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Thor (Chris Hemsworth) will Announce Oscar Noms with Academy Prez

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The Oscar nominations announcements are going to be pretty cool. The one and only Thor, Chris Hemsworth, will read the nominations with new Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs on January 16th. The big moment comes at 5:30am Pacific, 8:30am Eastern on the morning of the Critics Choice Awards live show later that day on the CW network. Isaacs, a long time pr and marketing star in Hollywood, is shaking things up at the Academy and bringing it into the 21st century very nicely. Hemsworth will throw down his hammer, and in five minutes our lives will changed forever. Not really, but it sounds dramatic. Between now and then, watch Christopher Guest’s “For Your Consideration” to get a fuller understanding.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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