Today is Oscar 2011
It’s February 27, 2011 – the date of the 83rd Academy Awards! And you’re ready, with your Oscars ballot, your Oscars predictions, your Oscars party tips and your Oscars drinking game rules. And you’ve bookmarked the Oscar winners list, which we at Moviefone will be updating in real time. Now you just have one question: What time do the 2011 Oscars start?
For some people, the real show is the red carpet – which starts at 6PM ET / 5PM CT / 3PM PT, and is televised on various channels, though the most popular coverage is on E!. Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic will be greeting the stars, asking what they’re wearing, and providing fascinating banter of the ‘What parties are you going to?’ variety.
And then the telecast of the Oscars ceremony begins at 8PM ET / 7PM CT / 5PM PT on ABC, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who will join the pantheon of Oscar hosts and attempt to rank in your affections somewhere between Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg.
- Oscar 2011.
We’ve put together a list of the 10 movies nominated for this year’s best picture Oscars.
It’s just two days before the Oscars, which means you’re running out of time to see ‘Winter’s Bone.’ We’ll be covering the show Sunday night in real time, but before then we’re putting together a reminder list of the films that were nominated in each category. Here are the 10 movies made in 2010 nominated for best picture.
‘Black Swan’ – Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
‘The Fighter’ – Directed by David O. Russell.
‘Inception’ – Directed by Christopher Nolan.
‘The Kids Are All Right’ – Lisa Cholodenko.
‘The King’s Speech’ – Directed by Tom Hooper.
’127 Hours’ – Directed By Danny Boyle.
‘The Social Network’ – Directed by David Fincher.
‘Toy Story 3′ – Directed by Lee Unkrich.
‘True Grit’ – Joel and Ethan Coen.
‘Winter’s Bone’ – Directed by Debra Granik.
A numbers guide to the Oscars:
$5 – The price of a guest ticket to the very first ceremony, held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
£125 -The wage (roughly) of an Oscars “seat-filler” – the people who sit in empty seats when stars take a jaunt to the bar, so that the auditorium always looks full
70 – Number of years since the Academy adopted the sealed-envelope system to avoid dramas with pre-released results.
5,755 – Number of Academy members who vote for winners using secret ballots.
2,768 – The number of Oscar statues awarded since the ceremony first began.
34cm – The height of the golden Oscar statuette, which weighs 8.5 lbs and costs $500 to make.
3-4 weeks – The amount of time needed for Chicago-based contractors R.S. Owens & Company to make 50 statues.
45 – The number of seconds each actor’s speech is restricted to, as of 2010.
22 – The number of Oscars won by Walt Disney, making him easily the biggest winner.
14 – This year’s youngest nominee, Hailee Steinfeld, nominated in Best Supporting Actress category for her role in True Grit.
10 – The age of the youngest Oscar winner, Tatum O’Neal, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1973 film Paper Moon.
248 – Number of films eligible for the 2011 Best PictureAward; having opened by 31 December 2010, run for over 7 consecutive days, and being longer than 40 minutes.
$1.1 billion – The total taken at the box office by this year’s ten nominations for Best Picture.
704 – The number of press organisations requesting passes this year (283 were granted them).
41.7 million – Estimated number of viewers who tuned in across America to watch last year’s ceremony, compared with 55 million who watched Titanic win 11 awards in 1998.
$50 – The average amount won by people betting in Oscar prediction competitions.
37 – Years since the infamous ‘Oscar streaker’, Robert Opel, appeared naked onstage behind host David Niven.
152 m – The length of the Oscars red carpet, which is 10 metres wide.
3,300 – Number of seats in the Kodak Theatre where the ceremony is held.
250 – Culinary staff members will assist Wolfgang Puck with the creation of his master menu for the post-Oscars Governor’s Ball, along with 900 staff members.
250 – Strands of Swarovski crystal will light the Governor’s Ball, with over 10,000 individual crystals weighing 350 lbs.
10,000 – Pieces of cutlery will be laid for 1,500 guests at the ball.
1,200 – Bottles of Moet & Chandon Champagne have been ordered for the Ball.
Food for the Governor’s Ball:
1,200 – Kumamoto oysters,
25 – gallons of homemade cocktail sauce,
10 – lbs of winter black truffles,
1,000 – spiny lobsters,
7,200 – individual shrimp,
50,000 – organic heirloom baby vegetables,
15 – lbs of edible gold dust,
4000 – mini chocolate Oscars.