My favorite so far:

Anna Kendrick in Elie Saab:

more pictures will be posted later...

Oscar fashion favorites

At least the ones I remember
(all pics taken from oscar.com)

Norma Shearer
(10th Academy Awards)

Vivien Leigh
(12th Academy Awards)

Julianne More in YSL by Tom Ford
(75th Academy Awards)


Jude Law in Dunhill
(76th Academy Awards)

Julie Delpy
(77th Academy Awards)

Cate Blanchett in Valentino Couture
(77th Aacademy Awards)

Uma Thurman in Versace
(78th Academy Awards)

Reese Witherspoon in vintage Christian Dior
(78th Academy Awards)

Heath Ledger in Dunhill and Michelle Williams in Vera Wang
(78th Academy Awards)

Jennifer Lopez in Marchesa
(79th Academy Awards)

Helen Mirren in Christian Lacroix
(79th Academy Awards)

Eva Green in Givenchy
(79th Academy Awards)

Evan Rachel Wood in Elie Saab
(81 Academy Awards)

Josh Brolin and Diane Lane in D&G
(81 Academy Awards)

Angelina Jolie in Elie Saab
(81 Academy Awards)

Oscar nominations, predictions and expectations

from previous years:
n = previous nominations (that were not wins) w = previous wins

Best Picture
An Education
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Avatar
James Cameron (3w) and Jon Landau (3w)
The Blind Side
Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson
District 9
Peter Jackson (3w, 5n) and Carolynn Cunningham
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro
Inglourious Basterds
Lawrence Bender (2n)
Precious
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness
A Serious Man
Joel and Ethan Coen (5w, 4n)
Up
Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman (1n), Daniel Dubiecki and Ivan Reitman

It is hard to pick a favorite when so many movies are nominated, but I think that An Education or District 9 should win. District 9 is not a typical oscar movie, but I enjoyed the concept and I think that it was a clever way to show a topic that will never loose its importance. Avater, The Hurt Locker, Precious and The Blind Side has been favorites by the critics, but I'm not sure if the oscars appreciate movies like Avatar, even though I think all four of the movies have just enough drama to win an oscar. I did not like Avatar at all, and I don't think it deserves all the oscars it is nominated for. The Hurt Locker, Precious and The Blind Side are good movies, but the first one is not my kind of movie and the two others were too American for my liking (if that makes any sense.) I really enjoyed Up, Up in the Air and A Serious Man, while Inglourious Basterd was disappointing.


Directing
Avatar
James Cameron (3w)
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
Inglorious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino (1w, 1n)
Precious
Lee Daniels
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman (1n)

I do hope that Quentin Tarantino wins. He is a wonderfull director, even though the movie was disappointing.
Kathryn Bigelow is also one of my favorites, and I do think that either she or James Cameron is going to win.


Writing (adapted)
District 9
Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education
Nick Hornby
In the Loop
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
Precious
Geoffry Fletcher
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman (1n) and Sheldon Turner

An Education is my favorite out of these, but I think Precious will win.


Writing (original)
The Hurt Locker
Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino (1w, 1n)
The Messenger
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
A Serious Man
Joel and Ethan Coen (5w, 4n)
Up
Bob Peterson (1n) , Pete Docter (4n) and Tom McCarthy

A Serious Man has to be one of the most original out of these (beside Inglourious Basterds) and is also my favorite.
Up and The Hurt Locker were also good, but not my favorites when it comes to the manuscript.
The Messenger had a nice idea, but the movie was kind of boring and did not touch me in any way.
I'm not sure who's going to win, but my vote goes to A Serious Man.


Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (4n)
George Clooney - Up in the Air (1w, 3n)
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus (1w, 3n)
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

It's is hard to choose a favorite when I haven't seen A Single Man or Invictus, but I have heard great things of both Firth's and Freeman's performance. I do think that Renner, Clooney and Bridges made a fabulous job, but my vote goes to Jeff Bridges (and I do think he will win).


Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station (1w, 2n)
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia (2w, 13n)
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious

I haven't seen The Last Station, so I can't say anything of Mirren's performance. I think all the other four actresses did a wonderfull job,
but my favorite is Carey Mulligan for her performance in An Education. Both she and Sidibe is kind of new to this business, so I don't think they will win. I do think Sandra Bullock is going to win the statuette though.


Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon - Invictus (1n, 1w)
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger (1n)
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Like I mentioned before, I haven't seen Invictus or The Last Station. I'm very interested Plummer's performance of Tolstoy.
I have to big favorites it this category, and that is Stanley Tucci and Christopher Waltz.
Both of them did a terrific job, and I do hope and think that one of them will win the award.


Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz - Nine (1w, 1n)
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious

I have no idea why Penélope is nominated. Yes, she can act, but this is not a special performance at all.
All of the others did a good job, but my favorites are Gyllenhaal and Mo'Nique, and I do think one of them will win.


Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Hentry Selick
Up
Pete Docter (4n)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson (1n)
The Princess and the Frog
John Musker and Ron Clements (1n)
The Secret of Kells
Tomm More

I haven't seen The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of Kells. The Princess and the Frog is not my kind of animated movie,
but I'm very interested in The Secret of Kells.
I enjoyed the other three movies, but my vote goes to The Fantastic Mr. Fox, even though I think Up will win.


Art Direction
Avatar
Rick Carter (1n), Robert Stromberg (1n) and Kim Sinclair
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro and Caroline Smith
Nine
John Myhre (2w, 2n) and Gordon Sim (1w)
Sherlock Holmes
Sarah Greenwood (2n) and Katie Spencer (2n)
The Young Victoria
Patrice Vermette and Maggie Grey (1n)


All of these are special in their own way and have some lovely art direction, but my favorite is deffinetly Sherlock Holmes. I loved it.


Cinematography
Avatar
Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Bruno Delbonell (2n)
The Hurt Locker
Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds
Robert Richardson (2w, 3n)
The White Ribbon
Christian Berger

Even though there are some good nominees here, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has to be my choice. Wonderfull cinematography


Visual Effects
Avatar
Joe Letteri (3w, 1n), Stephen Rosenbaum (1w), Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (1n)
District 9
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Riobert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek
Roger Guyett (1n), Russel Earl (1n), Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton (1w)

The only oscar nomination that Avatar really deserve. The visual effects of District 9 is no good, and Star Trek I haven't seen.


Music (original score)
Avatar
James Horner (2w, 7n)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alexandre Desplat (2n)
Up
Michael Giacchino (1n)
Sherlock Holmes
Hans Zimmer (1w, 6n)
The Hurt Locker
Marco Beltrami (1n) and Buck Sanders

Many wonderfull composers, but my favorite is by far the soundtrack from Sherlock Holmes by Hans Zimmer. It got stuck in my head the first time I heard it in the movie. Desplat and Horner make wonderfull music, but I can't remember the ones they have made for these movies.


Music (original song)
The Princess and the Frog
Almost There - music and lyrics by Randy Newman (1w, 16n)
The Princess and the Frog
Down in New Orleans - music and lyrics by Randy Newman (1w, 16n)
Nine
Take it all - music and lyrics by Maury Yeston
Crazy Heart
The Weary Heart - music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T. Bone. Burnett (1n)
Paris 36
Loine de Paname - music by Reinhardt Wagner, lyrics by Frank Thomas

I haven't seen The Princess and the Frog, but the songs were not for my liking. The only song from Nine, that was of any good was Be Italian, but it is not nominated. I do like Loinde de Paname from Paris 36, but my vote has to go to The Weary Heart from Crazy Heart.


Costume Design
Bright Star
Janet Patterson (3n)
Coco Before Chanel
Catherine Leterrier
The Young Victoria
Sandy Powell (2w, 5n)
Nine
Colleen Atwood (2w, 5w)
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Monique Prudhomme

So many wonderfull nominees here, that it is hard to pick a favorite.
The only thing I can say is that Nine has to by my least favorite.



There are other categories as well, but these will do for now. It show will start soon : )

I'm not a big fan of Norwegian design or wedding dresses, but if you buy me one of these wedding dresses from Leila Hafzi's newest collection, I would definitely marry you at once.

1969 - 2010

(Lee) Alexander McQueen

Fall 2008 Ready-to-Wear
Heidi Mount

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Taryn Davidson

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Heloise Guerin

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Alice Burdeu

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Egle Tvirbutaite

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Vlada Roslyakova

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Alyona Osmanova

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Rianne Ten Haken

Spring 2008 Ready-to-Wear
Lisa Cant

Spring 2008 Ready-to-Wear

To Fanny

I cry your mercy -pity -love! -aye, love!
Merciful love that tantalizes not,
One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,
Unmasked, and being seen -without a blot!
O! let me have thee whole, -all -all -be mine!
That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zest
Of love, your kiss, -those hands, those eyes divine,
That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast, -
Yourself -your soul -in pity give me all,
Withhold no atom's atom or I die,
Or living on, perhaps, your wretched thrall,
Forget, in the mist of idle misery,
Life's purposes, -the palate of my mind
Losing its gust, and my ambition blind!

