Oscar Night!

[jo]

They have added another diva to the show - Dame Shirley Bassey to sing her memorable GOLDFINGER Bond theme!

www.showbiz411.com/2013/02/08/oscar-first-shirley-bassey-bringing-goldfinger-to-show


I am beginning to wonder if Hugh will be performing in the show??!!!

Jo

[birchie]

Feb 8, 2013 12:18:07 GMT -5 jo said:

They have added another diva to the show - Dame Shirley Bassey to sing her memorable GOLDFINGER Bond theme!

www.showbiz411.com/2013/02/08/oscar-first-shirley-bassey-bringing-goldfinger-to-show


I am beginning to wonder if Hugh will be performing in the show??!!!

Jo

Wow, how old is she?? It may have said in the article but I can't click on links because articles are usually on very graphic intensive sites and this old clunker can't go there, literally!
Seriously though, I didn't know she was still performing.

There seem to be an awful lot of performances being planned-too much maybe? I thought it was announced earlier that Hugh would be part of the musical tribute performance and I was wondering what happened to the nominated song performance. I wish he or someone would say if and what he will actually be performing. It would be terrible if he didn't perform at all!
Sue

[bandala]

I just came across this:

www.hollywoodnews.com/2013/01/17/hugh-jackman-to-be-co-chair-of-elton-johns-oscar-party/

There are a number of co-chairs, but Hugh and Deb are among them! Well done!

[chessie]

If Hugh does not sing the song that was written for him then I for one will be extremely disappointed!

Carol

[jo]

There has been no announcement as to what they will do with the nominated songs - whether clips will be shown or live performances will be featured. Adele has been invited to perform but no one knows if this is for the salute to the James Bond movie series celebrating its 50th year (and which will also feature Shirley Bassey). There was also an announcement that Norah Jones will sing - not sure for what. And Barbra Streisand has agreed to perform ( many are speculating that this will be a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch).

If the Les Miserables portion in the three-musicals tribute ( together with Chicago and Dreamgirls) will feature ensemble singing ( either Do You Hear...or One Day More) - already indicated, as Sam Barks and the Barricade Boys are flying from England to join the show -- those songs don't really have much of Valjean's singing. And nothing of Anne Hathaway either. We'll see if there will be solo medleys, followed by ensemble singing.

There seems to be a dearth of male performers who will sing solo who have been announced. Maybe we will get some news as Oscar night approaches?

Jo

[mamaleh]

I'm still holding out hope that Barbra will sing a duet with Hugh. I'm sure Deb would plotz with happiness, as would I. (Hey, I'd get shpilkes in my genechtigezoink, LOL.)

Ellen

[hu4601]

Feb 17, 2013 15:38:44 GMT -5 jo said:

There has been no announcement as to what they will do with the nominated songs - whether clips will be shown or live performances will be featured. Adele has been invited to perform but no one knows if this is for the salute to the James Bond movie series celebrating its 50th year (and which will also feature Shirley Bassey). There was also an announcement that Norah Jones will sing - not sure for what. And Barbra Streisand has agreed to perform ( many are speculating that this will be a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch).

If the Les Miserables portion in the three-musicals tribute ( together with Chicago and Dreamgirls) will feature ensemble singing ( either Do You Hear...or One Day More) - already indicated, as Sam Barks and the Barricade Boys are flying from England to join the show -- those songs don't really have much of Valjean's singing. And nothing of Anne Hathaway either. We'll see if there will be solo medleys, followed by ensemble singing.

There seems to be a dearth of male performers who will sing solo who have been announced. Maybe we will get some news as Oscar night approaches?

Jo

Heard Norah jones interviewed on Australian TV this morning(she is presently doing a show in Sydney). She mentioned she would be singing the theme song from the movie Ted. So it looks like there could be a chance of all the best song nominees being sung live, in which case it would have to be Hugh-surely.

[jo]

I'm sure Deb would plotz with happiness, as would I.

