81st Academy Awards Winners

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. The Oscar show was hosted by Wolverine .... starring Hugh Jackman.

The 81th Oscar show is about to begin. The band is playing and host Hugh Jackman introduced. Jackman made a little joke about the recession. He said He starred in Australia last year, so the next year he will star a new movie called New Zealand. ... Ha Ha Ha ...

Jackman also opened his show; song and dance, parodying all the nominees for the best movie; such as Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon. Jackman surprised Anne Hathaway by pulling her up on the stage to do Frost/Nixon show.

For Awards,

1. Slumdog Millionaire got 8 prizes
   • BEST PICTURE - Christian Colson
   • DIRECTING - Danny Bolye
   • ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Simon Beaufoy
   • CINEMATOGRAPHY - Anthony Dod Mantle
   • FILM EDITING - Chris Dickens
   • ORIGINAL SCORE - A.R. Rahman
   • ORIGINAL SONG - A.R. Rahman (Music), Gulzar (Lyric)
   • SOUND MIXING - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button got 3 prizes
   • ART DIRECTION - Donald Graham Burt (Art Direction), Victor J. Zolfo (Set Decoration)
   • MAKE UP - Greg Cannom
   • VISUAL EFFECTS - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
3. Milk got 2 prizes
   • ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - Sean Penn
   • ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Dustin Lance Black
4. The Dark Knight got 2 prizes
   • ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Heath Ledger
   • SOUND EDITING - Richard King
5. The Reader got 1 prizes
   • ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - Kate Winslets
6. Wall-E got 1 prizes
   • ANIMATED FEATURE FILM - Andrew Stanton

The following is a shortlist for the nominees and the winner (in RED) for Academy Awards (Oscars).

BEST PICTURE:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
• Frost/Nixon (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production,Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
• Milk (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
• The Reader (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production,Christian Colson, Producer
  

DIRECTING:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
• Frost/Nixon (Universal), Ron Howard
• Milk (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
• The Reader (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:

• Richard Jenkins - The Visitor (Overture Films)
• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon (Universal)
• Sean Penn - Milk (Focus Features)
• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:

• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling (Universal)
• Melissa Leo - Frozen River (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Meryl Streep - Doubt (Miramax)
• Kate Winslet - The Reader (The Weinstein Company)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

• Josh Brolin - Milk (Focus Features)
• Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt (Miramax)
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)
• Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

• Amy Adams - Doubt (Miramax)
• Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company)
• Viola Davis - Doubt (Miramax)
• Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Doubt (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
• Frost/Nixon (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
• The Reader (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• Frozen River (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
• Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
• In Bruges (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
• Milk (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
• WALL•E (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• The Baader Meinhof Complex A Constantin Film Production, Germany
• The Class (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
• Departures (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
• Revanche (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
• Waltz with Bashir (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:

• Bolt (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
• WALL•E (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

ART DIRECTION:

• Changeling (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
• The Duchess (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
• Revolutionary Road (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• Changeling (Universal), Tom Stern
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
• The Reader (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

COSTUME DESIGN:

• Australia (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
• The Duchess (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
• Milk (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
• Revolutionary Road (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
• Encounters at the End of the World (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
• The Garden A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• Man on Wire (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
• Trouble the Water (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

FILM EDITING:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
• Frost/Nixon (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
• Milk (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

MAKEUP:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

ORIGINAL SCORE:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Alexandre Desplat
• Defiance (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
• Milk (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
• WALL•E (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

ORIGINAL SONG:

• “Down to Earth” from WALL•E (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
• “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
• “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

SOUND MIXING:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
• WALL•E (Walt Disney),Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
• Wanted (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

SOUND EDITING:

• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Richard King
• Iron Man (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Tom Sayers
• WALL•E (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• Wanted (Universal),Wylie Stateman

VISUAL EFFECTS:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
• The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
• Iron Man (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

• The Conscience of Nhem En A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
• The Final Inch A Vermilion Films Production, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
• Smile Pinki A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
• The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:

• La Maison en Petits Cubes A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
• Lavatory - Lovestory A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
• Oktapodi (Talantis Films) A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• Presto (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
• This Way Up A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:

• Auf der Strecke (On the Line) (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
• Manon on the Asphalt (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
• New Boy (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
• The Pig An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
• Spielzeugland (Toyland) A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Credits: iOrionBlog.com, Oscars.org

Movie Reviews: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (spoil-free)

Genre: Romatic Drama, Comerdy

Released date: Dec 25, 2008 (USA)

Movie lenght: almost 3 hours

I just saw this movie and it awesome.

Movie Reviews:

Even though I had to sit almost 3 hours in the cinema but it didn't make me bore. It ran interestingly also disguise the funny gags and many good lessons. You may feel that your life is actually so beautiful.

Benjamin Button(Brad Pitt) came into this world with the body of an old man, but the spirit of a newborn child. Later, as the old man grows into a young man and grows into a baby eventually. One day he met the lovely Daisy(Cate Blanchett). And while initial appearances may have suggested that Daisy was merely coming into this world while Benjamin was surely on his way out. Daisy was just a normal woman. It seems that they completely had each life by the opposite directions even birth and death.

In my opinion, I give 5 stars for this movie. I don't have any criticisms. Surely find a DVD on my shelf.

The Dark Knight Becomes Fourth Film Breaking the Billion Score

This may be a good news for the best movie of 2008 in my view; The Dark Knight, having become the fourth film taking in more than $1 billion in worldwide.

Warner Bros. Pictures announced on Friday afternoon that The Dark Knight took the total gross; combined domestic and international gross, had $1,001,082,160 to date which is a domestic gross about $533 million and $567 million overseas.

From above, The Dark Knight will be the fourth film taking more than $1 billion in worldwide. The previous film taking in more than $1 billion are the following:

• Titanic ($1.842 billion)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.119 billion)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.066 billion)
  

Moreover, The Dark Knight also is the second-highest domestic grosser of all time trailing Titanic which is the first-highest domestic grosser.

Credit: ComingSoon.net, iOrionBlog.com

Who will win Oscars 2009 on EW

This is the first time for MyMovieLover.com, we proud to present the content about Academy Awards (aka Oscars) as the first post.

On Sunday; 22 February 2009, the Academy Awards will be handed out at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. EW (aka Entertianment Weekly) has posted a movie that will win and should win for the 10 interesting Academy Awards.

I'm sure that it's one of those boring slideshow presentation on EW, so we've made a shortlist, please see more details at the following shortlist below:

BEST PICTURE

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DIRECTOR

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ACTOR

WILL WIN: Sean Penn, Milk

SHOULD WIN: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS

WILL WIN: Kate Winslet, The Reader

SHOULD WIN: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Dustin Lance Black, Milk

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ANIMATED FILM

WILL AND SHOULD WIN: WALL-E

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

WILL WIN: ''Jai Ho,'' Slumdog Millionaire

SHOULD WIN: ''Down to Earth,'' WALL-E

Credit EW.com