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HOLLYWOOD (AFP) – 1749 PST: sap Pfister wins the photography accolade for Inception! It's his prototypal get in quaternary nominations. He beatniks nine-time appointed Roger Deakins (True Grit), Danny Cohen (The King's Speech), Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network) and Gospels Libbatique (Black Swan).

1746 PST: blackamoor histrion introduces the prototypal digit awards. The prototypal is for prowess content - and the accolade goes to Alice in Wonderland! (which was selection to win)

1737 PST: The stars are every inside the Kodak Theatre and there's inferior than fivesome transactions to go. Steven Spielberg is scouring the lineament of Bruce Cohen, the nervous hunting accolade telecast producer, and handing him bottled water. blackamoor Hanks, who module inform the prototypal award, is interviewed on initiate and appears relaxed. It's business as customary for the accolade succeeder who reportedly joked with Colin linguist at a pre-Oscar bash terminal hebdomad that he hoped linguist had watched a DVD he'd sent to nominees to support them with their espousal speeches. He also warned the probable prizewinning person frontrunner not to feature discover a list of name as it shows "us your denudate spot."Okay, here we go... the exhibit is starting...

1726 PST: Colin linguist and Geoffrey Rush ready the "bromance" fires bubbling, joking around on the flushed carpet. "It's a shocking display, shameless," admits Firth, 50, who is every but 100 proportionality certain to get an accolade tonight. A denudate Rush, who won an accolade for Shine in 1997 and is appointed for prizewinning activity actor, says modify if The King's Speech goes bag empty bimanual it has "scored with audiences and it has scored in our working relationship." Earlier man inhabitant Cate Blanchett commented on what an exceptional year it was for inhabitant nominees - along with Rush, Nicole Kidman and Jacki Weaver are among the nominees.

1712 PST: saint dictator is caught backstage transactions before the start begins. He seems a lowercase inattentive - is it nerves? He's asked how he thinks it module go. "We'll see," says the prizewinning person nominee with a smile. The actor, who is also a postgraduate student at Yale, has been nipping backwards to LA at weekends to rehearse for the ceremony. Has he got extra credits for every his efforts? "There's a class titled Oscars and I aced it," dictator jokes. He also reveals it won't exclusive be his co-host, "tons of energy" Anne Hathaway, who module be changing clothes. He module also be doing whatever accumulation changes of his own.

1708 PST: And finally Natalie Portman is here. The prizewinning actress frontrunner looks gorgeous in a v-neck color coiffe by topical designers Rodarte (who also fashioned whatever of the dancers' costumes in Negroid Swan). Is she nervous? "I'm excited. I see same it's feat to be a recreation exhibit to watch this year with saint and Anne hosting." The 29-year-old mum-to-be also reveals she's hunting nervy to the awards flavour existence finished with and how move backwards in "sweats with untidy material and no make-up is the large wealth of all."

1702 PST: It's a prototypal - an accolade advocator is existence interviewed on the flushed carpet. Anne Hathaway, the show's youngest ever patron in "archival Valentino" reveals that Shirley MacLaine told her to "change clothes as often as possible" and she intends to take that to heart. "I could not see more same a princess, a flick grapheme and the luckiest girl in the world."

1700 PST: Annette Bening, a prizewinning actress contender for The Kids Are All Right and four-time accolade nominee, keeps up the smiles despite predictions she's probable to again go bag empty-handed - terminal night's Independent Spirit Awards was meet the stylish start at which Natalie Portman vex her to the prizewinning actress prize. She arrives with husband Warren Beatty. The person is asked what makes his spouse such a fantastic actress? "You don't undergo the half of it," he replies. "Not exclusive that she's the prizewinning actress in the world, you can't envisage what a care and spouse and the whole thing... I'm in awe."

1653 PST: You'd never guess faith Bale was from Wales. The prizewinning activity person nominee - selection to get for his persona as a crack-addled past battler in The Fighter - sounds more same a Cockney: his style is littered with "cheers, Mates" and "know what I means?" The bearded actor, famous for feat to fleshly extremes for flick parts, is asked if there's anything he won't do for a role. He says audiences merit it and he's "totally happy to go the distance". Do his relatives ever get worried most the lengths he goes to, he's asked. "Nerr, they undergo I'm a stubborn git and they undergo I'm feat to do it anyway."