Me, three ;D

My other dream musical would have been Sunset Boulevard with Babs as Norma and Hugh as Joe


Jo

[jo]

All nominated songs will be performed live, according to Deadline Hollywood --

www.deadline.com/2013/02/oscars-ceremony-producers-want-to-uphold-tradition-and-modernize/#more-430260

In addition to being a first-time host, MacFarlane is a first-time nominee as cowriter of Ted’s main title song, “Everybody Needs a Best Friend”. Norah Jones will sing it on the show, as the producers have also decided to bring back the tradition of having all five nominated tunes sung live. Among them, pop superstar Adele will be singing the hit nominee “Skyfall” and performing on television for the first time since she swept the Grammys a year ago.

[jo]

Here's something interesting!

Skyfall - sang by Adele
Everybody Needs A Best Friend ( from Ted) - sang by Norah Jones
Before my Time from the documentary Chasing Ice - sang by Scarlett Johansson, with violin by Joshua Bell
Pi's Lullaby - sang by a lady vocalist from India, Bombay Jayashri, who also composed the song.
Suddenly - sang by Hugh Jackman

Ahem -- Hugh will be the only male vocalist among the performers for the 5 nominated songs!


Will Isabelle Allen play a role in the scene?

Jo

[njr]

Feb 17, 2013 17:55:57 GMT -5 mamaleh said:

I'm still holding out hope that Barbra will sing a duet with Hugh. I'm sure Deb would plotz with happiness, as would I. (Hey, I'd get shpilkes in my genechtigezoink, LOL.)

Ellen

ROTFLMAO!

Nancy

[birchie]

All in all, it sounds like it has the potential to be a very good show even if the awards don't work out. The barricade boys have been tweeting about going to/flying in/arriving in...LA so if there is a One Day More or Do You Hear The People Sing ensemble the BB will be well represented (Fra Fee is going a show and won't be able to go) Haven't heard about Aaron, Sam or Issy.

I hope it's true that Hugh will be singing Suddenly. It would be great if Issy could be sleeping in his lap! I second (3rd? 4th?) the vote for a Barbra/Hugh duet! Anyway, I'm now looking forward to the show but still nervous and not too hopeful about the actual awards. I hope there is a hug(h)e upset for Best Actor!!!
Sue

[jo]

The cover of the New Yorker is obviously a pitch for Oscar night -- but why did they have to hide Hugh Jackman's visage with the lettering of the magazine name ??!!



www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/cover-story-drawing-movie-stars-oscars.html#slide_ss_0=1

[birchie]

Feb 18, 2013 18:08:55 GMT -5 jo said:

The cover of the New Yorker is obviously a pitch for Oscar night -- but why did they have to hide Hugh Jackman's visage with the lettering of the magazine name ??!!



www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/cover-story-drawing-movie-stars-oscars.html#slide_ss_0=1

First Time now the New Yorker! Looks like another blatant DDL/Lincoln plug.
How many magazines did the producers/marketing people buy off for that movie?
Sue

[jo]

Love the Katie Couric Awards >

www.katiecouric.com/videos/awards-hugh-jackman-robert-de-niro-jessica-chastain-and-sally-field-never-saw-coming/

Best Musical Performance
Best Bod
Most Adorable


Guess who ;D

Jo

[mamaleh]

Small wonder she "loves her job." I would, too.

Ellen

[jo]

CinemaBlend's Katey Rich gives a forceful and entirely sympathetic case for why LES MISERABLES deserves the Oscar BEST PICTURE!

www.cinemablend.com/new/Your-Consideration-Les-Miserables-Big-Emotional-Film-Deserves-Best-Picture-35827.html

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For Your Consideration: Les Miserables Is The Big, Emotional Film That Deserves Best Picture

published: 2013-02-18 17:19:58
Author: Katey Rich


From now until the Friday before the Oscars we'll be running daily pieces about why a film does or does not deserve Best Picture. We've had speak up for Michael Haneke's Amour, Mack chimed in against Django Unchained while Eric stuck up for it, and Sean vouched for the magic of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Earlier Rich had a bone to pick with Les Miserables, or at least one member of its cast, and now Katey is here to sing its praises as a big, old-school film with a modern twist.

From the moment Les Miserables begins, it is announcing that it is big. A booming score, an enormous shot of a group of prisoners pulling a ship into harbor, a tattered French flag in the water representing the battered hopes of a people yearning to be free. An epic story based on an epic novel and a massive hit musical, Les Miserables shows up threatening to burst out of the sides of the frame at any second. It has a lot of feelings, and it's going to make you feel every single one of them.

