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<title><![CDATA[Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Source: Yahoo! News
MANILA, Philippines - The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday whe]]></description>
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<p>MANILA, Philippines - The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The plane descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor.</p>
<p>It wasn't until they were safely on the ground after an emergency landing that they realized how lucky they had been: A hole the size of a small car had been ripped into the Boeing 747-400's metal skin and penetrated the fuselage.</p>
<p>The eerie scene aboard Flight QF 30, captured on a passenger's cell phone video-camera, showed a tense quiet punctuated only by a baby's cries as passengers sat with oxygen masks on their faces. The jerky footage showed a woman holding tightly to the seat in front of her as rapidly approaching land appeared through a window. Loud applause and relieved laughter went up as the plane touched down.</p>
<p>There were no injuries and only a few cases of nausea, airline officials said. An official of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said initial reports indicated no link to terrorism.</p>
<p>Investigators appeared to be focusing on a structural problem.</p>
<p>"From the pictures that we've seen out of Manila during the course of the day, it would seem that one of the panels to the outer skin of the aircraft has literally come away from the rest of the fuselage," Chris Yates, an aviation expert at Jane's Aviation, told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>"As a consequence of this, the aircraft experienced rapid decompression," he said.</p>
<p>While it is not uncommon for metal panels to be lost from aircraft in flight, he said: "It's relatively rare that when a bit falls off the airplane it causes the sort of instance that we saw in relation to Qantas. In other words that it causes the aircraft cabin to depressurize."</p>
<p>Yates said investigators will examine closely the fracture points that showed up on the skin of the aircraft to determine whether metal fatigue or manufacturing defect caused the panel to peel away.</p>
<p>The passengers, on a flight from London to Melbourne, had just been served a meal after a stopover in Hong Kong when they described hearing a loud bang, then their ears popping as air rushed out the hole. The pilots put the plane into a quick descent to 10,000 feet, where the atmosphere is still thin but breathable.</p>
<p>The Manila airport authority, quoting pilot John Francis Bartels, said the plane suffered an "explosive decompression."</p>
<p>"One hour into the flight there was a big bang, then the plane started going down," passenger Marina Scaffidi, 39, from Melbourne, told The Associated Press by phone from the airport. "There was wind swirling around the plane and some condensation."</p>
<p>She said a hole extended from the cargo hold into the passenger cabin.</p>
<p>After the pilots' initial rapid descent, "the plane kept going down, not too fast, but it was descending," Scaffidi said, adding the staff informed passengers they were diverting to Manila. TV screens on the backs of seats allowed them to track their route to the Philippine capital.</p>
<p>"No one was very hysterical," she said.</p>
<p>June Kane of Melbourne agreed, telling Australia's ABC radio: "It was absolutely terrifying, but I have to say everyone was very calm."</p>
<p>Amazingly calm, in fact.</p>
<p>Video footage showed people looking almost as if nothing was wrong as they glanced from side to side, their nearly untouched meals still in front of them. The cabin crew continued to work, smiling as they walked down the aisles to reassure nervous passengers.</p>
<p>After the plane touched down safely amid applause, one of the pilots could be heard saying over the intercom: "Fire vehicles and emergency vehicles are going to take a look at us."</p>
<p>What they found was a stunning sight. A 9-foot-wide hole gaped at the joint where the front of the right wing attaches to the plane. Luggage from the cargo hold strained against the webbing used to keep it from shifting during a flight.</p>
<p>A curved line of rivets was still visible on the plane's body at the front edge where the missing sheet once was; a straight line of rivets was along the other.</p>
<p>Boeing spokeswoman Liz Verdier said it was too soon to determine what caused the hole, but the company was providing technical assistance as part of an investigation led by the National Transportation Safety Board.</p>
<p>"We are dispatching four personnel from Boeing, an investigator and three engineers," who were leaving immediately, she said.</p>
<p>The probe into the 17-year-old aircraft was likely to be lengthy, Verdier said, and the Boeing team expects to interview the crew and examine the structure of the plane, among other things.</p>
<p>Friday's incident carried some echoes of a 1988 case in which a large section of an older Aloha Airlines jetliner was torn off over Hawaii because of metal fatigue. Although the pilots were able to land, a flight attendant died and many of the 89 passengers were seriously injured.</p>
<p>Geoff Dixon, the chief executive officer of Qantas, Australia's largest airline, praised the pilots and the rest of the 19-member crew for how they handled Friday's events.</p>
<p>"This was a highly unusual situation and our crew responded with the professionalism that Qantas is known for," he said.</p>
<p>The passengers were taken to several hotels in Manila, then left just before midnight on another plane to Melbourne.</p>
<p>Qantas boasts a strong safety record and has never lost a jet to an accident, although there were crashes of smaller planes, the last in 1951. Since then, there have been no accident-related deaths on any Qantas jets.</p>
<p>However, the airline has had a few scares in recent years.</p>
<p>In February 2008, a Qantas 717 with 84 passengers on board sustained substantial damage in a heavy landing in Darwin, Australia. And the year before, Qantas acknowledged that an unlicensed mechanical engineer had conducted safety checks on more than 1,000 international flights over a 12-month period at Sydney airport.</p>
<p>In September 1999, a Qantas Boeing 747-400 with more than 400 people on board overshot a runway in Bangkok, Thailand, during bad weather.</p>
<p>Union engineers — who have held several strikes this year to demand pay raises — say that safety is being compromised by low wages and overtime work.</p>
