Winners of the Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards

Daniel Day-Lewis accepts the Oscar for Best Actor for his great role in "There Will Be Blood".
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier BardemNo Country for Old Men

Best Visual Effects
The Golden Compass

Best Animated Film
Ratatouille

Best Short Film (Live Action)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

Best Short Film (Animated)
Peter & the Wolf

Best Costume Design
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Make Up
La Vie en Rose

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Tilda SwintonMichael Clayton

Best Documentary Short
Freeheld

Best Documentary Feature
Taxi to the Dark Side

Best Art Direction
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Music (Score)
Atonement

Best Sound Mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Music (Song)
Once

Best Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Foreign Language Film
The Counterfeiters

Best Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum

Best Actor in Leading Role
Daniel Day-LewisThere Will Be Blood

Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood

Best Actress in Leading Role
Marion CotillardLa Vie en Rose

Best Adapted Screenplay
No Country for Old Men

Best Original Screenplay
Juno

Best Directing
No Country for Old Men

Best PictureNo Country for Old Men

2008 OSCARS: Students Poll Thousands During 80th Annual Academy Awards

14 Feb 2008 19:14 Africa/Lagos


2008 OSCARS: Students Poll Thousands During 80th Annual Academy Awards

- Simultaneous voting from Facebook, the iPhone, and the website VoteOscars.com -

EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Using a technology called MIMIEO, students at Northwestern University will poll thousands of people during the February 24th ABC broadcast of the 80th Annual Academy Awards.


Participants will be asked to rate each Oscar nominated movie ad, as well as rate how likely they are to go see the movie. Graduate student Rohit Bhat feels, "MIMIEO will provide insight into measuring both the entertainment value of the ads, and the viewer's preference for going to see the movie".


On Oscar night, a panel of graduate students will analyze the data from the polls and publish a report on the findings.


The students previously conducted research during Super Bowl XLII and released a report called the EnMark Survey. The survey evaluated Super Bowl advertisements on two key dimensions: entertainment value and marketing value. The entertainment score reflected the degree to which viewers liked the advertisement. In contrast, the marketing score reflected the extent to which the ad influenced the viewers' perceptions of the advertised brand.


Key findings from the study revealed some advertisers, such as Pepsi with their Justin Timberlake ad, ranked high in entertainment score, but lower in marketing score. Alternatively, advertisers such as Coke with their Charlie Brown ad, ranked higher in marketing score, but lower in entertainment score. Graduate student Bryan Tabiadon indicated, "Viewers found the Pepsi ads to be entertaining, but when it came down to the ads ability to influence preference for a brand, more people preferred Coke!"


The survey methodology was created in collaboration with students and faculty from Northwestern University. The students are enrolled in the Master of Science in Information Technology program. Based in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, courses are taught by tenured faculty from the McCormick School and the Kellogg School of Management.


Additional details regarding the research can be found on the student website http://www.mimieo.com/.


Source: MIMIEO

CONTACT: Glenn Allison of MIMIEO, +1-847-456-8726,
glenn.allison@mimieo.com


Web site: http://www.mimieo.com/

The Most Overpaid Celebrities

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008 to you all.

As the year 2007 is about to end, it is good to review how we have fared since January to date and see how much we have achieved. The Forbes feature on
"The Most Overpaid Celebrities" is worth reading and hoping that you are going to be as successful as you wish in your own chosen career.

FORBES REPORTS:

Los Angeles - Once you’re in Hollywood's A-list earnings club, it’s hard to get kicked out, no matter how badly your films perform at the box office.

Case in point: Oscar winner Nicole Kidman. She earned an estimated $15 million for her latest film, The Golden Compass, known around the studio lot these days as the biggest turkey of 2007. It grossed a dreary $26 million when it debuted stateside last weekend, though its reported budget flirted with $200 million. (That's Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings territory.) The film garnered a respectable $55 million overseas since its release, but it's unlikely the international box office will salvage this expensive pic.

Click Here To See In Pictures: The Most Overpaid Celebrities



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'Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Lessons for the 21st Century'

11 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos


'Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Lessons for the 21st Century'

Presented by the Writers Guilds of America and the National Press Club

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Writers Guilds of America:


WHAT: A National Press Club "Newsmaker" panel discussion marking the 60th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. Two notable blacklisted artists and two historians will reflect on this controversial episode in our nation's history and discuss the lessons learned.


Panelists will include Oscar-nominated blacklisted screenwriter and author Walter Bernstein; blacklisted actress Marsha Hunt; noted historian and author Victor Navasky, as well as WGAE President and television historian Michael Winship.


WHO: Walter Bernstein - An Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Mr. Bernstein was blacklisted in the early 1950s, and forced to work under a pseudonym until 1960, when he again began receiving screenwriting credits for films including Fail Safe. In 1977, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the motion picture The Front, starring Woody Allen as a man who acts as a front for blacklisted screenwriters. Mr. Bernstein is a current member of the Writers Guild of America, East Council.


Marsha Hunt - Ms. Hunt made her acting debut in 1935, appearing in 52 films until 1949, but her career was curtailed when she was blacklisted for her pronounced liberal views and her affiliation with the Committee for the First Amendment. In October 1947, she flew with the group of about thirty actors, directors, writers and filmmakers (including John Huston, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart) to Washington, D.C. to protest the actions of the House Un-American Activities Committee.


Victor Navasky - Long-time editor and publisher of The Nation (now Publisher Emeritus), and author of Naming Names, which won a National Book Award, Mr. Navasky is recognized as one of the foremost scholars of the blacklist. Mr. Navasky wrote Naming Names after interviewing more than 150 people who had been called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.


Michael Winship - Currently President of the Writers Guild of America, East, Mr. Winship is an award-winning writer and producer on such programs as NOW with Bill Moyers. Winship is a television historian who knew several of the writers whose lives were shattered by the blacklist including Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ian McLellan Hunter, as well as Walter Bernstein.


WHERE: National Press Club (Lisagor Room)

WHEN: Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 1:00 PM


For more information about the Writers Guild of America, West, please visit www.wga.org; for more information about the Writers Guild of America, East, please visit: www.wgaeast.org.


The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) represent writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable, and new media industries in both entertainment and news.


Source: Writers Guilds of America

CONTACT: Jody Frisch of WGA; or Taj Meadows for WGA, +1-202-478-3697,
+1-805-453-1141

Watch News Video of Hollywood Writers Strike and Oprah Winfrey's Heartache Over the Scandal Rocking Her School in South Africa

Studios are threatrened by the on-going strike of the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

The writers took to the streets of Los Angeles and New York on Monday, and the strike will affect the movie studios and TV networks.

Watch the news video at the Entertainment News section below.

Oprah Winfrey has been shaken by the scandal rocking her leadership academy in South Africa and you can watch her lamenting in the news video below.

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