A host of male stars poked fun at themselves in a hilarious post-Oscar sketch for the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night.

A-listers including Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Dempsey, Sting, Josh Hartnett, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke, Keith Urban, Rob Lowe and John Krasinski all starred in the bit about an elite society for handsome men.

In the clip, the Handsome Men’s Club is presided over by portly late night host Jimmy Kimmel who founded the club and has the last say on who is deemed handsome enough to join.

His duties include telling Sting to put his vanity mirror down when he’s caught staring at himself.

“I’m sorry, Jimmy – I got lost in my own eyes,” says Sting.

When all the other members agree Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are handsome enough to join, Kimmel overrules the vote saying they’re just ‘cute’ and can’t sign up.

But afterwards, he faces a revolt from the members when McConaughey challenges Kimmel’s handsomeness with a vote to replace him as president.

When he loses, Kimmel leaves the club only to wake and realise it’s all been a nightmare – and he’s actually in bed with Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

Affleck reassures Kimmel that he is handsome as Garner wakes, saying: “Ben, that’s enough – this is getting weird.”

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Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock said she wanted to celebrate her win with a burger.

The star walked away with the Best Actress gong at the 82nd Academy Awards in LA on March 7 after beating actresses such as Dame Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep.

Asked how she wanted to celebrate, she said to reporters: “I just want a burger and I just want some food.

“I want to sit down, take the shoes off. I want to eat and not sweat it and not worry the dress will bust open. I just want to relax and… I’d like a nap, too.”

After finding out that she had won, her husband Jesse James whispered something in her ear but she wasn’t keen to divulge what he said.

She said: “I’d never divulge what Jesse says, unless he divulges it first. It’s between me and the man.”

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Renner, 39, is up for the Best Actor gong at the ceremony on March 7 for his leading role in The Hurt Locker.

This is the first Oscar nomination the star has received and he is taking his mum, Valerie Clearley, with him.

Clearley recently said: “He keeps me calm. I’m the nervous one. He’s been to [award shows] before. I haven’t. It’s crazy!”

Renner took his mum to the recent Hollywood Reporter pre-Oscar party to give her a taste of what Sunday night’s ceremony is going to be like.

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Avatar director James Cameron has said he wouldn’t be bothered if there was a sketch about the movie at the upcoming Oscars.

There were recent reports that Borat and Bruno star Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out of presenting a gong after producers pulled the plug on his sketch about Avatar with Ben Stiller.

Producers were reportedly worried about upsetting Cameron as the film is up for a number of gongs at the ceremony.

Talking about the sketch, Cameron told E! News: “I don’t know anything about that… I don’t produce the Oscars. If they want to poke fun at Avatar Sunday, that’s OK by me.”

He added: “The Oscars are a celebration of movies… even the gaffes and out of bounds stuff are all part of the fun.”

Brüno star Sacha Baron Cohen will no longer present an award at this year’s Oscars, after his Avatar sketch was pulled from the ceremony, according to reports.

Cohen had been lined up to present a gong at the event on 7 March, but producers pulled the plug on his sketch with Ben Stiller because they were reportedly afraid it would upset its director James Cameron, who has been nominated for a Best Director award.

Cohen had allegedly planned to appear onstage as one of Avatar’s blue-skinned female Na’vi characters dressed in an evening gown, with Stiller alongside him translating his character’s interplanetary speech.

The skit was to reportedly end with Cohen pulling open his gown and revealing that he is pregnant with Cameron’s love-child, before confronting the director as if he were on Jerry Springer.

But the show’s producer, Bill Mechanic, didn’t want to upset Cameron and pulled the sketch, according to reports.

Cohen will not now be appearing at the upcoming ceremony and his spokesperson said: “I hate to use the term, because it’s so ubiquitous, but there were ‘creative differences’.

“Nothing acrimonious, but both sides felt that since they couldn’t agree, [Cohen] might as well remain in London.”

