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Neil Patrick Harris Hosts The 2015 Academy Awards Tonight

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 2015 Academy Awards tonight beginning at 7pm ET/4pm PT on ABC.

Who’s going to win? Predictions?

I’ll go with these. These are not who I think will win, but who I think should win.
We’ll see if I get any right 🙂

Best Picture: Birdman
Best Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman
Best Actor: Michael Keaton for Birdman (Redmayne will probably win)
Best Actress: Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best Featured Actor: J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
Best Featured Actress: Patricia Arquette for Boyhood

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Neil Patrick Harris Oscar Worries – How To Top Ellen’s “Selfie That Broke The Internet”

Neil Patrick Harris sat down with Ellen yesterday to discuss the preparations he’s going through to host this Sunday’s Oscars.

If anyone would know how to have a great Oscar night, it’s Ellen who hosted last year’s event where she famously took the “selfie that broke the internet.”

NPH admits he feels a “horrible dark cloud” forming over his head as he contemplates how to possibly top that.

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2015 Oscar Nominations Out Today

Nomination were dominated by Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, with nine noms each for the 87th annual Academy Awards, but it appears Golden Globe winner Boyhood is still the front-runner to beat.

Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best Director
Alexandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

For full list of nominees, head over to the official Oscars website.

The Academy Awards will air February 22nd at 7pm Eastern time LIVE on ABC.

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Neil Patrick Harris To Host 2015 Academy Awards

Things just keep getting better and better for Neil Patrick Harris.

After a hugely successful run on Broadway this year with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, plus hosting this year’s Tony Awards (where he won for Hedwig, don’t you know…), now comes the news that Harris will host the 2015 Academy Awards.

From CBS News:

“We are thrilled to have Neil host the Oscars,” telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement. “We have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the perfect storm, all of his resources and talent coming together on a global stage.”

“It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards. I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show,” Harris added. “To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true.”

Last year’s Oscar broadcast, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, was the most-watched Oscars of the past decade. The broadcast garnered 43 million viewers.

Harris shared the news on social media with the video below:

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John Travolta apologized and sent huge bouquet of flowers to Idina Menzel

E! News has learned that John Travolta sent Idina Menzel a giant bouquet of flowers about a week and a half ago to formally apologize for the snafu, which occurred onstage at the 86th Annual Academy Awards when Travolta was introducing the actress-singer before her performance of “Let It Go,” during which time he seemingly called the Frozen beauty “Adele Dazeem.”

“He sent  her a big, gorgeous bouquet of flowers to her dressing room. It was HUGE. It was his apology to her,” a source exclusively tells E! News.

Travolta sent the flowers to Menzel at the location of her new musical on Broadway, If/Then, at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York.

(from Eonline)

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John Travolta responds to Oscar night flub of Idina Menzel introduction

The past two days have been full of jokes and laughs at the expense of John Travolta after he butchered Idina Menzel’s name during the introduction to perform the Oscar winning song “Let It Go” from FROZEN.

It turns out the public isn’t alone on the subject. Travolta told E! News that he wasn’t very happy about the incident himself:

“I’ve been beating myself up all day,” the Be Cool star said in a statement to E! News. “Then I thought…What would Idina Menzel say? She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!”

Word is Travolta was just fine during rehearsals on Saturday. So who knows what happened?

Idina apparently wasn’t thrown by the flub. E! News says a source said she hugged Travolta backstage after singing. “The Oscars were a dream come true for Idina,” the source said. “She wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of that.”

And yesterday, she tweeted, “Still pinching myself over my entire #Oscars experience. Dream come true.”

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John Travolta/”Vinnie Barbarino” mash-up over Idina Menzel flub

While much was made of John Travolta’s flub of an introduction for Idina Menzel’s performance last night on the Oscars, I did want to say that I’ve read several reports that Travolta is dyslexic, which would explain some of his bad read of the teleprompter.

That being said, you have to wonder how much he practiced knowing he would be introducing the Broadway star.

In any case, it’s not a big deal in the light of day. Although, Travolta’s 1970s TV persona makes an appearance in this mash-up addressing the mistake.

Travolta hasn’t commented on the slip, but I’m betting he has a sense of humor about the whole thing.

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