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The 54rd Annual Grammy Awards (TV 2012)
Awards | Music
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles being broadcast on CBS. LL Cool J hosted the show. It was the first time in seven years that the event had an official host. Nominations were announced on November 30, 2011 on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night", a one-hour special broadcast live on CBS from Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live. Kanye West received the most nominations with seven. Adele, Foo Fighters, and Bruno Mars each received six nominations. Lil Wayne, Skrillex, and Radiohead all earned five nominations.
A total of 78 awards were presented following the Academy's decision to restructure the Grammy Award categories. Paul McCartney received the MusiCares Person of the Year award on February 10, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, two nights prior to the Grammy telecast.
On February 8, 2012, the Academy announced that the 54th Grammy Pre-Telecast Ceremony would stream live internationally. The ceremony took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center and was streamed live in its entirety internationally at Grammy's official website and CBS Television Network. The ceremony was co-hosted by Dave Koz and MC Lyte. A total of 68 awards were presented in the Pre-Telecast ceremony. The official poster was designed by Architect Frank Gehry.
The night before the awards, Whitney Houston died in Los Angeles, and show producers quickly planned a tribute, with Jennifer Hudson performing. The awards show began with a Bruce Springsteen performance followed by a LL Cool J prayer for Whitney Houston. Adele, with six nominations, won all six awards, tying Beyoncé's record for most wins by a female artist in one night. Foo Fighters and Kanye West followed with earning five and four awards, respectively.
Starring: Bruce Springsteen, The E Street Ban, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, Bonnie Raitt, Tribute to Etta James, Chris Brown, Jason Aldea, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Rihanna, Coldplay, Maroon 5, Foster the People, The Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, Joe Walsh, The Civil Wars, Taylor Swift, Adele, The Band Perry, Blake Shelton, Glen Campbell, Tony Bennett, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Brown, David Guetta, Lil Wayne, Foo Fighters, deadmau5, Nicki Minaj, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Joe Walsh
Director: Louis J. Horvitz
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Tags: Adele, Alicia Keys, Blake Shelton, Bonnie Raitt, Brian Ray, Bruce Springsteen, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Chris Brown, Coldplay, Dave Grohl, David Guetta, deadmau5, Diana Krall, Foo Fighters, Foster the People, Glen Campbell, Jason Aldea, Jennifer Hudson, Joe Walsh, Kelly Clarkson, Lil Wayne, Louis J. Horvitz, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, Rusty Anderson, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, The Beach Boys, The Civil Wars, The E Street Ban, Tony Bennett, Tribute to Etta James
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The Nude Vampire / La vampire nue (1970)
Horror
Horror director Jean Rollin followed up Le Viol du Vampire with this equally strange excursion into vampiric eroticism. The plot concerns a suicide cult led by a mysterious figure known as The Master. Oliver Martin is the hero, who tries to rescue pretty Caroline Cartier from the cult, only to find out that yet another group of vampires wants to save her too. There's people with reindeer heads, the usual artsy sex and violence, and a science-fiction subplot about a doorway to another dimension (as in the later Phantasm). Maurice Lemaitre and Bernard Musson co-star in this pretentious but enjoyable shocker.
Starring: Maurice Lemaître, Caroline Cartier, Ly Lestrong
Director: Jean Rollin
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Godzilla / Gojira (1954)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
A monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Fuyuki Murakami, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Director: Ishirô Honda
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Ocean Heaven / Haiyang tiantang (2010)
Drama
Wang, a maintenance man at an Ocean Park-style water theme park, lives with his 20-year-old son, David. David suffers from autism and is unable to function independently in the outside world. He is a competent swimmer and regularly joins Wang at work, where he is allowed to play in the large aquariums with the dolphins, turtles and other tropical fish. However, when Wang discovers he has terminal cancer and only a matter of months left to live, he must help David assimilate into normal society, or risk him being incarcerated in a hellish mental asylum.
Starring: Jet Li, Zhang Wen, Lunmei Kwai, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yuanyuan Gao
Director: Xiao Lu Xue
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Tower Heist (2011)
Action | Comedy | Crime
When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe
Director: Brett Ratner
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No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
Thriller
A shooting, 3 bodies and a witness who managed to get away… Inspector Santos Trinidad, a veteran policeman, drinks too much and works too little. Maybe to forget he was once a model officer at the Intelligence Unit now downgraded to the Missing Persons Unit. Events turn sour one night and Santos finds himself implicated in a triple homicide in an after-hours club. Santos cleans up the crime scene and starts the hunt for the only witness, who managed to escape. Following the trail of the fugitive witness, Santos discovers a complicated and sordid network of prostitution and drug trafficking that serves to finance a far more sophisticated criminal plan. He is back doing what he does best, although this time he is on his own. The official police investigation begins to tighten the net around him, but Santos has begun his own personal crusade: he finally has the chance to settle his own score.
Starring: Olga Alamán, Yiyo Alonso, Juanjo Artero, María Blanco-Fafián
Director: Enrique Urbizu
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Army of Shadows / L'armée des ombres (1969)
Drama | War
The film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens, and friendships, loyalty and trust give way to suspicion, secrecy and loss.
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, André Dewavrin
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Tags: André Dewavrin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Pierre Melville, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret
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Clarkson: Powered Up (2011)
Documentary
Jeremy Clarkson heads to the south of France where he puts cars to the test on the Circuit Paul Ricard and on the open road. Among the cars featured are the Ferrari FF and the 458, McLaren's MP4-12C, the latest Nissan GTR, the Porche GT2 RS, the Lamborghini Performante and the BMW 1M. The Stig and racing driver Karun Chandhok are on hand to help put these vehicles to the test, but which one will Jeremy choose as his favourite car of the year?
Starring: Karun Chandhok, Jeremy Clarkson
Director: Brian Klein
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