John Keats

(1795-1821)

A Decade of Music: 2001

A Decade of Music

2001
(in alphabetical order)

Black Hawk Down
Hans Zimmer
One of Zimmer's most finest and most original soundtracks.
It got such variety and I love the African sound that lays the foundation of it all.
There are some wonderfull artists here as well, bot known and unknown:
Lisa Gerrard, Joe Strummer, Denez Prigent and Rachid Taha.
Listen to: Hunger, Still, Gortoz a Ran, Leave no Man Behind and Minstrel Boy
"The minstrel boy to the war is gone
In the ranks of death ye will find him
His father's sword he hath girded on
and his wild harp slung behind him"

Blackwater Park
Opeth
This is one of the few metal bands I still listen to, and this has to be their best album this decade.
Åkerfeldt's voice can do anything!
Listen to: Bleak, Harvest, Blackwater Park, Still Day Beneath the Sun
and Patterns in the Ivy 2
"Break of morning, coldness lingers on
Shroud me into nightmares of the sun"

Celtic Circle, the
Various Artists
All I can say is that this cd introduced me for some beautifull music.
My favorite music genre to date.
Perfect to get you dreaming of a mysterious faraway land.
Listen to: disc 1 - The Mystic's Dream (Loreena McKennitt), The Shores of the Swilly (Sinéad O'Connor),
cúChilainn's Last Battle (Brian Dunning & Jeff Johnson),
The Keening of the three Marys (William Coulter)
and The Dragon's Breath (David Arkenstone)
disc 2 - Skellig (Loreena McKennitt), Theme from Harry's Game (Clannad),
Ailain Duinn (Capercaille), Circle of Joy (Lisa Lynne) and Caoineadh na Mara (Mary McLaughlin)

Just Push Play
Aerosmith
I had heard some Aerosmith songs through my childhood, but I was to young to give them any notice.
This album changed that.
There are other Aerosmith albums that are better, but this is still the first one I heard.
Listen to: Jaded, Fly Away from Here, Trip Hoppin', Sunshine and Luv Lies
"I sold my soul for a one night stand
I followed Alice into wonder land"

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
Yann Tiersen
Wonderfull! It gives me the perfect Parisian feeling, and has opened my eyes for other Yann Tiersen albums.
It makes me dream of cycling through Montemartre with my camera and a picnic basket.
Listen to: J'y suis jamais allé, La Valse d'Amélie (every version of it),
Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi, La Dispute and Si tu n'étais pas lá
"Monochrome flat, monochrome life,
only abscence near me, nothing but silence around me"

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore
The music for the entire trilogy is my favourite sountrack of all times.
The way it is structured around the different places and creatures is just amazing,
and it gives me the chills everytime it is played.
The movies were a huge part of my life for such a long tine,
and the music brings back all kinds of wonderfull memories.
It's hard to choose, but you should:
Listen to: Concerning Hobbits, A Journey in the Dark, Lothlorien,
Amon Hen and The Breaking of the Fellowship
" When the seas and mountains fall,
and we come to end of days.
In the dark I hear a call, calling me there,
I will go there, and back again."

Røyksopp
Melody A.M
It is still their best album,
even though they haven't not lost their touch with their latest albums either
It makes me relaxed and happy at the same time.
Listen to: So Easy, Eple, Sparks, Poor Leno and Remind Me
"It doesn't matter when, it may rain or it may shine,
you will always be here stored inside my mind"

Ompa til du dør
Kaizers Orchestra
My favorite studio album by Kaizers. I makes me happy, nothing more, nothing less.
Listen to: Kontroll på kontinentet, 170, Rullett, Resistansen and Bris
"bris, bris, puste meg i nakken,
det blir kaldt i frakken og kroppen skrike
kom bris, bris sett meg fri, skru på sirenen og gje meg varige mén"

Strange Little Girls
Tori Amos
The first album of Tori that I listened to, and I fell in love instantly.
It's not even her own songs, but she is a master of covering songs and putting her own touch to them.
All the songs are written by famous men like Neil Young, Tom Waits,
Marshal Matters, Lou Reed, The Beatles and Bob Geldof,
but Tori puts them into a female perspective and makes them almost unrecognisable.
Listen to: New Age, Strange Little Girl, Time, I Don't Like Mondays and Real Men
"Man makes a gun, man goes to war,
man can kill and man can drink and man can take a whore"

