2008 Academy of Country Music Award Nominees

The Academy of Country Music Awards honors music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging artists. With Reba McEntire celebrating her 10th year as host, the evening promises to be one of magic and memories. Tune in to GAC Sunday, May 18 at 7PM for the live Orange Carpet entrances immediately followed by the Awards at 8PM. Performers will include George Strait & Kenney Chesney, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Racal Flatts, Keith Urban, and a special performance by Garth Brooks singing some of his definitive hits:

Entertainer of the Year

Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Rascal Flatts
George Strait
Keith Urban

Top Male Vocalist

Rodney Atkins
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Keith Urban

Top Female Vocalist

Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
LeAnn Rimes
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

Top Vocal Group

The Eagles
Emerson Drive
Little Big Town
Rascal Flatts
Diamond Rio

Top Vocal Duo

Big & Rich
Brooks & Dunn
Halfway to Hazard
Montgomery Gentry
Sugarland

Top New Male Vocalist

Luke Bryan
Jack Ingram
Jake Owen

Top New Female Vocalist

Kellie Pickler
Taylor Swift
Sarah Buxton

Top New Duo or Vocal Group

Carolina Rain
Lady Antebellum
The Wreckers

Album of the Year

Brad Paisley
Miranda Lambert
Kenny Chesney
Rodney Atkins
Taylor Swift

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Mister D:

Anita weighed in on who would be nominated. Now if she can put down her oversized martini, maybe she can tell us what she got right or what she didn’t. Knowing Anita, she’s past all this…maybe blacked it out if you know what I mean….so next step….her blurry, but mostly right predictions for winners. Wake up Anita…you have some analyzing to do….a case of vodka on the way…my treat!:

The best of the worst in musicals

Best Musical

Locks: In the Heights; Passing Strange
Probably in: ; Xanadu, Young Frankenstien
Possible surprise: A Catered Affair or Cry Baby

Xanadu, YF, In the Heights and Cry Baby all have tour potential and will entertain the 5-6 million tv viewers. Little Mermaid needs no nominations, it has a built in audience and will tour no matter what.

Best Musical Revival

Locks: Gypsy; South Pacific; Sunday in the Park With George
Probably in: A ham
Possible surprise: Grease

Best Directed Musical

Locks :Gypsy, South Pacific, In the Heights, Passing Strange

Best Actor

Locks: Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights; Paolo Szot, South Pacific; Stew, Passing Strange
Probably in: Boyd Gaines, Gypsy; Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Possible surprises: Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George; Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu

Best Actress (or as I prefer to call it the Patti Melt)

Locks: Patti LuPone, Gypsy; Kelli O’Hara, South Pacific
It doesn’t really matter because either Patti or Kelli will win and maybe both if the Tonys are smart about it: Kerry Butler, Xanadu; Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park With George; Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Possible surprise: Mandy Gonzalez, In the Heights

Best Book

In the Heights, Passing Strange, A Catered Affair, Xanadu

Best Lyrics

In the Heights, Cry Baby, Passing Strange, Little Mermaid

Orchastrations

Gypsy, South Pacific, Cry Baby, In the Heights

Choreography

In the Heights, Cry Baby, South Pacific, Gypsy, Xanadu

Best Play

Locks: August: Osage County; Rock ‘n’ Roll; The Seafarer
Fighting it out for the final slot: The 39 Steps; Is He Dead?; Mauritius; November

Best Play Revival

Lock: The Homecoming
Probably in: Macbeth
Fighting it out for the final two slots: Boeing-Boeing; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Come Back, Little Sheba; ; Pygmalion; Top Girls

Best Actor

Locks: Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing; Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Probably in: Brian Cox, Rock ‘n’ Roll; Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
It seems impossible that they wouldn’t give this performance a nomination, so here he is: Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
Possible surprises: Norbert Leo Butz, Is He Dead?; Morgan Freeman, The Country Girl; James Earl Jones, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac; Ian McShane, The Homecoming; Rufus Sewell, Rock ‘n’ Roll

Best Actress

Locks: Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County; S. Epatha Merkerson, Come Back, Little Sheba; Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Probably in: Eve Best, The Homecoming; Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth
Possible surprises: Martha Plimpton, Cymbeline; Anika Noni Rose, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Nominations for the 2008 Tony Awards have been announced. Lin Manuel-Miranda’s musical In The Heights about the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights led the way with 13 nominations followed by the revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific with 11 nominations.

