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From singer turned actress to wife and mother, Jennifer Hudson is no stranger to the spotlight  and continues to shine in the September issue of  Self. Sporting her svelte figure on the cover, Hudson revealed losing weight means more to her than the Academy Award she won in 2007 for ‘Dreamgirls.’

There weren't a whole lot of surprises at the 83rd Academy Awards -- as expected, "The King's Speech" took the big prize as Best Picture. The film about King George VI overcoming his stutter also garnered a Best Actor statue for Colin Firth and a Best Director win for Tom Hooper. "King"'s four statuettes tied "Inception," which also nabbed four awards in technical cat

James Franco and Anne Hathaway were certainly outside-the-box picks to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards. And after a pre-taped opening in which they tried to elicit advice from last year's host Alec Baldwin by channeling his dreams, “Inception” - style, the duo weren’t required to do a whole lot of heavy lifting in their opening monologue.

This year's opening sequence of the Academy Awards featured hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway trying to tap Alec Baldwin's dreams for Oscar hosting advice. The skit featured a bunch of this year's nominees for best picture, and a surprise appearance from an iconic film of yore.  Read on to check it out.

The stars hit the red carpet for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, including nominees Natalie Portman, Melissa Leo, Michelle Williams, Christian Bale, Jesse Eisenberg, plus co-host Anne Hathaway.

Like over-the-top outfits and gushing acceptance speeches, shocking nomination snubs are part of the tradition of the Oscars. We've rounded up some of the best performances that never even made it to the big show below.

The 83rd Academy Award nominations were announced today and some got chosen and others got snubbed.  Here's shorter list of all the nominees.  Let us know who you think got the snub.