First time Oscar nominee is thrilled about getting her first Best Actress nod for her role in The Blind Side, but as soon as the excitement wore off, she realized she would have to get ready for the biggest…

Put on your reading glasses, mothers. The 82nd Academy Awards nominees have been announced! Was your favorite Sandra Bullock of the year nominated? Find out below: Best Picture (there are 10 now, guys) * Avatar * The Blind Side * District 9 * An Education * The Hurt Locker * Inglourious Basterds * Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire * A Serious Man * Up * Up in the Air

Jennifer Lopez graces the February 2010 cover of Latina mag, and she chats about her marriage to Marc Anthony, fame, and even some of her past lovers. I love J. Lo to death, but when the topic shifted to…

Specifically, five of them. The preliminary fifteen documentaries that will be cut down to the five that will be Academy Award nominees have been announced. So, uh, here they are: -”The Beaches of Agnes,” Agnès Varda, director -”Burma VJ,” Anders Østergaard, director -”The Cove,” Louie Psihoyos, director -”Every Little Step,” James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors -”Facing Ali,” Pete McCormack, director -”Food, Inc.,” Robert Kenner, director -”Garbage Dreams,” Mai Iskander, director -”Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders,” Mark N. Hopkins, director -”The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors -”Mugabe and the White African,” Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, directors -”Sergio,” Greg Barker, director -”Soundtrack for a Revolution,” Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, directors -”Under Our Skin,” Andy Abrahams Wilson, director -”Valentino: The Last Emperor,” Matt Tyrnauer, director -”Which Way Home,” Rebecca Cammisa, director I, for one, am fairly surprised by the absence of Tyson , Anvil , and Capitalism: A Love Story . As well as the lack of nomination for Man on Wire , Super Size Me , An Inconvenient Truth , The Thin Blue Line , Spellbound , the entire Maysles Brothers catalog, and Nanook of the North . I don’t understand exactly how these things work, but man, those were some good documentaries.

Hugh's definitely got my vote for hot Hollywood dad, and seeing these pix of him carrying son Oscar on his back in NYC only make my heart melt even more! Is there anything more adorable?…

In a move that, if done earlier, could have cost Randy Newman hundreds of Oscar nominations*, the Academy Awards have announced another drastic change in their nomination process (see first change here , web-slingers — ed.) that could eliminate the Best Song category if no songs worthy of being deemed “best” are found. Basically, the Academy can now call every original song bullshit: The music branch annually conducts a “bake-off” in which voters see clips of eligible songs as they are used in each film. The voters then rate a song on a scale of 6 to 10. Under the new ruling, if no song earns 8.25, there will be no nominations. If at least one hits that magic number, it will be nominated, as will the second-highest scorer. Additionally, they’ve moved to present the boring, isn’t-this-person-great awards–”the Thalberg nod to filmmakers, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the honorary Oscars for career excellence”–at an exclusive gala rather than during the ceremony. Sounds to me like someone’s clearing out some room for the hour-long memorial reel we’re going to need if celebrity deaths continue at the current rate. And maybe we can extend the time we spend meeting the accountants holding the briefcases full of sealed awards? One can only dream. *His early work is genuinely great, though. Two more Oscar tweaks [Variety]

Congrats to Amber of Tarzana, California - she's won an Oscar goodie bag worth $1,820 from X17online and the generous folks at Distinctive Assets! We had our readers fill in the blanks to create a fictional conversation between Brad and…

Hey, we can ignore the fact that he forgot his long-suffering wife during his Oscar acceptance speech, especially since Sean seemed to be relatively well-behaved last night! The big winner skipped the after-parties, opting to go back to the hotel…

If you made it to the end of the Oscars–or more likely, if you dozed off and were awakened by the credit sequence’s jamming guitar–the night’s reward was a three-minute movie preview sequence. For some of the films ( Public Enemies , Whatever Works ), it was a first look at scenes from highly-anticipated projects. For others ( Old Dogs !), it was the warning: oh god, Robin Williams and John Travolta made some kind of boot camp comedy, and it’s called Old Dogs . Here it is:

…Paris Hilton always makes us smile. Sometimes the heiress actually looks halfway decent, and other times she looks absolutely ridiculous, so we can't help but chuckle and hope that she's simply trying to take her wacky wardrobe choices to…