TIME 100 Gala was held Tuesday night at the Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2013. The event brings together the “100 Most Influential People In The World” according to TIME magazine.

The Coachella Valley music and arts festival is being held this year April 12-15 (weekend 1) and april 19-22 (weekend 2). It’s held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Check out the line up here

Congrats to the 2013 MTV Movie Awards winners

Movie of the Year
“The Avengers”

Best Male Performance
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”

Best WTF Moment
Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson, “Django Unchained”

Best Fight
“Marvel’s The Avengers”

Trailblazer Award
Emma Watson

Best Kiss
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”

Comedic Genius
Will Ferrell

Best Breakthrough Performance
Rebel Wilson, “Pitch Perfect”

Best Shirtless Performance
Taylor Lautner, “Breaking Dawn, Part 2″

Best Villain
Tom Hiddleston, “The Avengers”

MTV Generation Award
Jamie Foxx

Best Musical Performance
Rebel Wilson in “Pitch Perfect”

Happy Easter Weekend!

Congrats to the Kids Choice Awards 2013 Winners
This post will be updated again later,
for now check out the kca page at nick.com

Visit these fansites related to the film “Oz the Great and Powerful:

http://michelle-williams.org/
http://milakunisweb.org/
http://jamesfrancobr.com (Brasil fansite)

Adopt:
rachel-weisz.org
jamesfranco.net/org

If you have a related high quality fansite you’d like to add, please email us

New graphics tutorials @ http://tutorials.fanfusion.org. Please rate them by emailing us your comments or leaving comments there so we can make more similar to the ones that you like.
More are on the way
If you want to contribute some please see this post
http://fanfusion.org/sitenews/looking-for-help-with-graphics-tutorials/

5 years ago, on January 14th, 2008, our hosting site was started. Since then, we have gotten new staff and partners, including partnering up with the site at fanzoom.net a couple months ago to create a better fansite host.

Since then, over 10,000 sites have been created through our hosting. (This includes personal sites and sites about any topic, subdomains, closed or archived sites and sites that are no longer active, and new fansites).

Running the network takes a lot of time, and we want to thank all the people that have helped us in any way. Personally I spend at least 60 hours/week on average (which means that there are weeks that take longer), and we have had several cowebs in the past that have also helped out a lot, in total between us all it probably takes over 100 hours/week (across server maintenance, scripts and technical support, inspections and other fansite maintenance, etc.) to keep the sites running.

Thank you for the support of all the wonderful hostees throughout the years!

January 2013
January 9 – People’s Choice Awards
January 10 – Critics Choice Awards
January 13 – Golden Globe Awards

February 2013
February 10 – Grammy Awards
February 20 – BAFTA Awards
February 24 – 2013 Academy Awards (Oscars)

March 2013
March 23 – Kid’s Choice Awards

April 2013
April 14 – MTV Movie Awards

May 2013
Billboard Music Awards (date TBA)

June 2013
CMT Music Awards (date TBA)

July 2013
Teen Choice Awards (date TBA)

September 2013
MTV Video Music Awards (date TBA)
September 22 – 65th Emmy Awards

There are more but these are the major ones.

Peoples choice awards 2013 winners
January 9, 2013

Favorite TV Comedy: The Big Bang Theory

Favorite New TV Comedy: The New Normal

Favorite New TV Drama: Beauty & The Beast

Favorite Movie Of The Year: The Hunger Games

The People’s Voice Award: Christina Aguilera

Favorite Movie Actress: Emma Watson

Favorite Movie Actor: Robert Downey Jr.