When it comes down to it, isn't that what movies ought to be-- especially the ones produced by Hollywood? This is an industry that shepherd and transformed the musical, from Busby Berkeley fever dreams to Gene Kelly showmanship to the wackadoo spirit of Moulin Rouge! For more than a century Hollywood has taken this format born onstage and given it new life, allowing audiences to marvel at skilled dancing and heartfelt singing and elaborate sets for much cheaper than Broadway. By the time Les Miserables made it to screen its musical forebear had been on nearly every stage on the planet, with generations of fans rabid about their favorite Valjean or the true meaning of "Bring Him Home." If a movie version was going to play for all of these audiences, it didn't just have to nail it-- it had to redefine the musical entirely.

And Tom Hooper, that young Englishman who stole that Best Director Oscar right out from under David Fincher, managed to do it. His distinctive, close-up heavy cinematography has come in for a ton of grief, but it's undeniably effective, making this huge stage musical feel intimate and cinematic, and making songs that were merely moving onstage become heartstoppers onscreen. The best close-up, yes, does come early on, when Anne Hathaway demolishes "I Dreamed A Dream," but it lends power to songs throughout the film, from Jean Valjean's "What Have I Done" to the tender "A Little Fall of Rain" at the barricade. But combining them with the big shots, like the ship one at the very start or the zoom out over the winding streets of Paris with the barricade in the center, Hooper is using his camera to make a stage musical feel totally new-- with all the confidence you'd imagine that Oscar handed him.

The story that made Les Miserables such an enormous hit is perfectly intact, and in some ways improved. Fantine's showstopper "I Dreamed A Dream" is sung not before the endures the horrors in "Lovely Ladies" but after, a totally logical swap that gives her song even more emotional power. The big first-act finale "One Day More" happens before the rousing "Do You Hear The People Sing?" which allows each song to have more of a prominent role. Even the new song "Suddenly," derided by some as a cheap bid for the Best Original Song nomination, plays a key role in establishing the father-daughter relationship between Cosette and Valjean, the kind of life-changing moment you'd think would have deserved its own song in the original version, too.

And with the tight camera, of course, you need the actors to convey all these big feelings-- and Tom Hooper's prestigious name ensured they could get pretty much the best out there. Hugh Jackman clearly knows he was born to play Jean Valjean, committing himself fiercely to the role with weight loss and terrible hairdos and many tears directly into the camera. Anne Hathaway, as is well-established, makes just as strong a commitment, in a performance you actively miss once she's offscreen. Russell Crowe, for all the conversation about his weak singing, is forceful and believably cruel as Javert, and then crucially sympathetic as the second act begins. The smaller roles are all strong in their own ways, but special mention has to go to Eddie Redmayne, playing the passionate young revolutionary Marius with all the bright eyes and energy anyone could muster, plus an added sex appeal that has clearly marked his arrival as a star.

Les Miserables is the kind of musical that drives non-fans batty, but if you're watching this movie wondering why people are singing everything, you're genuinely missing the point. Musicals express feelings in a way spoken word simply can't, and this version of Les Miserables understands how to drill to the very root of those feelings, in ways nothing onstage really can. More than any of its fellow Best Picture nominees, it combines the old-fashioned showmanship of Hollywood films of yore with a crisp, modern aesthetic-- a signpost of how musicals can draw from the past as well as a map toward what they might become.

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Exactly the feelings of a true Les Miserables fan - not just from a musical theatre purist point of view!

Thanks, Katey Rich, for truly understanding what this movie's cinematic vision is all about!

I have no doubts at all that the movie musical of Les Miserables is one for the ages -- of cultural and filmmaking annals!


Jo

[carouselkathy]

Very true, Jo. As I've said before, LES MIS will be the film remembered by audiences. I've come to the conclusion that Oscar voting is often either political or sentimental. Anything can happen, and has over the years. The film has been nominated and so has Hugh. The Awards Show will once again feature live performances of nominated songs. It's going to be emotional whatever happens. Now that Hugh's dad is attending, I soooooooooo much hope that Hugh is the winner.

