Joe's Cassacopia

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Submitted by Karla Bonney, Stevens Point

This spare is good for how many miles?

Have an Awesome Day! - Joe

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

8 slices rye bread

4 (1-ounce) slices reduced-fat, reduced-sodium Swiss cheese (such as Alpine Lace)

8 ounces smoked turkey, thinly sliced

2/3 cup sauerkraut, drained and rinsed

1/4 cup fat-free Thousand Island dressing

1 tablespoon canola oil, divided

PREP

Spread about 3/4 teaspoon mustard over each bread slice. Place 1 cheese slice on each of 4 bread slices. Divide turkey evenly over cheese. Top each serving with 2 1/2 tablespoons sauerkraut and 1 tablespoon dressing. Top each serving with 1 bread slice, mustard sides down.

Heat 1 1/2 teaspoons canola oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 2 sandwiches to pan; top with another heavy skillet. Cook 3 minutes on each side or until golden; remove sandwiches from pan, and keep warm. Repeat procedure with remaining oil and sandwiches.

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BEST PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker"

DIRECTING: Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Sandra Bullock "The Blind Side"

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)" Argentina

FILM EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE): "The Cove" Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens

VISUAL EFFECTS: "Avatar" Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) "Up" Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Avatar" Mauro Fiore

SOUND MIXING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

SOUND EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson

COSTUME DESIGN: "The Young Victoria" Sandy Powell

ART DIRECTION: "Avatar": Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

MAKEUP: "Star Trek" Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): "The New Tenants" Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT): "Music by Prudence" Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): "Logorama" Nicolas Schmerkin

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): "The Hurt Locker" Written by Mark Boal

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG):"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: "Up" Pete Docter

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware system.

Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the iMoCap on-set performance capture system.

Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.

Björn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS

Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.

Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures.

Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.

Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.

Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and Dr. James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups uncooked penne or mostaccioli (tube-shaped pasta)

1/4 pound green beans, trimmed

1 (3/4-pound) boneless sirloin steak, trimmed

1 tablespoon salt-free garlic-pepper blend (such as Spice Hunter)

1 1/2 cups thinly sliced red onion

1 1/2 cups thinly sliced red bell pepper

1/4 cup chopped fresh basil

3 tablespoons Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

1 teaspoon extravirgin olive oil

1 teaspoon bottled minced garlic

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1/4 cup (1 ounce) crumbled blue cheese

PREP

Preheat broiler.

While the broiler preheats, bring 3 quarts water to a boil in a large Dutch oven. Add pasta; cook 5 1/2 minutes. Add beans, and cook 3 minutes or until pasta is done. Drain and rinse with cold water. Drain well.

Sprinkle steak with the garlic-pepper blend. Place on a broiler pan; broil 3 inches from heat 10 minutes or until desired degree of doneness, turning after 5 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Cut steak diagonally across grain into thin slices.

Combine onion and next 8 ingredients (onion through black pepper) in a large bowl. Add pasta mixture and beef slices; toss well to coat. Sprinkle with cheese.

Makes 4 servings (serving size: about 1 1/2 cups)

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Best Picture

“The Hurt Locker”

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”

Best Supporting Actor

Cristoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Supporting Actress

Mo’Nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Team Avatar wins 4th Oscar tonight which is for Visual effects. At the glittering ceremoney among others was present Jennifer Lopez looking stunning as ever.

Here is tonight's complete list of Oscar winners 2010, so far:

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Animated Feature: Up – Pete Docter

Best Original Song: The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett

Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

Best Animated Short: Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin

Best Live Action Short: The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Best Documentary Short: Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Best Makeup: Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Best Adapted Screenplay: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique – Precious: Ba

Best Art Direction: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg & Kim Sinclair "Avatar"

Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell "The Young Victoria"

Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson for "The Hurt Locker"

Best Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson & Ray Beckett "The Hurt Locker"

Best Cinematography: Mauro Fiore "Avatar"

Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino "Up"

Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham & Andy Jones for "Avatar"

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences expanded the best picture roster from five nominees to 10 this years to try to make things more interesting, but the majority of the Oscars doled out have gone to just a handful of the nominees, including "The Hurt Locker," "Avatar," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" and "Up."

The four films are the only ones to win at least two honors this evening.

"The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar" are leading with three each.

The Oscar for sound editing went to Paul N.J. Ottosson for "The Hurt Locker." Ottosson had barely left the stage when he was called back to receive the sound mixing award for the war drama with Ray Beckett. Earlier, the film won for original screenplay for Mark Boal.

"Avatar" won for visual effects for Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones. Art direction went to Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg and set decorator Kim Sinclair for the James Cameron blockbuster, which also won cinematography for Mauro Fiore.

