Latest Oscar Night News

Our fellow movie geeks over at AMPAS (yes, they are…as I was emphatically told)  had alot to say today:

For the first time, Academy Award winners will be able to have their Oscar statuettes personalized with engraved nameplates on Oscar Night at the Governors Ball, the official celebration immediately following the 82nd Academy Awards. the Academy will create 197 nameplates, one for each 2009 nominee in every category. The engraving will include the nominee’s name, category, film title and year. After the winners have been announced, the unused nameplates will be recycled.

Even if I was one of the losers, I still would want to take my nameplate home with me.

For the 16th consecutive year, master chef Wolfgang Puck has been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create the menu for the Governors Ball, the celebration immediately following the 82nd Academy Awards. Wolfgang Puck Catering will serve the Academy’s 1,500 Ball guests, which will include Oscar winners, nominees, presenters and telecast participants. The menu created by Puck and chefs Lee Hefter and Matt Bencivenga includes a new twist on a classic entr’e, signature dishes such as smoked salmon Oscars, and the chef’s garden spring vegetable salad as well as pastry chef Sherry Yard’s gold-dusted chocolate Oscars.

Sounds yummy!

In her 21st consecutive year, Cheryl Cecchetto has been chosen to produce the Governors Ball and Jeffrey Kurland (ERIN BROCKOVICH and Christopher Nolan’s upcoming INCEPTION), an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences governor representing the Art Directors Branch, will chair the Governors Ball.

The Academy’s 2010 Governors Ball will be held in the Grand Ballroom on the top level of the Hollywood & Highland Center immediately following the ceremony.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Source: Oscars.org