Best Play

August: Osage County
Author: Tracy Letts
Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Rock ‘n’ Roll
Author: Tom Stoppard
Producers: Bob Boyett & Sonia Friedman Productions, Ostar Productions, Roger Berlind, Tulchin/Bartner, Douglas G. Smith, Dancap Productions, Jam Theatricals, The Weinstein Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The Royal Court Theatre London

The Seafarer
Author: Conor McPherson
Producers: Ostar Productions, Bob Boyett, Roy Furman, Lawrence Horowitz, Jam Theatricals, Bill Rollnick/Nancy Ellison Rollnick, James D’Orta, Thomas S. Murphy, Ralph Guild/Jon Avnet, Philip Geier/Keough Partners, Eric Falkenstein/Max OnStage, The National Theatre of Great Britain

The 39 Steps
Author: Patrick Barlow
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Harriet Newman Leve/Ron Nicynski, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Manocherian Golden Prods., Olympus Theatricals/Douglas Denoff, Marek J. Cantor/Pat Addiss, Huntington Theatre Company/Nicholas Martin/Michael Maso, Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd.

Best Musical

Cry-Baby
Producer: Adam Epstein, Allan S. Gordon, �lan V. McAllister, Brian Grazer, James P. MacGilvray, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Anne Caruso, Adam S. Gordon, Latitude Link, The Pelican Group, Philip Morgaman, Andrew Farber/Richard Mishaan

In The Heights
Producers: Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, Sander Jacobs, Goodman/Grossman, Peter Fine, Everett/Skipper

Passing Strange
Producers: The Shubert Organization, Elizabeth Ireland McCann LLC, Bill Kenwright, Chase Mishkin, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Broadway Across America, Emily Fisher Landau, Peter May, Boyett Ostar, Larry Hirschhorn, Janet Pailet/Steve Klein, Elie Hirschfeld/Jed Bernstein, Spring Sirkin/Ruth Hendel, Vasi Laurence/Pat Flicker Addiss, Wendy Federman/Jackie Barlia Florin, Joey Parnes, The Public Theater, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Xanadu
Producers: Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel, Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith

Best Book of a Musical

Cry-Baby
Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan

In The Heights
Quiara Alegra Hudes

Passing Strange
Stew

Xanadu
Douglas Carter Beane

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Cry-Baby
Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger

In The Heights
Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Little Mermaid
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater

Passing Strange
Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Lyrics: Stew

Best Revival of a Play

Boeing-Boeing
Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Boyett, Act Productions, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company, Susan Gallin/Mary Lu Roffe, Broadway Across America, Tulchin/Jenkins/DSM, The Araca Group

The Homecoming
Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Ergo Entertainment, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Michael Gardner, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Terry E. Schnuck, Harold Thau, Michael Filerman/Lynne Peyser, Ronald Frankel/David Jaroslawicz, Love Bunny Entertainment

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy

Macbeth
Producers: Duncan C. Weldon & Paul Elliott, Jeffrey Archer, Bill Ballard, Terri & Timothy Childs, Rodger Hess, David Mirvish, Adriana Mnuchin, Emanuel Azenberg, BAM, The Chichester Festival Theatre

Best Revival of a Musical

Grease
Producers: Paul Nicholas and David Ian, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Terry Allen Kramer, Robert Stigwood