Meanwhile, "Precious" and "Up" have two wins apiece.

Mo'Nique, considered the shoo-in for for supporting actress as the vile, abusive mother of a pregnant teen in "Precious," took home the honor as expected. The comic talk-show host, who opted out of doing extensive campaigning this awards season, thanked the academy and said it proves that a win "can be about the performance and not the politics." Moments earlier, Geoffrey Fletcher won for adapted screenplay for "Precious." Holding back the tears, Fletcher said: "I don't know what to say. This is for everybody who works on a dream every day." His win was a surprise: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner were the favorites for "Up in the Air."

"Up" won animated film and original score for Michael Giacchino.

Other honors handed out at the 82nd annual Academy Awards: Original song went to Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)." Animated feature film went to "Up," which is also nominated for best film. And as expected, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz danced away with supporting actor for playing a brutal Nazi Jew hunter in "Inglourious Basterds." All three have dominated this awards season, winning practically every available honor.

Awards in the short-film categories were "Logorama" for animated, "Music by Prudence" for documentary and "The New Tenants" for live action. Costume design went to Sandy Powell for "The Young Victoria."

Ben Stiller, decked out in "Avatar" Navi blue, complete with tail and braid, presented the makeup award to "Star Trek."

The show kicked off with Neil Patrick Harris, who got rave reviews for hosting the Tonys and the Emmys last year, performing a musical number -- "No One Wants to Do It Alone." It was a reference to the hosts of the show, the wild and crazy Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, or, as Harris called them, "the biggest pair since Dolly Parton."

And with that, the hosts came down from the heavens at the Kodak Theatre, holding hands.

The witty, salty banter that ensued included putting on 3-D glasses to spot "Avatar" director James Cameron in the audience and joking that Meryl Streep, with whom the two starred in "It's Complicated," is the most nominated performer in academy history. Or, as Martin said, the performer with the most losses. (Then they joked about having a threesome with Streep on the set.)

The marquee awards are yet to come. In the best picture category, will it be "The Hurt Locker," which has gained momentum in the past few months despite the recent disclosure that one of the producer's sent e-mails out asking academy members to vote for the film, or the highest-grossing movie to date, "Avatar," which won the Golden Globe for best drama film?

With those films battling for the first prize, perhaps one of the other eight nominees such as "Inglourious Basterds" will slip in to win the top Oscar.

The academy may also make history -- if Kathryn Bigelow receives the director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," she'll be the first woman to win the honor.

Adding to the fun for Oscar watchers: Bigelow used to be married to Cameron. But there is no rivalry – Cameron has been a vocal supporter of Bigelow's film.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Matt Damon, Invictus

Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds – WINNER

Christopher Plummer, The Last Station

Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones

-Best Animated Feature

Coraline

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Princess and the Frog

Up – WINNER

The Secret of Kells

-Best Original Song

“Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog

“Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog

“Loin de Paname,” Paris 36

“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart – WINNER

“Take It All,” Nine

-Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker – WINNER

Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy, Up

-Best Animated Short Film

French Roast

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)

Logorama – WINNER

A Matter of Loaf and Death

-Best Documentary Short Subject

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan, Province

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Music by Prudence – WINNER

Krolik po berlinsku

-Best Live Action Short Film

The Door

Instead of Abracadabra

Kavi

The New Tenants – WINNER

Miracle Fish

-Achievement in makeup

Il Divo

Star Trek – WINNER

The Young Victoria

- Best Adapted Screenplay

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9

Nick Hornby, An Education

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, In the Loop

Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – WINNER

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

-Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Penelope Cruz, Nine

Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart

Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – WINNER

Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

-Achievement in Art Direction

Avatar – WINNER

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria

-Achievement in Costume Design

Bright Star

Coco before Chanel

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Young Victoria – WINNER

Nine

-Achievement in Sound Editing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker – WINNER

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Up

-Achievement in Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker – WINNER

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Rick Carter:

Jim Cameron, this... this Oscar sees you. Clearly, your vision is so deep...

Robert Stromberg:

You know, 13 years ago, the doctors told me I wasn't going to survive and I thought that this dream of standing here would never come true. And, here we are. I owe this to my amazing wife, Lizz, my two kids Reese and Remy, for supporting me. Brooke Breton and Rick Carter and the hundreds of people that it took to make this film. Thank you. Special thanks to Jon Landau.

Jim, every day we went to work. We knew we were working with a genius. We really were. We all felt that. Thank you so much.

As the 82nd Annual Academy Awards hit its halfway mark, Mo'Nique, the comedienne who turned dramatic actress in "Precious," was invited to the stage to accept the award as best supporting actress.

