Beverly Hills, CA – Annie Lennox will perform at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producer Joe Roth announced today. This will be the first time the singer has performed on an Oscar(R) telecast. [More]
Day: February 10, 2004
Beverly Hills, CA – Annie Lennox will perform at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producer Joe Roth announced today. This will be the first time the singer has performed on an Oscar(R) telecast.
Lenox will perform the Original Song nominee”Into the West” from “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Lennox, Fran Walsh and Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore are nominated for writing the music and lyrics for “Into the West.”
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2003 will be presented on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland(R) and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5p.m. (PST) with a half-hour arrivals segment.
Information about the 76th Annual Academy Awards can be accessed on line. [www.oscars.org]
BEVERLY HILLS (California) Feb 10 – “Lord of the Rings” mastermind Peter Jackson said Monday he was thrilled that his last hobbit movie is leading the Oscars race, but disappointed that its star Sean Astin was not nominated. The 42-year-old best director-nominee said he was delighted that the last episode in his film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was vying for 11 Oscars when the awards are handed out later this month. “As a filmmaker you make films and obviously it’s not about awards, but I think (an Oscar) would be an incredible honour that you will never have again,” the New Zealander told journalists at a luncheon for Academy Award nominees. [More]
The Lord of the Rings finale The Return of the King has become the third most successful film of all time. Peter Jackson’s epic has now made $942.7m (£517.9m) worldwide, and is expected to pass the $1bn mark after it is released in Japan on 14 February. [More]
Jill writes: I thought you might enjoy the following which has appeared on a conference website, as a guide to scientists planning to submit an abstract for an international atmospheric chemistry conference to be held in Christchurch in September. [More]
And some people like to think of scientists as a humourless bunch…
After recently finishing up his theatre run in Australia, Ian McKellen is back in the US and on ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn’ Tonight. Be sure to get plenty of coffee and skittles tonight as you will have to stay up until 12:35AM for this show. [More]