2009 Oscars Awards Winners Results

2009 Oscars Awards ceremony list of winners:

Best Motion Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Sean Penn - Milk

Best Actress: Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Director: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Film: Departures - Japan

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black - Milk

Best Animated Feature Film: WALL-E

Best Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Editing: The Dark Knight

Best Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman.

Best Original Song: Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman and Gulzar

Best Costume: The Duchess

Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire

Best Documentary (short subject): Smile Pinki

Best Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Animated Short Film: La Maison en Petits Cubes

Best Live Action Short Film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Best Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 the most prestigious and biggest awards in film making honors all the best films of 2008. It was held last Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. hosted by none other than Hugh Jackman and televised live on ABC.

World-class Pinay shows talent

Joanna Ampil, Filipina singer and international theater star, saved thousands of dollars in plane fare and still experienced a world-class performance.

During her Valentine show, “Joanna Ampil ... I Love,” at the Music Museum Last Feb. 13, 2009 before the valentines day. Ampil enchanted the audience with music from her early years in “Miss Saigon” to her most current portrayal in “Avenue Q”.

She combined powerful vocals, a projection honed in professional theater, flawless diction and raw emotion to give listeners infallible proof that Filipino artists truly have what it takes.

Ampil enthralled a sparse yet attentive crowd with Broadway music sans expensive costumes and sets. “I have no character to hide in [tonight],” she said. “I’m naked in front of you.”

She appeared nervous in the early part of the show—a bit tentative as she rendered “Something’s Coming” and “Tonight” from “West Side Story,” the musical that she headlined recently, and “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.” But she upped the ante in her “Miss Saigon,” soaring in “Music in My Mind,” “Sun and Moon,” and “I Still Believe”. The audience was awestruck.

Years of obvious hard work yielded equally impressive takes on “On My Own” from “Phantom of the Opera” and “I Don’t Know How To Love Him” from “Jesus Christ Superstar”.

Ampil’s shift to OPM was seamless. She took on “Yakap Sa Dilim” and “Mamang Sorbetero” with authority and just the right amount of playfulness. She was naughty, almost giddy, in her duets with Franco Laurel, another theater pro, who was also a revelation that evening.

Highlight of the evening was Ampil’s medley of hits from “Sunset Blvd”, “Wicked” and “Dreamgirls”. Some spectators were convinced they were hearing versions better than the originals.

Should this world-class Pinay talent decide to stay as of now she is based in London.

source: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Cyber voyeurism or cyber boso soon to be a law

Another bill soon to be a law the House Bill No. 4315, or the "anti-cyber boso" bill, authored by Buhay part list Rep. Irwin Tieng, criminalizes who take or possess an indecent "video tape, disc record," or "replay" or "share, relay or exhibit the contents thereof in any form."

This bill is against "cyber boso [voyeur]," or the distribution of private sex videos, taking "peep-show clips" or engaging in "audio-visual kiss-and-tell" face up to six years’ imprisonment and fines of up to P500,000.

Read more about cyber voyeuris.

2009 Oscar Awards Nominees

Below are tare the complete list of 2009 Oscar Awards Nominees. This years Oscar Awards would be the 81st edition of the Annual Academy Awards and can be watch on ABC in the United States during the live coverage on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.


Complete list of 2009 Oscar Awards - 81st Academy Awards Nominees:

Best Actress / Female Performance in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor / Male Performance in a Leading Role
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Sean Penn - Milk

Best Supporting Actress / Female Performance in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Viola Davis - Doubt

Best Supporting Actor / Male Performance in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin - Milk
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder


Best Picture
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader

Best Director / Achievement in Directing
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Foreign Language Film
Waltz With Bashir - Israel
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex - Germany
Departures - Japan

Best Adapted Screenplay
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth, Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
The Reader - David Hare

Best Original Screenplay
Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

Best Cinematography
Changeling - Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Best Editing
Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
Milk - Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight - Lee Smith

Best Original Score
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
WALL-E - Thomas Newman

Best Art Direction / Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

Best Costume Design
Australia - Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
The Duchess - Michael O’Connor
Milk - Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Best Original Song
Down to Earth from WALL-E - Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam

Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Documentary
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World

Best Makeup / Achievement in Make-Up
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight - John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

Best Short Animation / Animated Short
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory

Best Live Action Short
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Auf der Strecke
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy

Best Sound Editing / Achievement in Sound
Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers
Iron Man - Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
The Dark Knight - Richard King
WALL-E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted - Wylie Stateman

Best Visual Effects
The Dark Knight - Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
Iron Man - John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

source: OSCAR.com

Watch 2009 Academy Awards Live

Where to watch the 2009 Oscar Awards ceremony live?


The Oscar would be the 81st edition of the Annual Academy Awards can be watch on ABC in the United States during the live coverage on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.


Academy Awards are given for best motion picture; foreign-language film; performances by male and female actors in both leading and supporting roles; achievement in direction; screenplays, both original and adapted from previously produced or published material; and scores and songs composed for films. Other award categories include live-action short subject, animated short subject, documentary feature, and documentary short feature. Excellence in technical disciplines is also recognized, including art direction, cinematography, costume design, makeup, film editing, sound and sound effects editing, and visual effects. In addition, special or honorary awards are given for distinguished careers or humanitarian achievement.

See complete list of 81st Academy Awards nominees.

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah visits Philippines

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, arrived in the Philippines last Thursday for a three-day state visit, for this year's 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Brunei.

Sultan Bolkiah granted President Macapagal-Arroyo’s request for more observers during bilateral talks at the Presidential Security Group compound in Malacañang.

“They are prepared to increase the number of peace monitors from Brunei. I think there are now about 10. They can go up to about 30,” Foreign Undersecretary Esteban Conejos told reporters.

Members of the international monitoring team from Malaysia, Brunei, Japan and Libya flew back home after their term expired on Nov. 30 last year.

Renewing their mandate will be on the agenda of informal talks that the government is hoping to restart with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front following last year’s setback on the scuttled expanded territory deal.

After the arrival honors for the visiting head of state, Ms Arroyo sat down for a bilateral meeting with Bolkiah, where she relayed her request for a bigger contingent of peace monitors.

Ms Arroyo was also able to convince Bolkiah to commute the death sentence of an overseas Filipino worker to life imprisonment.

“Through the intercession of the President, the Sultan right then and there said he’s going to commute the sentence of Edgar Puzon,” Conejos told reporters.

Puzon was sentenced to death by the Brunei High Court in 2003 for the fatal stabbing of his Filipino girlfriend Vilma Misal, a decision affirmed by the Court of Appeals four years later.

In May 2003, Puzon walked into a restaurant and attacked Misal, then working as a waitress, stabbing her twice. He also tried to stab himself, but he was subdued before he could further inflict injuries on himself.

Ms Arroyo conferred the Order of Lakandula with the rank of Grand Supremo on Bolkiah in recognition of his key role in boosting bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

source: globalnation.inquirer.net