Tomorrow is Oscars!!!

The eightieth Academy Awards ceremony takes place Sunday at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, California. Hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the world will watch the show on television. It is the most exciting event of the year for people who make movies and for people who love to watch them. Barbara Klein has more.

 ÑØÀ ñîñòîÿëàñü þáèëåéíàÿ 80-àÿ öåðåìîíèÿ âðó÷åíèÿ íàãðàä Àìåðèêàíñêîé êèíîàêàäåìèè, áîëåå èçâåñòíûõ êàê ïðåìèè "Îñêàð". Ïî òðàäèöèè, òîðæåñòâåííàÿ öåðåìîíèÿ ïðîõîäèëà â êèíîçàëå Kodak â Ëîñ-Àíäæåëåñå.

Ãëàâíîé èíòðèãîé öåðåìîíèè òðàäèöèîííî ÿâëÿëîñü òî, êàêàÿ êàðòèíà ñòàíåò ëó÷øèì ôèëüìîì ãîäà. Íà ïîáåäó â ýòîé íîìèíàöèè ïðåòåíäîâàëè ëåíòû "Ñòàðèêàì çäåñü íå ìåñòî" (No country for old men), "Íåôòü" (There will be blood), "Èñêóïëåíèå" (Atonement), "Äæóíî" (Juno) è "Ìàéêë Êëåéòîí" (Michael Clayton).

Ïîáåäèòåëåì ñòàëà ñíÿòàÿ áðàòüÿìè Êîýíàìè êðèìèíàëüíàÿ äðàìà "Ñòàðèêàì çäåñü íå ìåñòî", êîòîðàÿ â ïðèíöèïå ñ÷èòàëàñü ãëàâíûì ôàâîðèòîì è ñîáðàëà äî ýòîãî öåëóþ êîëëåêöèþ ïðèçîâ íà ìåæäóíàðîäíûõ êèíîôåñòèâàëÿõ. Ýòîò æå ôèëüì ïîëó÷èë ñòàòóýòêó çà "Ëó÷øèé àäàïòèðîâàííûé ñöåíàðèé".

Ëó÷øåé àêòðèñîé ïî èòîãàì 2007 ãîäà êèíîàêàäåìèÿ ïðèçíàëà Ìàðèîí Êîòèÿð ("Æèçíü â ðîçîâîì öâåòå" - La vie en rose). Íà ýòó íàãðàäó òàêæå ïðåòåíäîâàëè Ýëëåí Ïåéäæ ("Äæóíî"), Äæóëè Êðèñòè ("Âäàëè îò íåå" - Away from her), Ëîðà Ëèíè ("Äèêàðè" - The Savages) è Êåéò Áëàíøåòò ("Çîëîòîé âåê" - Elizabeth: The Golden age).

 íîìèíàöèè "Ëó÷øàÿ ìóæñêàÿ ðîëü" ïîáåäó îäåðæàë Äýíèåëü Äýé-Ëüþèñ (çà ðîëü êàëèôîðíèéñêîãî íåôòÿíîãî ìàãíàòà íà÷àëà ÕÕ âåêà â ôèëüìå "Íåôòü"). Çà ýòó íàãðàäó îí áîðîëñÿ ñ Äæîðäæåì Êëóíè (ñûãðàâøèì ýëèòíîãî íüþ-éîðêñêîãî àäâîêàòà â "Ìàéêëå Êëåéòîíå"),Òîììè Ëè Äæîíñîì (" Äîëèíå Ýëà"), Äæîííè Äåïïîì (ôèëüì "Ñóèíè Òîää, ìàíüÿê ïàðèêìàõåð") è Âèããî Ìîðòåíñåíîì (ôèëüì î ðóññêîé êðèìèíàëüíîé ãðóïïèðîâêå â Åâðîïå "Ïîðîê íà ýêñïîðò".

