Academy Awards 2006

As you probably already know the 78th Annual Academy Awards was held last night. The biggest suprise was that Crash won Best Motion Picture of the Year instead of Brokeback Mountain. Other winners were Reese Witherspoon (best actress) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (best actor).

Here are all the winners:

• Crash (Best Motion Picture of the Year), (Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) & (Best Achievement in Editing)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
• Reese Witherspoon (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role)
• George Clooney (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role)
• Rachel Weisz (Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role)
• Ang Lee (Best Achievement in Directing - Brokeback Mountain)
• Brokeback Mountain (Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published), (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Achievement in Cinematography), (Best Achievement in Art Direction) & (Best Achievement in Costume Design)
• Hustle & Flow (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Best Achievement in Makeup)
• King Kong (Best Achievement in Sound), (Best Achievement in Sound Editing) & (Best Achievement in Visual Effects)
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year)
• Tsotsi (Best Foreign Language Film of the Year)
• March of the Penguins (Best Documentary, Features)
• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (Best Documentary, Short Subjects)
• The Moon and the Son (Best Short Film, Animated)
• Six Shooter (Best Short Film, Live Action)

For a complete list of all nominees and winners, go visit IMDB's Academy Awards site.

I have a lot of pictures from the awards but I decided to focus on the red carpet arrivals (from top to bottom: Hilary Swank, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Keira Knightley, Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman, Rachel Weisz, Reese Witherspoon, Salma Hayek, Samantha Harris, Sandra Bullock, Uma Thurman and Vanessa Minnillo)

Visit my other blog DarkEyezHQ for more high quality pics of Reese Witherspoon from the Awards.

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Sasha Cohen & Tara Lipinski - REEL Lounge Retreat

From models, actresses, singers and now over to sport stars. The cute Sasha Cohen who recently won an Olympic silver medal in Torino is one of my favourites in that category. Here she is at REEL's lounge retreat (a daytime luxury spa and style boutique) two days ago. One of the pictures also features actress and figure skater Tara Lipinski.

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Lindsay Lohan - General Motors Ten Fashion Show

Lindsay Lohan attended the General Motors Ten Fashion Show a few days ago. I hope she goes back to her natural red hair color soon though because black hair doesn't suit her well if you ask me. Anyway, I found a couple of HQ pics from the event so here they are (including a nip slip picture)...

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Medieval: Total War 2 preview / Jaime Pressly photoshoot

It's the first of March today and it also happens to be my 100th post here at DarkEyez. Hooray! So, is today's post something special? Hmm... I'm afraid not because I've been quite busy lately with work and other things. This also means that I haven't really had time to watch that many movies or play any of the new games released on the PC lately. However, January & February are usually "slow" months anyway. Most of the game developers rush their titles out before Christmas.

Many PC games are in production though and I have already mentioned the upcoming Might & Magic V and Hellgate:London on this blog before. Another game in production phase is the sequel to Medieval: Total War - a game I played a lot when it was released almost four years ago.

Produced by Creative Assembly (the same company that developed the other Total War games) Medieval 2: Total War will focus on the time period between 1080 to 1530. This long span in history means that the game contains both primitive crusader units but also advanced gunpowder armies late in the game. The map is also much bigger than in the first Medieval game with new areas like the New World (Americas) and the Holy Lands added.

The most noticeable change in the game is the graphics. Creative Assembly has taken the 3D engine from Rome: Total War and improved it further. The units now are more detailed and more important: they have a more individual look.

Medieval: Total War 2 is slated for a release later this year. Visit the TotalWar for more information. Gamespot also has a preview of the game.

I decided to end post #100 with a photoshoot. I have posted pictures of the "My Name is Earl" star Jaime Pressly before (both here on DarkEyez and on DarkEyez HQ) but only stills or candids. So here's the pics...

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