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...that during the ceremony at London's Royal Opera House, Slumdog Millionaire picked up seven awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Danny Boyle, Winslet won the Leading Actress award for her role in The Reader, and the Original Screenplay prize went to the Irish hitman comedy In Bruges. Echoing the sentiments of their American brethren, the British Academy voters also gave Leading Actor kudos to comeback king Mickey Rourke for his role in The Wrestler (his expletive-sprinkled acceptance speech getting some of the night's biggest laughs), honored the late Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker...
...best actress - we'll never know. And France's I've Loved You So Long (starring British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who speaks fluent French) raised a few eyebrows when it beat odds on Oscar favorite Waltz With Bashir and Italian Mafia flick Gomorrah to the foreign language film award. (See pictures of some of the greatest ever animated movies...
...sweet moment, and one that showed how willingly the British Academy shares the love when it comes to recognizing indigenous talent. But it also begs the question: when, year after year, more and more British filmmakers, actors and actresses are winning awards alongside their Hollywood counterparts, is there any need for an Outstanding British Film category at all? How come all British films are equal, but some British films are more equal than others? Yes, Britain's film industry is much smaller and poorer than America's, and, true, there's the risk that, in some years, U.S. award winners...
...said I didn't care last year but I lied." - Though he won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award in 2007, he wasn't happy that he didn't even make the top three in the voting...
...providing the voices for a shark and a bee. In addition to the Pudding Pot, Zellweger was given a more practical gift—a pair of adult diapers, to mock her for being in the bathroom when her name was announced during the 2000 Golden Globe Awards. Andersson and Compton presented the gift, which she modeled for the audience. Zellweger said that before coming to Harvard, she was always impressed at the quality of students Harvard produces. “I’m really going to have to rethink all that,” she said. After Zellweger...