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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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Torture expose wins Oscar
Agence France-Presse
25 Feb, 2008

A harrowing film throwing the spotlight on US interrogation techniques at military facilities won the Oscars best documentary prize.Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side investigates the death in custody of an Afghan taxi-driver, Dilawar, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in 2002.

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Julia Roberts best-dressed Oscar winner
Indo-Asian News Service
25 Feb, 2008

Julia Roberts has been voted the best-dressed Oscar winner in a new online poll.

Contactmusic.com reports that the dress she wore in 2000 when she won best actress award for Erin Brockovich beat out what Halle Berry wore.

Roberts got 25 percent of the vote and Berry garnered 24 percent. Hillary Swank came in third for the outfit she wore in 2004 when she won the coveted award for Million Dollar Baby.

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Oscar winner Golden Compass's Indian connection
Prasad Ramamurthy
26 Feb, 2008

It's outsourcing from Hollywood and over 150 of the graphic artists who worked tirelessly to make Golden Compass back home away from the spotlight celebrated their achievement with cardboard cut outs of the golden prize.

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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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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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