Gypsy
Producers: Roger Berlind, The Routh-Frankel-Baruch-Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin, Jack Viertel

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Bob Boyett

Sunday in the Park with George
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Debra Black, Jam Theatricals, Stephanie P. McClelland, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Barbara Manocherian/Jennifer Manocherian, Ostar Productions, The Menier Chocolate Factory/David Babani

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Rufus Sewell, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Patrick Stewart, Macbeth

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Eve Best, The Homecoming
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth
S. Epatha Merkerson, Come Back, Little Sheba
Amy Morton, August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights
Stew, Passing Strange
Paulo Szot, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Kerry Butler, Xanadu
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O’Hara, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius
Raul Esparza, The Homecoming
Conleth Hill, The Seafarer
Jim Norton, The Seafarer
David Pittu, Is He Dead?

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Sinead Cusack, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing
Laurie Metcalf, November
Martha Plimpton, Top Girls
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
Danny Burstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Robin De Jesus, In The Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

de’Adre Aziza, Passing Strange
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
Olga Merediz, In The Heights
Loretta Ables Sayre, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps
Scott Pask, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County
Anthony Ward, Macbeth

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park with George
Anna Louizos, In The Heights
Robin Wagner, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
Michael Yeargan, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Best Costume Design of a Play

Gregory Gale, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob Howell, Boeing-Boeing
Katrina Lindsay, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Peter McKintosh, The 39 Steps

Best Costume Design of a Musical

David Farley, Sunday in the Park with George
Martin Pakledinaz, Gypsy
Paul Tazewell, In The Heights
Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Kevin Adams, The 39 Steps
Howard Harrison, Macbeth
Donald Holder, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Ann G. Wrightson, August: Osage County

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George
Howell Binkley, In The Heights
Donald Holder, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Natasha Katz, The Little Mermaid

Best Sound Design of a Play

Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing
Adam Cork, Macbeth
Ian Dickinson, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Mic Pool, The 39 Steps

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Acme Sound Partners, In The Heights
Sebastian Frost, Sunday in the Park with George
Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Dan Moses Schreier, Gypsy

Best Direction of a Play

Maria Aitken, The 39 Steps
Conor McPherson, The Seafarer
Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County
Matthew Warchus, Boeing-Boeing

Best Direction of a Musical

Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park with George
Thomas Kail, In The Heights
Arthur Laurents, Gypsy
Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Best Choreography

Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby
Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights
Christopher Gattelli, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Dan Knechtges, Xanadu

Best Orchestrations

Jason Carr, Sunday in the Park with George
Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman, In The Heights
Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange
Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair

* * *

Regional Theatre Tony Award
Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Special Tony Award
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific.

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Stephen Sondheim

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Nerds, pirates and robots take over as MTV: Music Television today announced the nominees for the “2008 MTV Movie Awards.” Dominating the pack is “Superbad” with 5 nominations followed by “Juno” with 4 nods. Also vying for the much sought-after popcorn statue is “Enchanted,” “Transformers,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” and “Knocked Up” with 3 nominations each. The 17th annual awards show will be executive produced by Emmy Award® winning producer Mark Burnett.

Hosted by Mike Myers, the “2008 MTV Movie Awards” will be broadcast LIVE from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA on Sunday, June 1st at 8pm/7c. Performers and presenters for the “2008 MTV Movie Awards” will be announced at a later date.

The destiny of the coveted golden popcorn lies in the hands of the viewers. Fans can vote by visiting MovieAwards.MTV.com before May 23rd to support their favorite nominees in each category.

Fans can also go online to vote for the user-generated category, “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” where viewers have the opportunity to submit their own original movie shorts parodying films from the past year.