[jo]

The New York Times writes about " The Oscar for Best Fabrication" re three movies (Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and Lincoln) that are based on some aspects of American history but where some quarters have raised historical authenticity issues.

www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/dowd-the-oscar-for-best-fabrication.html?_r=1&

[jo]

The design of the Oscar stage --

www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscar-set-20130216,0,4571425.story



Hope the actual stage looks better than the artist's rendering of the concept.

The article further discusses the concept.


Jo

[jo]

Down memory lane -- when Fantine accuses Valjean of abandoning her

www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Z9tdm5FPhx4&feature=endscreen

[JH4HJ]

Feb 19, 2013 0:19:59 GMT -5 jo said:

The design of the Oscar stage --
Hope the actual stage looks better than the artist's rendering of the concept.

Ditto. It doesn't look very spectacular, does it?

[mamaleh]

You were prescient about naming this thread, Jo. Interesting; just in time for Hugh's year: he's not nominated for an Academy Award, but an Oscar. And so it shall be, perhaps, from now on:

www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/ampas-drops-85th-academy-awards-now-its-just-oscars-78211

Ellen

[jo]

Deadline Hollywood shares the exclusive scoop on what is going to happen on Oscar night, in this interview with Oscar show producers Meron and Zadan --

www.deadline.com/2013/02/oscars-les-mis-cast-jennifer-hudson-catherine-zeta-jones-to-sing-live-in-musicals-tribute-show-producers-reveal-more-behind-the-scenes-details-interview/

Oscars: ‘Les Mis’ Cast, Jennifer Hudson, Catherine Zeta-Jones To Sing Live In Musicals Tribute; Show Producers Reveal More Behind-The-Scenes Details – Interview

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 4:32am

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls and Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago will be performing their Oscar-winning roles on Sunday’s Academy Awards as part of a celebration honoring the resurgence of movie musicals of the last decade. In the same segment revisiting their roles from this year’s Best Picture contender Les Miserables will be several of the film’s key cast members including Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway along with Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tevit, Samantha Barks, and Helena Bonham Carter.

This year’s Oscar show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who last month announced the musical tribute would be part of their show, have kept the participants who will be singing a secret until finally first breaking the news to Deadline this morning.

They have produced musicals for film like Chicago and Hairspray, for television films like Cinderella and The Music Man, on Broadway with How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and Promises Promises and on series TV with their current Smash. Music is obviously in their DNA and, as evidenced by the musical talent they are luring to the telecast, that is clearly what their Oscar show is going to be all about. Host Seth MacFarlane will be merging music with his comedy bits right from the opening as well. When I sat down with the producing duo this week in their temporary office at the Dolby Theatre where they have been ensconced for the past ten days prepping the 85th Academy Awards show, they seemed highly enthusiastic and quite confident about the way its going so far despite the enormity of trying to cram in more entertainment segments than usual, deal with an all-star cast of singers, dancers , presenters and collective egos, and still give proper due to all 24 Oscar categories. Zadan and Meron compare it to opening a Broadway show ”with a cast we could never afford”. It also helps their ratings hopes that six , almost seven, of the 9 Best Picture nominees have made over $100 million in the U.S. alone. Last year only The Help could boast that it hit that magic mark. The producers hope this means the audience will have a rooting factor.

With segments including the aforementioned tribute to movie musicals of the last decade including their own Chicago (which will also have a cast reunion on the show), a spot with Barbra Streisand performing on the Oscars for only the second time in her career, and a 50th Anniversary James Bond Tribute than will include the first appearance on the show by 007 song diva Shirley Bassey (Goldfinger) there is a lot of anticipation for Sunday night. But as I have previously reported, and despite what other media keep saying, don’t expect a reunion of James Bonds on stage. That was never in the plans. As Zadan and Meron point out their Oscar show them is all about music, and that includes Bond.

Yet with all this star power Meron says they are most proud of the six college filmmaking students who won a contest they devised to be on the show as statuette presenters. Their idea was to bring in passionate young moviemakers of tomorrow to share the stage with cream of crop working in the industry today. Call it an Oscar show for all generations. At least that is what this pair is hoping for, as well as a show you can walk out humming apparently.

Deadline: You’ve been planning this show for a long time, but here you are now finally in the Dolby Theatre.

