The Academy of motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 15 films that has been shortlisted as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Award. Among them is Harry Potter and the  Deathly Hallows Part 1.

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on January 25 at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on February 27 at the Kodak Theatre.

The Films: "Alice in Wonderland," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1," "Hereafter," "Inception," "Iron Man 2," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" and "Tron: Legacy.

Well let's start this new year with a quote from Dan about Googling his name once, and let's hope that there will be more news soon.

Have you ever “Googled” yourself and were you surprised by what you found?
Daniel Radcliffe: When I was fourteen or fifteen I did and there’s a line in ‘The Thick of It’ which is one of my favorite programs and they said, ‘Googling yourself is like opening a door to a room full of people telling you how s**t you are.’ So it comes from a place of sadomasochistic, egomania where you go, ‘Okay, I’ll write my name in and see what comes up.’ All you’re going online for is to hear nice things about yourself and all you find are terrible things, generally speaking. It doesn’t matter if there’s a list of twenty comments where nineteen of them are fantastic and the one that’s bad just eats you up. So since then I sort of stopped Googling myself.

source: teenhollywood.com

Update: Thanks for all the B-day wishes I got (here and via twitter) Thanks! I loved it!

Daniel talked in an interview with Music Rooms (skeedy.com) about the fact that Harry deserves some peace after a hectic school life and suggested the following..

And Daniel thinks his character deserves some peace after a tumultuous life at wizard school Hogwarts, where he was often under the threat of violence.

“At one point in Sherlock Holmes, I remember he retired to the country and started keeping bees. So maybe something really nice and sedate for Harry,” he commented, when asked what the icon should do now.

Daniel also suggested another hobby for Harry, mentioning the wizard’s interest in animals. Ultimately though, the star simply wants his alter ego to be safe from harm. “Maybe he could start bird watching – he loves owls. Just some kind of nice pastime that doesn’t involve him getting shot at,” he said

source: skeedy.com

source: mtv.com

"We had a really interesting conversation and I was asking, 'How is Rob doing?' And all that and she was saying before Robert had even been cast she went to a reading of the book with Stephanie Meyer," Radcliffe recalls. "And when Meyer said the name, 'Edward Cullen,' the audience went nuts and were screaming and people were so obsessed with that character. So, whoever was going to step into that role was going to have a pretty crazy life for the next few years and I think it's the same with Harry. It doesn't really matter in a way who it is. If you are filling those shoes you are going to get a pretty wild reception." Fans of Pattinson may disagree, but there is some truth to what the 21-year-old Brit believes.  He says screaming fans accost him once or twice a year, but he knows you'd have to "have some mad ego" if you don't realize "this is all a bit weird and crazy."

"I know me and I know I'm not somebody who particularly merits screaming and shouting," Radcliffe says. "There is nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people out there.  So, the fact that people are shouting and screaming at me, the logical thing is that it must be because of the franchise."

Because Radcliffe has dealt with the attention since he was so young he says "It's just something you get used to."  Still, he knows he's luckier than some other "celebrities."

"It's interesting, me and Rupert [Grint] were at [the Redding Music Festival] one year. We were getting a lot of people coming up to us being really, really nice," Radcliffe says. "And then I saw, like ten rows in front of us, there was a person with a reality show who was not particular well-liked by the audience and was getting a lot of grief from the people around him.  And that's different from being in a pretty globally beloved franchise. It means you have quite a nice place in the minds of most people.  I'm certainly lucky to have gotten so famous for something so well liked."

source: hitfix.com