Tyler Perry, 40, an American playwright, actor, producer and director, will join presenters at this year’s 82nd Oscars ceremony, it was announced.

Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are signed up as co-hosts. Perry, who helms Tyler Perry Studios, has appeared in a string of movies, including Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005, Madea’s Family Reunion, Daddy’s Little Girls, the upcoming Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys and I Can Do Bad All by Myself.

He joined the team of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire as an executive producer. The movie, starring Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique, is in the running for best picture, best director, best actress and best supporting actress.

On many of his movies, Perry has also contributed as a producer or writer. He also created and directs House of Payne and Meet the Browns.

The Academy Awards will be broadcast live on March 7 from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

In a major break with tradition, the Oscarwinners will proceed immediately after the March 7 ceremony to the Governors Ball to receive an engraved nameplate that will attach to the Oscar.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hand winners unmarked Oscars onstage at the Kodak Theater in the heart of Hollywood. In the past, winners had to bring the statuettes back to the Academy to get the nameplates.

But R.S. Owens will create 197 nameplates in advance, which accounts for all the potential winners. The company already makes the trophies. Each engraving will include name, category, film title and year. Unused plates will be recycled.

“An Oscar statuette just isn’t complete until a nameplate is attached. The Governors Ball is the perfect place for Oscar winners to add that final touch as they celebrate their accomplishment and the year’s movies,” said Academy president Tom Sherak.

Sandra Bullock has already jinxed herself for the Oscars. “I’m so not winning an Oscar,” said Bullock, whose work is finally receiving acclaim. Her star turn in The Blind Side has earned her an Academy Award nomination for this year’s awards ceremony, to be held in the heart of Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre on March 7.

But the star of such light weight rom-coms as The Proposal told reporters at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival: “Nine times out of 10 I always pick who’s going to win. And I already know who’s going to win. I’m not going to say, but nine times out of 10 I’m right.”

Bullock, 45, was picking up the American Riviera Award for the influence she has shown in film.

Before that she won best actress in a drama at the at Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild award.

But she just said: “I have to say, all the ladies in our category, we don’t care who wins. Someone’s going to win and the rest of us will be really happy for whoever won. We’re just happy to be here. And we like the company we’re in.”

She noted: “You go home and you have to pick up dog poop … To me, that’s not mundane, though. Life is tricky enough that I actually love and embrace the normal day-to-day rituals. You get up, you make your coffee, read your paper, you do the school run, you go do your things. I’m just lucky that I get to do them.”

Oscar chiefs are reportedly worrying about the shortage of women eligible to win the Best Actress gong at next February’s ceremony.

Academy insiders fear there are simply not enough “good” lead roles by women for voters to choose the winner from.

Kate Winslet won the award at this year’s ceremony for her role in The Reader.

One Academy insider said: “It’s only just dawning that there’s a distinct lack of potentials in the Best Actress category.

“Not that there have been terrible performances, far from it, it’s just that there have been few good leading roles for women.”

He added: “It’s been a pretty lacklustre year for movies in general but it seems that no one wrote any decent lead roles for women.”

He continued: “It looks like Meryl Streep may do it again as she has played the lead to acclaim in two films out this year.”

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is actually taking the Oscars back to their historic roots in doing so. Sid Ganis, AMPAS president, said: "After more than six decades the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots when a wider field competed for the top award of the year… The final outcome will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five movies, from 2009."

In 1944, there were 10 films in the running for the centerpiece award – and the Best Picture went to … Casablanca.

Ganis continued: "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognise and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize."

He added: "The field is vast – there were around 300 eligible movies this year and last and 10 nominees out of 300 is still spectacular. It’ll be less cloistered and more open with possibilities."

The announcement got a warm reception in Hollywood. LA Times critic Tom O’Neil, wrote:

"They’ve got to do something to make the show more sexy and hip and expanding the Best Picture race is a brilliant solution."