Academy Awards, popularly known as Academy Awards, these prizes given annually in the United States by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the creation and production of motion pictures. First presented in 1929 for films shown in 1927 and 1928, the Academy Awards, commonly known as Oscars, are among the film industry’s most coveted prizes.
The entire academy membership participates in voting for the annual awards. In most award categories, a maximum of five entrants are first nominated by the academy members who work in that particular field (that is, actors select actors, directors select directors, and so on). From among these nominees all academy members select the winners by secret ballot. The winners are publicly announced at a formal ceremony each spring. One hour of the 1929 awards ceremony was broadcast on the radio, and from 1944 through 1969 the entire ceremony was broadcast. Television broadcasts began in 1953 and today attract a worldwide audience. Various people claim to have given the name Oscar to the symbolic statuette presented to winners, including actor Bette Davis, academy librarian Margaret Herrick, and columnist Sidney Skolsky. But the origin of the name has never been definitively determined. The gold-plated bronze human figure, which is 34.3 cm (13.5 in) high and weighs 3.9 kg (8.5 lb), was created by American sculptor George Stanley based on sketches made by American motion-picture art director Cedric Gibbons.
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.
Best Motion Picture of the Year SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Sean Penn (MILK)
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Kate Winslet (THE READER)
Achievement in Directing SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Departures
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Achievement in Film Editing SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Achievement in Sound Mixing SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Achievement in Sound Editing THE DARK KNIGHT
Achievement in Visual Effects THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Best Documentary Short Subject SMILE PINKI
Best Documentary Feature MAN ON WIRE
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Heath Ledger(THE DARK KNIGHT)
Best Live Action Short Film SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND)
Achievement in Cinematography SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Achievement in Makeup THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Achievement in Costume Design THE DUCHESS
Achievement in Art Direction THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Best Animated Short Film La Maison en Petits Cubes
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year WALL-E
Adapted Screenplay SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Original Screenplay MILK
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Penelope Cruz (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA)
2009 Hosted the 81st Academy Awards, and it was considered the most popular and best host of all the Oscars ceremonies.
Yes, your hero 'Wolverine', he hosted this year's oscar awards Ceremony.
This 81st Academy Awards honoring the best in film for 2008 was held on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with actor Hugh Jackman hosting the ceremony for the first time.
All the films nominated to this big honorable prize ceremony are the finest ones. Each movie made with the great efforts to please the viewers and introduce them with the different world, which resides somewhere here, only in this 'world of our own'. May be we don't realize but each concept and stories are just from us, from ourselves, from an individual me........ and that creates the great inspiration for other lives too....If we see the mirror carefully, we will definitely know 'What is the story of Me?', & 'Who is the best hero or heroine of this film'......& then only the 'Search Of My Own' ends...


