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The Grammy Winners!

Whit Honea — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:35:00 GMT

Whenever the entertainment industry has one of their big award shows we like to break from our strict set of rules and protocol and recognize the winners. The thing is, there are only 20 or so award shows and if we don't pat Hollywood on its back then they'll have to keep doing it themselves and that's a good way to get a cramp.

Here is a list of the Grammy Winners from last night. Please note that many of FameCrawler's favorite celebrity parents do make an appearance.

Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say”

Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter”

Best New Artist: Adele

Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman”

Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay”

Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson

Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)

Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”

Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock

Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse”

Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra”

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity”

Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows

Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements”

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way

Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War”

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)

Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains

Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)

Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, “Be OK”

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, “You’ve Got the Love I Need”

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Al Green Featuring John Legend, “Stay With Me (by the Sea)”

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys; ” Superwoman”

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent”
Lil’ Wayne Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MTV

Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, “Lollipop” (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, “American Boy”

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, “Swagga Like Us”

Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, “A Milli”

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable

Best Country Album: George Strait, Troubadour

Best Country Song: Sugarland, “Stay” (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)

Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947

Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, “Cluster Pluck”

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Killing the Blues”

Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley, “Letter to Me”
Carrie Underwood John Shearer/Getty Images

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”

Best Reggae Album: Burning Spear, Jah Is Real

Best Hawaiian Music Album: Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena

Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

Best Traditional Folk Album: Pete Seeger, At 89

Best Traditional Blues Album: B.B. King, One Kind Favor

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot

Best Long Form Music Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”

Best Short Form Music Video: Weezer, “Pork and Beans”

Best Classical Album: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost

Best Classical Crossover Album: The King’s Singers, Simple Gifts

Best Classical Contemporary Composition: John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (JoAnn Falletta, conductor)

Best Classical Vocal Performance: John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan

Best Small Ensemble Performance: Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary

Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)

Best Choral Performance: Sir Simon Rattle, “Symphony of Psalms”

Best Opera Recording: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich, “Symphony No. 4,” Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Best Engineered Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago

Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007

Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, “Harder Better Faster Stronger”

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life

Best Traditional Gospel Album: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans

Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin’ Life

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: TobyMac, Alive and Transported

Best Gospel Song: Kirk Franklin, “Help Me Believe”

Best Gospel Performance: Mary Mary, “Get Up”

Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico
George Carlin Paul Schiraldi

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, “Be-Bop”

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil

Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time

Best Comedy Album: George Carlin, It’s Bad For Ya

Best Polka Album: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing

Best Contemporary World Music Album: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project

Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Best Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs

Best Norteño Album: Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces

Best Banda Album: Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera

Best Tejano Album: Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion

Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera

Best Tropical Latin Album: José Feliciano, Señor Bachata

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares

Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes, La Vida…Es un Ratico

Best Musical Show Album: In the Heights

Best Musical Album for Children: They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Bill Harley, Yes to Running!

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Natalie Cole, “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Nan Schwartz, arranger)

Best Instrumental Arrangement: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Define Dancing” (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)

Best Instrumental Composition: “The Adventures of Mutt” (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Best Surround Sound Album: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: MGMT, “Electric Feel,” Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely

Best Historical Album: Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)

Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: In Rainbows

Best Recording Package: Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)

Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Down to Earth” (From Wall-E)

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno

Independent Spirit Awards: The Complete List of Winners

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:35:00 GMT

Hurray for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the hip, cool cousin of the Academy Awards. They take place the day before the Oscars in a tent in Santa Monica, and honor the best in independent filmmaking.

Here's a list of the winners from last night's ceremony:

BEST FEATURE
Juno

BEST FIRST FEATURE
The Lookout

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST MALE LEAD
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Ellen Page - Juno

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Talk To Me

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

BEST SCREENPLAY
Tamara Jenkins - The Savages

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody - Juno

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Crazy Love

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Once (Ireland)

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
I'm Not There, Directed by Todd Haynes

Independent Spirit Awards: Keri Russell

Independent Spirit Awards: Angelina Jolie Totally Reveals Her Humongous Baby Bump

Independent Spirit Awards: Diablo Cody Wins Best First Screenplay

Hannah Montana Audition Tape! Like, OMG!

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:16:00 GMT

Check out a 12-year-old Miley Cyrus as she auditions for Hannah Montana. You can see the girl's got talent - and you can tell by the overzealous reactions of the casting people off-camera that they already knew they had a multi-gazillion dollar franchise on their hands.

