The main show hasn’t even started yet and already two of tonight’s biggest nominees know that they will walk away winners. Lady Gaga is so far a winner in the Best Dance Category for Poker Face and Best Dance Album for The Fame. While this isn’t Taylor’s first Grammy show it is her first win in Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her song White Horse. Swift has a chance of winning an additional six,Gaga an additional four but that all depends on how they match up to tonight’s biggest nominee Beyonce with ten nominations. The 52md Annual Grammy Awards air live on CBS tonight at 8 pm et.

Pre-Show Winners

Best Dance Recording
“Poker Face” – Lady Gaga
RedOne, producer; Robert Orton, RedOne & Dave Russell, mixers
Track from: “The Fame”
[Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]

Best Electronic/Dance Album
“The Fame”
Lady Gaga
[Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
“White Horse” – Taylor Swift
Track from: “Fearless”
[Big Machine Records]

Best Male Country Vocal Performance“Sweet Thing” – Keith Urban
Track from: “Defying Gravity”
[Capitol Records Nashville]

Best New Age Album
“Prayer For Compassion”
David Darling
[Wind Over The Earth]

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)
“Always Looking Up”
Michael J. Fox
[Hyperion Audio]

Best Jazz Vocal Album
“Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman”
Kurt Elling
[Concord Jazz]

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
“75″
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate
[Heads Up International]

Best Improvised Jazz Solo“Dancin’ 4 Chicken”
Terence Blanchard, soloist
Track from: Watts (Jeff “Tain” Watts)
[Dark Key Music]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album“Book One”
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
[World Village]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group“Five Peace Band – Live”
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band
[Concord Records]

Best Latin Jazz Album
“Juntos Para Siempre”
Bebo Valdés And Chucho Valdés
[Sony Music/Calle 54]

Best Gospel Performance
“Wait On The Lord”
Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard
Track from: We All Are One (Live In Detroit)
[Verity]

Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album
“Live Revelations”
Third Day
[Essential Records]

Best Gospel Song
“God In Me”
Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary Featuring Kierra “KiKi” Sheard)
Track from: “The Sound”
[Columbia Records; Publishers: EMI April Music, Wet Ink Red Music, That's Plum Song, It's Tea Tyme.]

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
“The Power Of One”
Israel Houghton
[Integrity Music]

Best Southern/Country/Bluegrass Gospel Album“Jason Crabb”
Jason Crabb
[Spring Hill Music Group]

Best Traditional Gospel Album
“Oh Happy Day”
(Various Artists)
Bill Hearn, Ken Levitan, Ken Pennell, Jack Rovner & Cedric Thompson, producers
[EMI Gospel/Vector Recordings]

Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album
“Los De Atras Vienen Conmigo”
Calle 13
[Sony Music Norte]

Best Latin Pop Album
“Sin Frenos”
La Quinta Estación
[Sony Music Latin]

Best Tejano Album
“Borders Y Bailes”
Los Texmaniacs
[Smithsonian Folkways Recordings]

Best Banda Album
“Tu Esclavo Y Amo”
Lupillo Rivera
[Disa]

Best Native American Music Album
“Spirit Wind North”
Bill Miller
[Cool Springs Music Group]

Best Traditional World Music Album
“Douga Mansa”
Mamadou Diabate
[World Village]

Best Contemporary World Music Album
“Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions”
Béla Fleck
[Rounder]

Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album
“Lay Your Burden Down”
Buckwheat Zydeco
[Alligator]

Best Reggae Album“Mind Control – Acoustic”
Stephen Marley
[Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong/Universal Republic]

Best Hawaiian Music Album
“Masters Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2″
(Various Artists)
Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers
[Daniel Ho Creations]

Best Norteno Album
“Tu Noche Con…Los Tigres Del Norte”
Los Tigres Del Norte
[Fonovisa]

Best Regional Mexican Album
“Necesito De Ti”
Vicente Fernández
[Sony Music Norte]

Best Tropical Latin Album
“Ciclos”
Luis Enrique
[Top Stop Music]

Best Musical Album For Children
“Family Time”
Ziggy Marley
[Tuff Gong Worldwide]

Best Spoken Word Album For Children
“Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs”
Buck Howdy
[Prairie Dog Entertainment]

Best Musical Show Album
“West Side Story”
David Caddick & David Lai, producers (Leonard Bernstein, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist) (New Broadway Cast with Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione & Others)
[Masterworks Broadway]

Best Instrumental Composition
“Married Life” (From “Up”)
Michael Giacchino, composer (Michael Giacchino)
Track from: Up – Soundtrack
[Walt Disney Records]

Best Instrumental Arrangement
“West Side Story Medley”
Bill Cunliffe, arranger (Resonance Big Band)
Track from: Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute To Oscar Peterson
[Resonance Records]

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
“Quiet Nights”
Claus Ogerman, arranger (Diana Krall)
Track from: Quiet Nights
[Verve]

Best Recording Package
“Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”
Stefan Sagmeister, art director (David Byrne & Brian Eno)
[Todomundo/Opal]

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
“Neil Young Archives Vol. I” (1963-1972)
Gary Burden, Jenice Heo & Neil Young, art directors (Neil Young)
[Reprise]

Best Album Notes
“The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions” (1935-1946)
Dan Morgenstern, album notes writer (Louis Armstrong)
[Mosaic Records]

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
“Jai Ho” (From “Slumdog Millionaire”)
Gulzar, A.R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah, songwriters (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash)
Track from: “Slumdog Millionaire” – Music From The Motion Picture
[N.E.E.T./Interscope Records; Publisher: KM Musiq.]

