Academy Award®-winning actress Nicole Kidman will be a presenter at the 78th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.

Kidman, who has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, took home a Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for portraying Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” She also received a nomination in 2001 for her leading role in “Moulin Rouge.”

Kidman will be next seen in “The Visiting” and “Fur.” Her other film credits include “Cold Mountain,” “Dogville,” “The Others,” “The Portrait of a Lady,” “To Die For” and “Dead Calm.”

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005 will be presented on Sunday, March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST. A one-hour red carpet arrivals show will precede the telecast at 4 p.m.

The Aussie Power Couple™ are rumored no more. After their coming out party at the Grammy’s Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are official. And yes, while their love is still young, Keith is still spoiling Nicole.

Sandra Clark of The Star reports that on a recent trip to Nashville “Keith went out of his way to find one of the best massage therapists in Nashville and surprised Nicole with a two-hour Swedish massage,” a source told the magazine.

After eight months, the country hunk is still giving special surprises to Nic every chance he gets just “to show her how much he adores her,” the source adds.

More Nashville rumors

Tina Sims earlier reported that the TV show Extra cited sources close to Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman and an Australian morning show that is reporting that two people close to the country music star have slipped that the two will tie the knot in Nashville within the next two weeks.

That report hit on February 14. The clock is ticking.

Grammy-winning singer Norah Jones will make her film debut in the first English-language film by acclaimed Hong Kong art-house director Wong Kar-wai, a film industry consultant said.

[b]Wong was originally scheduled to shoot “Lady from Shanghai,” featuring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, but has delayed the project until 2007 because they have not found a strong male lead actor, a film industry consultant attending the ongoing Berlin Film Festival told The Associated Press by phone.[/b]

Details of the new movie weren’t immediately available, but the official, who declined to be further identified, said it won’t revolve around the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S. as reported earlier. It also won’t be filmed in New York doubling as New Orleans.

The consultant spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid identifying his relationship with Wong and because the project hasn’t been officially announced. “The only cast member that is confirmed … is Norah Jones,” the consultant said at the weekend.

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Actress Nicole Kidman finally made her love for Country music star Keith Urban public at the Grammy Awards.

The very private couple were seen holding hands at the ceremony during which Urban won an award for best country vocal.

An onlooker told the Daily Star: “He’s obviously besotted with her – he kept gazing at her. They looked so happy, it was lovely to see.

“Nicole has had a bit of a rough time with her love life so it’s great to see her smiling and looking so happy again.”

“When Keith got up to collect his award Nicole looked so proud of her man. She was clapping so hard and couldn’t contain her excitement.”

Kidman and Urban are rumoured to be looking to get married and pregnant…they are probably ‘just good friends’ though.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were adorable at the Grammy’s, but with the Aussie Power Couple ™ and their busy schedules, they may miss each other on Valentine’s Day. But a published report says Nicole has come up with a sexy surprise for Keith.

Keith is scheduled for a concert in Huntsville, Alabama tomorrow (February 14).

And according to an insider cited by the American tabloid Celebrity Living, Nicole has made arrangements to be there for Valentine’s Day.

“Nicole has made secret arrangements to fly into Huntsville on the 14th so she can spend the night and the next day with Keith,” the source tells the tabloid.

“He’s performing at the Von Braun Center on Valentine’s night, but she’s arranging a special midnight dinner for the two of them at his hotel,” the insider dished.

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Australian actress Nicole Kidman has been named as the narrator of a feature-length documentary about the live of Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

Wiesenthal, who died in September aged 96, survived five Nazi concentration camps and seven other prisons to devote his life to tracking down suspected Nazi war criminals.

He had lost 89 relatives during the war, subsequently becoming a voice for the six million Jews who died as victims of Hitler’s Final Solution.

The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has started production on the film which will feature interviews with Wiesenthal associates, government leaders, friends and family members.

Throwing dirt in the face of reports that claimed Nicole Kidman had reportedly split from her country-singer fiance Keith Urban. Sources close to the ‘Aussie Power Team™’ don’t think so!

According to a published report, an Australian morning show reported that not one, but two people close to the country music star have reportedly blurted out that the two will tie the knot in Nashville within the next two weeks

Kidman has sparked an enormous amount of speculation that she could be heading down the aisle with boyfriend Keith Urban, after being photographed recently with a diamond mine on her engagement finger.

On Jan 21, according to a report in Life & Style magazine, Keith & Nicole spent the day with friends in Nashville, Tenn. L&S cites an eyewitness saying that the couple were seen publicly cuddling “everywhere they went” and Nicole flashed her 10ct diamond ring for all to observe.

A source tells British newspaper The Sun, “Nicole is getting married in March. She’s the happiest she’s ever been in her life and she doesn’t want a long engagement.

“Keith proposed at Christmas and she was thrilled. They are happy and in love … Nicole’s only inviting close friends and family — she doesn’t want a media circus.”

Keith Urban won a Grammy, but it wasn’t the only prize he was displaying at the music world’s night of nights.

Urban’s date to the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles was Nicole Kidman.

The formerly publicity-shy Australian lovebirds stepped out together in front of an estimated global TV audience of 650 million and the likes of Madonna, Bono, Gwen Stefani and Kanye West.

For months the country music star from Caboolture in Queensland and the Sydney-raised Oscar winning actress refused to deny they were an item, but they sat snugly together during the awards ceremony.

It was a successful coming out party for Urban, who beat country crooners Willie Nelson and Toby Keith to claim the male country vocal performance Grammy for You’ll Think of Me.

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AUSTRALIAN country music star Keith Urban had two things to smile about when he won a Grammy Award for male country vocal performance.

He beat off Willie Nelson to win the award for You’ll Think of Me, and his girlfriend, Nicole Kidman, accompanied him to the US recording industry’s biggest night of the year.

The pair, both 38, have been shy about publicising their relationship. Last night in Los Angeles they joined music stars and an estimated TV audience of 650 million for the show.

Urban, from Caboolture in Queensland, was more successful than Kylie Minogue, who missed out on an award for her dance single I Believe in You. She won the category last year with Come into My World, but was pipped by the Chemical Brothers with Galvanise, a single off the winning dance album Push the Button.

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NICOLE Kidman is to be the special guest of the National Australia Bank at the Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies.

The Oscar-winning actor has been invited to the bank’s VIP parties in the MCC Long Room on March 15 and 26. The NAB has hired the world-famous Long Room for both ceremonies, where it will wine and dine up to 500 businessman, dignitaries and celebrities.

Kidman is expected to have most of March free between movie commitments. She has not been invited to the official VIP box in the MCC committee room to be hosted by M2006 chairman Ron Walker.

The bank, which has poured more than $20 million into the Games as a top-tier sponsor, would not comment on who it had invited. “NAB is inviting a lot of people . . . but the guest list will remain private,” a spokesman said yesterday.

Sponsors Qantas, Telstra, Visa, Tabcorp, Toyota and Microsoft will also host elaborate functions.