War drama by Kathryn Bigalow leads the list of winners at 2010 BAFTA Awards scooping as many as six awards at the most prestigious British ceremony.

The Hurt Locker that also leads the list of 2010 Oscar nominees was named the best film with best director, best original screenplay, best sound, editing and cinematography.

Accepting her Best Director award Ms. Bigalow said it was an honor for her to get an award from people she’d “been inspired by for decades.”

Aspiring British actress Carey Mulligan won the Best Actress nod for her work in An Education. Carey said she didn’t think she would win and confessed she hadn’t prepared any acceptance speech.

Carey’s skyrocketing success is fantastic since An Education is her movie debut.

Colin Firth was named the Best Leading Actor for his work in Tom Ford directed A Single Man.
Loved his acceptance speech:

I think an encounter with Tom Ford is to come away resuscitated, a little more worldly, better informed, better groomed, more fragrant and more nominated than one has ever been before. I’ve worked with a lot of great directors and he’s definitely up there with the very best of them.”

See the complete list of 2010 BAFTA Awards winners below:

Best Film

The Hurt Locker

Director

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Leading Actor

Colin Firth, A Single Man

Leading Actress

Carey Mulligan, An Education

Outstanding debut by a U.K. filmmaker

Duncan Jones, Moon

Outstanding British Film

Fish Tank

Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress

Mo’nique, Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire

Animated Film

Up

Adapted Screenplay

Up in the Air

Orange Rising Star Award

Kristen Stewart

Special Visual Effects

Avatar

Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker

Production Design

Avatar

Costume Design

Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

Film Not In The English Language

A Prophet

Sound

The Hurt Locker

Editing

The Hurt Locker

Music

Michael Giacchino, Up

Cinematography

The Hurt Locker

Make Up and hair

Jenny Shircore, The Young Victoria

Short Animation

Mother of Many

Short Film

I Do Air

Fellowship

Vanessa Redgrave

2010 BAFTA DRESSES >>>

2010 BAFTA HAIRSTYLES >>>

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The list of nominees for the 15th annual Critics’ Choice Awards was revealed yesterday morning.

Unlike other awards ceremonies Critics’ Choice Awards welcome movies of all different genres, thus, featuring more films in the nom list than some others, like the Oscars, for instance.

This year is all about blood spilling justice and mind blowing life stories as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall’s Nine lead the nominations list with 10 noms each. They’re followed by James Cameron’s Avatar (out this week) with 9 nods, The Hurt Locker and Up in the Air with five each.

The 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards will air live on January 15, 2010 at 9/8pm Central on VH1.

Critics’ Choice Awards are traditionally seen as Oscar rehearsals, so probably this is the list of possible Oscar nominees as well.

The complete list of 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards Nominees:

BEST PICTURE

Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Viggo Mortensen (The Road)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

BEST ACTRESS

Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria)
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles)
Alfred Molina (An Education)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Marion Cotillard (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo’Nique (Precious)
Julianne Moore (A Single Man)
Samantha Morton (The Messenger)

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Jae Head (The Blind Side)
Bailee Madison (Brothers)
Max Records (Where The Wild Things Are)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Clint Eastwood (Invictus)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, (500) Days Of Summer
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter, Up
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Tom Ford, David Scearce, A Single Man
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Dion Beebe, Nine
Mauro Fiore, Avatar
Andrew Lesnie, The Lovely Bones
Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ART DIRECTION

Dan Bishop, A Single Man
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Avatar
John Myhre, Gordon Sim, Nine
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr., The Lovely Bones
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco, Inglourious Basterds

BEST EDITING

Dana E. Glauberman, Up In The Air
Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron, Avatar
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith, Nine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Colleen Atwood, Nine
Janet Patterson, Bright Star
Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria
Anna Sheppard, Inglourious Basterds
Casey Storm, Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP

Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012

BEST SOUND

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog
Up

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

BEST COMEDY

(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Gifted Hands
Grey Gardens
Into The Storm
Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It

BEST SONG

‘All Is Love’ – Karen O, Nick Zinner – Where The Wild Things Are
‘Almost There’ – Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog
‘Cinema Italiano’ – Maury Yeston – Nine
‘(I Want To) Come Home’ – Paul McCartney – Everybody’s Fine
‘The Weary Kind’ – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – Crazy Heart

BEST SCORE

Michael Giacchino, Up
Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant!
Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
Karen O, Carter Burwell, Where The Wild Things Are
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes

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Some of your favorite Tinseltown citizens spent some quality time together celebrating Museum of Contemporary Art’s new 30th anniversary exhibition in Los Angeles on Saturday.

