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At the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards, sparks flew, Dalton McGuinty was a star, and we saw cross-dressing

Dalton McGuinty: star of stars (Image: Jennifer K. Warren)

Usually, awards ceremonies are tortuously drawn-out affairs that are only exciting for the people up for the prizes. Being at the IIFA Awards at the Rogers Centre on Saturday night, however, was a bit like eating from the wrong—or right, depending on your perspective—tray of brownies at a drunken frat party: so many swirling colours and strange, surreal events appeared before our eyes. True, the presentation was definitely drawn out—starting about two hours late, then continuing for five more hours—but being bored was not a possibility with the over-the-top blend of song-and-dance montages, pyrotechnics, glimmering costumes and comedy bits. Our recap of the ceremony, after the jump.

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The Hype

Awards Season

March 2, 2011 | 12:16 pm

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Photos from the Vanity Fair Oscar party: George Pimentel takes us through his shots of Bieber, Gwyneth and many more

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber arrive at the Sunset Tower in L.A. for the Vanity Fair Oscars party on February 27, 2011 (Image: George Pimentel)

Toronto’s top celebrity shutterbug, George Pimentel, spent last week—Oscar week—stargazing in Tinseltown. His tour included the Academy Awards’ most VIP red carpet at the Vanity Fair Party. Here, George dishes on Justin Bieber’s new lady, Scarlett Johansson’s superior beauty and why (as we suspected) Natalie Portman is as smug and snotty as they come.

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: “This is why I do the VF party. You get the pictures that you just don’t get on the Oscar red carpet. When he came in, we all freaked out because they were holding hands, which is a first. They strategized and decided to finally give up the photo.”

: “I yelled out, ‘Kiss her, kiss her.’ He almost did; he leaned over, and then he realized it probably wasn’t a good idea.”

: “Any time Madonna shows up to an event we all go crazy. For me, she was definitely the highlight of this party. Everyone always asks, ‘What does she really look like?’ and honestly, she looks great. Really. This night was all about promoting her daughter, so Madonna kind of stepped back. She’s very proud. Her daughter is shy, though. She doesn’t have that Madonna exhibitionist quality.”

: “I was kind of disappointed that Gwyneth changed. That first silver dress was so much better. I’m not into the whole flesh-coloured thing. I don’t think she pulled it off, but it’s Gwyneth, and she doesn’t really take a bad picture. She is still the princess of Hollywood, and photos of her always sell well and get good placement.”

: “Colin was walking the carpet with his wife, and then Anne came along, and they decided to do a shot together. Colin was the big winner of the night. And Anne—I don’t think she’ll be asked to host again. And after seeing her, I don’t know if she can pull off Catwoman. We were all expecting James Franco to show up. I don’t know why he snubbed the party.”

: “Love her. She is so cute. The whole weekend, she was all over L.A. and just very sunny and fun. It was a great touch to wear her those Converse [shoes] to the after party. She’s not taking it so seriously, which is so nice to see.”

: “Steven is back out there now doing the red carpets because of American Idol. He’s such a rock and roll guy, but he’s also a very affectionate father. He was hugging her and kissing her all night. Liv’s no angel, either. Let’s just say that girl parties.”

: “They’re friends with Graydon Carter, so they attend every year. The American media never know who they are, so I always make a big deal of yelling out their names. Sometimes I say their names in a British sort of accent so they don’t know it’s me. Once I start shooting them everyone joins in.”

: “Ugh. My nemesis. There’s always one star who is just difficult. In the history of the VF Oscar party, it is a tradition to pose with your Oscar. Everyone does it, but she refused. She just walked past and turned for one second. Let’s just say she is not the most-liked person among photographers. We actually booed her.”

: “She doesn’t show up to everything, so it’s special when she does. She’s a true star and just so beautiful. She’s happy to do the posing, and her amazing figure always looks great in the dress. Since her divorce, she’s been coming out more often.”

: “At the end of the night she was waiting for her valet. I asked if I could get one more of her in black and white. She agreed, and when I showed it to her, she said it was great and asked if I could send it to her.”
“So no now you have ScarJo’s e-mail address?” we asked.
“Yes,” replied George.

The Hype

Awards Season

March 1, 2011 | 1:14 pm

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Why the NHL trade deadline is the sports equivalent of the Oscars

Is it just us, or do the Oscars and the National Hockey League trade deadline have a lot in common? The Academy Awards were an absolute snoozefest on Sunday night, and hockey’s deadline day bonanza on Monday had us snoring straight through till Tuesday. What gives? The one-two combo of Hollywood’s biggest night and the most ballyhooed single-day event in hockey has left us with one heck of a hype hangover this week. Here, a quick look at how the NHL trade deadline was just like the Oscars.