Also see a sweet little duet that Miley does with her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. It'll touch your achy breaky heart.

Watch it here now!

Independent Spirit Awards: "Juno" Rules

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:34:00 GMT

I never get tired of pimping this movie. In fact, I like "Juno" almost as much as I like Barack Obama. The two have more in common than you think: both are smart, totally refreshing and most important of all - deserving of your vote.

"Juno" had no problems getting the votes on Saturday, as it scored big at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. The quirky comedy took the top prize for best feature film, best actress honors for Ellen Page and best first screenplay for Diablo Cody.

The film, a coming-of-age story about a teen who discovers she's pregnant, is up for four Oscars at tonight's Academy Awards: Best Picture, Cody for Best Screenplay, Page for Best Actress, and Jason Reitman for Best Director.

I'm Team Juno, in case you couldn't tell.

Independent Spirit Awards: Diablo Cody Wins Best First Screenplay

Independent Spirit Awards: Diablo Cody Wins Best First Screenplay

sweatpantsmom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:10:00 GMT

Diablo Cody has won the award for Best First Screenplay for "Juno" at the Film Independent Spirit Awards taking place in Santa Monica today. Cody is also up for an Oscar for Best Screenplay at tomorrow's Academy Awards.

"This is the coolest award in the coolest category. There is nothing like writing a first screenplay," Cody said.

Cody wrote her first book, Candy Girl, at the age of 24 while working as a stripper to help support her 5-year old stepdaughter and then-husband Jonny Hunt.

Oscar Nominations: A Mighty Disappointment For Angelina Jolie

sweatpantsmom — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:45:00 GMT

Not everyone is celebrating the announcement of Academy Award nominations this morning. Angelina Jolie, who was on many critics' short list for a Best Actress nominee for A Mighty Heart, was noticeably absent off the list. In spite of scoring both Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Jolie's portrayal of Marianne Pearl, (wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl) failed to earn her an Oscar nod.

Us Magazine film critic Thelma Adams blames the slight on the film's poor box office performance as well as the release date of the film. The movie premiered way back in June, which she says could mean many voters simply forgot about the movie.

Or, maybe the other nominees are better actresses. Just a theory.

See a full list of nominees here.

[photo: UsMagazine.com]

Oscar Nominations: Ex-Stripper Diablo Cody Gets a Nod for "Juno"

sweatpantsmom — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Taking off your clothes in public? People do it everyday in Hollywood, but few of them get nominated for an Oscar. Diablo Cody, who at one time made a living as a stripper, can now add Academy Award nominee to her colorful resume. Cody (whose real name is Brook Busey-Hunt) scored a nomination for her original screenplay for the hit indie film Juno. The movie, about a feisty 16-year old dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, got a total of four nominations including Best Picture.

A first-time screenwriter who also toiled as a phone-sex worker, Cody previously had some notoriety for her memoir, Candy Girl. The book chronicled her days working as a stripper while supporting her husband and then nine-year old stepdaughter.

Also important to note: Cody started off as a blogger on her site The Pussy Ranch. There's hope for all of us here: Today FameCrawler, tomorrow the Oscars!

See a full list of nominees here.

Who Needs an Idol? Chris Daughtry Wins Big at AMAs

sweatpantsmom — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:20:00 GMT

Looks like a good week to be an American Idol runner-up. First, one gets engaged and is probably pregnant, and now another kicks ass at the AMAs. Daughtry, Chris Daughtry's self-titled band, won three awards at last night's American Music Awards, taking honors for Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Breakthrough Artist. Their third award was for best Adult Contemporary Artist, beating out heavyweights such as Norah Jones and John Mayer. If you'll remember, Daughtry, a father of four, was fourth runner up on season five of American Idol

I would make a joke about Taylor Hicks here, but those Soul Patrol people would probably kick my ass.

FameCrawler : award shows

The Grammy Winners!

M.I.A. Did Not Go Into Labor at the Grammys

Independent Spirit Awards: The Complete List of Winners

Hannah Montana Audition Tape! Like, OMG!

Independent Spirit Awards: "Juno" Rules

Independent Spirit Awards: Diablo Cody Wins Best First Screenplay

Oscar Nominations: A Mighty Disappointment For Angelina Jolie

Oscar Nominations: Ex-Stripper Diablo Cody Gets a Nod for "Juno"

Who Needs an Idol? Chris Daughtry Wins Big at AMAs