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Partners in crime, Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn chummed up at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel on February 22, 2009. Twenty Nine years earlier, Hollywood outlaws Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper pal around at an Oscar after-party.
Best Dressed: Marisa Tomei
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Worst Dressed (though it pains me): Beyonce
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Best Jewelry: Angelina Jolie
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Dancing Queen: Sophia Loren
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Best Year: Kate WINslet
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Best Speech: Sean Penn
To See and Be Seen: John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston
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Most Over-Dressed and Underwhelmed: Miley Cyrus
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Cutest: Child Cast of Slumdog Millionaire
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Classy Couple: Josh Brolin and Diane Lane
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Worst Dressed: Nicollette Sheridan
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Classic Bombshell: Kyra Sedgwick
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Most Deserved: Sean Penn
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Best Win/Victory Lap: Meryl Streep
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Worst Accessories: Christina Applegate
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Prettiest Lady: Freida Pinto
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Worst ‘Stach But Still Hottest Man Alive: Brad Pitt
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Worst Hair: Marisa Tomei
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Best Fan
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Best Manhandling the Actor During Her Speech: Kate Winslet
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Most Boring: Katie Holmes
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Best MILF: Susan Sarandon
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Best Look: Angelina Jolie
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Biggest Rockstar: Mickey Rourke
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Sean Penn will be heading the jury of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. In the words of Paris, that’s hot. Not quite as hot and sexy and wild as 2006 – Wong Kar-Wai did the deed – but pretty dang hot nonetheless.
Speaking of Cannes, I hope everyone sees the 2007 Palme d’Or winner “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” when it’s released in the States (limited) on January 25. In the words of me, it’s downright virtuosic!
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Sean Penn’s beautiful, moving, occasionally corny “Into the Wild” received a boost this week with the announcement of the Critics Choice Award nominees. The pic received nods for Best Picture, Best Actor (Emile Hirsch), and Best Director (Penn). It led the field with seven nominations.
Despite the ceremony’s broad moniker, the Critics Choice Awards is not a survey of major movie critics – rather, it is run by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, which has an excellent track record of picking Oscar wins. In other words, they aim for the middle. Here are some of the major category nominees, below. You can check out the full list here.
Best Picture
American Gangster
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Best Actress
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page, Juno
Best Director
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright, Atonement
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