"Îñêàðà" çà ëó÷øóþ æåíñêóþ ðîëü âòîðîãî ïëàíà ïîëó÷èëà Òèëäà Ñóèíòîí, ñûãðàâøàÿ â êàðòèíå Òîíè Ãèëðîÿ "Ìàéêë Êëåéòîí". À ñòàòóýòêà çà ëó÷øóþ ìóæñêóþ ðîëü âòîðîãî ïëàíà âðó÷åíà èñïàíñêîìó àêòåðó Õàâüåðó Áàðäåìó ("Ñòàðèêàì òóò íå ìåñòî").

Ïðåìèÿ "Îñêàð" çà ëó÷øèé ïîëíîìåòðàæíûé ìóëüòôèëüì äîñòàëàñü ìóëüòôèëüìó "Ðàòàòóé" ñòóäèè Pixar. Áîðüáû â ýòîé íîìèíàöèè íå ïîëó÷èëîñü, "Ðàòàòóé" áûë áåçîãîâîðî÷íûì ôàâîðèòîì öåðåìîíèè.

Ëó÷øåé êîðîòêîìåòðàæíîé êàðòèíîé ïðèçíàí ôðàíöóçñêèé ôèëüì "Êàðìàííûõ äåë Ìîöàðò" ðåæèññåðà Ôèëèïïà Ïîëëå-Âèëüÿðà. À âîò ëó÷øåé ìóëüòèïëèêàöèîííîé êîðîòêîìåòðàæêîé ñòàëà ðàáîòà ðåæèññåðà Ñþçè Òýìïëòîí "Ïåòÿ è âîëê", îáûãðàâøàÿ â ýòîé íîìèíàöèè ôèëüì ðîññèÿíèíà Àëåêñàíäðà Ïåòðîâà "Ìîÿ ëþáîâü". Òàêèì îáðàçîì, À.Ïåòðîâó íå óäàëîñü ïîëó÷èòü ñâîé âòîðîé "Îñêàð" (ïåðâûé îí çàâîåâàë â 1999 ãîäó çà ìóëüòôèëüì "Ñòàðèê è ìîðå").

Ïðåìèÿ â íîìèíàöèè "Ëó÷øàÿ îïåðàòîðñêàÿ ðàáîòà" ïðèñóæäåíà êàðòèíå "Íåôòü".

"Îñêàðà" çà "Ëó÷øèé îðèãèíàëüíûé ñöåíàðèé" ïîëó÷èë ôèëüì "Äæóíî".

Ëó÷øåé ïåñíåé êðèòèêè ñî÷ëè ïåñíþ "Falling slowly" èç êàðòèíû "Îäíàæäû" (Once), à ëó÷øèì ñàóíäðåêîì ñòàëà ìóçûêà ê ôèëüìó "Èñêóïëåíèå".

Ñðàçó òðè "Îñêàðà" ïîëó÷èëà êàðòèíà "Óëüòèìàòóì Áîðíà", ïîáåäèâøàÿ â íîìèíàöèÿõ "Ëó÷øèé ìîíòàæ","Ëó÷øèé çâóê" è "Ëó÷øèé ìîíòàæ çâóêà".

Ïåðâûì îáëàäàòåëåì ïðåìèè â íîìèíàöèè "ëó÷øèé äèçàéí êîñòþìîâ" ñòàë ôèëüì "Çîëîòîé âåê" (Elizabeth: The Golden Age). Êðîìå ýòîé ëåíòû, íà ïðåìèþ â íîìèíàöèè "ëó÷øèé äèçàéí êîñòþìîâ" áûëè ïðåäñòàâëåíû ôèëüìû: "×åðåç âñåëåííóþ" (Across the Universe), "Ñóèííè Òîää - ìàíüÿê-ïàðèêìàõåð" (Swenney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), "Æèçíü â ðîçîâîì ñâåòå" (La Vie en Rose) è "Èñêóïëåíèå" (Atonement).

"Îñêàð" çà ëó÷øèå ñïåöýôôåêòû ïîëó÷èë ôèëüì "Çîëîòîé êîìïàñ" Êðèñà Âåéöà.