Zadan: Yes, since August when Hawk (Koch) called us we’ve been working on it. The weirdest thing is we’ve been saying ‘oh we have four months. We have all this time’, and now all of a sudden we are saying ‘it’s this week!’ It’s inconceivable that it’s gone by so fast. It really crept on us.

Deadline: You have a big musical theme for the Oscar show this year with a lot more entertainment planned than usual. How are you going to bring this in at three hours?

Zadan: They would like it to be three hours and we are doing as much as we can to bring it in as close to three hours. It’s not going to be three hours but we will try to get it close to that.

Meron: What Oscar show has been? If you look at the past shows as we have done they are not. Take a look at the Grammy Awards. They hand about 11 awards in 3 1/2 hours. And we have to do all 24 awards plus we want to do our theme which is music of the movies.

Zadan: There’s so much more entertainment this year, especially compared to a normal Oscar year. We were in the recording studio rehearsing Sunday with orchestra for the first time. We have a 60 piece orchestra this year. And the musicians who I guess do it almost every year said to Bill Ross, our musical director, ‘ this is the Oscars?’ Usually when they have their rehearsals for the Oscars it is in and out because there’s nothing to play except lead-ins and entrance music and all that. And we were rehearsing all the musical numbers that we were doing and they couldn’t believe it.

Meron: They were ecstatic. They said this was their dream of what an Oscar show should be.

Zadan: And at rehearsal I think the biggest shock for everybody , not for us but for everybody else, was hearing Seth rehearse and sing the stuff he is going to sing on the show with the orchestra. He sounds like Sinatra. I mean the voice is unbelievable. And I think that that will be a big surprise for people because they know he can do the comedy and he’ll be funny and irreverent, but I don’t think they are prepared for when he sings…We learned from the nominations announcement (which Seth hosted with Emma Stone) that we’re going to have people who love Seth and then we’re going to have people who say ‘why did he tell that joke?’ So it is going to be a controversial show. It’s going to be really interesting. The one thing I can say is Seth sat on the couch where you are sitting right now and did the opening monologue for us the other day, and it’s not only really funny and clever and sort of unique, he did feel like a throwback to the days of Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. We felt like we were watching Hope and Carson. He had that kind of thing going on. We love the cutting edge of his contemporary humor with the old fashioned kind of host.

Deadline: Have you had any problem booking stars as some producers have in the past?

Zadan: We’re very excited about the stars who are presenting because actually we have had an embarrassment of riches. It’s interesting because when some of the other past producers warned us of what we will encounter they said ‘ you know you will be surprised that a lot of stars you can’t get’. What we have found is that we have had so many stars that want to be on the show but we can’t accomodate. We have a lot of people pushing really hard saying ‘can’t you find a place?’ and we haven’t so I guess that’s a good thing. It means that this year people want to be on the show which is great and really exciting.

Meron: And I think that is also because they know there is a lot of really good entertainment on the show. I mean between Adele and Barbra (Streisand) and Shirley Bassey.

Deadline: Bassey will obviously be part of the James Bond tribute.

Zadan: Yes, we wanted to celebrate the music of Bond. And yes we have Shirley Bassey for the first time ever singing on an Oscar show. And yes, we have Adele singing “Skyfall”.

Meron: The truth of the matter is the music of James Bond has been sadly overlooked for years and years and years by the Academy and never won. And it’s fantastic music. We can’t do everything but it is going to be represented.

Zadan: We feel the Bond sequence is going to be very impactful because it will really cover the music of Bond so we’re very excited about that.

Deadline: And Barbra Streisand will be singing on the show for only the second time ever. What will she be singing? I have been guessing The Way We Were.

Zadan: Everyone has been asking us that. When we went to Barbra the first day we got the job , we said we are doing this theme of music and we said ‘how can we do it without you? We must have you’ and she said ‘yes’. What we didn’t know when we asked her is that she hadn’t sung on the show in 36 years since she won for “Evergreen”. How thrilling is it to have her be part of this. And she also likes the fact that in planning what she’s going to do on the show – we had to spend several meetings planning what she is actually going to sing on the show – she said ‘I love the fact that you announced me but you didn’t announce what I would be doing because I really want to surprise people when I come out as to what I am going to be doing’.

Meron: But we love the speculation.

