The Film Independent Spirit Awards, the last hurrah before Sunday's Oscar telecast, will air live and unedited at 11 p.m. today on cable's IFC.

The show, typically held on the beach at Santa Monica, moves this year to LA Live's event deck in downtown Los Angeles. Eddie Izzard will host the event honoring movies made by filmmakers who embody independence, originality and wise use of modest budgets.

Among the nominees are these five for best feature: "(500) Days of Summer," "Amreeka," "Precious," "Sin Nombre" and "The Last Station."

Its batch of acting nominees is equally different with Jeff Bridges from "Crazy Heart" and Colin Firth from "A Single Man" competing against Joseph Gordon-Levitt from "(500) Days of Summer," Souleymane Sy Savane from "Goodbye Solo" and Adam Scott from "The Vicious Kind."

Greg Mottola, who shot "Adventureland" in Pittsburgh, is among the nominees for best screenplay.

Check your cable package to see if you get IFC.

Oscar nominees Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Matt Damon, Anna Kendrick, Carey Mulligan and Quentin Tarantino will present at the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced.

They join a long list of illustrious presenters scheduled to appear Sunday. ABC will air a red-carpet special at 8 p.m., and the show starts at 8:30 p.m. with hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

It's way too early to talk about Oscar nominees for 2010 releases (everyone should at least wait until Monday) but that never stops websites and bloggers.

Hollywood-elsewhere.com reports on reaction to an early screening of "Love and Other Drugs," filmed in Pittsburgh last fall with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

Word is Ms. Hathaway is "wonderful, really wonderful ... she knocks it out of the park. ... In short, sounds like the first strong contender for a 2010 best actress Oscar," a writer on the site enthuses.

The movie, directed by Edward Zwick, stars Mr. Gyllenhaal as a Pfizer pharmaceutical rep and Ms. Hathaway as an artist in the early stages of young onset Parkinson's disease. It is scheduled for a Nov. 24 release.

• Moet & Chandon, official champagne of the Oscars, has signed on as a sponsor for the Pittsburgh Film Office's "Lights! Glamour! Action!" party Sunday at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown. For tickets, 412-261-2744 or go to www.pghfilm.org. They also will be available at the door, cash or check only.

• Listen for Oscar and "Alice in Wonderland" discussion on the weekly movie podcast "Rated PG." I talk with TV editor Rob Owen and online features editor Sharon Eberson. You can find it at www.post-gazette.com/podcast.

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