Posts Tagged ‘ Oscars ’

Hollywood superstar Kate Winslet has been pictured for the first time with rumoured boyfriend, model Louis Dowler.
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Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy (2001), Shug in Hustle and Flow (2005) and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Ms. Henson has appeared in the films Four Brothers (2005), Talk To...
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Mary Louise “Meryl” Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era. She made her professional stage debut in 1971′s The Playboy of Seville, and her screen...
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Man on Wire is a 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center and is based on Philippe Petit’s book, To Reach the Clouds, which has recently been released in paperback with the new title...
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Departures (Okuribito) is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Yojiro Takita. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars. Incoming search terms:the departure japanese movieshinjiro masahirodeparted japanese movieDeparture japaneseDepartures (81st Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film 2009)Departures by Yojiro Takita (2008)information on movie Departures 2008the departure movie japanese
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Frozen River is a 2008 drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt (in her full-length directorial debut). The film stars Melissa Leo and Misty Upham as working class women who turn to illegal immigrant smuggling to make ends meet. The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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Penelope Cruz became the first Spanish-born actress to win an Oscar by taking the best supporting actress award on Sunday for her role as tempestuous artist Maria Elena in Woody Allen’s romantic comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Cruz, 34, thanked both Allen and Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar for their roles in shaping her career...
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“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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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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Sigourney Weaver, a three-time nominee at the Oscars, could find herself in the running at the Emmys for her performance in the Lifetime telefilm “Prayers for Bobby.” The earnest biopic is just the sort of flick that does well with the Emmy Awards. And actresses of, ahem, a certain age, feature prominently in the...
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