1645 PST: Other stars arriving: a tousle-haired Scarlett Johansson in Dolce and Gabbana; a tanned-looking (or is it make-up?) Gwyneth Paltrow in antimonial Calvin Klein nervous most performing tonight (she'll do a strain from her flick Country Strong) - "I wish I don't completely mess it up"; terminal year's prizewinning actress succeeder Sandra Bullock in strapless flushed Vera Wang cool from the cold; metropolis Berry in discolour strapless Marchesa...

1636 PST: Helena Bonham Carter is here and act her stylemark ammo spectacles but what on the grappling of it appears to be a surprisingly normal-looking gown - it's black and fitted with a bounteous bustle and 19th century feel. Asked if she had been worried most the "fashion police", she describes her appurtenances as "something I got unitedly with accumulation specializer Colleen Atwood. I intellection it would be pleasant to celebrate flick not fashion...I've got a bit of a Byzantine most my grub so intellection I'd make it modify bigger."

E!'s fashion pundit Kelly Osborne gushes she's "obsessed" with Bonham Carter and loves her outfit. The actress responds: "Thanks, Kelly" before clocking her hairdo: "You've absent blonde, Jesus!" Bonham Carter said she prototypal realised The King's Speech could be a impact when it screened at Toronto and grouping were "laughing in the right places and modify stood up at the end." But she's not expecting the flick to "sweep tonight. It's meet recreation to be here."

1623 PST: Interesting tidbits we're picking up from flushed furnishings interviews: Mila Kunis was offered her persona in Negroid Swan by administrator Darren Aronofsky via Skype. In fact, "all our meetings (before rehearsals began) were on Skype," the actress says.

Best person nominee Jesse Eisenberg doesn't possess a broadcasting and doesn't hit a Facebook account. "I really should hit subscribed up this morning," he says.

The King's Speech began its journey to the Oscars in a brown essay envelope on Geoffrey Rush's doorstep. The film's nation administrator blackamoor Hooper said prizewinning activity person nominee Rush found the then playscript for an un-produced endeavor on his sill digit Christmastime morning. Amazingly he feature it and titled his agent to feature he didn't poverty to do it as a endeavor but did poverty it to be his next film. Hooper remarks on "how democratic" the film's accomplish has proved, with figure to 90-year-olds enjoying it (a communication to the censors who originally maltreated it with an R judgement perhaps?).

1609 PST: Amy Adams is nervous in a dark chromatic sparkly L'Wren Scott dress. She says she's rooting for man The Fighter grapheme and man prizewinning activity actress nominee Melissa Leo.

Jeremy Renner, a prizewinning activity person nominee, arrives and is congratulated on his nomination by Kevin Spacey. Spacey's tip for the night: "Just hit recreation and encounter the forbid as apace as you can."

E!'s Ryan Seacrest asks Spacey, a producer of The Social Network, most the film's gist on Facebook. The person tells him that Mark Zuckerberg's past appearance on Saturday Night Live with prizewinning person nominee Jesse Eisenberg (who portrays him in the film), indicates the website's founder is "starting to accept the intent that actually the movie's been pretty good for his company." Spacey also alludes to the persona of ethnic networking in the past upheavals in the Middle East. "There's no uncertainty as we countenance around the world...people are uncovering their voices (via ethnic media) in some troubled places." He continued, "I conceive it's quite important how it's changed our world."

1559 PST: nation comic Russell Brand is having whatever recreation on the flushed furnishings with the American broadcasting reporters. Asked if he'll be sticking to the playscript when he presents an honor with Helen Mirren during the ceremony, he says that Mirren has pleased him to "express myself creatively and not vexation most counterintelligence or whatever of the laws of the earth." He's brought along his mum as his man and she's agog to wager Colin Firth, tonight's prizewinning person favourite. Brand, who says he went to the same episode edifice as Firth, describes his man Brit as "a enthusiastic person with an knowledge to passage sense and strength."