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
“Up”
Michael Giacchino, composer
[Walt Disney Records]

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
“Slumdog Millionaire”
(Various Artists)
A.R. Rahman, producer
[N.E.E.T./Interscope Records]

Best Historical Album“The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967)”
Andy McKaie, compilation producer; Erick Labson, mastering engineer (Little Walter)
[Hip-O Select/Geffen Records]

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Ellipse”
Imogen Heap, engineer (Imogen Heap)
[RCA/Megaphonic Records]

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
“When Love Takes Over (Electro Extended Remix)”
David Guetta, remixer (David Guetta Featuring Kelly Rowland)
[Astralwerks]

Best Surround Sound Album
“Transmigration”
Michael Bishop, surround mix engineer; Michael Bishop, surround mastering engineer; Elaine Martone, surround producer (Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choruses)
[Telarc]

Source: Variety

Johnny Deep is set to become Captain Jack Sparrow once again when filming for the 4th installment of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is slated to start this summer in Hawaii but one cast member who is not coming back…Orlando Bloom. Bloom talked with the press while in Sundance and told them he was not slated for the new film.

What?! You can’t have a ‘Pirates’ film without having Will Turner! Before you go blaming Orlando it was Disney’s decision. Also not returning is Keira Knightly. In the last film, Will Turner was bound to the sea for 10 years but is Orlando Bloom that expendable now? They couldn’t have written him in the film? Here’s to hoping for Turner’s return in Pirates 5. (Oh you know Disney will milk this cash cow dry. )

No really, it’s legal. 20th Century Fox has officially released the script to the worldwide hit movie Avatar online. This may be a new trend starting  as Warner Bros. did the same thing back in 2008 with The Dark Knight. This is fantastic for movie buffs and future screen writers in the making to see what a successful film screenplay looks like . I personally love reading them because if it’s any good then reads like a book and you forget what your reading. Also if the screenplay actual made it to theaters then you can compare the film to it’s screenplay. Download the screenplay here.

James Cameron’s Avatar is now on the list of highest grossing movies of all time. What’s number one? James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic. Nuff said.

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With the People’s Choice Awards airing tonight, award season 2010 is official a go.

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The New York Film Critics Online is composed of 33 top film critics out of New York City.

Winners:

Picture: “Avatar”

Actor: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”

Actress: Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, “Precious”

Breakthrough Performer: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Debut Director: Marc Webb, “(500) Days of Summer”

Ensemble Cast: “In the Loop”

Screenplay: “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino

Documentary: “The Cove”

Foreign Language: “The White Ribbon”

Animated: “Up”

Cinematography: “Inglourious Basterds,” Robert Richardson

Film Music or Score: “Crazy Heart,” Steve Bruton & T. Bone Burnett; music supervisor: Jeffrey Pollack

Top 11 Films of 2009:

• “Adventureland”
• “Avatar”
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
• “The Hurt Locker”
• “Inglourious Basterds”
• “The Messenger”
• “Precious”
• “A Serious Man”
• “Two Lovers”
• “Up”
• “Up in the Air”

Sources: Variety NYFCO

It’s that time of year again where Hollywood prepares to head to Salt Lake City for the Sundance Film Festival. This years festival features the likes of Ryan Gosling, Kerry Washington, Orlando Bloom to name a few.

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There is nothing like a good classic horror film. There will definitely be some classics on tv starting today and tomorrow.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be kicking off Halloween right with a midnight showing of  Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho.  (Tonight, 12 midnight)

More from Turner Classic Movies-

10 am The Haunting (1963)

8pm Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

12:45 am Cicrus of Horrors (1960)

Click for Full Schedule

Over at American Movie Classics (AMC) they have been airing Fear Fest ‘09, showing more recent horror films but you can also watch a few of the indie horror flicks online. The main feature will be Night of the Living Dead that will be on repeat the entire Halloween night starting at 6pm.

More From AMC-

10/30  10:30 pm Amityville Horror (1979)

10/31 12pm Halloween (1978)

10/31 6:15pm Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Click for Full Schedule

Entertainment Weekly yesterday posted the first picture from the movie A-Team (June 2010)

Stars Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Quinton Jackson,Sharlto Copley and is directed by Joe Carnahan.

Sony Pictures 2010 release ‘ The Bounty’ staring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler finished principle filming this week in New York where it’s been shooting since mid-June.  Besides a few incidents involving bodyguards and dogs, the shoot went relatively good until a helicopter got involved…