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Oscars 2013: Who Will Win Academy Awards and Where to Watch

A Swampscott guy won three Oscars. Read about Swampscott and Massachusetts connections to the Academy Awards.

The Academy Awards are Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. The ceremonies will be televised live on ABC and in more than 225 foreign countries. Which male actor has won the most Oscars in an acting category? It looks like it's a tie, and one of the guys is from Swampscott. That would be Walter Brennan, according to wiki.answers.com The Massachusetts Film Office lists the roles and awards that the Son of Swampscott won. He also starred in television shows including the Real McCoys and The Guns of Will Sonnet.     Wikipedia says Brennan was actually born in Lynn, on July, 25,  1894, a few miles from his family's Swampscott home. The other male actor with three Big-Os is Jack Nicholson. Katharine Hepburn …

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Academy Awards 2013: Watch Oscars on TV and Swampscott Connections

Here's another Swampscott connection: Swampscott High graduate Bryan Buckley is up for an Oscar in the Best Live-Action Short Film category.

The Academy Awards are Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. The ceremonies will be televised live on ABC and in more than 225 foreign countries. One of the nominees is Swampscott High graduate Bryan Buckley nominated for his 17-minute film Asad, about a child refugee from a war-torn fishing village in Somalia, according to Cinemasalem.com  Buckley is best known for his commercials, especially Super Bowl commercials, of which he has directed over 40. He is following up Asad, his first narrative film, by directing his first feature film, “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,” starring Reese Witherspoon, according to a Lynn Item article. Swampscott has other Oscar connections. Walter Brennan, who lived …

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Swampscott Goes to the Movies

Oscars 2013: Academy Awards Host is Seth MacFarlane of Ted

Swampscott has a few connections to the Oscars. One is the host, who shot part of his movie in Swampscott.

The Academy Awards are scheduled for Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. It will be televised live domestically on ABC and in more than 225 foreign countries. The host will be Seth MacFarlane who directed, co-produced, co-wrote and starred (his voice) in the movie Ted. Ted, a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, has some major Swampscott connections. For one, the main character, John, played by Wahlberg, was born in Swampscott, according to the movie plot. And as many Swampscott people will remember — a major scene in the film was shot inside and outside a Swampscott home on Atlantic Avenue back in May of 2011. In the movie the home belonged to the character Rex, the hated manager of the Mila Kunis …

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Academy Awards 2013: The Whole List of Oscar Nominations

The Feb. 24, televised award ceremony will be hosted by the producer of a film, Ted, that was filmed — parts of of it — in Swampscott.

Want to know what the 2013 Oscars will look like? We've got a rundown of all the 2013 Oscar nominations below.  Also, we will be running Oscar- and film-related features this week on Swampscott Patch. There's a bit of a North Shore connection here — The comedy "Ted," which is up for best original song, was partially filmed in Swampscott. Director Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln" earned a leading 12 nominations Thursday for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, followed by Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" with 11, while the musical, "Les Miserables," directed by Tom Hooper, and David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" tied with 8 nods each. "Lincoln" was nominated for best picture and gave Spielberg his eighth best director nomination. A …

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Mark Wahlberg Movie Ted Set For Release July 13

The movie remains in post-production according to an NBCUniversal spokesman.

  Academy Awards night and Oscar acceptance speeches will get some local people thinking about Swampscott's shoulder brush with Hollywood in 2011. Film crews were in town the first week in May shooting scenes for the movie Ted starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. The movie remains in post production and scenes are not finalized, according to an NBCUniversal spokesman. The movie is set for release July 13, he said. Back in May film crews were shooting at 441 Atlantic Ave., a 10,000-square-foot, contemporary home on Preston Beach. Scenes included a big party. The story in the live action/computer-animated comedy has the Wahlberg character, John Bennett, as an adult, dealing with his teddy bear. The teddy comes to life due to a wish Bennett…

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