Anna is featured in the March issue of Paper, as one of their Beautiful People of 2010. Included is a brand new HQ photoshoot picture, which you can see in the gallery now!

Anna Kendrick is having something of a moment, to put it mildly. The 24-year-old actress has received so much international acclaim for her turn as the PowerPoint-wielding efficiency expert in director Jason Reitman’s feel-bad film Up in the Air that it’s easy to forget she also appeared in two little movies with “Twilight” in the title. Being nominated for an Oscar will do that for a girl. “You find out with the rest of the world,” Kendrick says. “I was too nervous to watch the nominations on TV, so I went for a jog, but my phone started going off. I sprinted back home, cracked a bottle of champagne and started drinking it before I realized it was 5 a.m.”

It’s a deserved nod to an actress who possesses the kind of onscreen depth more common to older actors. Not that it’s all that surprising, since it turns out Reitman wrote the role with her in mind. “When he told me, I just tried to act really cool,” she says. “I wasn’t all that successful at it.” Self-effacing tendencies aside, Kendrick’s a pro at keeping her nerves in check; she’s already got a decade-plus of acting experience under her belt, including several turns on Broadway in productions of A Little Night Music and High Society, having garnered a Tony nomination for the latter at the age of 12.

Next, she’ll appear with Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen in a black comedy called I’m With Cancer. She says she likes difficult roles — she’s going through a phase where she’s excited about exploring vulnerable characters — and she hopes to continue in challenging parts. “But Meryl Streep was in Stuck on You, so no one’s career is perfect.”

Source: Paper

Anna is on the “longlist” for Best Breakout Performance at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, and your vote can help her become an official nominee and move on to the second stage of voting.

In addition to attending the Oscars as a Best Supporting Actress nominee this Sunday, Anna will also be presenting the awards for Best Sound Editing and Mixing, according to her mom, Jan Kendrick. She talked to her local ABC station about this, the lame Adam Lambert rumors and much more.

Big Night Approaches For Anna Kendrick
Deering High Grad Prepares For Oscar Night

PORTLAND, Maine — When the curtain goes up on the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday, Best Supporting Actress nominee and Deering High grad Anna Kendrick will have her own rooting section inside the Kodak Theatre.

Jan Kendrick, the actress’ mother, tells News 8 that she and Anna’s older brother, Michael, will attend the ceremony. The 24-year-old actress, who is nominated for her role opposite George Clooney in “Up in the Air,” is also scheduled to present the Oscar for sound editing and mixing, according to Jan Kendrick.

And, Jan Kendrick says, her daughter’s date is not last year’s American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. Jan Kendrick says rumors circulated after her daughter told Ryan Seacrest that she and Lambert were friends and that Lambert was “a fun guy.”

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These British film awards are a bit less serious than the BAFTAs, but is an annual tradition with a real awards ceremony and everything, so be sure to vote for Anna! Final winners are not dependent on public vote, but it is taken into consideration by the voting committee. She is nominated for Best Newcomer and “Up in the Air” for Best Comedy.

Best Newcomer
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy)
Sharlto Copley (District 9)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air/ New Moon)
Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank)

Best Comedy
In The Loop
A Serious Man
The Hangover
Up In The Air
The Men Who Stare At Goats

Full List of Nominations and Vote Here

As we already know, Anna is nominated for Best Supporting Actress at this Sunday’s BAFTA Awards in London, and today we have a glimpse of the preparations for the show, including where Anna will be sitting. Looks like she will be in the 3rd row next to Vera Farmiga and possibly Carey Mulligan. She’ll be in good company, that’s for sure! Check back on Sunday for full coverage of the event!

001 x Miscellaneous Images – 2010 BAFTA Awards Seating Chart

Anna is one of 10 Great Performances featured by Time magazine! What a great and well-deserved honor. They included a new photoshoot picture and write-up about her role in “Up in the Air”.

Anna Kendrick
“Up in the Air”

She shares a sharp intensity with the young Holly Hunter, but Kendrick, 24, took her inspiration for her role as George Clooney’s upstart downsizing colleague in Up in the Air from Faye Dunaway in Network. Kendrick decided her character, Natalie, would think she could be just like Dunaway’s ruthless Diana Christensen, with one twist: “Throughout the movie, she is finding out she can’t be.” It takes a while for the audience to fall for the driven, aggressive Natalie — thanks to lines like “Please, for the love of God, can I fire the next one?” — but Kendrick was always on her side. “Even if she’s going to fail, she wants to dive in and do it.” Kendrick took an ambitious dive from way up in the air and nailed it.

Source: Time

And remember to watch Anna at the Oscar Nominee Luncheon today in about 2 hours! There is still time to submit a question for the live Q&A. All info here.

On Monday, Anna will be attending the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon, and for the first time, the nominees Q&A will be broadcast LIVE on Facebook.com/TheAcademy, Oscars.org and Livestream.com/academyawards. The Q&A will happen at 11:30am-12:30pm PST on Monday, February 15, 2010.

You can leave a question for Anna or any of the nominees scheduled to attend the luncheon right here on the Academy’s Facebook page. Tune in Monday morning to see if your question is asked, and as always, check back to AKF for full coverage of the event!

HUGE CONGRATS to Anna, who was just nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in “Up in the Air”. There will sure to be some reaction videos coming later today, so check back! And watch the Oscar telecast live at 8pmEST/5pmPST on Sunday, March 7, 2010 to see if Anna and “Up in the Air” take home any awards!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique, “Precious”

“Up in the Air” landed 6 nominations total, for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress (x2) and Best Adapted Screenplay – all the big ones!!! Congrats to Jason, George, Vera and the entire cast and crew for their incredible film and well-deserved recognition this awards season.

Thanks to Jack from Glamour for letting us know that Anna is nominated as one of Glamour magazine’s 35 most stylist women of the year. You can vote for her right here, along with taking a look at who she is up against. Let’s make this happen!

Anna Kendrick
Age: 24
Made The List Because: This year’s plethora of nominations has transformed Anna Kendrick from teen star to Hollywood big-hitter – and her wardrobe has only emphasised this. Elegant without being showy, Anna has given the red-carpet veterans something to talk about.
Is she the most stylish? Vote here