Nominees for the “2008 MTV Movie Awards” are:

TO VOTE: Click Here

BEST MOVIE
– Juno (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
– Transformers (DreamWorks SKG/Paramount Pictures)
– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney Pictures)
– I Am Legend (Warner Bros. Pictures)
– Superbad (Sony Pictures)
– National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Walt Disney Pictures)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
– Will Smith — I Am Legend (Warner Bros. Pictures)
– Shia LaBeouf — Transformers (DreamWorks SKG/Paramount Pictures)
– Denzel Washington — American Gangster (Universal Pictures)
– Matt Damon — The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal Pictures)
– Michael Cera — Juno (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
– Ellen Page — Juno (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
– Keira Knightley — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney Pictures)
– Katherine Heigl — Knocked Up (Universal Pictures)
– Amy Adams — Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures)
– Jessica Biel — I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Universal Pictures)

BEST VILLAIN
– Johnny Depp — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (DreamWorks SKG/ Warner Bros. Pictures)
– Denzel Washington — American Gangster (Universal Pictures)
– Angelina Jolie — Beowulf (Warner Bros. Pictures/ Paramount Pictures)
– Topher Grace — Spider-Man 3 (Sony Pictures)
– Javier Bardem — No Country For Old Men (Paramount Vantage/ Miramax Films)

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
– Johnny Depp — Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney Pictures)
– Adam Sandler — I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Universal Pictures)
– Jonah Hill — Superbad (Sony Pictures)
– Seth Rogen — Knocked Up (Universal Pictures)
– Amy Adams — Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures)

BEST FIGHT
– Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah — The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal Pictures)
– Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco — Spider-Man 3 (Sony Pictures)
– Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell — Jumper (20th Century Fox)
– Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet — Never Back Down (Summit Entertainment, LLC)
– Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming — Rush Hour 3 (New Line Cinema)
– Alien vs. Predator- Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem (20th Century Fox)

BEST KISS
– Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer — Disturbia (DreamWorks SKG)
– Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey — Enchanted (Walt Disney Pictures)
– Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros. Pictures)
– Ellen Page and Michael Cera — Juno (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
– Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman — Step Up 2 The Streets (Touchstone Pictures)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
– Zac Efron — Hairspray (New Line Cinema)
– Seth Rogen — Knocked Up (Universal Pictures)
– Jonah Hill — Superbad (Sony Pictures)
– Michael Cera — Superbad (Sony Pictures)
– Chris Brown — This Christmas (Screen Gems)
– Nikki Blonsky — Hairspray (New Line Cinema)
– Megan Fox — Transformers (DreamWorks SKG/Paramount Pictures)
– Christopher Mintz-Plasse — Superbad (Sony Pictures)

BEST SUMMER MOVIE SO FAR
– Iron Man (Paramount Pictures/Marvel Entertainment)
– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount Pictures/Lucas Films)
– Sex and the City: The Movie (New Line Cinema)
– Speed Racer (Warner Bros. Pictures)
– The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media)

2008 MTV Movie Awards
Total Number of Combined Category Nominations

Superbad 5
Juno 4
Enchanted 3
Knocked Up 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End 3
Transformers 3
American Gangster 2
Hairspray 2
I Am Legend 2
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 2
Spider-Man 3 2
The Bourne Ultimatum 2
Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem 1
Beowulf 1
Disturbia 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 1
Iron Man 1
Jumper 1
National Treasure: Book of Secrets 1
Never Back Down 1
No Country for Old Men 1
Rush Hour 3 1
Sex And The City: The Movie 1
Speed Racer 1
Step Up 2: The Streets 1
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 1
This Christmas 1
* Nominees are chosen through a national poll of MTV and MTV2 viewers.

Mark Burnett serves as Executive Producer for the 2008 MTV MOVIE AWARDS. Audrey Morrisey is Co-Executive Producer. Jane Mun and Ted Smith serve as Producers.

Official sponsors of “The 2008 MTV MOVIE AWARDS” are Dibs, Dove Go Fresh, GM, Old Navy, Orbit®, Secret and Taco Bell Corp. ®.

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