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Thierry Guetta is seen backstage with the honor for prizewinning flick for 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Lucy Walker is more worried about gussying up for the 83rd period Academy Awards than worrying about whether Banksy module attain his evaluation on Sunday's ceremony. The administrator of the transformative garbage dump chronicle "Waste Land" is among the nominees facing the infamously elusive street creator for the flick feature Oscar.

"I'm a female flick filmmaker," Walker said Saturday at a fashionable HBO getting conformation this year's flick nominees at the Four Seasons hotel. "Nothing crapper scare me as such as standing on a red carpet incoming to flick stars."

Other nominees up against Walker's "Waste Land" and Banksy's is-it-real-or-not "Exit Through the Gift Shop" allow the Afghanistan struggle account "Restrepo" by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger and the business overheating tale "Inside Job" by physicist Ferguson and Audrey Marrs. Partygoers were noisy that Oprah Winfrey would be presenting their awards.

"What's happening this year with flick films is as elating as what's happening with narrative films," said nominee Josh Fox, the administrator of environmental guy "Gasland," which a natural pedal business assemble sought to alter from awards consideration. "If there's controversy, whether that's the pedal industry, Banksy or Oprah, it's all good."

Banksy, the mysterious graffiti grapheme who intentionally keeps his identity a secret, ostensibly hasn't shown up to any of the week's events, including a weekday panel of the flick shaper nominees at the Academy's Beverly Hills office and the Independent Spirit Awards, where "Exit Through the Gift Shop" won the flick honor Saturday.

Thierry Guetta, the eccentric European and street-art follower who appears in Banksy's film, accepted the accolade on his behalf. He said backstage that he didn't know where the elusive administrator was or whether he would be present Sunday's ceremony. Jaimie D'Cruz, the film's producer, offered the same combing statement when he appeared at Wednesday's panel.

Several newborn pieces ostensibly erected by Banksy began appearing around Los Angeles terminal week, though no newborn handiwork has been posted to his scheme place since early this hebdomad when digit murals by Banksy were spotted in East Los Angeles and a tank tagged with the phrase "It looks a taste like an elephant" was glimpsed off the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.

Other attendees at Saturday's flick soiree included individual short flick contenders. Among them were "Poster Girl" grapheme Robynn philologue with filmmakers Sara Nesson and uranologist W. Block; and "Killing in the Name" administrator Jed Rothstein with Ashraf Daas, the film's subject who forfeited over a dozen kinsfolk members in a 2005 terrorist attack in Jordan.

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