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81st Academy Awards Winners

February 23, 2009 at 2:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged Academy Awards, Movies, Winners

Here is the full list of winners of the 81st Annual Academy Awards:

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published – Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Animated Feature Film – Wall-e
Best Animated Short Film – La Maison en Petit Cubes
Achievement in Art Direction – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Achievement in Costume Design – Michael O’Connor (The Duchess)
Achievement in Makeup – Greg Cannom (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Achievement in Cinematography – Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Live Action Short Film – Jochen Alexander Freydank Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Best Documentary Feature – James Marsh, Simon Chinn (Man on Wire)
Best Documentary Short Subject – Megan Mylan (Smile Pinki)
Achievement in Visual Effects – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Achievement in Sound editing – Richard King (The Dark Knight)
Achievement in Sound Mixing – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire)
Achievement in Film Editing – Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award – Jerry Lewis
Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score) – A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)
Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song) – A.R. Rahman, Gulzar for Jai Ho (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Foreign Language Film – Departures (Japan)
Achievement in Directing – Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Sean Penn (Milk)
Best Picture – Slumdog Millionaire.

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Will Facebook survive despite of it just turning 5?

February 12, 2009 at 8:52 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged facebook, Internet, Technology, websites

(Note: Original article is entitled “Facebook turns 5 — but can it survive?” by Simon Hooper from CNN.com)

A Web site started by a student as a way of staying in touch with friends celebrated its fifth birthday Wednesday as a billion-dollar business and a global phenomenon.

Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm in 2004. Within 24 hours, more than 1,000 of his Harvard classmates had signed up for the social-networking site and one month later half of those on campus had a profile.

Five years on, the Web site claims more than 150 million users worldwide while Zuckerberg, now 24, was named the youngest billionaire on the planet — with an estimated fortune of $1.5 billion — last year by Forbes magazine.

Writing in Time on Zuckerberg’s inclusion in the magazine’s 2008 list of the most influential 100 people in the world, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, said Zuckerberg had created “a social network that not only reflects your life but maybe expands it.”

Along with sites such as MySpace and Bebo, Facebook has also been credited with bringing social networking into the mainstream, with politicians, businesses and celebrities jumping on the bandwagon.