Her fierce performance as an abusive mother made her only the fourth black actress to win in the category -- the first went to Hattie McDaniel for 1939's "Gone With the Wind" -- and Mo'Nique paid tribute to her predecessor by wearing gardenias in her hair.

A number of awards season commentators had criticized the actress for her refusal to visit every stop on the Oscar campaign trail, but she addressed that in her acceptance by thanking the Academy "for showing it can be about the performance and not the politics."

She went on to acknowledge McDaniel "for enduring all that she did so I would not have to." And she concluding with a special word of thanks to her husband, Sidney, "for showing me that sometimes you have to forgo doing what's popular in order to do what's right."

Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for his performance as a cruelly seductive Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds" in the first award of the night.

The Austrian-born actor used his moment in the spotlight to pay tribute to the movie's director, Quentin Tarantino, saying "with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer took this ship ... and brought it in with flying colors and that's why I'm here."

Tarantino, though, was denied the best original screenplay Oscar, which went to Mark Boal for "The Hurt Locker."

"You honor me and humble me with this," Boal said. Returning as a reporter from Iraq, he had an idea for a movie. But "the results wildly exceeded my expectations," he said -- a fact he attributed to the talent of director Kathryn Bigelow. The writer also offered a word for the troops, present and past, and well as his father, who passed away a month ago.

Geoffrey Fletcher earned the award for best adapted screenplay for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." In his emotional thank-you, he drew a blank, forgetting to mention the author, but did say, "this is for everybody who works on a dream every day, precious boys and girls everywhere."

Pixar's "Up" rose aloft with the prize for best animated feature film.

Its director Pete Docter thanked Pixar and Disney "for beleving in this oddball film," the tale of an old man who hitches his home to a flotilla of balloons and just floats away. "The heart of it came from home," he added as he dedicated the award to "our families."

Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett took home best song honors with their country-flavored tune "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart."

Ben Stiller, in full "Avatar" drag, handed out the Oscar for best make-up, which went to Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow for "Star Trek."

"We thank (producer/director) J.J. Abrams," Hall said. "Your vision inspired us, your energy kept us going, and your insistence on perfection brought us here."

"Logorama," a satire of brand names run amok, captured the prize for best animated short, beating out the presumed frontrunner, Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit tale, "A Matter of Loaf and Death."

The documentary short prize went to "Music by Prudence," the portrait of a seriously handicapped Keynan woman who, through singing, transcends her situation.

"The New Tenants" followed on its heels as the winner of the live-action short prize.

Billed as a showdown between the mega-blockbuster "Avatar" and the micro-grossing "The Hurt Locker," this year's Oscar broadcast, which ABC is airing live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, is looking to rope in the widest possible audience thanks to the fact that the Academy nominated ten movies, including crowd-pleasers like "Up," "The Blind Side" and "District 9," for best picture for the first time since 1943.

As if to emphasize the star power on hand, the show, produced by Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, opened with all 10 nominees for best actor and best actress walking out on stage together.

Neil Patrick Harris then kicked off the proceedings by leading a kickline of chorus boys and girls, who in turn gave way to a Ziegfield-like entrance by the night's hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, who descended from the rafters.

The full list of nominees (winners in bold):

Best picture

"Avatar"

"The Blind Side"

"District 9"

"An Education"

"The Hurt Locker"

"Inglourious Basterds"

"Precious"

"A Serious Man"

"Up"

"Up in the Air"

Best actor

Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"

George Clooney, "Up in the Air"

Colin Firth, "A Single Man"

Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"

Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"

Best actress

Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side"

Helen Mirren, "The Last Station"

Carey Mulligan, "An Education"

Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious"

Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia"

Best supporting actor

Matt Damon, "Invictus"

Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"

Christopher Plummer, "The Last Station"

Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"

Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Best supporting actress

Penelope Cruz, "Nine"

Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Crazy Heart"

Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"

Mo'Nique, "Precious"

Best director

James Cameron, "Avatar"

Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"

Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"

Lee Daniels, "Precious"

Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air"

Best foreign-language film

"Ajami," Israel

"El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Argentina

"The Milk of Sorrow," Peru

"Un Prophete," France

"The White Ribbon," Germany

Best adapted screenplay

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, "District 9"

Nick Hornby, "An Education"

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, "In the Loop"

Geoffrey Fletcher, "Precious"

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, "Up in the Air"

Best original screenplay

Mark Boal, "The Hurt Locker"

Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"

Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, "The Messenger"

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, "A Serious Man"

Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and Tom McCarthy, "Up"

Best animated feature film

"Coraline"

"Fantastic Mr. Fox"

"The Princess and the Frog"

"The Secret of Kells"

"Up"

Best art direction

"Avatar"

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"

"Nine" "Sherlock Holmes"

"The Young Victoria"

Best cinematography

"Avatar"

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

"The Hurt Locker"

