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30 Oscar Winners Who Have Also Been Nominated For Razzies

Do your movies keep filling up the direct-to-DVD dollar bin? Do they often complete the phrase “the worst film since…”? Do they make less money than we did that time we went to a Coinstar? Well, don’t let that get you down, because you could still be in the running for Oscar glory! Every year, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation names the most terrible films and performances of the year. Sure, it’s gotta hurt to be named the absolute worst of Hollywood, but just know that you’re in surprisingly good company. Check out the gallery below to see some Oscar winners who have also been up for a Razzie!

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Where Would Blake Lively Rank Among Steven Soderbergh’s Leading Ladies?

Steven Soderbergh’s having kind of a crap week, what with disappointing numbers for his latest action flick, Haywire, and the news that Annapurna Pictures backed out of one of his next projects, Side Effects. But we feel more sorry for Blake Lively, as some industry sources are speculating that backers aren’t so sure she can handle the role of a young woman caught in a love triangle with her doctor (Jude Law) and her paroled husband (Channing Tatum). It sounds like a heavy step up from Gossip Girl and Green Lantern, but it wouldn’t be the first time Soderbergh has managed to make a movie star into a serious actress. (One of those actresses, Catherine Zeta-Jones, has signed on for another role in Side Effects, giving ol’ Steven a vote of confidence.) Then again, he’s also had a few misses in that category too. Let’s take a look at what the critics have said about five of his leading ladies’ performances:

1. Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight: “At the center of the film is the repartee between Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney, and these two have the kind of unforced fun in their scenes together that reminds you of Bogart and Bacall. There’s a seduction scene in which the dialogue is intercut with the very gradual progress of the physical action, and it’s the dialogue that we want to linger on.” — Roger Ebert

“Lopez, for all her Latina-siren voluptuousness, has always projected a contained coolness, and this is the first movie in which it fully works for her. As Sisco is lured into a romance with Foley, you can see her resolve melt in spite of itself.” — Entertainment Weekly

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Mirror, Mirror Trailer Has Us Asking: Which Snow White Is Fairest Of Them All?

The Mirror, Mirror trailer has arrived, which mean we can finally answer the question: which Snow White is the fairest of them all? “Fairest” means “most awesome,” right? While Kristen Stewart‘s Snow White seemed to be the Dark Night of Disney princess movies (based on the Snow White and the Huntsman trailer), Lily Collins‘ kind but headstrong heroine looks much more in keeping with the original fairy tale protagonist. Likewise, Julia Roberts‘ Evil Queen in this film is much more of a sarcastic diva compared to Charlize Theron‘s malevolent overlord. Are these two versions of Snow White too different to compare? Does it all come down to which film has more Nathan Lane in it? In the end, doesn’t everything? What do you think?

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Julia Roberts: Trophy Winner, Disco Sailor

The Hollywood award train isn’t going to stop just because of a little thing like the Grammys! The American Society Of Cinematographers threw a gala for Julia Roberts last night, giving her their annual Governors Award for helping to advance the arts or whatever (personally, we think the cinematographers were honoring her for marrying cameraman Danny Moder). Apparently being outshone by the music industry got to Julia a little, as she decided to try and get away with basically wearing a sailor suit sans jacket. Nice one, Julia! Way to look exactly like Robert Hays in the disco scene of Airplane!

See photos of Julia getting her groove on with presenter Tom Hanks in the gallery below. Hey, didn’t Julia give Tom a trophy from the American Cinematheque less than two years ago? That’s how it is in Hollywood: you award my back, I’ll award yours.

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Julie Roberts And Natalie Portman Connected To Two More Snow White Movies

Things are going to get a little confusing in Hollywood, because there are currently three Snow White movies in development and we can barely keep them straight. Last week we mentioned that Kristen Stewart was up for the title role in Snow White And The Huntsman. Viggo Mortensen would play the Huntsman and the evil, mirror-obsessed queen would be played by Charlize Theron in that film. Sounds like a great cast! But today, we also learned that Julia Roberts was up for the role as the Evil Queen, which confused us until we realized it’s for an entirely different Snow White movie. The film Roberts is in talks to star in is The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, which will not only be directed by crazy-visual-effects master Tarsem Singh, but is also going to be 3D. So get ready for a lot of dwarves and poison apples in your face, people!

So two dueling films is all well and good and nothing new in Hollywood, but it’s also being reported that Natalie Portman is also in negotiations to star in yet another Snow White film called Snow And The Seven which takes place in 19th century China. The seven are no longer dwarves but warriors who help Snow defeat her evil stepmother. The Portman project is being produced by Disney and written by Michael Arndt, who wrote Toy Story 3, not a bad combo considering the year they’ve all had. It’s interesting that the Disney project is the most unusual take on the story, since fairy tales in general are sort of their bread and butter, but another movie definitely crowds the playing field. Will star power determine which one will be the fairest one of all? Or are there just that many Snow White fans out there willing to see all three?

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Julia Roberts Says “We’re F—ed” If Academy Ignores Javier Bardem

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Oscar Nominations come out January 25, and actors are ravenous for little tiny statues they can display in their bathrooms. Leading the brigade is Julia Roberts as she campaigns for Javier Bardem in Biutiful like a furious grizzly bear campaigns to keep hikers away from her cubs. Raves Roberts about Bardem’s role in the Spanish-language film, which she screened for a high-profile audience in L.A., “He’s so raw and completely open to sharing every emotion this character has.” When an EW interviewer informed her that someone he knew couldn’t finish the film as it was too “bleak,” Roberts retorted, “I don’t know how you couldn’t want to know what happens. I hope that person is haunted until the end of time wanting to know what happened.” Til the end of time! A-list actresses with their claws out are just the thing to get us through these long winter months. And even longer award shows.