Deadline: How do you keep things secret in this day and age of instant information?

Zadan: What we decided to do was basically from the whole time we were prepping it to Oscar day is to keep announcing what we’re doing but we’re not announcing specifics. So we are giving a tease of the show to get people excited but we are not telling specifics. But we do have a lot of surprises in the show that we haven’t announced and are not announcing. We are being like the CIA . We have some stuff that is going on that we really hope nobody discovers so that when it happens on the show people will be surprised in a huge way. And we have those moments that people will go ‘oh my God’. We are not putting them on our rundowns. We are not rehearsing them. We’re going to wing it so there are those moments that could be really, really jawdropping.

Deadline: The Golden Globes were way up this year with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler getting great reveiws , the Grammys had their second biggest audience in years. Do you feel any particular pressure to really deliver the ratings for Oscars now?

Zadan: Hopefully we will get the audience that watches the Oscars every year no matter what. But we think there could be a wider audience because of Seth because he brings males to the show which is not the predominate audience , younger males, so he’s got that audience. And because this is the only time Adele sings “Skyfall”, she’s never sung it before and probably never again, we hope the millions of Adele fans will tune in to see that. And those who want to see Barbra Streisand and haven’t seen her perform on the Oscars in 36 years may want to tune in just to see her. So besides the great movies and the great nominees we have a lot of great people on that stage performing live.

Meron: Sometimes the award shows themselves are not relevant to today’s audience because they don’t really embrace popular films. But this year we not only have popular films but we’ve embraced Bond, we’ve embraced The Avengers (the key cast members will present), we’ve embraced Adele. So we hope that we can make the show more relevant…The other thing is rebranding it and not calling it the 85th Annual Academy Awards which kind of mires it to a kind of heaviness, and just now calling it ‘The Oscars’.

Deadline: Are you surprised by the massive undertaking of producing the Oscars? Is it more than you expected?

Zadan: The job itself is massive and terrifying and intimidating, but when you then add to the mix all these live performances and rehearsals and choreography sessions for dancing, all of a sudden it just grows and grows and grows . And the biggest test of that is us observing the people who work here. They’ve done the Oscars literally every year. They are veterans and they’re even all intimidated.

Meron: But what’s really great is they are intimidated and kind of jostled by the enormity of it but they’re excited. And we’ve been told there is a renewed passion for the show because of these new elements.

Zadan: The other interesting comment in terms of telling us what we’ve taken on this year is from Don Mishcer who is directing the show and has done two Academy Award shows prior to this. He had always said to us in the beginning that as big as the Academy Awards are , doing the Olympics as he has done is even bigger and more complex and more difficult. Don said the other day that this Oscar show now is as difficult as the Olympics because of the enormous show we have put together. He said he never thought they would be the same in terms of magnitude and ambition but this is like doing the Olympics. We don’t know any better. We’re virgins. We’re just doing what we’re doing.

Meron: At the end of the day we have to be happy with our show. That’s the key. Because it’s a kind of no-win proposition doing the Oscars. People are probably already lining up to throw their bricks at us. But in the end if we’re happy with it that’s all that matters.

Zadan: We’re not saying the show is better than any other show. We aren’t saying this is the Oscar show. What we feel is we are doing the show we want to see. In our minds we saw an Oscar show in our fantasy of what we would like to see as an Oscar show. And we’re recreating that fantasy. Is it going to work? We don’t know. What we don’t want to do is play it safe.

No Amanda in the Les Miserables segment - how can Cosette not be part of the show ? I hope it is not just an ensemble song ( Do You Hear the People Sing or One Day More) but also a medley of several major solos!

Still no direct mention of the five nominated songs being performed live in the show!

One comment though about the theme versus the celebrated films of the year --

While it seems the producers are focusing on a very musical theme -- it seems a little ironic that the perceived frontrunners for the key awards ( Best Picture, Best Director, some acting honors, cinematography, editing) are from non-musical films!

Jo

[birchie]

Russell tweeted this the other day:
Russell Crowe ‏@russellcrowe
yes, #lesMis cast singing at the Oscars, Valjean,Fantine,Eponine,Marius,Croisant ( cassette,uh courgette?)Enroljas,the Thenardiers & Javert