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The Hype

Awards Season

February 28, 2011 | 3:35 pm

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We try to find five top Canadian Oscar moments from Sunday’s Academy Awards snoozefest

Two of the few Canadians: Celine Dion and René Angélil on the red carpet at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday evening (Image: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Well, there you have it. Awards season is over, but the hangover—or, in the case of The Social Network gang, the lingering feelings of resentment—has now set in. The biggest buzz out of Oscar night was the totality of James Franco lameness. As far as hosts go, he may go down as the worst of all time. We would have killed for a little Uma–Oprah humour, and that’s saying something. Did poor Anne Hathaway want to wipe that disinterested smirk off his face with her fist? We’re guessing yes.

For its part, Canada was hardly centre stage this year (we stand by the opinion that Barney’s Version was robbed), although the night of nights did include some northern moments worth mentioning. The five most memorable after the jump.

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The Hype

Awards Season

February 25, 2011 | 1:31 pm

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Oscar watch: 10 questions about the Academy Awards with Canada’s gossip girl Lainey

Elaine Lui is Canada’s gossipmonger extraordinaire, with a master’s in Gaga and a black belt in Brangelina. This week, the blogger (find her at laineygossip.com) and eTalk correspondent is in L.A. covering the movie biz’s night of nights. Any news outlet can dish on Oscar outcomes, but only Lainey can tell you if Nicole Kidman has really lightened up on the Botox and whether James Franco and Anne Hathaway are secretly getting it on backstage. (They won’t be—but if they do, Lainey will know). We talked with her about Hollywood’s top dressers, celeb PDA and, of course, all things Oscar.

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Peanut Gallery

September 15, 2008 | 4:51 pm

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THE BEST & WORST OF TIFF ’08: Our Scene & Herd reporters list their most desperate moments, most exciting celebrity encounters and most hostile starlet

Most unexpected confession from a celebrity: “I mean, I have sex…and my sex is very, very boring. Very sloppy. I mean, I’m a total bottom and don’t get up on top,” said Kevin Smith, director of Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

Most frustrating “look but don’t touch” moment: The cake buffet at the Holt Renfrew bash was for your eyes only. And once, Brad Pitt was 20 feet away, giving us a raised-eyebrow stare-down, but he remained totally off limits. Many more best and worsts, after the jump.

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Stargazing

September 12, 2008 | 3:49 pm

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Why we want Anne Hathaway to be our friend: An interview with the cast of Rachel Getting Married

We thought Anne Hathaway peaked as a princess—and we were wrong. We assumed Debra Winger’s success on film ended in the mid-’80s—strike two. We knew Rosemary DeWitt only as the bohemian lover of Don Draper in Mad Men—now we know better. Jenny Lumet had never written a screenplay, but took some time off from teaching Grade 8 English to hammer out Rachel Getting Married and then somehow nailed down Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) to direct her debut. Certainly it helped that her father, Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon), handed the project to Demme, but we still applaud her and this cast of unlikelies for making a film that is already garnering Oscar buzz. Highlights (including Hathaway using the F-word) from the media roundtable with Winger, Demme and Hathaway, after the jump.

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Industry Standard

September 12, 2008 | 9:01 am

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The Buzz: Film fest deals and Oscar hopefuls

• There’s already Academy Award talk about The Wrestler and for Mickey Rourke’s haunting comeback performance as a world-class athlete gone to seed. [Los Angeles Times]

• Though it has just been picked up for U.S. distribution by Summit Entertainment, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker will still have to avoid the box-office death suffered by Iraq films in previous years. Did anyone see In the Valley of Elah? [Economist]

• We’re hearing good things from inside the theatre world about the documentary Every Little Step, which chronicles the casting process for the 2006 stage revival of A Chorus Line. [Broadway World]

• Four actresses from the TIFF crop are standing out in the awards-show race: Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, Keira Knightley in The Duchess, Kristin Scott Thomas in Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long) and Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky. [The Envelope]

Since most of the celebs have left town, Torontonians can now enjoy the films for their own sake, without the constant ticky-tack of someone thumbing the details of last night’s close encounter into their BlackBerry.—Katy P

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Gossip Hound

September 5, 2008 | 2:40 pm

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Where Viggo and Brad are sleeping tonight

The A-list quotient just went up in Yorkville: Viggo Mortensen checked into the Park Hyatt last night, and Brad Pitt arrives there this afternoon—sans Angelina, who is rumoured to be staying home to mind their flock. Rachel Getting Married star Anne Hathaway touches down at the Hyatt this evening, scoring a celebrity hat trick for the posh downtown hotel.

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Toronto Movie Index

June 20, 2008 | 2:53 pm

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Get Smart (*)

Get Smart the ’60s television show, co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, was full of gags and groaners. There was little sophistication in it, but Get Smart the 2008 blockbuster has even less. It rehashes the series’s most popular jokes (the Cone of Silence, for instance) and adds a lot more asinine, prim ones for the sake of its intended Middle American demographic.

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