2008 Oscar Awards Winners

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The 80th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone, and the night's big winners were all smiles as they were handed their coveted statuettes one by one.

Taking honors for best film was the Coen Brothers' hit movie, No Country For Old Men - which was thought to be a vanguard of the event from the beginning.

Meanwhile, French actress Marion Cotillard took best actress for her work in La Vie En Rose, while Daniel Day Lewis won best actor accolades for his role in the riveting There Will Be Blood.

The complete list of winners of the 2008 Academy Awards is as follows:

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
WINNER:No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
WINNER:Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
WINNER:Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER:Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER:Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER:Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER:The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Beaufort (Israel)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
WINNER:Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER:No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER:Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

BEST MUSIC (SCORE)
WINNER:Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

BEST MUSIC (SONG)
WINNER:Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That’s How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER:Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
WINNER:Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER:The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER:There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men

BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER:Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
There Will Be Blood

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: Peter and the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)

BEST SHORT FILM
WINNER:Le Mozart des Pickpockets
At Night
Il Supplente
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER:Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Across the Universe
Atonement
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

BEST MAKE-UP
WINNER:La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Pregnant Angelina Jolie At Spirit Awards

Tonight, at the Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, wearing a form fitting black jacket was VERY pregnant Angelina Jolie, who has decided to announce her pregnancy through photos.

Cogner her baby is like a basketball, it is well along in its second quarter by the looks of it.

For months, she said he was pregnant, and some have claimed, it is with twins.

Vanessa Hudgens At LAX Airport

Sporting a crimson red hoodie, Vanessa Hudgens was spotted toting his luggage as she passed through the airport security LAX on Friday (February 22).

High School Musical actress is currently filming "The Will" in Austin, Texas, and was looking ready to return to the series.

In addition to working on Will, Vanessa Hudgens is also busy trying to complete the production of her second studio album.

As previously reported by Gossip Girls, Nessa his second studio album is scheduled to hit store shelves on June 24 (TBC), with the first single will begin in early April Ryan Seacrest on the radio, the shots radio in May.

2008 Oscar Awards Preparation

It's Friday before the Academy Awards in Hollywood and is abuzz with celebrities, stylists, and fans countdown the minutes until it was time Oscar.

Regarded as the Holy Grail of awards shows, the Oscars are more pomp and circumstance than any other event of its kind. And stars like Denzel Washington and Hilary Swank were spotted this week to repeat their lines and preparing for the big night.

One of the characteristics of Oscar night is the red carpet arrival. And for Hollywood's elite, their look is as important as whether or not they go home with a trophy.

Anticipating the needs of their customers, celebrity stylists are distributed throughout the city is trying to provide the best selection of accessories and costumes. After all, A-listers have to go to the Kodak Theater trying their best.

Beverly Hills jeweler Neil Lane talked about the popular practice of borrowing jewelry stars for events such as the Oscars. "A star can not buy enough jewellery accessories every red carpet she does. Now, because everything is a statement of fashion, everything is an accessory to study. Every detail is studied. If she wore that (room) the last time, he had ridiculed get. "

We will have full coverage of everything from the red carpet arrivals at the last assignment of both parties, so stay glued to the Gossip Girls for everything Oscar.

Lindsay Lohan Pays tribute To Marilyn Monroe

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In 1962, the photographer Bert Stern fired a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as "The Last Sitting." Boozy taken during several sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are probably the most famous images ever captured of America's most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy eyes and naked, sips a glass of champagne , enacts a fan dance with different kinds diaphanous scarves, erotic romps with mischief on a bed of white linen. Six weeks after it landed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent overdose of barbiturates.
The photos endure as part of the artifacts-as the last visible sign of the woman (a legacy Stern reinforced by the decision to publish the contact Monroe had itself crossed the red marker). But the images are also remarkable for the raw truths they appear to reveal. In them we see a comedy actor whose talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily conscious of its status pinup, but also beginning to show its 36 years. In many shots, it is obviously intoxicated. It was an unfortunate time for Monroe. Sadly famous for its on-1961, a brief stint in a psychiatric ward.

Stern excavated and preserved poignant humanity of the real beautiful woman, but also fragile, needy, flawed from the monumental sex symbol. In our armor, airbrushed age, its implementation feels almost revolutionary.

