The long wait has finally ended. The nominees for Oscars 2015 were announced on Thursday, Jan 15th morning in Beverly Hills, California. Considered as the highest honour in the field of films, the 87th annual Academy Award nominations for best motion picture have been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The nominees for Best Picture: “American Sniper,” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Boyhood,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything,” and “Whiplash.” The Oscars will be presented on February 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.

Below is the total list of Oscars 2015 Nominations:

Best Actor

Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything”

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Laura Dern, “Wild”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”

Cinematography

“Birdman”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Ida”
“Mr. Turner”
“Unbroken”

Costume Design

“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Inherent Vice”
“Into the Woods”
“Maleficent”
“Mr. Turner”

Directing

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”
Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Morten Tyldum, “The Imitation Game”

Foreign Language Film

“Ida,” Poland
“Leviathan,” Russia
“Tangerines,” Estonia
“Timbuktu,” Mauritania
“Wild Tales,” Argentina

Makeup and Hairstyling

“Foxcatcher”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Guardians of the Galaxy”

Original Score

“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Interstellar”
“Mr. Turner”
“The Theory of Everything”

Adapted Screenplay

“American Sniper”
“The Imitation Game”
“Inherent Vice”
“The Theory of Everything”
“Whiplash”

Original Screenplay

“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“Foxcatcher”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Nightcrawler”

Best Picture

“American Sniper”
“Birdman”
“Boyhood”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
“Whiplash”

 

Already the first look of young hero Sundeep Kishan’s upcoming movie ‘Tiger’ was released the other day. At a time when the first look is making its presence felt, we’ve got a chance to know how and why he has named the movie as ‘Tiger’. Read this interesting snippet.

In fact, generally our makers pick titles as per the script for a movie, but Sundeep got the idea due to a debutante Bollywood hero. Last year we have seen senior actor Jackie Shroff’s son Tiger Shroff debuting on silver screen with the movie Heropanti. ‘After listening to the name Tiger Shroff again and again, me and my team felt that we would name our movie as Tiger. There is nothing behind this idea’, says Sundeep.

Pawan Kalyan has finally opened up on allegations that he is “moody” and usually “avoids” or “delays” shooting songs. In a candid interview, Kalyan said nonchalantly, “Yes many call me moody because they ask me to shoot for songs towards the end of the film. They take me to places like Switzerland and zeroes in on a dance master to choreograph moves. I just watch him but can’t dance as it makes me feel odd, bizarre. Adding to this, onlookers on the road stare at me. If you keep it near roads, I’ll run away.”

“I can’t dance like other heroes. It doesn’t come from inside my body. I’m not as talented as other heroes. So, if you take me to a deserted place, I’d try to dance as it’s must for film. For that as well, I need to make up my mind in advance. Also at times few songs appear out of context which disconnect me. Had they shot connecting songs, I’d love to do,” added Kalyan. He said that he doesn’t even consider him as hero.

Kalyan also stated that Venkatsh and he share brotherly feeling off screen and that seem to have worked on-screen. Kalyan admitted that he did a lot of home work for playing God’s role on screen. Kalyan said that he has god-fearing attitude right from childhood and habitually listens to Purana Sravanam.

 

Power star Pawan Kalyan and Victory Venkatesh family drama multi starrer Gopala Gopala crossed $750k in USA and still running good.

Since it is a clean family entertainer with U certificate all ladies and family audience are enjoying the movie.

We are reducing the ticket for prices for 2nd week to $12 adults and $8 kids in all the locations to accommodate more family audience.

All fans and movie lovers enjoy this first and biggest multi starrer Hit of 2015.

BlueSky whishes all overseas patrons a Happy Sankaranthi.

Just before the release of Gabbar Singh, and before Iddarammayilatho release, then for Baadshah release and recently when Govindudu Andaravadele is releasing, what did producer Bandla Ganesh say?

Known for his bhajans on popular micro blogging site twitter, Bandla Ganesh once against started his special publicity stunts for upcoming ‘Temper’. As usual, Ganesh stated that Jr NTR and Puri Jagan combo’s product is going to be a ‘blockbuster’.

Earlier he said the same for the all the above films mentioned and we all know how many of them became blockbusters in reality.

Actor, Producer and Entrepreneur Vishnu Manchu today announced the launch of ‘Vishnu Manchu Short Film Contest’.

This will be an annual contest starting every year on January 15th. The guidelines to enter this unique and interesting contest will be revealed in a week. The uniqueness of this contest is that, the winning director gets to Direct a full length feature film  produced by his company 24 Frames Factory.

Getting an opportunity to enter in this industry for many are extremely tough. ‘There is a huge talent to be unearthed who have the ability to approach film in a whole new manner beyond silver screen’ Vishnu said.

I am just opening a path for those who actually have talent, an opportunity to materialize their dreams. My vision is to make this platform as a huge enabler for gifted, undiscovered film makers and fresh talent. It’s also a wonderful way to discover gems for the industry. Vishnu added.

The short film contest winner for this maiden year as well all coming years will be announced on Dr. Mohan Babu’s birthday on March 19th.

Exciting times are ahead for Tollywood in 2015, after a relatively lackluster 2014. A spate of new movie teasers have been released. More importantly, quite a few of them have able to generate a real buzz as far as reactions from fans are concerned. The year was started with the high octane teaser of NTR and Puri’s movie, Temper. The blazing hot teaser promises a power-packed thriller. Another Sankranthi teaser that has generated quite the buzz, thanks to Sri Venkateswara Creations banner is Subramanyam for Sale starring Sai Dharam Tej.

Meanwhile, Nani’s Yevade Subramanyam first teaser is grabbing eyeballs for all the right reasons, promising a fresh intriguing story that even features the Himalayas. The naturally charming actor will expect a lot from a movie that seems to have a good urban connect. More excitement in the form of Allu Arjun’s Gona Gana Reddy new look in Rudramadevi is keeping fans exhilarated. There have been other interesting new look teasers, such as Surya vs Surya, starring Nikhil, who is riding high after back to back hits, Swamy Ra Ra and Karthikeya.

Hardly two weeks into 2015 and movie buffs have already seen two massive releases. Gopala Gopala, a multi-starrer with Venkatesh and Pawan Kalyan, is doing really well, although there will be a good challenge from Shankar’s ‘I’ starring Vikram. Tiger starring Sundeep Kishen and Run Raja Run heroine, Seerat Kapoor, is another of the spate of stylish new films whose teasers have been garnering plenty of attention this year.

Setting the record straight, Pawan Kalyan announced that he’s planning to do two more films after Gabbar Singh 2. He stated that both these two films would be mostly family entertainers. Kalyan said that the films are in discussion stage and even scripts haven’t been finalised so far. “After Gabbar Singh 2, I’m planning to act in two more films which will be family entertainers,” corroborated Kalyan.

Seems, Pawan wants to do more family entertainers after the blockbuster success of Attarintiki Daredi. We hear that while one will be directed by Dolly, the other film will have direction by Pawan’s friend Trivikram Srinivas. Whereas Pawan will next join the shoot of Gabbar Singh 2 directed by Bobby.

Commenting on doing more multi-starrers, Kalyan said that he hasn’t think about it. He said he’d think about it if he gets one such opportunity and is impressed with its story.