At least now we know who can ever picture themselves visitng a museum. Ok, just bitching, sorry.

Back to the glam and fashion of the night. This event became one of the few this year when we saw Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together. Though looking anything but happy and affectionate, they still looked hot and glamorous.

Angie opted for a strapless black Armani Prive gown with very few accessories and pretty plain ‘do. Still pretty sexy. However Jolie should change her diet, she looks so frail!

Angelina’s partner Brad Pitt stayed true to himself in his Tom Ford suit and hippy graying beard.

Angie wasn’t the only one to go black for the event. Singer Ciara looked terrific in a LBD that highlighted her wonderful body. Her dress is definitely my number one fashion pick of the event.

Jessica Alba looked beautiful in a LBD and red satin pumps. Yeah, her red satin pumps and matching color clutch definitely saved her look.

All so glamorous! Avatar rising star Zoe Saldana looked tulle gorgeous in her shimmering black floor sweeping gown. Super elegant, just loving it!

Gwen Sefani and husband Gavin Rossdale also opted for a monochrome look with Gwen looking rock cool in black and white corset, black trousers and black gladiator platform sandals.

Here come the bright looks.

The Whiteout actress Kate Beckinsale looked her regular glam and sexy self in a stunning floor-length asymmetrical green dress that she paired with a dark green belt and green nail polish. Hot!

Actress Rose McGowan looked all so red in a strapless draped dress. Quite impressive, yet less impressive than the next girl.

Of course, no one can look crazier than Lady GaGa who performed her songs at the glam dinner gala. Futuristic headpiece, crazy geisha like make up, straw white doll-y locks and incredible bead-embellished dress looked like wow. But I still don’t get the white powder thing.

Your thoughts?

MOCA’s exhibition celebrating its first 30 years opened to the public yesterday through May 3, 2010.

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Fashion is all around.

Fashion extraordinary Tom Ford presented his movie debut, A Single Man, at Venice Film Festival last week with critics generally praising his work as a director and screenplay writer.

A Single Man starring Julianne Moore, Colin Firth and Matthew Goode is a story of a English professor who goes to LA after losing his partner.

The film is set in 1960s and is full of retro fashion details. I’m just crazy about the make up and hair!

Check out the trailer below and tell me what you think about Tom Ford the director!

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Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchet starring The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button premiered in Hollywood Monday night. The party was all A-list and glam. The leading stars glamed up the red carpet with other big names showing up to support them.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were probably among the most photographed that night. They both looked blissfully happy and stunning. Angelina donned en elegant black Versace dress, looking a bit boring against other female celebs to visit the premiere. I liked her vintage Ralph Lauren earrings and her light make up. Brad opted for a three-piece Tom Ford classic tuxedo. Brad’s parents were there to support their celebrity son.

Brad was definitely the center of the event with everyone praising his talent and great personality.

He’s a sweetie pie actually. You know, you hear rumors and stories about actors who are on a certain level and, you know, they won’t show up for your off camera stuff and he was always there. Always there, and so generous. He wouldn’t have it any other way,” his co-star Taraji P. Henson said.

I happen to really think Brad is a great human being, and he has such a particular take on the world,” Cate Blanchett added.

The actress was all sparkles at the premiere wearing a golden bell shaped dress with metallic accents by Alexander McQueen. Do you like her dress?

Other celebs included cleavy Jennifer Lopez in an ivory satin dress by Robert Cavalli. She paired the gown with a sparkly Daniel Swarovski clutch and Neil Lane jewels. It was probably one of the nights when J Lo’s cleavage attracted more attention that her famous behind.

Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria was all turquoise at the premiere in a knee-long Karen Millen dress.

Maria Menounos chose a black-and-white ensemble with a cute white clutch and black satin peep-toe stilettos. I loved her make up.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button trailer is here . The movie opens on Christmas.

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The most fashionable couple David and Victoria Beckham released their new scents at Macy’s Herald Square on Friday.

Despite the rainy New York City weather, nearly 2,000 screaming fans showed up at the department store for the launch of the couple’s fragrance duo, Signature for Him and Signature for Her. The scent is the smell of succes.

David looked handsome in a striped Tom Ford suit, offered up credit to his wife, clad in a Giambattista Valli dress, saying that she was “the brains behind the fragrances.”

