of fascination. This British historic figure most prominent from 1940 through 1955 may also be the subject of a big spec script purchase today. First-time film author Graham Moore’sThe Imitation Game was clicked on up by Warner Bros in the 7-figure deal. I’ve discovered that the studio outbid halfa dozen indie companies because Leonardo DiCaprio”has this news” to see charge and was chasing after following the project.But so farno talent is attached.I hear Ron Howard is interested in pointing. First-time producers Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky possessed the rights toAndrew Hodges’ definitive biography Alan Turing: The Enigma and labored with Moorefor a minimum of annually to obtain the script perfect.Moore is yet another first-time novelist and also the crime fiction debut The Sherlockian, filled with Conan Doyle lore, received a rave reviewin The NY Occasions by Jesse Maslin. People I trust tell meThe Imitation Game may be the finest script they’ve read inside a very long time — and so they read plenty of scripts. The existence story from the British math wizzard, logician, cryptanalyst, computer investigator, criminally punished homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide by consuming a cyanide-laced apple has everything. (Apparently, Jobs named his company “Apple” just like a tribute to Turing.) “Think The King’s Speech without any huge advantageous ending,” an origin notifies me. I’m told that CAA’s J.P. Evans, manager Peter Safran, and lawyer Alan Wertheimer madetoday’s purchase happen.

Matt's Self-help guide to Wednesday TV: FX's Horror Story, HBO's Tribute to George Harrison plus much more

Dylan McDermott There's Room As Being A HAUNTED HOME: To hell with Casper. The ghosts are decidedly unfriendly nowadays. Not content to go to "Boo!" inside the evening, the malevolent spirits that haunt FX's terminally twisted American Horror Story (10/9c) use a inclination to acquire beneath the skin, playing sexually charged and violent mind games utilizing their sufferers.But wait, how frightening is haunted-house slip show? Would depend on regardless if you are in the "less is a lot moreInch or "more is a lot moreInch school of terror. Horror Story errs across the side of overkill, telling us in the perilously little distinction between what's frightening and basically plain silly. From Ryan Murphy (Glee) within the garishly medieval psychosexual Puppy puppy nip/Tuck mode of wretched excess, that is so overstuffed and disjointed within the reckless piling on of nasty shocks-for-shock's-sake, it frequently feels as if it were edited getting a Cuisinart on "chain saw" setting.Still, I defy explore to acquire goose bumps whenever a character descends into the Cellar Where Disgusting Evil Hides, beginning while using classic prologue - occur 1978, the season Halloween opened up, which is definitely purposely - through which two repulsive twins are attracted for his or her disaster while slightly neighbor girl with Lower syndrome chants, "You're destined to be sorry.InchWant more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Following most likely probably the most chilling and unnervingly grotesque title sequences in recent memory - it's much more provocative in comparison to show's peculiar poster having its rubber-suited ghoul hiding around the half-naked lady - we cut to the present day. A hazardously couple (Dylan McDermott, who's irritatingly stiff, and Connie Britton, who's simply uncomfortable) transfer to some '20s-era L.A. mansion they are purchasing for just about any steal - first danger signal - utilizing their snotty teenage daughter (the unbearably smug Taissa Farmiga). Very rapidly, it's apparent they've signed a lease around the perverse madhouse that's happy to rub salt deep for their psychic wounds. They're destined to be sorry.Will the viewer be sorry? Once again, it's determined by an individual's tolerance for indulgent and borderline-incoherent mayhem. You will discover periodic shivery pleasures, including an inspired recurring hallucination together with a creepy old housekeeper (Six Foot Under's Frances Conroy) who most males frequently see just like a sexy maid (Alexandra Breckenridge). To ensure that his or her blithely nosy Southern belle from the neighbor, Jessica Lange steals this surreal freak show with comical verve, purring and hissing in the delirious display of mock piety laced with menacing vulgarity. She's sufficient induce to stay updated. Still, the mess of yank Horror Story is berserk with a fault, although it has an unnerving originality compelling us to check out ultimately cringe, or even smirk.Enter in the own risk.NIGHT'S TOP PICK: Inside the tradition of Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biographical portrait of Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, Cinemax presents Scorsese's two-evening tribute for the so-referred to as "quiet Beatle" inside the completely observed George Harrison: Dwelling within the fabric World (9/8c concludes Thursday). The documentary charts Harrison's musical and spiritual journey with films, a treasure chest of photographs, and interviews with pals and co-employees including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Phil Spector, Yoko Ono, George Martin, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty. Our in-house music guru Ernest Hudak declares this documentary being "splendid."Ideal For Fun: In the special Wednesday episode, Fox's rambunctious Raising Hope (9:30/8:30c) sends your family to Las vegas for your wedding of Virginia's nose-in-the-air cousin Delilah, carried out for the hilt by Amy Sedaris, who's an all-natural fit relating to this garish yet endearing sitcom. Delilah has spent her whole existence upstaging Virginia, who declares, "It's like she's authors or something like that like this,Inch which is especially humbled when recalling her own rash wedding to Burt when she was pregnant with Jimmy. The episode evolves with a sweet finish, developing a enjoyable contrast with Tuesday night's "Wedding" episode of latest Girl.KIDS TODAY! Can South Park be 15 years of age? Fortunately, the 4th-graders remain resolutely immature. The show's designers, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are warmer than in the past, getting recently been profiled with an hour while their Tony-winning musical It of Mormon is Broadway's hardest ticket. (If you fail to enter, accept the hilariously profane original cast album.) Since the year of South Park begins (Comedy Central, 10/9c), Cartman slaughters another sacred cow while he convinces themselves he's Asperger's syndrome. Dvr alert: To celebrate the 15-year milestone, Comedy Central will air a behind-the-moments documentary, 6 Days to Air: Your building of South Park, on Sunday (10/9c), which I'll discuss inside a couple of days.Just what else is on? ... Some selected highlights: Fox's The X Factor (8/7c) moves into its boot-camping phase getting a 90-minute episode. Might this put a begin working the show's ratings? ... Gloria is doggone wanting to find Stella after losing the polarizing pooch on ABC's Modern Family (9/8c). ... Next! Emily sets her sights on taking lower the DA who wrongly billed her father. This is why they think of it as Revenge (ABC, 10/9c). ... On BBC America's gripping Luther (10/9c), the embattled detective is searching for his loyal partner Ripley, who's been kidnapped and influences sadistic clutches in the masked serial killer. But Luther's encounter while using thugs who wish him to return teenage prostitute Jenny proves a similarly painful distraction.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

VIDEO: Andy Rooney Signs Off an hour or so

Tonight 92-year-old Andy Rooney made his 1,097th and final regular appearance with an hour. If perhaps I really could do this forever, he mentioned within the final essay titled My Lucky Existence, through which he thanked his audiences and, within the trademark curmudgeonly style also be a huge hit on their behalf, “If you discover me in the restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.” This really is really the recording: