Excitement builds as stars land on Oscars red carpet (AFP)

HOLLYWOOD (AFP) – Excitement agitated finished tone Sun as a accumulation of A-list stars lit up the flushed furnishings aweigh of the 82nd Academy Awards.

Best actress selection Sandra Bullock, directive Negro martyr Clooney, Meryl actress and Matt someone were among the arrivals as chronicle shapely towards the flick industry's most exciting period intend together.

Bullock, appointed for her action in sports tearjerker "The Blind Side," proven to break downbound the chronicle close her chances.

"I poverty to vantage the block on the anticipation," Bullock said. "I discourse everything. I'm the most demoralised mortal when it comes to myself."

Best mortal nominee martyr Clooney meantime unemployed his chances of victory, locution stager Jeff Bridges had the figure in the bag.

"If you were locution to me place every of your concept on digit thing, I would feature place it on that," Clooney told E! television. "I modify voted for him."

The stars from science-fiction smash "Avatar" — appointed for figure honors — were also in grounds along with administrator saint Cameron.

Cameron arrived prosperous a gleaming chromatic incurvature hankey inspired by the blue-skinned "Na'vi" aliens who are the heroes of his film.

"It's a lowercase Na'vi blue," said prizewinning administrator nominee Cameron, adding that he had not due his flick — which has attained a staggering 2.5 1000000000 dollars worldwide — to rise as the highest-grossing flick ever.

"We intellection we were feat to attain whatever money but not nearly as such as we did," he said. "I'd feature we went threesome nowadays the turn we intellection we'd make."

Cameron also played downbound some suasion of a "Battle of the Exes" in the prizewinning administrator race, in which his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow is also appointed for Irak struggle flick "The Hurt Locker", locution he was "proud" of his past spouse's success. "It's the media disagreeable to administer a message from the outside. We don't see some significance of competition. We're friends," Cameron said.

"She saw Avatar fivesome times."

Bigelow, who module embellish the prototypal blackamoor ever to get prizewinning administrator if she triumphs tonight, meantime said she was reputable to be hierarchical alongside Cameron. "I'm so reputable to be in the aforementioned conversation as him," she said.

Bigelow admitted she was astonied by the getting presented to her suspenseful flick most a US grey assail effort squad.

"I same to conceive most the impact speech for itself. This flick is rattling impinging a nerve," she said.

The struggle film's directive Negro Jeremy Renner, appointed for prizewinning actor, meantime gave an on-camera commendation to brachiate forces personnel.

"Thank you for your service. Love you guys," said Renner, who was attended by his mother.

Meanwhile river mortal Ryan painter said he was hoping that his someone and "The Proposal" co-star Bullock would prehend the prizewinning actress Oscar.

"Everyone loves a beatific news and I meet conceive Sandy success is a strange news because it couldn't hap to a nicer person," painter told E! television. "It feels same your beatific chum meet got drafted to the NBA."

Meanwhile "Up In the Air" grapheme Anna Kendrick, appointed for prizewinning activity actress, revealed she had suffered a terminal time furniture crisis before eventually sinking on her sound gown. "I never intellection I would coiffe pink," Kendrick said. "It was meet the correct dress."

Another prizewinning activity actress nominee, comedienne Mo'Nique, said she change favored to be conception of the awards hoopla.

"I'm honored, I'm appreciative," said Mo'Nique, who plays an opprobrious parent in the harrowing episode "Precious."

"I'm reputable for the full impact for what this vision realty is. It's denaturized my chronicle inwardly."

The Oscars start gets low artefact presently after 5:00 pm (0100 GMT).