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Marketa Irglova's spontaneous Oscar speech
Agence France-Presse
25 Feb, 2008

It could've gone down as one of the harshest moments in Oscar history. The orchestra swelled just as petite Best Original Song co-winner Marketa Irglova stepped up to the microphone to speak last night following partner Glen Hansard. The pair won for their tune "Falling Slowly" from the indie musical "Once", but only Hansard gave an acceptance before their moment in the spotlight seemed to be over.

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Bardem earns Spain its first acting Oscar
Associated Press
25 Feb, 2008

A psychopath who executes his victims with a slaughterhouse cattle gun helped Javier Bardem
claim a place in history as he became the first Spanish actor to strike Oscars gold. Bardem scooped the best supporting actor award for producing one of the most talked about performances - and haircuts -- of the year as the hitman Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' thriller No Country for Old Men.

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Michael Clayton director favourite for Oscars
NDTV Correspondent
23 Feb, 2008

With less than 48 hours to go for the 80th Academy Awards, here is a look at the nominations for the coveted best director award. Actors are a puppet in the hands of the director and at this year's academy awards there is a mixed bag of young and old, who stand the chance of winning the award.

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'Our Oscar selection is racist'
Saumya B Verma, Ndtvmovies.com
23 Feb, 2008

India being chucked out of Oscars race yet again doesn't surprise this talented filmmaker at all. In a freewheeling conversation with NDTVMovies.com, Sudhir Mishra lashes out at our racist film selection system and an arrogant Bollywood, which he believes doesn't even qualify as a film industry! In these times of film illiteracy Mishra feels one would have to look elsewhere for films and thus Oscars remain relevant.

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Juno tops Best Picture list
NDTV Correspondent
23 Feb, 2008

The Countdown to the Oscars has begun and it's time to get a quick check on the movies that have been nominated in the Best Picture category. And there's enough blood and gore among the nominations to put make the sturdiest stomach queasy. But the big favourite among fans is Indie smashhit, Juno.

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Oscars Controversies

Marlon Brando rejects the Oscars

One of the biggest controversies to hit the Oscars was when Marlon Brando rejected the award for The Godfather and sent a native American woman, Sacheen Littlefeather in his place, to read a speech that blasted Hollywood for its treatment of Native Americans in the film. As the lady delivered the speech, the hall erupted and resounded with the sound of boos coming from the audience.

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Actor: Daniel Day Lewis	Actress: Marrion Cotillard	Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton	Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem	Film: No Country For Old Men

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How the West Was Won	High Noon	Unforgiven

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There Will be Blood:

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man - an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a failed silver miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg.

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