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A.R. Rahman Takes Oscar for Slumdog Original Score, Best Song

Source: Michael Ricci
February 23, 2009

Original score: 'Slumdog Millionaire's' A.R. Rahman

Rahman, composer of countless Bollywood scores, won for his transporting soundscape in Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's crowd-pleaser that is part potboiler, part fairy tale.

Rahman started writing music for Indian TV ads in the early '90s, eventually switching to film and composing dozens of soundtracks a year. In 2002, Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned him to write the music for the play “Bombay Dreams," which ran in London's West End. Rahman also collaborated with London ...

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Complete List of Nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2009

2009 Oscar scorecard The Envelope Winner --->

BEST PICTURE “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" “Frost/Nixon" “Milk" “The Reader" “Slumdog Millionaire"

BEST ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, “Changeling" Melissa Leo, “Frozen River" Meryl Streep, “Doubt" Kate Winslet, “The Reader"

BEST ACTOR Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon" Sean Penn, “Milk" Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler" Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, “Doubt" Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Viola ...

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Live Blogging the Oscars

Source: Michael Ricci
February 22, 2009

Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting “refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.

1:30 p.m. — Our forums moderator Chris “Boomer" Beachum has compiled this list of who we believe will be among the performers, presenters and participants on tonight's show. Over at Cinemascopian.com, he found an unofficial rundown of how the program reportedly will go ...

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I'm with the Band! Oscars Stage Design Revealed

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2009

Architect going for ‘immersive environment evocative of an intimate club.

Now when the Oscars musicians play winners offstage, they might get the chance to glare a little bit, too.

Renderings of this year’s Academy Awards set show an onstage bandstand, situated behind a circular ministage that juts into the audience. The whole thing is surrounded by a glittering circle of cascading white lights and flanked by enormous chandeliers.

The images were released by the firm of architect David Rockwell, the ...

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Duffy Tops Brit Awards (Coldplay Shut Out)

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2009

Even at an awards ceremony where Robert Plant and Alison Krauss weren’t nominated for anything, Coldplay was nonetheless shut out at the Brit Awards, England’s equivalent of the Grammys.

Instead Duffy won nearly everything but the catering cart, Reuters reported. Coldplay, which was nominated for four awards, including best British group and British live act, won nothing, while Duffy, the Welsh soul singer of “Mercy” fame, won awards for best British female and breakthrough act, as well as album for ...

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Grammys: Where Were the Latino Musicians?

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2009

There's been an understandable amount of head-scratching and second-guessing in some quarters over the shortage of Latino and Latin American musical artists presenting trophies at the Grammys earlier this month.

Musically, CBS' 3 1/2 -hour broadcast on Feb. 8 reflected what Times pop critic Ann Powers called “the great wide mess of styles and sounds that fill the marketplace,” including artists as dissimilar as Neil Diamond and Lil Wayne. But while Latino musicians were represented within that mishmash, they were ...

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Finalists Announced for Billboard Latin Awards

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2009

A varied list of artists, from veteran to newcomers, dominates the finalists for the 11th annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, taking place April 23 in Miami.

Icons Vicente Fernandez, Marco Antonio Solis and Mana, along with pop star Enrique Iglesias, banda diva Jenni Rivera, urban bachata group Aventura and pop/alt singer Julieta Venegas and newcomers Flex and Los Pikadientes de Caborca are among the top finalists.

Thirteen new categories will be awarded this year, including the Latin Digital Download artist ...

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11th Annual Music Masters Summit and Award Ceremony 2009

Source: Just Roots PR
February 17, 2009

Cincinnati's United Local Artists Network Inc. presents our 11th annual Music Masters Summit and Award Ceremony 2009.

The date is March 1st, 2009@ the 20th Century Theater 3021 Madison Rd in Oakley.

We will award “Lifetime Achievement Awards" to William “Billie" Gant, the"Deele", Travis Haddixand “The Original Blind Boys of Mississippi" ( The Five Blind Boys will receive a proclamation from Mayor Mark Mallory). The lead singer of the Blind Boys is a Cincinnati native along with a few more ...

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