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Salma Hayek To Co-Announce Oscar Nominees

Nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, January 23, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member, Salma Hayek.

Sid and Salma will reveal the nominees in 10 out of the 24 award categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. It is assured that media representatives from around the world will be gathered to get the scoop on who’s in and who was left out. Nominations information for all categories will be distributed simultaneously to news media in attendance and via the Internet.

Salma received a nomination for Best Actress in 2002 for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in Frida. Her many hit movie credits, coupled with her newfound television success helped to gain her the honor of co-announcing the nominees.

Salma Hayek Saved By Dog; Wins Golden Globe

Salma Hayek’s dog saved her life on the day of the Golden Globe Awards.

Salma fell asleep in her home when her dog, Diva, alerted her to a gas leak in the house.

The lovely Ms. Hayek told Us Weekly magazine: “I had a headache and went to lie down when Diva woke me up grabbing my sleeve in her mouth and trying to pull me out of the house. Then I realized the gas was on!”

Later that day, Salma’s hit tv show, Ugly Betty, cemented its position as US television’s biggest new hit. It did so by winning two awards at the 2007 Golden Globes ceremony.

Geena Davis and James Woods announced Ugly Betty as the winner of the award for Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy, and the show’s entire cast made their way on to the stage.

The Scoop On Bandidas

It’s movie night, so grab your popcorn and flip on that brand new plasma television that you got for the holidays. Bandidas, starring Salma with her good friend Penelope Cruz, came out this week. In short, the hot new movie release is a comedy-adventure set in 1888 Mexico, in which two women – one a European-educated sophisticate, the other a rough-and-tumble peasant — reluctantly join forces to fight a ruthless enforcer… by becoming celebrated bank robbers.

Perhaps there was some doubt that a western chick-flick would succeed, because Bandidas was never released theatrically. Western comedies are notorious for failing in the box office, and this may have been another reason.

A respected movie review source offered the following description of the film: “Salma and Penelope are Sara and Maria, two Mexican women of completely different backgrounds who band together to rob Mexican banks when a greedy political figure from America begins stealing land from poor landowners to build train track down Mexico. When the women cause enough trouble robbing the banks an expert is brought in, but the women convince him to help them when they take him hostage.”

The DVD contains an audio commentary track with Salma and Penelope, in which the ladies talk about how they made the director and producers nervous when they would speak in Spanish to each other on set, which was not understood by the people in charge. There is also a featurette on the two actresses.