If you have been reading or hearing the latest news about Whoopi Goldberg not being mention in the Oscar celebration as a host for Oscars in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002. 

It was quite a oversight if you ask me.

It looks like producer Gil Cates called and apologized for not including her in a montage featuring Oscar hosts during Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast.

Apparently, Cates called her Tuesday and “talked about the fact that he had made an oversight, pure and simple.

He said, `You know I love you,’” Goldberg said Wednesday on ABC daytime talk show “The View.”

Goldberg, who called Cates a “great gentleman,” accepted his apology.

She said she has “moved on” since choking up on Monday’s show when her fellow co-hosts discussed how she was left out of the clip.

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Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture — Winner of Best Music Score 

Winner of two Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture Drama 

Winner of two BAFTA Awards including Best Film 

“A crowning achievement. A ravishing romance” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone  

“Four Stars. A sweeping love story.” – Leah Rozen, People 

From the award-winning director of Pride and Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love, betrayal, and all its consequences. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast in the film critics are calling “the year’s best picture” (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).  

 BONUS FEATURES:

• Deleted Scenes

• Bringing the Past to Life: The Making of Atonement

• Watch the new become old as the filmmakers recreate the English Countryside of 1935, the famous Dunkirk evacuation and the drama of war torn WWII London.

• From Novel to Screen: Adapting a Classic  

• Once again director Joe Wright takes a classic period story and re-invigorates it for a new audience. Re-uniting the director, producer and star of PRIDE & PREJUDICE, we look at how Wright’s modern style of film-making brings these novels to life.

• Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright

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During the live Oscar telecast, we all know how the acceptance speeches get cut off with music. Perhaps some of us would like to hear more “thank you” or see more of the winners in general.

That is available now at the official Oscar web site. 

See Marion Cotillard winner of best actress speak French with excitement or Jarvier Bardam’s Spanish smile with yet another award for his supporting role in “Old Country,”   But, this time it’s the Oscar!

Or, just peruse all the winners.  Oscar

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If you just can’t wait to find out who the winners are tomorrow night, then peruse the Internet and take a look at some of the sites covering the coveted event. Here are links to the Oscars with predictions, speculations, glitz, glamour and photographs.

Variety covers the subject matter rather extensively.

Moviefone highlights the Oscars to make it a quick study.

Entertainment Weekly offers all sorts of goodies from games to memory lane.

Rotten Tomatoes holds blog for your comments and surf around to find exclusive interviews or Q & A with nominees at the Spirit Awards.

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The Oscars are little over 24 hours away, and I highly recommend you go to the official Oscar web site. There you can view all the information, trivia and highlights of the 80th Academy Awards. Who do you pick to win?

These are my choices:

Best Film — Michael Clayton

Best Director — Tony Gilroy

Best Actor — Daniel Day Lewis

Best Actress — Julie Christie

Best Supporting Actress — Ruby Dee

Best Supporting Actor — Javier Barham

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Madonna and Demi Moore are putting on one heck of a party for after the Oscar show. Variety reports the party is a “black-tie social vacuum” that’s being thrown together at the last minute.

If this becomes an annual event or just a filler for all the confusion from the writer’s strike, no one is saying. The party will take place in a home in the Westside hills, beginning around 9 p.m.

A few hundred people are invited with speculation the number will probably expand.

A person was quoted in Variety who said, “Everybody’s on it. It gives the A-list Vanity Fair crowd someplace to go to. It will probably be pared down to where it’s 85% talent, not a lot of suits.” 

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The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards.

Forest Whitaker, Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus and George Clooney are among the presenters at the Feb. 24 ceremony at the Kodak Theatre.

Other presenters include Martin Scorese, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz and Tom Hanks.

The usual performances of the five nominated songs will occur with “Enchanted” star Amy Adams will sing “Happy Working Song,” one of the film’s three nominated tunes. Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders will perform “That’s How You Know,” and Jon McLaughlin will sing “So Close,” also from “Enchanted.”

“Once” stars, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, plan to perform their song “Falling Slowly.” Jamia Simone Nash, and the IMPACT repertory Theatre of Harlem, will sing “Raise It Up” from “August Rush.”

For more details about the Oscars go to the official web site.

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Check out the cover for Daily Variety with Julie Christie on the cover.  She looks great.  I am very excited about her nomination. I look forward to seeing her accept the award on Oscar night.

Also, this addition of Daily Variety outlines all the Oscar nominations; it’s pretty awesome to read and get a feel for what the Oscar show is all about since we get the “A Show” because the writer’s strike is over.

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Reel Geezers do a wonderful take on the Oscars.  Couple of old pros who really know what it takes to get a movie made and to be nominated for an Oscar. 

Reel Geezers Do the Oscars Part One

Reel Geezers Do the Oscars Part Two

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I read an article about how the Oscars will be completely different and more expensive to run if the writers are still striking, per the producer Gil Cates. Also, there are lots of film clips to explore with 80 years of Oscars.

Sounds like a different take on the Oscars, which I believe we could all enjoy. Why not have an Oscar show heavy on clips and short on star power?

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