White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
You can't have a music list without mentioning this duo.
It's so simple, but still so energetic and fun!
Listen to: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman,
We're Going to be Friends, Offend in Every Way and I Think I Smell a Rat
"I'll speak until I break
with every word I say,
offend in every way"


other albums worth mentioning: Björk: Verspertine and The Strokes: Is This It

A Decade of Music: 2000

A Decade of Music

2000
(in alphabetical order)




Black Market Music
Placebo
Full of angst, bitter love, depression and all those feelings that Placebo is a master at portraying, its has be the favourite band of lots of teenagers, as well as my favourite as a youngster. Not my favourite album of theirs, but it still gets played a lot. Oh, sweet nostalgia!
Listen to: Taste in Men, Passive Agressive, Blue American, Slave to the Wage and Special K
"I read a book about the self
said I should get expensive help
Go fix my head
create some wealth
put my neurosis on a shelf"


Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
Jack off Jill
Another addition to my teenage years. This is anger, bitchiness and neurosis at it's best, and it's catchy as hell. Jessica can scream her (and your) heart out!
Listen to: Fear of Dying, Nazi Halo, Strawberry Gashes, Vivica and Cinnamon Spider
"Fuck your opinions
fuck your lack of spine
When you are miserable
know that I'm just fine"


Gladiator
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
One of my all time favorite soundtracks. Its stunning, heartbreaking and it takes you right into the movie. Not diffcult to hear that it's a Zimmer composition, but it also got a more ancient celtic feel to it.
Listen to: Earth, Sorrow, To Zucchabar, Elysium and Honor Him
"Anol shalom A
nol sheh lay konnud de ne um"

Holy Wood
Marilyn Manson
Back in the times when Marilyn Manson could do his job he made this album, which has to be his best (thanks to John 5 and Twiggy.) This was the last album he made, without making a fool of himself.
Listen to: GodEatGod, Disposable Teens, Target Audience, The Nobodies and Coma Black
"Dear God if you were alive
You know we'd kill you"

Mother Earth
Within Teptation
Not really my kind of music and I'm not sure how I came across this, but I remember that it was one of the most played albums when I was younger (when I had my fantasy and LOTR period.) It still brings back the nostalgia. Listen to: Mother Earth, Ice Queen, Our Farewell, The Promise and Never-Ending Story "
The earth is our mother
she gives and she takes
She puts us to sleep
In her light we'll awake"


Mer de Noms
A Perfect Cirlce
I've got a hard time choosing my favorite APC album, but I think this has to be it. Thank god Maynard took some time to be a part of this band.
Listen to: The Hollow, Rose, Judith, Three Libras and Brena
"Difficult not to feel a little bit disappointet
and passed over
when I've looked right through
to see you naked and oblivious"


Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Blonde Redhead
Not my favorite album of theirs, but it's pretty close. How I love their special and (kind of) weird sound. Kazy Makinos voice is unperfect and perfect at the same time.
Listen to: In Particular, Hated Because of great Qualities, Loved Despite of Great Faults, This is Nor and A Cure
"Secret so sorry that I forgot
Secret secret we're all bound to forget"


Marshall Mathers LP, the
Eminem
This is actually the only album on the 2000-list that I used to listen to when it was released (all the other albums I discovered later). My favorite artist when I was 11. Oh, good times.
Listen to: Kill You, Stan, The Way I Am, Amityville and Kim
"That's why we don't call it Detroit, we call it Amityville
You can get capped after just having a cavity filled"


Parachutes
Coldplay
I'm not a big fan of Coldplay, but there is no doubt that they have made some of the best popsongs of this decade. Not bad at all.
Listen to: Don't Panic, Spies, Shiver, Yellow and Trouble
"I awake to find no peace of mind
I said how do you live
as a fugitive?"

Requiem for a Dream
Clint Mansell
It fits the movie perfectly; scary and neurotic to the bone. It gives me the creeps at times.
Perfectly parted into summer, fall and winter tunes.
Listen to: Summer - Summer Overtune, Summer - Crimin' and Dealin', Summer - Ghosts of things to come, Fall - Bugs Got a Devilish Grin Conga and Winter - The Beginning of the End