Favorite Dramatic TV Actor: Nathan Fillion

Favorite Dramatic TV Actress: Ellen Pompeo

Favorite Pop Artist: Katy Perry

Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress: Jennifer Lawrence

Favorite Breakout Artist: The Wanted

Favorite Comedic Movie Actor: Adam Sandler

Favorite Comedic TV Actor: Chris Colfer

Favorite Comedic TV Actress: Lea Michele

Favorite Daytime TV Host: Ellen DeGeneres

Favorite Band: Maroon 5

Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show: Supernatural

Favorite Country Artist: Taylor Swift

Favorite Comedic Movie Actress: Jennifer Aniston

Favorite Late-Night Talk Show Host: Jimmy Fallon

Favorite Cable TV Comedy: MTV’s Awkward

Favorite Song: One Direction‘s “What Makes You Beautiful”

Here are the nominations for the 2013 awards. Watch the awards ceremony on February 24th.

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best Film Editing
Argo, William Goldenberg
Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Best Original Score
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Best Original Song
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice, music and lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted, music by Walter Murphy; lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna; lyric by Bombay Jayashri
“Skyfall” from Skyfall, music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Production Design
Anna Karenina, Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Best Animated Short
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman

Best Live Action Short
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry

Best Sound Editing
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best Sound Mixing
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Best Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus, Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

We’re looking to start a site for graphics tutorials (similar to http://tutorials.fanfusion.org/, a collection of tutorials for wordpress, coppermine, getting started with your hosting account, etc.)

We’re looking for 1-3 helpers that can contribute some tutorials. We can send a gift card or payment in return for your help. It won’t be a huge amount (please don’t do this if you are just looking for money) but to give you an idea, probably around $25 for a set of 5 tutorials ($50 for 10). Some tutorials are easier than others so within a set there can be a mix of difficulty. Feel free to also contribute tutorials for free (and we can put your credit in the tutorial, there are some restrictions with linkage so ask us first if you want to do this).

Tutorial requirements:
-must be simple to follow, but detailed enough that it can be followed step by step
-screenshots for guide
-marked screenshots when needed (e.g., arrows, things circled on the screenshots)
-must be clearly written
-if it involves any software (e.g., ftp program, watermarks, etc.) should be with software that is widely used (if you are not sure ask us first)

Examples:
-How to make a gif
-How to make screencaps
-How to do a (x) effect (e.g., glow effect, etc. there can be a lot of possibitilies)
-How to install a font
-Font recommendations
-How to use a pixel font
-icons effects
-Guide to brushes
-How to cut out an image perfectly

How it’ll work:
If you would like to contribute a tutorial, please email us and give us some examples of the graphics effects that you can write a tutorial for. The topics must be approved first, please don’t send tutorials on topics that we haven’t reviewed.

This is the first time that we’re trying this so we’re not sure how it’ll go, but hopefully we can build up a tutorial resource that will be helpful for hostees when they are making their fansites :).

[Demo] [Download]

If you use the theme, take a screenshot and email it to us, and we’ll try to plug your site here. We want to see how people are using the themes :)

There’s more on the way. For now we’re still accepting winter themes, see this post for the winter themes design contest. If you want to submit a theme, please make sure that the theme meets the guidelines in the contest so you don’t need to make a lot of changes to it later.

Good bye to 2012 and best wishes for a brand new year 2013

[Demo] [Download]

If you use the theme, take a screenshot and email it to us, and we’ll try to plug your site here. We want to see how people are using the themes :)

There’s more on the way. For now we’re still accepting winter themes, see this post for the winter themes design contest. If you want to submit a theme, please make sure that the theme meets the guidelines in the contest so you don’t need to make a lot of changes to it later.

We’re looking for a forum moderator to help clean up some spam on the forum, answer questions, etc.
email us if you can help with this

AIM: orangesarecooool
MSN: orangesarecooool@hotmail.com
Email: orangesarecool[-@-]gmail.com
Gchat: same as the email

[Demo] [Download]

If you use the theme, take a screenshot and email it to us, and we’ll try to plug your site here. We want to see how people are using the themes :)

Another is in progress, stay tuned. If you want to submit a theme, please make sure that the theme meets the guidelines in the contest so you don’t need to make a lot of changes to it later.