Unwilling to take all of the credit, Posh quickly responded by saying, “It’s great for me to be able to create a fragrance for him, but he is much more involved than he gives himself credit for. David has such amazing taste.”

But Vicky Becks says she has warned her footballer husband David Beckham that his good looks will fade one day.

Everyone says ‘God, David is so good looking’ and I’m funny, and it is cool to be funny. I tell David that looks will fade.”

She added that she loves David more now than when she met him first and that they both “compliment each other”, Victoria was quoted as saying by dailymail.co.uk.

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The Council of Fashion Designers of America awards took its glam place in New York Public Library on Monday. It was plenty of stardom. Each designer had a celebrity next to him or her to make a statement of who represents their fashion vision.

Maggie Gyllenhaal wore a green see-through Proenza Schouler with patterns on top and let me tell you that looked awkward. She reminds me of the socks I got for Christmass when I was 7. Victoria Beckham put on a dress by Marc Jacobs but it didn’t help her, instead hundreds of cutout hearts made her look like Valentine’s party at the elementary school.

The only thing I liked in her outfit were those vampy black sandals with her black-and-white minidress. Posh has her own DVB clothing line and she admitted she’s not good enough for CFDA. She told People:

I’m a starter at this. I’ve got a long way to go [before I could win a CFDA award].”

And finally Eva Mendes! She wore a clean white column dress by Francisco Costa, the women’s designer at Calvin Klein. As soon as the envelope was opened Eva let out a loud yelp. Her designer won the precious award.

And surely there was Naomi Campbell and undeniably in Yves Saint Laurent black gown-like pants. She held back her tears during the somber speech by the head f organization Diane Von Furstenberg. Top designer told guests:

Tonight the world of fashion is mourning. Yves is an artist who always surprised us with his silhouette and color palettes. He was a magician who changed the way women dressed forever. Like so many great artists, his life and his work really do live on.”

Saint Laurent died from a brain tumor at the age of 71.

Diana Von Furstenberg had Eva Longoria dressed in her pink frock and gold stilettos to match the gold-beaded neckline of the hot-pink dress.

The last but not the least touch for Eva Longoria was her husband Tony Parker. Basketball player was dressed by Brooks Brothers.

The men’s designer of the year is no one else but fashion icon Tom Ford. In his advertisements naked women grab the crotches of clothed men.

Sexy and bold is Tom’s signature!

The crystal company Swarovski presented award to younger designers for Emerging Talent like Tory Burch, the maker of flats with her logo on the toe. She was given the award for accessories.

While that Rodarte label by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy were granted for women’s wear.

Band of Outsiders represented by Scott Sternberg got the men’s wear award. Swarowsky didn’t forget to give an award to noted Philip Crangi for his accessories.

Special awards went to designers Carolina Herrera and Dries Van Noten, and surely to Candy Pratts Price, the executive fashion director of Style.com. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was thanked and awarded for negotiating the show in Bryant Park through 2010.

Fran Lebowitz was the evening’s emcee.

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Looking glam and your outfit’s updated? Stir it up with your sun glasses, an accessory that tells a whole story of the owner. Unlike clothing and hair trends shades haven’t had major changes in the last half of decade.

Five years ago the oversized sunglasses stepped in the world of fashion bringing an era of socialite’s shades that will rule for few more years.

This year the oversized, aviators, gradient lens, plastic frames and for sure ray ban wayfarers are the hit. The only other trend I don’t like is the tortoise shell. Oh, I think it’s one of those that will make you feel ashamed later when you look back at your picture “that was 2008”. So don’t!

Now, our much loved celebrities. What do they wear? Both Kates look in style wearing plastic frames inspired by 50s. Whether they hide from paparazzi or go out to parties it is the #1 must have accessory. Of course they pick the A list designer glasses that will definitely spice up any outfit.

Brand: Tom Ford
Model: FT 0074 Simone
Price: Euro 207
$ 312.15 :: £158.35 at sunglassesitaly.com

Brand: Roberto Cavalli
Model: RC 372s Targelie
Price: Euro 248.4
$ 374.58 :: £190.02 at sunglassesitaly.com

One of my favorite lens is gradient which goes from black to clear, top to bottom. Chanel, baby!

Another fierce look will be turquoise frame. It will look adorable in the right ensemble. Runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris make the sweet color of feminine feel a Fashion Week Frenzy, for this coming fall.

And for guys I suggest the classic Ray Bans. For risky men who know what they want.

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