Interactive Oscar presentation

Oscar is 82 this Sunday. This year, the field of Best Picture nominees has been expanded to 10 films, although if you follow the press, you could be mistaken for thinking that there are only 2!

To get up to date on the films nominated, watch trailers, read reviews and more, The Guardian newspaper has put together this special interactive feature.

You can also go direct to the source by visiting the official Oscar website, which has plenty of material on all the categories, plus previews of the ceremony itself.

Strange Random Oscar Quote:

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.” – William Goldman

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Celebrity Almanac

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If you’ve ever wondered about the real names of classic film stars or just how many famous people died in a particular year, then this site has all this and more.

If you can ignore the rather annoying star patterns that follow your mouse around, you’ll find an enormous amount of information collected by the author, an ex-member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and organiser of many celebrity charity events. There are autographs of over 250 stars such as Vincent Price, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon (complete with spelling mistake) and Jane Russell, as well as facts about Maurice J. Micklewhite, Margarita Cansino or the unforgettable Natasha Gurdin, otherwise known as Michael Caine, Rita Hayworth and Natalie Wood.

Despite the sound of it, the Celebrity Death Dates page could end up resolving a  few discussions of the type “So and so must be dead by now …” You’ll also find curious facts such as that two people who were outstanding in completely different fields, Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolph Nureyev, both died on the 6th of January 1993.

http://www.celebrityalmanac.com/

Strange Random Language Fact:

Many languages have 50,000 words or more, but individual speakers normally know and use only a fraction of the total vocabulary: in everyday conversation people use the same few hundred words.