Ëó÷øèìè ãðèìåðàìè, ïî ìíåíèþ Àìåðèêàíñêîé êèíîàêàäåìèè, îêàçàëèñü ñïåöèàëèñòû, ðàáîòàâøèå íàä êàðòèíîé ðåæèññåðà Îëèâüå Äààíà "Æèçíü â ðîçîâîì öâåòå".

 íîìèíàöèè "Ðàáîòà õóäîæíèêà-ïîñòàíîâùèêà" ïîáåäèëà êàðòèíà" Ñóèíè Òîää, ìàíüÿê-ïàðèêìàõåð" Òèìà Áåðòîíà.

Òðàäèöèîííî íà çîëîòûå ñòàòóýòêè ïðåòåíäóþò ôèëüìû, ñíÿòûå â Ãîëëèâóäå. Îäíàêî ïðåìèÿ "Çà ëó÷øèé èíîñòðàííûé ôèëüì" îòìå÷àåò è äîñòèæåíèÿ êèíîèíäóñòðèè îñòàëüíîãî ìèðà. Íà íåå â ýòîì ãîäó ïðåòåíäîâàëè è ðîññèéñêèå ðåæèññåðû: Íèêèòà Ìèõàëêîâ ñ êàðòèíîé "Äâåíàäöàòü" ("12") è Ñåðãåé Áîäðîâ-ñòàðøèé, ïðåäñòàâëÿþùèé ôèëüì "Ìîíãîë" (ïîñëåäíèé, âïðî÷åì, áûë âûñòàâëåí íå îò Ðîññèè, à îò Êàçàõñòàíà). Íî îæèäàíèÿ ðîññèÿí íå îïðàâäàëèñü, çîëîòóþ ñòàòóýòêó ïîëó÷èë àâñòðèéñêèé ôèëüì "Ôàëüøèâîìîíåò÷èêè" (The Counterfeiters).

Marion Cotillard wins Oscar for best actress

Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award as best actress for her portrayal of legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" to become the first French performer since 1960 to earn an Oscar in the category.

It was the first nomination for Cotillard, who was a favorite coming into Sunday's award show in Hollywood.
The 32-year-old actress stunned audiences and critics at home and abroad with her physical transformation in the film that traces the life of Piaf, who achieved international fame after being raised by her grandmother in a brothel but saw her life cut short by drug and alcohol abuse.

The win comes just days after Paris-born Cotillard took home the French film industry's coveted Cesar award for best actress for "La Mome," as the Piaf biopic is called in her homeland. She also picked up both a British BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her role.
Simone Signoret won the best actress Oscar in 1960 for her leading role in "Room at the Top" and was the last French woman to do so, although several others, including Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Adjani, have been nominated.

British star Tilda Swinton won the best supporting actress Oscar
for her performance in the film Michael Clayton.
Swinton plays a ruthless corporate lawyer in the George Clooney film.

Holding up her statuette, the shocked actress said: "Oh, no. Happy birthday, man. I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this.
"Really, truly, the same shaped head and it has to be said the buttocks. I'm going to give this to him because there's no way I'd be in America, even on a plane, if it wasn't for him."

Swinton, 47, also dedicated her award to Clooney, who produced and starred in the film.

She joked: "Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber batsuit from Batman and Robin, the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch, you rock, man."

Her British co-star Tom Wilkinson lost out to Spanish star Javier Bardem in the supporting actor category.



Bardem won the title for his role in the Coen brothers' film No Country For Old Men.

Quality not quantity has been the dominant theme for Daniel Day-Lewis during a career that has seen him carve out a reputation as one of the finest actors of his generation.


Day-Lewis wins the best actor Oscar
for playing a tyrannical oil prospector in "There Will Be Blood,"

is renowned for the selectiveness and intense research with which approaches each of his roles.