Forty-six years later, Stern has reviewed its plans classic with Lindsay Lohan, another prodigious actress whose fame is not quite to the extent of his professional achievements. Stern, who shot at the photos of the film, rather than digital, said he was interested in Lindsay Lohan because he suspected "it has much more depth to her" as you might suppose "These teenage movies." Indeed, many in the film industry think that Lindsay Lohan has yet to pursue projects to equal his gifts. Without putting too fine a point on it, one might say Lindsay Lohan, like Monroe, a knack for courting the tabloids trigger until his career. (Readers will recall that Lindsay Lohan has its own Billy Wilder moment two summers ago over the Georgia rule.) Stern also said that The project was born from his interest in "controversial women," or "bad girl", as "Britney, Paris And Lindsay. "Monroe is in a sense the first tabloid queen.

Although Lindsay Lohan is ready to resume photos may seem like a nod to his cunning scandalous past, the actress offered a simple explanation. "I have not had much thought to put into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Make a shoot Marilyn? When is it's going to find? It's really an honor." During d 'pause in the day, shoot, Lindsay Lohan sitting cross-legged on a bed in the four-room suite and spoke to me, inasmuch voices familiar with its staccato rhythms, respectful of his obsession with Monroe. His interest took root a decade ago with multiple viewings Niagara during the filming of London The Parent Trap. She even bought an apartment where Marilyn lived. "If you saw my house I… many things Marilyn," she said, with a huge painting of Monroe.

"It's great," Lindsay Lohan said of the painting, a Christmas, "because it is this picture of her, and she is likely cartoony, and is a big bottle of pills next to her , and they've decreased over. "Lindsay Lohan Monroe called suicide" tragic "and then added, elliptical:" You know, it is also tragic that recently happened to someone else. "whom I I asked if she was referring to Heath Ledger. She nodded: "They are both excellent examples of what this industry can do to someone." Why some and not others, I asked, to the extent that it has often seemed that the three times a rehabbed Lindsay Lohan could meet the same fate. Lindsay Lohan responded with an ounce of trouble: "I do not know. I am not them. But I am sure that hell would not let him come to me . "However, one wonders whether Lindsay Lohan participation in this project, taking into account all the spooky parallel, photography is not the equivalent of moving into a haunted house. (Which, in fact, she might have already done so.)

Lindsay Lohan regarded as a branch of the theatrical presentation, a chance to live the role of an idol. "I wanted to portray the book and the take stock as much as I could, to bring it back to life," she says. Hence the strict mimesis: scarves, nudity, and everything. " Not more than fifteen minutes had passed since she had arrived, and she had already decided to take her clothes! " Stern wrote of Monroe, in his introduction to swaggering The Complete Last Sitting, the book in which all 2571 photos were collected. He might have said the same thing about Lindsay Lohan. "I was at ease with it," says the actress of nudity (even if it has to do confess "250 crunches," the previous night). All compound in winged eyeliner and shellacked blonde wig, Lindsay Lohan, who has returned to his former sensual, sometimes seemed more Marilyn than the thin, slightly decreased wife of the original photos of Marilyn. "It was very similar, déjà vu might say, like to revisit an old street," said Stern.

The original photos, however, are characterized by an almost claustrophobic intimacy between photographer and muse. In the first session, Stern persuade the entourage of stylists to leave it alone with Monroe. The shooting has taken on symbolic (if not the reality) contours of a liaison. The rise of celebrity industrial complex has made this kind of pas de deux tense virtually impossible. During the shooting Lindsay Lohan, the crowd consisted Lindsay Lohan's manager, his bodyguard, and her younger brother, Ali, a makeup artist and assistant, a hairdresser and assistant, a stylist, a manicure, a sentry to watch the borrowed diamonds; Stern, His manager, and two assistants photo. Lindsay Lohan and Stern has worked in an adjoining room, while the rest of us as a hover outside an entrance to groupies backstage.

"This is a woman who is herself giving to the public," said Lindsay Lohan, the Monroe photos, when we approached the next day by phone. "She is saying, 'Look, you take a lot of me, then I do give it to myself. "She's taking back control." Like any tabloid veteran, Lindsay Lohan understands the power of a photograph, and that the best way to respond to a society that views you only as a picture maybe just on its own terms ..

Hilary Duff And Mike Comrie Having Dinner

The city of New York paparazzi got special treatment when Hilary Duff and her boyfriend to play hockey-Mike Comrie walk to the Waverly Inn last night for dinner.

The "So Yesterday" sexy singer was looking as she braved the winter cold in a black halter-style top with black pants and red heels, some critically.

His man dressed it up a bit in a smoking jacket with black pants and a tie, and a drag-and-white dress shirt under a black vest.

Coming this April, Duff fans will have the chance to hear the voice of Hilary alongside Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, and even her sister Haylie Duff in the animated film "Foodfight!"