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Is The Help Racist? Viola Davis Fires Back: "It's a Loaded Question"
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"Great, thanks for the loaded question," Best Actress winner Viola Davis told me privately backstage at the Shrine Sunday night, right after she'd had her rousing win over favorite Meryl Streep. I had not asked Viola if she felt guilty about trouncing Streep (as many other journalists had), but instead, I was wondering why it took a Caucasian woman (played by fab Emma Stone) to get these African-American maids in her movie motivated for change?
Sort of makes it look like it took a white woman to commandeer the Civil Rights movement, doesn't?
SAG Awards: Did The Help Sink The Artist's Oscar Chances—and What Happened to George Clooney?
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Now things are getting interesting.
The positively glowing cast of The Help won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, an eleventh-hour shakeup as the Academy Awards grow ever nearer. (Actors make up the largest voting bloc of the Motion Picture Academy and can swing a tight race.)
Oscar Nominees Brad, Michelle, Meryl, Jonah (but Not George) Thank the Academy
Silence may indeed have proven to be golden for the awards magnet that is The Artist. But luckily, the ever grateful and humbled recipients of this morning's Oscar nominations didn't play it quite so retro when it came to expressing thanks for their nods.
Well, except for the no-commenting George Clooney, that is. He really is taking this Hollywood throwback thing to the limit. Unless maybe he's keeping quiet out of respect for all those unfathomable snubs?
In any case, while the gracious actors, actresses, directors, writers and producers honored by the 84th Annual Academy Awards weren't lacking in sound bites, our favorite reaction of the morning goes to someone who wasn't even a nominee…
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Viola Davis Battles "500-Pound Gorilla" Meryl Streep!
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Call it the clash of the Oscar titans.
Because, in our humble opinion, the true Best Actress in a Leading Role fight will come down to heavyweights Viola Davis and Meryl Streep. And while Meryl is the favorite to clinch the victory, we strongly think there could be an Oscar night surprise.
Very, very strongly.
So what does Viola herself think of going head-to-head with a 16-time Oscar nominee (and two-time winner)? And does Ms. Davis think she can be the one to dethrone The Iron Lady?
The Artist Keeps Trucking Toward Oscar With BAFTA Nomination Domination—Who Else Made the Cut?
uFilm, Weinstein Co., Film4, Studio Canal
For a silent film, The Artist sure is making a lot of noise this awards season.
Fresh off its domination of Sunday's Golden Globes, the film was the most-nominated flick today at the Orange British Academy Film Awards (aka the BAFTAs aka the British Oscars) with a whopping 12 nominations.
U.K.'s homegrown Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was next up with 11 BAFTA nominations, followed by Martin Scorsese's Hugo with nine, My Week With Marilyn with six, and The Help and War Horse, which earned five nominations apiece.
The Help's Octavia Spencer Shares Her Oscar Picks, and Guess What, She's One of 'Em!
DreamWorks
Ready for a bad pun? The Help definitely doesn't need any help stirring up award buzz!
Now that that's out of our system, let's get to the good stuff: The flick—starring Emma Stone and Oscar nominee Viola Davis—has racked up some serious noms already at the Golden Globes, SAG awards and a handful of other ritzy shows. But the real place to shine is—duh!—the Oscars.
And one of the movie's stars is (rightfully) rootin' for herself come nomination time:
99 Reasons We Love Hollywood: #9-1!
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Holiday break is officially over, which means it's back to the office (boo!) and back to the regular bitchin' gossip (yay!). And it also means that our list of 99 reasons that we still love Hollywood must finally come to an end as well.
We've had a good run discussing celebs from Lindsay Lohan to Tom Cruise and everyone in between, the hottest shows (American Horror Story, anyone?), the best movies we've seen this year (Harry Potter) and the movies we just cannot wait for (Magic Mike), but we still haven't touched on the best of the best.
So we now provide for you, in a mostly particular order: The top 9 reasons we still love Tinseltown...
2012 Oscar Predictions: Best Actress Nominees!
'Tis the season...for Oscar predictions!
And since our fave race of the Academy Awards is (duh!) the Best Actress slot, we decided to narrow down which par-tick babes we think will make the tough cut. Now that we've analyzed the SAG and Golden Globe noms for further clues, we realize our first hunches were right on target: We've settled on a list that's inspired by such iconic chicks as Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher.
Talk about beauty and the beast, eh?
Golden Globes Rewind: Will History Repeat Itself?
Touchstone Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax
For many of the celebs who heard their names this morning when the Golden Globe nominations were announced, it certainly wasn't the first time.
And for some, like George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio, who all earned acting nods for their work in The Descendants, The Iron Lady and J. Edgar respectively, they've actually gone on to win the big prize.
The big question now is: Will any of them walk away, yet again, with a statuette when the Ricky Gervais-hosted show takes place next month?
Until then, why not pass the time by perusing our 15 years of winners gallery?
Go on. Take a peek. You'll be glad you did.
PHOTOS: 15 Years of Winners—Golden Globes
Globesmacked! Angelina, Leo, Charlize, Madonna, Meryl "Truly Honored" by Golden Nominations
Warner Bros; Paramount; Sony Classics; The Weinstein Company
It's nice to know that, impressive the new class of Golden Globe nominees is, the stars can still be humbled by a nomination. Even when the nods aren't really surprising (we're talking to you, Angelina Jolie. And don't even start, Meryl Streep).
Of course, it's only fitting that in the year that saw an ode to silent films sweep the nominations, some of the nominees have remained quiet on their honors (make it up to us on Oscar morning, George Clooney).
So, now that the newly minted nominees know that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association likes them—they really like them—just what did they have to say about it?