Another British-born grapheme rooting for Firth's flick is Elizabeth Taylor. The Oscar-winning flick legend, who is in hospital from a heart scare, is rooting for The King's Speech and module be watching tonight from her hospital bed with kinsfolk and near friends, her spokesman said.

1548 PST: Anne spouse is spied incoming splendiferous in a flushed strapless, bounteous bustled number - the prototypal of no uncertainty numerous accumulation changes in accumulation for the co-presenter tonight.

Black Swan grapheme Mila Kunis is in a revealing chromatic number cut baritone crossways the bust. Sexiest coiffe of the evening? It's a "lace and chiffon neo-classical number", Randolph Duke informs us. The actress, who is a advocator at the ceremony, is complimented on her knowledge to do both episode and comedy. She responds: "I mean, I wish so. I don't ever poverty to be a one-trick pony!"

1537 PST: Melissa Leo, a prizewinning activity actress nominee, is added early arrival. Leo, selection for the accolade for her acting of the hard-as-nails matriarch in The Fighter, is transformed from her character's flash bottle towheaded with fleecy material and a bounteous lacy/silvery dress. The 50-year-old grapheme has been cleanup up this awards flavour but admits she hasn't been preparing an espousal style for tonight.

Her rival for the prize, True Grit grapheme Hailee Steinfeld, 14, is not farther behind. The teenager, who scored an accolade nomination for her prototypal ever flick persona in the Coen brothers' Western remake, is told by individual reporters her pale, fitted Marchesa coiffe (which she helped design) is "age appropriate" while "she speaks so well" for someone her age. She's brought along her "mummy, daddy and brother" to the ceremony.

1523 PST: It's a concise but gleaming flavour tone salutation with no clew of yesterday's fall or plastic furnishings covering. Jennifer Lawrence, the 20-year-old grapheme of indie impact Winter's Bone and first-time accolade nominee (best actress) is among the prototypal to arrive. She's act a stunning "simple bathing suit style" (according to ABC's fashion pundit Randolph Duke) flushed cover coiffe and is immediately jumped on by interviewers. "This has to be the prizewinning time in your life," says digit dyspneal reporter. "I conceive it's pretty innocuous to say," agrees the actress who says she's usually watching the Oscars from her lounge with a bag of pasta and vegetables "There's a lot more sucking in tonight." She says she's not nervous and doesn't seem discomposed by every the hoopla and the questions most whether she did indeed skin a squirrel in the film. Yes, is the answer.

1500 PST: Welcome to AFP's springy inform from the 2011 Oscars, the culmination of Hollywood's poem awards flavour and the flick industry's large night. This year's most expected showdowns include the prizewinning represent and administrator categories, where nation period indie flick The King's Speech (with a leading 12 nominations) vies with David Fincher's of-the-moment Facebook movie, The Social Network (eight noms).

The battle comes as the Academy makes its most conspicuous effort to enter with younger flick fans and users of online media with Twitter and Facebook pages and a track of internet extras and apps.

Its also recruited digit of its youngest ever presenters - exciting A-listers Anne spouse and saint dictator (also a contender for prizewinning actor) a astonishing and dramatic equipment agitate after terminal year's hosts, Alec solon and Steve Martin, who pulled in the large conference since 2005.

Franco and spouse hit been tirelessly promoting tonight's show, the 83rd awards, with self-mockery and frankness (Hathway originally rejected the substance while dictator modify volunteered whatever new irreverence for what some wager as an overlong training in business self-congratulation: "If it's the poorest Oscars exhibit ever, who cares? It's like, it's fine. It's digit night. It doesn't matter.")

But the Academy is also keen to ready tralatitious fans and its older skewing body on board - loved stager patron Billy Crystal is rumoured to be connexion the initiate at whatever point. How module its effort to ready everyone happy fare?

Other bounteous questions of the night: module Helena Bonham Carter dress matching shoes? How module meaningful Natalie Portman (and probable prizewinning actress winner) accessorize her child bump? Will secretive graffiti creator Banksy exhibit up (he's appointed for prizewinning documentary) and venture arrest for questionable past LA street art? And module anyone move to fissure a jape most Charlie Sheen? Let's go the Kodak Theatre and encounter out!

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