2010 March 08 – Gino's Blog

Oscar Winners of 2010

March 8, 2010 By Gino 2 Comments

I guess Hurt Locker beat Avatar, huh? Here’s the full list guys

Best actor in a leading role Oscars 2010 Winner:
Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)

Best actor in a supporting role Oscars 2010 Winner:
Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Best actress in a leading role Oscars 2010 Winner:
Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.)

Best actress in a supporting role Oscars 2010 Winner:
Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Up” (Walt Disney) Pete Docter

Best in art direction Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Best in cinematography Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore

Best in costume design Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Sandy Powell

Best Director Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow

Best documentary feature film Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Cove” (Roadside Attractions)

Best documentary short subject Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Music by Prudence” An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Best in film editing Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Best foreign language film of the year Oscars 2010 Winner:
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production Argentina

Best in Makeup Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Winner (Original score)
“Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Winner (Original song)
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production

Best animated short film Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Logorama” (Autour de Minuit) An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin

Best live action short film Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The New Tenants” A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Best in sound editing Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best in sound mixing Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Best in visual effects Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Best in Adapted screenplay Oscars 2010 Winner:
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

Best in Original screenplay Oscars 2010 Winner:
“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal

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Electronic Music for Dummies – Techno Edition

March 8, 2010 By Gino 2 Comments

Everyone you know (who knows electronic music) will tell you it is an American genre. It’s appearance at the peak of the House and Acid movements in the US and Europe can be credited to one city: Detroit.

Techno is the term that was best recognized my lay people who were not yet familiar with the electronic music revolution. Everything synthetic was referred to as ‘techno’. The misused term today has changed though, and is now ‘trance’ or worse yet ‘tiesto’.

This type of music can be described as very primal. It is a DJ’s heaven. Why? Because it focuses on the instrumental aspect of music and rarely, if ever, has lyrics. Not only instrumental, but also very percussive. By percussive, I mean rhythm is god in techno music. The bassy music, described as ‘tribal’ in its earliest forms (similar to ancient tribal beats, only more high-tech) usually is pretty steady, without the ups and downs of other electronic genres, such as Trance. However, the changes are minute and evenly spaced, appreciated by true electronic music connoisseurs.

Techno and minimal had a nice visit in Beirut last weekend, with Spanish DJ Paco Ossuna gracing the decks at Roger Moukarzel Studios on March 6th.

Beats Per Minute: 120 to 150 BPM (pretty varying between one song and another)
Famous DJs: Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna, Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Deepdish, The Prodigy
Famous Classics: Cafe Del Mar – Energy 52, Felix – #1, 8PM – Faithless, The Drill – The Drill
Famous Clubs: Tresor – Berlin
Samples I Recommend: Say Hello (Club Mix) – Deep Dish and Geht’s Noch – Roman Flugal
Some DJs in Lebanon Who Spin Techno: maDJam, Ronin’n'Nesta