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The theme of today of course …. The Academy Awards or the Oscars, you understand me. Kate Winslet took the prize for best actress Penelope Cruz, best supporting actress. Nor can the do and do not miss the fashion on the red carpet. Following the article in full:
“Slumdog,” and Ledger Cross triumph at the Oscars
AP,

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Slumdog Millionaire” swept on Sunday with eight Academy Awards, including best film and best director, while Penélope Cruz made history as the first Spanish actress winner and Heath Ledger was nominated posthumously.
The prize for best actress went to Britain’s Kate Winslet for her role as an illiterate former Nazi guard who has an affair with a teenager in “The Reader,” and best actor for Sean Penn for his interpretation the murdered gay leader for civil rights, Harvey Milk in “Milk.”

“Slumdog Millionaire,” a raw and poignant story of a teenage orphan of the low districts of Mumbai emerging from poverty to succeed in a televised version of “Who wants to be millionaire?”, Competing in 10 sections.

The winner movie, which was about to go directly to DVD, also won awards for best adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, original score, original song and editing.

Fashion at the Oscars

Cruz, Jolie and Beyoncé

The best and worst

Cruz wore beautiful, sensual Angelina and Beyoncé was a disaster.

* The red carpet

Cruz, with her lunatic ex-wife role in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” was imposed as Best Supporting Actress the following year that his compatriot Javier Bardem achieved in the male category.

Ledger, meanwhile, won the male category and became just the second player to win the statuette posthumously, for their dark version of the Joker in the Batman film “The Dark Knight.”

The Australian actor died 13 months ago by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, the same day as the nominees were announced last year. His Oscar joins him with Peter Finch, who won after he died the prize for best actor in 1976 for “Network.”

The parents and sister Ledger accepted the honor on behalf of his daughter Matilda.

“Have you ever lost someone here? Because I believe that I will be the first, were the first words of Cruz, who looked obviously overwhelmed by receiving her statuette, the first night.

After thank Woody Allen “for entrusting this beautiful character, she dedicated the Oscar to his parents, his brother and sister, and the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Fernando Trueba, Bigas Luna, who has worked with. And before she went off to his compatriots in Spanish: “All those from Spain that are now sharing this moment with me and also feel that this is theirs, to they are dedicated. And to all the actors in my country. ”

This is the fifth time that an actor or actress won an Oscar for sharing an Allen film. Cruz joins with Dianne Wiest, winner for “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “Bullets Over Broadway”; Michael Caine for “Hannah and Her Sisters” and Mira Sorvino in “Mighty Aphrodite.”

Cruz received his Oscar from five previous winners in the same category: Tilda Swinton, Eva Marie Saint, Anjelica Huston, Whoopi Goldberg and Goldie Hawn.

It was a great change to the format in which winners of previous years gave the statuette to the new winner of the opposite sex. Tradition has been maintained, Cruz could receive their award from the hands of Bardem, who was in Barcelona filming “Biutiful” by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

The organizers had announced major adjustments but remained silent on the details for a boost to its ratings, which last year reached their minimum.

The most-nominated for the evening, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, won three statuettes, a visual effects, art direction and makeup. For this latest award-competed the U.S. Mexico Mike Elizalde, for his work on the film by Guillermo del Toro “Hellboy II”.

Among other winners, “WALL-E” won as best animated feature film, “Milk” also won the prize for best original screenplay and “The Dark Knight” the sound editing. Japan “Departures” took the honor for best foreign language film.

The host of the evening, the Australian actor Hugh Jackman, stole the show when it opened with a musical number in which it welcomed the nominees and received by a standing ovation from their peers.

The delivery of the 81st Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

On the Internet:

www.oscars.com

Source: AOL Latino Entretenimiento

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