Presenters Alicia Keys – Best Original Score, Best Original Song Zac Efron – Best Original Score, Best Original Song Bill Maher – Best Documentary Film Kevin Kline – Best Supporting Actor Christopher Walken – Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Best Supporting Actor Alan Arkin – Best Supporting Actor Joel Grey – Best...
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81st Academy Awards – Presenters and Performers
81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best films of 2008 on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised in the United States on ABC and on Sky Movies in...
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Slumdog’ strikes it rich with 8 Oscar wins
“Slumdog Millionaire” — a love story that combines artistic ambition with broad commercial appeal — won a leading eight Oscars on Sunday night, including the best picture trophy. While the film’s triumphs at the 81st annual Academy Awards marked an amazing outcome for a movie filled with subtitles, scenes of torture and a Bollywood...
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Three Oscar wins, three new lessons for the industry
Slumdog Millionaire’s wins should send a huge message to Hollywood: Don’t overlook the little guy. With small distributors going out of business and major studios shuttering their specialty divisions, Slumdog is a success story that almost inevitably will become — indeed already has become — increasingly rare. Even Slumdog almost didn’t make it to...
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Peru film wins Berlin Golden Bear
Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow has won the Berlin Film Festival’s coveted Golden Bear award for best picture. The first Peruvian film in the festival’s main competition, it tells the story of a young woman who was born of her mother’s rape in the 1980s. It beat hotly-tipped The Messenger, starring Woody Harrelson,...
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Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (traditional Chinese: 臺北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan (governed by the Republic of China) since 1962. The awards ceremony is usually held in November/December in Taipei, though the venue has been shifted around the island in recent...
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