So if her Eat Pray Love co-star was soooo great in his new film, why wouldn’t Javier get a nom? According to Roberts, it all has to do with the award campaign process. “I think the movie hasn’t gotten the exposure. You don’t know where it is. It’s like this hidden little jewel. Especially in this particular season, people don’t hunt for things. They just take what you throw in their face,” Julia explains. Like when Sandra Bullock campaigned so hard for The Blind Side last year that she won Best Actress, even though the movie is basically a cheesy family drama. Wait, who said that? Oh right, it was us. So if Bardem doesn’t get the nod? “If there’s not hope for talent, then we’re f–ed,” Julia fumed. She doesn’t just mean Hollywood either, you guys. She means everyone on the planet. And we believe her, because she’s Julia f—ing Roberts. [Photo: WENN]

TheFABLife’s Ten Biggest Hollywood Hacks Of 2010

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It can happen to the best of us. One minute you’re lounging in your silken dressing robes, sipping cognac while you stare into a fire made out of $100 bills, the next minute you realize, whoops, you forgot to make those lease payments on your private island! For the past 12 years! Oh, did we mention that you’re a famous actor in this scenario?

Rather than pull a Wesley Snipes (too soon?) and settle for homemade toilet wine while serving 3-5, most actors would instead start taking any role they can get to pump their bank accounts back into shape. And we do mean any: a filthy wizard, a GCI Great Dane, even a Katherine Heigl type. So we offer for your approval the Ten Biggest Hollywood Hacks of 2010, ten actors who seemed almost certainly to have been in it for the money, tax issues or otherwise. The economy might be in the gutter, but that doesn’t mean celebrities can’t get paid millions of dollars to star in awful, awful movies. By the way, are you going to finish that toilet wine?

Warning Paparazzi: Do Not Come Anywhere Near Julia Roberts’ Children

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As a preface to this post, we’d just like to say we’re totally intimidated by Julia Roberts. Her going psycho on a paparazzo doesn’t surprise us. Its scares us, but if said photographer had the cojones to mess with Julia, he had it coming. Julia and her husband, Danny Moder, were in LA with their three kids when she spotted the trigger happy paparazzo getting photos of her brood, and got up in his face. This is no exaggeration, as the photos from RadarOnline reveal. Julia seems to be towering over him as she jams him to his car while yelling at him. We’d think these photos were from a movie, if we didn’t know otherwise. It’s melodramatic, a tad violent, but by the looks of his face…effective.

This should clear any questions about why we’d quake in our boots around her. Julia’s always been a bit…temperamental. Last year, another photographer had Julia screaming, “You get the f— out of my face. Do you understand me? You are harassing me. Get the f— out of my face. You have followed me all over town. I have had it with you. F— off! Aim higher! Get a life! Get away from me!”, at him. This was in response to him saying, “ ”Hey Julia, how are you? You look great today.” Scared yet?

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There’s A Reason Why Julia Roberts Has That Smile…

It’s because she’s so much richer than you. It’s like she breathes air and makes money. She sneezes and her bank fills up. You think we’re exaggerating? Julia Roberts got paid $1.5 million for this 46 second Lavazza coffee ad. And she didn’t even have to open her mouth. All she had to do was show up in Rome, smile and drink coffee, and have those Italian actors do the talking. Screw coffee…we now need something harder.

Is this an Ocean’s Eleven thing? Because George Clooney just filmed advertisements for Nespresso. Why is Hollywood suddenly drinking so much coffee? Right, because they’re the magic beans exchanged for cash cows. Who and what’s next? Brad Pitt for Nescafe? And could he be shirtless?

FABLife’s DVD Pick Of The Week

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Eat Pray Love

When ordinary people do strange things for no reason, it’s a David Lynch movie. When Julia Roberts does strange things for no reason, it’s Eat Pray Love. In this travelogue/rom-com, she walks out on both handsome Billy Crudup and sexy James Franco to go through the title’s three steps. It’s a journey that takes her across the parts of Italy, India and Bali most often seen in postcards. Some viewers may wonder what happened to reality—especially when her lithe Swedish companion complains about carrying a non-existent “muffin top.” Most, however, will swoon at the gorgeous locations and Roberts’s affecting way of swallowing her emotions. For those looking for pure escapist fare, it’s a satisfying feast. The guys who watch with them will thank Shiva for both Richard Jenkins and Javier Bardem, who contribute fine supporting turns as the men trying to thaw Roberts’s sphinx-like cool. Viewers seeking for a bit more testosterone this Thanksgiving may enjoy The Winning Season, a smart comedy starring Sam Rockwell as a drunkard coaching a girls’ varsity basketball team. Rockwell is terrific as a soak truly in love with hoops, but mystified by anything in a skirt—including star player Emma Roberts (Julia’s niece). The action skillfully evades cliché to wrap up in an unexpected comic finale. Right down to the final buzzer and without shameless cheerleading, The Winning Season proves itself to be a great movie about both sports and girls.

Extras: EPL contains an extended cut and commentary from director/Glee creator Ryan Murphy.

- By C. Bottomley

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