The 50-year-old actor has made only eight films in the nearly 20 years since he gained international stardom for his astonishing Oscar-winning performance as a man born with cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot."

Without exception, however, Day-Lewis has immersed himself in each of his film roles to a degree that has become legendary.

Often during films Day-Lewis chooses to remain in character off-set, living and breathing the part of his on-screen persona 24 hours a day.

For 1989's "My Left Foot" he insisted on staying in his character's wheelchair during the shoot to the consternation of crew members forced to carry him above or around camera cables and lighting.

In 1992's historical epic "Last of the Mohicans", Day-Lewis buffed up and learnt to live off the land as his character had done.

For Martin Scorsese's period drama "The Age of Innocence," Day-Lewis reportedly donned 1870s garb and spent several weeks wandering around New York to get into character.

Also in 1993, Day-Lewis shed several pounds to play an Irishman wrongfully convicted of an IRA pub bombing in "In The Name of the Father."

Day-Lewis ordered crew members to verbally abuse him and throw cold water over him during the making of the film.

During the making of his next film, 1996's adaptation of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible", Day-Lewis met his wife, Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the legendary late American playwright.

Day-Lewis was to make one more film -- 1997's "The Boxer" -- before retreating into a mysterious five-year break from acting that has been the subject of intense speculation.

The most widely reported version of events is that Day-Lewis spent part of the period living in Italy learning to become shoemaker in exchange for teaching a cobbler how to act. Whatever the truth, Day-Lewis has studiously avoided talking about the period.

Day-Lewis returned with a vengeance in 2002, teaming with Scorsese once again to play the murderous Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting in "Gangs of New York," a role that earned him his third Oscar nomination.

A further appearance in the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" in which he was directed by his wife, came in 2005, before Day-Lewis re-emerged to link with director Paul Thomas Anderson in "There Will Be Blood."

Day-Lewis was born in 1957 to Cecil Day-Lewis, then Britain's poet laureate, and Jill Balcon, an actress whose father Sir Michael Balcon ran London's legendary Ealing film studios.

He dropped out of school at 13 for his first film, an uncredited bit part in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," then began to seriously hone his acting skills -- first at the Bristol Old Vic, then with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 1982 he reappeared on the silver screen in the epic "Gandhi," but he really made his name three years later in two very different films: "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "A Room with a View."

In the low-budget "Laundrette," he played a gay punk in Thatcher-era south London who goes into the coin-wash business with his Pakistani boyfriend.

In the Merchant-Ivory "A Room with a View," he portrayed a hopelessly proper fiance in early 20th century Edwardian England.

In 1987 he clinched his first starring role opposite French actress Juliette Binoche in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," director Philip Kaufman's adaptation of the Milan Kundera novel.

Former exotic dancer Diablo Cody has been celebrated almost from the first festival screenings of “Juno,” a smart, funny and heartfelt comedy about a pregnant high school student who searches for the perfect adoptive parents for her baby.
“Juno” would have been a remarkable achievement from an old vet. For a first-timer to pull it off only doubled the pleasure.
Cody certainly offered a different image of an Oscar winner, with her vaguely punky hair, leopard-print dress and pinup girl tattoo prominently displayed on her right upper arm.

“This is for the writers,” she said, holding up the statuette. “I want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you guys and am learning from you every day.”
She concluded her comments with a quiver in her voice, thanking her family “for loving me exactly the way I am.”

Tomorrow is Oskars again!



and again it's raining...

Preparations are being finalised in Hollywood for the film industry's biggest night of the year.

Best actor

Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"
Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"
Sean Penn, "Milk"
Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"

Best actress

Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie, "Changeling"
Melissa Leo, "Frozen River"
Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Best supporting actor

Josh Brolin, "Milk"
Robert Downey Jr., "Tropic Thunder"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt"
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon, "Revolutionary Road"

Best supporting actress

Amy Adams, "Doubt"
Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Viola Davis, "Doubt"
Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"

Best Adapted Screenplay

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Cinematography

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