Oscar favourites

The Oscar season is almost up in full swing. The Academy awards this year return to be hosted by Billy Crystal after an 8 year gap .Watch the promotional campaign down here featuring Megan Fox.

As the year closes, all the biggies have been released, the frontrunners and dark horses identified. The films with expectations sometimes disappoint and unknown films delight and sparkle out of the blue. This year there are 9 films up for the biggest prize of Best Picture. Hugo leads the nominations but The Artist is the film with the momentum and with a chance of a sweep. Sweeps make the awards boring . As it is, its difficult to predict, but nonetheless, those tagged as should win are my picks to win, would win are the most likely to win and could win are the slight underdogs and dark horses for the statuette.

Best Picture

Hugo

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Artist

The Descendants

The Help

The Tree of Life

War Horse

Would win -The Artist

Could win- The Descendants

Best Director

Alexander Payne - The Descendants

Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

Martin Scorcese – Hugo

Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

Terence Mallick - The Tree of Life

This is a category in which Michel Hazanavicius’ best work is against not the best works of the other four. And trends indicate his best is good enough for the win.

Would win - Michel Hazanavicius

Best Leading Actor

Demián Bichir- A Better Life

George Clooney -The Descendants

Brad Pitt - Moneyball

Jean Dujardin - The Artist

Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Okay this looks tight. Demián Bichir was really good as a Mexican immigrant single father in A Better Life but a win here looks far fetched. And Gary Oldman didn’t win at BAFTA so he also is an outsider. Pick your lead from the rest. It’s still tight.

Would win Jean Dujardin

Could win George Clooney

Should win Brad Pitt

Best Leading Actress

Viola Davis – The Help

Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

Michelle Wiliams – My Week with Marilyn

Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs

Would win Viola Davis

Could win Meryl Streep

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Help

Octavia Spencer – The Help

Bérnicé Bejo- The Artist

Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids

Janet McTeer- Albert Nobbs

Should Win Octavia Spencer

Could win Jessica Chastain, Bérnicé Bejo

Best Supporting Actor

Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn

Jonah Hill – Moneyball

Nick Nolte – Warrior

Christopher Plummer- Beginners

Max Von Syndow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Would Win Christopher Plummer

Best Original Screenplay

Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

JC Chandor - Margin Call

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumulo – Bridesmaids

Would win - Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Should win - Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Best Adapted Screenplay

George Clooney, Beau Willimon, Grant Hesloy - The Ides of March

Alexander Payne, Jim Rash- The Descendents

John Logan - Hugo

Aaron Sorkin, Steve Zaillian, Stan Chervin - Moneyball

Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

All 5 films are worthy and the best are more or less even here. Moneyball though has a slight edge.

Should win - Aaron Sorkin, Steve Zaillian, Stan Chervin - Moneyball

Best Foreign Language Film

Bullhead (Belgium)

Footnote (Israel)

A Separation (Iran)

Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)

In Darkness (Poland)

A Separation with a nomination for Original screenplay looks the front-runner for this.

But a surprise might just occur, although unlikely.

Best Animation Film

A Cat in Paris

Chico & Rita

Kung Fu Panda 2

Puss in Boots

Rango

One thing is certain, regular winners Pixar studios won’t win anything with no nominations this year. My pick is Rango, set in a milieu that is not squeaky clean, with an inspired Johnny Depp voicing the grotesque chameleon.

Should win Rango

The Academy Awards will be held at Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles on February 26, 2012. Should be fun to watch!!

What is it about Megan Fox

What is it about Megan Fox…. that so entices the guys all over the world? She is not the pin –up actress in the classical sense of Hollywood, which favours the Caucasian blondes with blue eyes. But this was until Angelina Jolie came in to the picture .There are comparisons aplenty of Fox to Jolie, who both share a love for tattoos .Megan has 8 or so on her; with the prominent ones she flashes being on the right back shoulder rather her scapula that reads- ‘We will all laugh at gilded butterflies’ and her Marilyn Monroe on the inner right arm usually because she is holding a designer clutch in her hands.There is another one inked with Old English text on her left rib cage that is more like a small para ‘There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART’.

All of her tattoos strategically placed .

But what makes her top the sexiest woman list time and again? Megan is not a brunette too, she is more into the raven haired category. Her skin is not porcelain perfect, but is riddled with freckles, she is not tall at 5’4”and frankly is not just quite an actress yet .What makes her so incredibly hot is the oomph that she oozes with her sensuality bordering on the brinks of an outrageous sexuality .A look that promises you much more than plain old sensuousness.

Didn’t every boy either salivate or had had his mouth dry when he gaped at her in that scene from Transformers when she opens the car bonnet in that tiny orange T-shirt and jeans. Guys and geeks absolutely dig into a chic with oil and grease on her and that scene will always make the higher ranks in any sexiest scene compilations ever.

But if you have heard any of her interviews, you will know that she likes most of the things that boys do like bikes, cars, video games and she is a complete geek. She is like one of the guys ,only for a kick ass figures and an extremely pleasing personality .She was describing her kissing scene with her co actress in Jennifer’s Body and once the tape rolled and we saw the scene, she had an expression that said demurely and semi -modestly–“ ya I know , pretty cool ,right?”

That is why brands like Armani are falling into her lap and although her photo shoot is not as raunchy as say Eva Mendes, it is a treat to stare at her as he stares back from huge billboards. She has years on her side and a following that is bound to keep growing .Its is kind of asking –

Is a hot chic cool or a cool chic hot?

Because she is both .She is magic on the red carpet of award functions and also boringly domesticated yet exciting on a variety promoting her films, which gives her an edge, and she knows that does Foxy Megan.