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Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short Film Competition
Amazon Theater and the Tribeca Film Festival today announced the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short Film Competition. Starting today, through April 13th, filmmakers will be invited to submit their short films to an audience of millions, with the chance for a grand prize of $50,000. On April 20th, the films, which should have a total run time of 2 to 7 minutes and be appropriate for a general audience, will be presented in the Amazon.com Tribeca Screening Room where customers will be invited to rate them, on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, to determine the five finalists. At the end of May the finalists will be featured on the Amazon.com welcome page over five weeks. Amazon.com customers will again be invited to rate the five finalists to determine the winner, who will receive the $50,000 grant for a future film project. Read more about the Amazon Theater/Tribeca Short Film Competition

Today's IMDb Poll Question Is:
Director Sidney Lumet received an honorary Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards -- what's your favorite Lumet film? (vote)

Oscars Winners, Presenters, and More in Road to the Oscars
With a one, two, three punch Million Dollar Baby proved to be the one, the darling of the Academy as Clint Eastwood's boxing drama put the competition out for the count, including another Best Actress win for Hilary Swank. Best Director for Clint, Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman and Best Picture. Meanwhile Jamie Foxx walked off with the Best Actor award for Ray. Find out who else won at the 77th annual Oscars™, check out the red carpet, pressroom, and after-party photos (including one of the lovely Salma Hayek) in our Road to the Oscars section. Our Road to the Oscars section was presented this year by Kotex.

IMDb Movie of the Day
Buoyed by a small cast of fully-realized characters, The Man from Elysian Fields snares its audience with an honest look at life's painful contradictions. Novelist Byron (Andy Garcia) struggles to balance his artistic pursuits with the demands of his everyday life -- in this case, providing for his supportive wife Dena (Julianna Margulies) and their young child. With the concept for his second novel rejected by his publisher, he finds himself contemplating an offer to work for the intriguing Luther Fox (Mick Jagger), a man who maintains a mysteriously nondescript business called Elysian Fields. After much hesitation, Byron accepts Luther's proposal, and, not known by his family, begins his profitable new venture -- working as a male escort for wealthy women. Sounds like the classic late night B-movie plot, you say? Happily, it is not. In a coincidental twist, Byron's first client (Olivia Williams) happens to be the wife of ailing famous author Tobias Alcott (James Coburn), and the two writers form a creative bond to write Alcott's final novel together. The intricate details of the performances given by all of the main actors offer the viewer a feast of flawed, all-too-human characters, their interactions refreshingly believable for their lack of absolutes or extremes. Jagger's performance stands out in particular, as he imbues Luther with a deliciously wicked elegance that contrasts perfectly with Fox's personal failures. Similarly, Colburn's turn as an author in his waning days shines with a robust wisdom rarely seen on the screen these days, a performance made all the more bittersweet by the actor's passing only a month after the film's release. -Heather Campbell

Please Meet Andrea De Oliveira
Andrea De Oliveira has the role of "Eternity" in a short entitled Saving Neo, which purportedly is a cross between Finding Nemo and The Matrix. We can't vouch for Saving Neo but we can give rave reviews to Oliveira's agent because he used Publicity Photos Self-Service. With our new self-submission system and faster response times Publicity Photos is easier and friendlier. Go to your client's page, click on the "Primary Photo Not Submitted" image to start this simple process or head directly to the IMDb Publicity Photos purchase pipeline.

Movie/TV Quote of the Day

             TERRY
 

I guess I'm happy when I don't want to be anywhere else but where I am.