"Inglourious Basterds"

"The White Ribbon"

Best sound mixing

"Avatar"

"The Hurt Locker"

"Inglourious Basterds"

"Star Trek"

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

Best sound editing

"Avatar"

"The Hurt Locker"

"Inglourious Basterds"

"Star Trek"

"Up"

Best original score

"Avatar," James Horner

"Fantastic Mr. Fox," Alexandre Desplat

"The Hurt Locker," Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

"Sherlock Holmes," Hans Zimmer

"Up," Michael Giacchino

Best original song

"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog," Randy Newman

"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog," Randy Newman

"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36," Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas

"Take It All" from "Nine," Maury Yeston

"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart," Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best costume design

"Bright Star"

"Coco Before Chanel"

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"

"Nine"

"The Young Victoria"

Best documentary feature

"Burma VJ"

"The Cove"

"Food, Inc."

"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

"Which Way Home"

Best documentary short

"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province"

"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner"

"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant"

"Music by Prudence"

"Rabbit a la Berlin"

Best film editing

"Avatar"

"District 9"

"The Hurt Locker"

"Inglourious Basterds"

"Precious"

Best makeup

"Il Divo"

"Star Trek"

"The Young Victoria"

Best animated short film

"French Roast"

"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty"

"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)"

"Logorama"

"A Matter of Loaf and Death"

Best live-action short film

"The Door"

"Instead of Abracadabra"

"Kavi"

"Miracle Fish"

"The New Tenants"

Best visual effects

"Avatar"

"District 9"

"Star Trek"

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards began rolling out the evening's first Oscars to expected recipients. Favorite Christoph Waltz won the best supporting actor for his role as a Nazi in Inglorious Basterds, Up earned the Oscar for best animated feature film, and Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett won the award for best song from a feature film for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Horse. Mark Boal won best original screenplay for The Hurt Locker. The evening started with a song and dance from How I Met Your Mother Star star Neil Patrick Harris. After the former Emmy and Tony host kicked off the show from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, he introduced the ceremony's co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. The two comedians gave a rundown of the evening's nominees, poking fun at their It's Complicated co-star, Meryl Streep, who holds the record for most nominations as an actress, charmer George Clooney, and Avatar director James Cameron.

Alec Baldwin is an award-winning television, stage, and film actor. A graduate of New York University, he currently stars with Tina Fey on NBC's 30 Rock, winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for the past three years. For his performance on the show, Mr. Baldwin has received three SAG Awards, two Golden Globes, the Television Critics Award, and the 2008 and 2009 Emmy awards as best actor in a comedy series.

Mr. Baldwin last appeared on stage in the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, directed by Scott Ellis. He was nominated for a Tony award in 1992 for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire. Mr. Baldwin has also appeared in over forty films, including Beetlejuice, Working Girl, The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, State and Main, The Cat in the Hat, The Aviator and The Departed, among others. His performance in The Cooler earned him a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar nomination. Alec currently appears in the Nancy Meyers film It's Complicated starring Meryl Streep and Steve Martin.

Mr. Baldwin is a dedicated supporter of numerous causes related to public policy and the arts. He serves on the boards of People For The American Way, Guild Hall of East Hampton, The Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Actors Studio. He actively supports The Radiation and Public Health Project, The East Hampton Day Care Center, The Roundabout Theatre, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and The Water Keeper Alliance, among many others. Alec is the announcer for the New York Philharmonic for their live broadcasts over the WFMT radio network. Baldwin's book, A Promise to Ourselves (St. Martin's Press) is now out in paperback.

Steve Martin, one of the most diversified performers in the motion picture industry today—actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer—will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards® telecast, along with Alec Baldwin. Martin previously hosted the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards shows, earning an Emmy nomination for the first stint. He has also served as a presenter on the show several times, most recently at the 81st Academy Awards, when he appeared with Tina Fey.

Born in Waco, Texas and raised in Southern California, Martin started his career as a television writer in the late 1960s, winning an Emmy Award for his work on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Martin's first film project, The Absent-Minded Waiter, a short he wrote and starred in, was nominated for a 1977 Academy Award. In 1979, he moved into feature films, co-writing and starring in The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. His other film credits include classic hits such as Roxanne, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Little Shop of Horrors, The Three Amigos and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. He can be seen sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in the current release It's Complicated, directed by Nancy Meyers.

A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, Martin has published two novellas, Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company. He has also published a children's book titled The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!, and an autobiography, Born Standing Up.

Martin recently completed touring with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers in support of his latest album The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo. In 1977 and 1978, Martin won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording. He earned a third Grammy in 2001 in the Best Country Instrumental Performance category. In 2007 Martin was a recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor.