The Artist, filem bisu dan hitam putih paling berjaya dalam sejarah.

The Artist, filem bisu dan hitam putih paling berjaya dalam sejarah.

Siapa kata filem hitam putih dan bisu tanpa dialog boleh menang anugerah filem terbaik dunia?

Itulah yang dibuktikan Filem The Artist yang berjaya menang 5 anugerah di Akademi Award pada 26 Februari 2012 lalu.

The Artist menang anugerah Filem Terbaik, Pengarah Terbaik – Michel Hazanavicius, Aktor Terbaik – Jean Dujardin (pelakon Perancis yang sebelum ini kurang dikenali di Hollywood), Karya asal terbaik dan Kostum/Pakaian terbaik.



Selain The Artist, filem lain termasuk “Iron Lady” turut memenangi anugerah Aktres Terbaik menerusi Merryl Streep. Filem itu mengisahkan mengenai Perdana Menteri Britain, Margaret Tatcher.



Christopher Plummer, 82 tahun turut mencatat sejarah sebagai aktor paling tua menang anugerah pelakon pembantu terbaik menerusi filem “Begineers”.

Syabas kepada semua pemenang.

List of Best Pictures, Academy Awards since 1990

Here are the Oscar winners for Best Pictures in the annual Academy Awards since 1990.



1990 Best picture winner : Dances with Wolves directed by Kevin Costner



1991 The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme



1992 Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood




1993 Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg




1994 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis




1995 Braveheart by Mel Gibson



1996 The English Patient - directed by Anthony Minghella



1997 Titanic by James Cameron




1998 Shakespeare in Love by John Madden



1999 American Beauty by Sam Mendes



2000 Gladiator by Ridley Scott




2001 A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard




2002 Chicago by Rob Marshall



2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson




2004 Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood




2005 Crash by Paul Haggis



2006 The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese



2007 No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen




2008 Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle



2009 The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow. This movie about a Bomb Disposal expert beat the highly fancied movie Avatar directed by Kathryn Bigelow ex husband James Cameron



2010 The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper


2011 - The Artist, a black and white, non dialogue silent French comedy drama movie directed by Michel Hazanavicius. The Artist won 5 Academy Awards in total, Best Picture, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Actor for French Actor and new darling of Hollywood, Jean Dujardin, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

"The Hurt Locker" wins big at the 82nd Academy Awards

The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" has won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, in Los Angeles, USA.

"The Hurt Locker" won best picture and the coveted best director for Kathryn Bigelow as well as Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.

Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

Bigelow beat her ex-husband James Cameron who directed the hugely successful and biggest box office earner - the sci-fi spectacle "Avatar."

Bigelow and Cameron were married from 1989 to 1991.

First-time winners took all four acting prizes: Sandra Bullock as best actress for "The Blind Side"; Jeff Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart"; Mo'Nique as supporting actress for "Precious"; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds."



Avatar which cost USD 300 million to make and collected a collosal USD 1.5 billion in revenue won 3 Academy awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

Full list of The 82nd Academy Award Winners Are :

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Other nominees :
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Disney/Pixar's Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees :
James Cameron - Avatar
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels - Precious
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Other Nominees :
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Other Nominees :
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Other nominees :
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique - Precious
Other Nominees :
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees :
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Disney/Pixar's Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
Other Nominees :
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious

Best Animated Feature
Disney/Pixar's
Other Nominees :
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells

Best Foreign Language
The White Ribbon
Other Nominees :
Ajami
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
A Prophet (Un Prophete)


Best Documentary Feature
The Cove
Other Nominees :
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
Which Way Home
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Best Animated
French Roast
Other Nominees :
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Documentary Short
Music by Prudence
Other Nominees :
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit a la Berlin

Best Art Direction
Nine
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Other Nominees :
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Costume Design
Nine
Other Nominees :
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Young Victoria

Best Film Editing
District 91
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Live Action Short
The New Tenants
Other Nominees :
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish

Best Original Score
Disney/Pixar's Up
Other Nominees :
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes

Best Original Song
"The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart
Other Nominees :
"Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans" - The Princess and the Frog
"Loin de Paname" - Paris 36
"Take It All" - Nine

Best Makeup
Star Trek
Other Nominees :
Il Divo
The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
Other Nominees :
District 9
Star Trek


Best Sound Editing
Disney/Pixar's Up
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
Other Nominees :
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Slumdog success has opened door like never before for Bollywood movies

(Source - Indian Times)

"Slumdog Millionaire" co-director Loveleen Tandon thinks the 10 Oscar nominations that the film earned today will open the doors for Indian talents at the global level.

"It is incredible for us, for our great Indian actors, for our technicians and for everyone related to the film. It is like a dream come true and a collective time of happiness for us," said Tandon, who also assisted Boyle in the casting of the film.

"It has really opened new doors for us and I am happy that 'Slumdog...' became the vehicle for it. It is high time that the West woke up to Indian talent," said Tandon.

It was at Tandon's insistence that director Danny Boyle included Hindi dialogues in the film.

"One third of the film is in Hindi and I thank Loveleen for that because it has made it more real," Boyle had said.

Tandon, who has previously assisted Mira Nair in "Monsoon Wedding" and "Vanity Fair" said it was a record for any Indian winning three nominations at the Oscars.

"(A R )Rahman has made us so proud. I am so happy to see our genius up there and I am 100 per cent sure that he is going to win," she hoped.

Milli Vanilli - used to be the biggest group in the music industry.... But Sad Ending...

They won a Grammy Award for best new artist in 1990.

Their records sold millions.

They attracted zillions of fans around the world.

Their hits included "Girl I Gonna Miss You", "Blame it on the Rain", "All or Nothing", "Baby dont forget my number", and many more.

Milli Vanilli was a pop/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus.

The group's debut album achieved high sales internationally and became one of the most popular pop acts in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

However, their success turned to infamy and disaster when their Grammy was revoked after it was revealed that the actual vocals on the record were not the voices of Morvan and Pilatus.

In 1998, ten years after Milli Vanilli's debut, Pilatus was found dead in a Frankfurt hotel of an apparent drug overdose.

Happy beginning but sad ending....... They rose and fall quickly....so sad Milli Vanilli....

In true Milli Vanilli words - "It's a tragedy for me to see, the dream is over...." (lyrics from the song "Girl, I'M Gonna Miss You)....

These are among the group most popular songs - all reached no 1 in the Billboard chart, US chart, UK chart and any other charts the world music can offer....

Listen and you will be captivated - But both Morvan and Pilatus only lip synched.... the real vocals were the group known as The Real Milli Vanilli - good vocals but not as good looking, marketable and photogenic as Morvan & Pilatus.


"Baby Don't Forget My Number"




"Girl You Know It's True" (Whoaaaa I Like this Song!!!!!!)




"Girl, I'M Gonna Miss You" (Boy..... this is the Milli Vanilli song i like most)
- it's a tragedy for me to see the dream is over..............




"Blame it on the Rain" - another Milli Vanilli Classic....

Adios... Thanks for listening folks....

Bollywood movie wins big at the 81st Academy Award

Before the award presentation at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood yesterday, I blogged wether Slumdog Millionaire will create history as the first ever Bollywood or Indian movie to win the coveted Best Picture Award at the Oscar presentation.



And they did. Winning 8 awards in total for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Music Score, Music Song and 2 more awards.

However, the question that lingers are the fate of the child actors who starred in that movie. They are real life poor children living in the slums of Mumbai. Mumbai, the largest city in India with 14 million population has the biggest slum population in the world – 60 % of the city inhabitants live in slums.

LOS ANGELES: Slumdog Millionaire took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film’s unlikely rise to Hollywood’s summit.

A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India, Slumdog Millionaire came in with 10 nominations, its eight wins including adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars (score and song).

“Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn’t, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy,” Boyle said, holding up his directing Oscar.

The filmmakers accepted the best-picture trophy surrounded by both the adult professional actors who appeared among the cast of relative unknowns and some of the children the British director cast from the slums of Mumbai.

The film follows the travails and triumphs of Jamal, an orphan who artfully dodges a criminal gang that mutilates children to make them more pitiable beggars.

Jamal witnesses his mother’s violent death, endures police torture and struggles with betrayal by his brother, while single-mindedly hoping to reunite with the lost love of his childhood.

Fate rewards Jamal, whose story unfolds through flashbacks as he recalls how he came to know the answers that made him a champion on India’s version of the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama The Reader; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of Milk; Heath Ledger, supporting actor for The Dark Knight; and Penelope Cruz, supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

It was Winslet’s first win after five previous losses.

British Slumdog writer Simon Beaufoy, who adapted the script from Indian Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A, said there are places he never could imagine being.
“For me, it’s the moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podium, and here,” Beaufoy said.

The epic love story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which led with 13 nominations, had three wins, for visual effects, art direction and makeup.

The Dark Knight had a second win, for sound editing.

This was my earlier blog post on Slumdog Millionaire…

Normally only Movie Stars and Hollywood's top actors / actress/ directors walked the red carpet at the annual Academy Award in Hollywood....

We used to see the likes of John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Merryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rex Harrison, Mae West, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson and other stars at the glamorous event.

But there is significant difference for this year 81st Oscar presentation at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood today Sunday 22 February 2009....

This time, 9 ordinary poor children from the slums of Mumbai in India will also walk the glamorous red carpet, enter the Kodak theatre, be seated and may even walk on stage to receive their Oscar.

They come to Hollywood because they are child actors who starred in India's most successful movie - "Slumdog Millionaire".

'Slumdog Millionaire" produced at a modest cost of USD15 million is nominated for 10 Oscars - including Best Picture at the most prestigious and highest honours of the global movie industry.

'Slumdog millionaire' will be battling it out with "The curious case of Benjamin Button", "The Reader", Frost/Nixon and Milk for the main award - Best Picture.

The plot of the movie tells of a Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers and win 1 million US Dollar at the show.

Cast - Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Prem Kumar, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Jamal K. Malik and child actors amongst others - Rubina Ali, Mohammed Azhaudin Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.

Directed by Danny Boyle - a British.

Since its release in the cinemas on January 9, 2009, Slumdog Millionaire has won 16 awards at the Golden Globes, BAFTA awards and Critics' Choice Awards.

Gee.... Slumdog Millionaire is better than other legendary Bollywood movies such as Bobby, Kuch Kuch Hota Hei, Naya Daur, Gumrah, Zanjeer, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Deewar, Sholay (highest ever grossing Bollywood movie) and Coolie.

Even Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor,Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Dimple Kapadia, Perveen Babi, Vinod Khanna, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Nargis, Dharmendra, Rekha, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan were never nominated for an Oscar in their glittering careers as Bollywood top actors and actresses...!!!!!!

Can an Indian movie win Best Picture at the 81st Academy Award????

Normally only Movie Stars and Hollywood's top actors / actress/ directors walked the red carpet at the annual Academy Award in Hollywood....

We used to see the likes of John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Merryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rex Harrison, Mae West, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson and other stars at the glamorous event.

But there is significant difference for this year 81st Oscar presentation at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood today Sunday 22 February 2009....

This time, 9 ordinary poor children from the slums of Mumbai in India will also walk the glamorous red carpet, enter the Kodak theatre, be seated and may even walk on stage to receive their Oscar.

They come to Hollywood because they are child actors who starred in India's most successful movie - "Slumdog Millionaire".

'Slumdog Millionaire" produced at a modest cost of USD15 million is nominated for 10 Oscars - including Best Picture at the most prestigious and highest honours of the global movie industry.

'Slumdog millionaire' will be battling it out with "The curious case of Benjamin Button", "The Reader", Frost/Nixon and Milk for the main award - Best Picture.

The plot of the movie tells of a Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers and win 1 million US Dollar at the show.

Cast - Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Prem Kumar, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Jamal K. Malik and child actors amongst others - Rubina Ali, Mohammed Azhaudin Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.

Directed by Danny Boyle - a British.

Since its release in the cinemas on January 9, 2009, Slumdog Millionaire has won 16 awards at the Golden Globes, BAFTA awards and Critics' Choice Awards.



Gee.... Slumdog Millionaire is better than other legendary Bollywood movies such as Bobby, Kuch Kuch Hota Hei, Naya Daur, Gumrah, Zanjeer, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Deewar, Sholay (highest ever grossing Bollywood movie) and Coolie.

Even Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor,Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Dimple Kapadia, Perveen Babi, Vinod Khanna, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Nargis, Dharmendra, Rekha, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan were never nominated for an Oscar in their glittering careers as Bollywood top actors and actresses...!!!!!!