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You very probably associate Mensa – the high IQ society – with Steven Hawking or some other great scientists. Still, there are some surprising celebrity names associated to this group. Here is a list of some famous smart celebrities, some of them quite surprising members of Mensa. Please note the list is not a specific order and not all IQ’s were in fact available.

15. Jodie Foster
She attended Yale and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in literature and has a reported IQ of 132.

14. Geena Davis
Davis is fluent in Swedish and studied drama at Boston University and has an IQ of 140.
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The first of the 2009 Oscars were awarded this weekend to actress Lauren Bacall , cinematographer Gordon Willis and producer Roger Corman. This follows the announcement over the summer that the Academy was canceling the presentation of honorary Oscars from the televised broadcast and creating a separate event for the awards. As a consequence, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards have been created and the opening ceremony was consumed this Saturday in a ballroom in Hollywood.

USA Today reported that the ceremony was crowded with numerous potential nominees for the approaching Oscars. Quentin Tarantino presented the Oscar to Corman, Jeff Bridges doing the same for Willis. In the audience there were among others, Christoph Waltz, Vera Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe or Abbie Cornish.

The two co-host of the upcoming Oscars, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, were also present at the event.