Strawberry Fields Forever

Doesn't matter what time of year it is, you will always find people from all over the world who have come to pay their respects and to remember...

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one

The 2012 Oscar Nominations

The Hollywood award season continued today with the announcement of the nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards.

I think there were a few surprises, but looking over the nominees here, I think they went pretty much as expected...at least how I expected anyways. I now have 33 days to get all caught up on the nominated films that I have yet to see. Last year, I didn't see The King's Speech until the afternoon of the Oscars! Hopefully, I won't cut it as close this year! 

The Nominees are:

BEST PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demián Bichir - A Better Life 

George Clooney - The Descendants 

Jean Dujardin - The Artist 

Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Brad Pitt - Moneyball

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Kenneth Branagh - My Week with Marilyn 

Jonah Hill - Moneyball 

Nick Nolte - Warrior 

Christopher Plummer - Beginners 

Maxvon Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara -The Girl with th e Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Bérénice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots

Rango

DIRECTING
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Alexander Payne
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Descendants - Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo - Screenplay by John Logan
The Ides of March - Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin - Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Artist - Written by Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - Written by J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Written by Woody Allen
A Separation - Written by Asghar Farhadi

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo - Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse - Janusz Kaminski

VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

As always, a full list of nominees can be found on Oscar.com 

The 84th Academy Awards will be held on February 26th on abc.

2012 People's Choice Awards Recap

I like lighthearted award shows, and that's exactly what the People's Choice Awards are. It doesn't take itself too seriously. 

Things I liked from last night: 

• I think choosing Kaley Cuoco as the host was a great idea! She's funny, beaming with confidence and absolutely gorgeous! I liked the Big Bang Theory opening scene. 
• Neil Patrick Harris being part of the live opening; all ready to go with a song and dance number complete with a tearaway tux! Too bad Kaley had him dragged away by "security" lol! 
• The Bridesmaids acceptance speech! Breaking out into "Hold On" was awesome...as was thanking CVS Pharmacy for some reason? 
• Everything Betty White! I heart her so much. Can't believe she's 90 this week! Congrats to Hot in Cleveland for winning Fave Comedy on Cable. 
• Morgan Freeman accepting his Icon award. Short and sweet.
• Emma Stone being all cute and tongue tied accepting her 2 well deserved awards! But did they seriously have to give her the count down so quickly? 
• Nathan Fillion winning Fave TV Drama Actor! His speech was brilliant! Looking at the Twitter feeds, people were either happy he won or literally crying and cursing that Ian Somerhalder didn't win. I am also happy that Castle won Fave TV Crime Drama!
• Jane Lynch as the Seat Coordinator.
• Something not seen on TV; Miley Cyrus being sneaky and taking over the @peopleschoice Twitter with this tweet: "its miley! i just found a computer with this account open haha! =]]] im hacking PCA bout to watch my boo go on stage xx love yall"
• How I Met your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris & 2 Broke Girls all winning awards! 

Things that I didn't like so much: 

• Adam's Sandler's acceptance speech. Good effort, and I laughed a couple of times, BUT it went on way too long, and I don't think it was as deserved as others in his category of Fave Comedic Movie Actor. 
• Demi Lovato's performance was...horrendous. I do admire her for being a good role model for young girls and being brave enough to share her struggles. Just not a good performance last night. Faith Hill's wasn't all that spectacular either. 
• A lot of the banter between the presenters. Sharon O and Cuba Gooding Jr. being the worst.
• Revenge not winning Fave New TV Drama.
• Finally, not enough celebs were present at the show and not enough awards were given out during the live 2 hour broadcast.

A full list of winners can be found here on the People's Choice Awards site. 

Congrats to all of the winners! 
 

Walk Off the Earth's Cover of 'Somebody That I Used to Know' Goes Viral!

This right here is another example of the power of social media! 

Ever heard of the band "Walk Off the Earth"? I hadn't until this YouTube video of the Burlington Ontario band doing a cover of Gotye's song "Somebody That I Used to Know" went viral this past weekend. 

On Saturday Russell Crowe tweeted: "Check out Walk Off the Earth's cover of Somebody I used to know. Brilliant"...and now they have over 4.5 million views on YouTube! They have made news in North America, Germany, the UK and Australia and they were even featured on Good Morning America today! 

Check out the video below! It's pretty incredible! 

My Fave Viral Video of 2011

These twins are so freaking cute! This vid can always put a smile on my face!