Nude Scenes from
Savage Messiah (1972)

A One-Armed Salute to 2009’s Most Skintastic Achievements in Motion Picture and Television Sex and Nudity

It's time to announce the nude celeb winners of Mr. Skin's 11th Annual Anatomy Awards, a celebration of Hollywood at its breast. Along with nude celeb categories like Best Boobs, Best Butt, and Breast Picture, this year we added a special nude celeb Viewer's Choice Award to give you a chance to cast your vote for your favorite nude celebs. We'll also announce the lucky winner of this year's Skin-Prentice contest and present a very special Lifetime Skinchievement Award to one lucky nude celeb.

The skinvelope, please!

The nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, and we must admit, we're a bit disappointed. With the field for best picture expanded to ten films this year, we thought the race was destined to be packed with movie nudity. But to our surprise, only two of the ten movies nominated for best picture (A Serious Man and Up in the Air) contain female nudity. And one of them used a body double!

Last year, only five films were nominated, and still two featured bare actresses, with one (The Reader) containing some of the best nudity of Kate Winslet's very very nude career. (The other was Cate Blanchett's butt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.) So what went wrong in 2009? Did high cinema not contain enough cinemams? Or did the Academy overlook nudeworthy performances? Let us know what you think in the comments.

And after the cut, find out where to see current Oscar nominees nude in past appearances.

Meryl Streep nominated twice-is it 2008 in here?

This year’s list of Golden Globes nominees features yet another bumper crop of babes who have shown great skin throughout their careers.

While they're not always nominated for their nude scenes, past nominees like Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, and Kate Winslet have also been provided some truly award-winning nudity.

As awards season opens, it's time to see which Best Actress nominees have also bared their bodies and where you can see their best nude scenes.

Check out the list after the jump.

And 3 Free Days of Free Skin go to…

A man living on the edge of 39 whose dedication to seeing Anal Acrobats star Sasha Grey nude is equaled only by his wife’s tolerance of that dedication—the big dog of the MrSkin.com blog comments section, Dave.

Dave admirably summed up Mr Skin’s own feelings about celebrity nudity when he wrote in response to a post about Ricki Lake:

I would say I have this appreciation for all female nudity because I'm turning forty in six weeks, but I've felt this way for fifteen years or more. I've been exposed to (pun intended) a lot of nudity in my life, of an enormous variety of ages, shapes, sizes, ethnicities, and sagginesses, and I guess I'm just one of those hippie types that likes it all... Yeah, I'd rather see Helen Mirren in Savage Messiah than Helen Mirren in Calendar Girls, but I love watching both.

If that’s being a hippie, then call Mr Skin Wavy Gravy!

Read more of this week’s “best of” after the jump.