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“Crazy Heart,” the story of an alcoholic singer, also won the award in the substance use category for feature films, while ” The Soloist,” in which Jamie Foxx portrayed a street musician battling paranoid schizophrenia, was honored for its depiction of mental health issues.

Television series winners included NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” NBC’s “Law & Order,” AMC’s ” Breaking Bad” and CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother.”

Two TV movies on Lifetime, “Natalee Holloway” and “Prayers for Bobby,” also collected awards, and a third Lifetime movie, “America,” earned performance honors for Rosie O’Donnell.

Among other programs picking up awards were Nickelodeon’s “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee” for an installment called “Kids in Rehab,” PBS’ ” Betty Ford: The Real Deal” and HBO’s “The Alzheimer’s Project.”

The Prisms, established in 1997, were presented at the Beverly Hills Hotel by the Entertainment Industries Council in association with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the FX network, which will televise the ceremony in the fall.

“Through accurate character portrayals and inspired storytelling, our industry reinforces the importance of those individuals within the care-giving and health fields,” said Brian Dyak, president of the Entertainment Industries Council.?

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“She didn’t say hi, she just started dancing with me,” she told Ellen Degeneres on her show. “Luckily I had taken my shoes off and I kind of like… I was drunk enough that I just kind of danced with her. And I really did for like a minute and a half.

“Then she was beyond me. Way too good of a dancer and then my girls — two of my girlfriends had come with me — and they kind of like ran over. We were hyperventilating a little. And then I look up the stairs and she’s dancing with my husband. And my husband has like his tie undone and he’s completely handling it.”

Maggie recently attended the Academy Awards ceremony, with husband Peter Sarsgaard, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her part in Crazy Heart. It was at the after-party hosted by Demi Moore and Madge herself that she met Madonna. The party was reportedly the craziest in Hollywood and Madonna danced early into the morning with some of the biggest stars of the night.

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Jeff Bridges has revealed he wanted Maggie Gyllenhaal to play his love interest in Crazy Heart because he’d always “admired her acting“.

The Hollywood star – who scooped the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as alcoholic country musician Bad Blake – said Maggie was top of his wish list to play the young reporter he falls for.

He said: “I’ve been following her, she’s a great actress, she disappears into the role and becomes that person. She was on the top of my list of actresses that I kind of imagined in that role.”

Jeff, 60, had no qualms about the age-gap on screen between him and 32-year-old Maggie.

“I thought about having a more age-appropriate relationship, but somehow the story didn’t lend itself to that, it was better to be this way,” he said.

“As far as how that felt, I mean, I think of myself as 25,” he laughed.

“I can’t believe I’m 60 years old, come on!”

:: Crazy Heart is in cinemas now.

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Have added loads of pictures of Maggie from last night, shinning in a gorgeous blue print gown by Dries Van Noten.

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This year, few films are bouncing, as “Avatar” dominated the winter months and adult audiences continue to stay away from upscale dramas. Oscar nominees “An Education” and “A Single Man,” for example, have earned only about $2 million apiece since the nominations were announced.

But “Crazy Heart,” a story about an alcoholic, washed-up country singer that wasn’t even scheduled to be released last year — and isn’t contending in the major categories of best picture or best director — has proved a shining exception. The film has earned nearly $20 million since stars Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal were nominated for acting Oscars. (The film received a third nomination for original song.)

By topping the $2-million mark in total domestic box office last weekend, the drama became one of the most successful specialty films released in 2009, despite difficult subject matter and an R rating. Scott Cooper‘s film has shown remarkable staying power. Even as it begins its fourth month of release, the movie continues to widen, going from about 1,150 theaters last week to roughly 1,300 this week. And its numbers in those theaters still impress; the film saw its weekend receipts drop by just 17% last weekend compared with the previous one.

Part of the success of the Fox Searchlight film can be attributed to the simple matter of release date: “Crazy Heart” came out later than many of the other art-house pictures this season, thus avoiding a crowded fall and also benefiting from the February Oscar attention. (The film was initially slated for this spring, but with Bridges headed off to shoot the remake of “True Grit” this month, he would have been unable to promote the film. So Searchlight accelerated the postproduction process and moved up the release to December.)

Searchlight has also been savvy about how quickly to push a film whose appeal isn’t immediately understood from a quick television spot, allowing word-of-mouth to drive it. “The key to a platform release is like Goldilocks: You can’t go too fast and can’t go too slow,” says Fox Searchlight President Stephen Gilula.

But perhaps most notable is the way the movie has crossed over from the art house to a mainstream older audience. The film has performed extremely well among viewers older than 50, which can be gauged by its performance in cities in Florida and elsewhere.

“Bridges is sort of an antihero in the movie, and he’s smoking and drinking, so we weren’t sure how it would play with audiences over 50 or 60,” Gilula says. “But there’s so much goodwill for Bridges and his filmography. This is an actor who has been working for four decades. I think a lot of older people want to see his achievement in this film.”

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“Sorry for the crackling sounds,” she said. “I’m picking up my daughter at school.”

Through the howling winds, she laughingly recalled how she heard she was nominated.

“I was at my brother’s house in LA not watching it on TV. When the phone first rang, I vaguely thought maybe it was some small small chance that maybe this had to do with Oscar because my name was getting mentioned around the Golden Globes. At that time, my agent called to tell me I didn’t get it. So I thought, ‘Why wake me the f – - – up to tell me I didn’t get it?’ so this time I got an e-mail from my agent.

“What followed was a flurry of calls. It’s a pretty select group you hear from 5:30 in the morning. I was there with my husband and daughter and I didn’t want to keep my daughter up. Finally the phones stopped, and I said to my brother: ‘Maybe I should go to sleep.’ ”

“It’s really exciting and, you know, suddenly everybody wants to talk to you. And I was proud of my work but . . . well . . . I’ve been through the awards route before. When I was first nominated in ’99 I didn’t even know what the National Board of Review was. My next was a Golden Globe nomination for ‘SherryBaby,’ but my baby was tiny, and I was really only focusing on this infant.

“I’ve gone to the Academy Awards before. Once I presented the technical awards. And of course I was there when my brother was nominated. Last year I was doing the play ‘Uncle Vanya,’ and I made a huge bowl of cereal and sat up in bed, still with my period corset on, watching.

“This time I’m really even more into it. I’m thinking, well, maybe, these things really do mean something. But I did let go of the attachment because this time I seemed not to be getting any of the pre-Oscar nominations. I know I do want to go to the parties. I’m working with a couple of designers, and I’m still looking at dresses.”

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