<p>As of December 2007, Qantas was operating 216 aircraft flying to 140 destinations in 37 countries, though in recent months it has announced it will retire some aircraft and cancel some routes — as well as cutting 1,500 jobs worldwide — due to skyrocketing fuel prices.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Lily Hindy in New York, Oliver Teves and Teresa Cerojano in Manila, and Tanalee Smith in Sydney, Australia, contributed to this report.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 03:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Source: Yahoo! News
OTTAWA (AFP) - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby &#8230; oo]]></description>
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<p>OTTAWA (AFP) - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops.</p>
<p>A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The 23-month-old boy's family had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines, but they were forced to repack their overweight bags before catching a connecting flight to Winnipeg, causing them to run late.<br />
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In their sprint to the gate, the family became separated.</p>
<p>The boy's father Jun Parreno, told local media he had thought his son was with his wife and the boy's grandparents, who ran ahead. They thought the boy was with his dad.</p>
<p>On the plane, the family members were seated separately and so did not immediately realize they had left the child behind.</p>
<p>Sometime later, a security guard found the boy, who speaks no English, wandering near the departure gate, and Air Canada officials tracked down his shocked parents on the flight.</p>
<p>Because the boy was so young, he was not issued a boarding pass and would have sat on a parent's lap during the flight, so airline personnel did not notice a passenger was missing.</p>
<p>According to the Vancouver Sun, airport security found a Tagalog-speaking Air Canada agent who looked after the child while his father flew 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) back to Vancouver to pick him up and then return to Winnipeg to rejoin the immigrant family on their first day in Canada.</p>
<p>The baby was kept in Air Canada's offices and staff found him some toys, said local media.</p>
<p>"Air Canada took good care of him," Parreno told the daily Winnipeg Free Press upon arrival. "I'm grateful."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[For more Oscars updates]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[80th Academy Awards winners]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80th_Academy_Awards_nominees_and_winners" target="new">80th Academy Awards here</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80th_Academy_Awards" target="new">80th Academy Awards</a>, <a href="http://oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/index" target="new">80th Academy Awards here</a>, and <a href="http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/nominees/index.html" target="new">80th Academy Awards there</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Major awards</span></span></p>
<p>Bold text indicates the winner for each category.</p>
<p>Best Picture:<br />
Atonement<br />
Juno<br />
Michael Clayton<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">No Country for Old Men</span><br />
There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Director:<br />
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men</span><br />
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton<br />
Jason Reitman - Juno<br />
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</p>
<p>Best Actor:<br />
George Clooney - Michael Clayton<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood</span><br />
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<br />
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah<br />
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises</p>
<p>Best Actress:<br />
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age<br />
Julie Christie - Away from Her<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (La môme)</span><br />
Laura Linney - The Savages<br />
Ellen Page - Juno</p>
<p>Best Supporting Actor:<br />
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men<br />
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Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War<br />
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild<br />
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton</p>
<p>Best Supporting Actress:<br />
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There<br />
Ruby Dee - American Gangster<br />
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement<br />
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton</span></p>
<p>Best Original Screenplay:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Juno - Diablo Cody</span><br />
Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver<br />
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy<br />
Ratatouille - Brad Bird<br />
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins</p>
<p>Best Adapted Screenplay:<br />
Atonement - Christopher Hampton, from Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan<br />
Away from Her - Sarah Polley, from "The Bear Came over the Mountain", short story by Alice Munro<br />
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood, from Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen, from No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy</span><br />
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson, from Oil!, novel by Upton Sinclair</p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Other awards</span></span></p>
<p>Best Animated Feature<br />
Persepolis<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Ratatouille</span><br />
Surf's Up</p>
<p>Best Animated Short:<br />
I Met the Walrus<br />
Madame Tutli-Putli<br />
Even Pigeons Go To Heaven<br />
My Love<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Peter and the Wolf</span></p>
<p>Best Art Direction:<br />
Arthur Max and Beth Rubino - American Gangster<br />
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer - Atonement<br />
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock - The Golden Compass<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</span><br />
Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson - There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Cinematography:<br />
Roger Deakins - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<br />
Seamus McGarvey - Atonement<br />
Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<br />
Roger Deakins - No Country for Old Men<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Robert Elswit - There Will Be Blood</span></p>
<p>Best Costume Design:<br />
Albert Wolsky - Across the Universe<br />
Jacqueline Durran - Atonement<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth: The Golden Age</span><br />
Marit Allen - La Vie en Rose<br />
Colleen Atwood - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</p>
<p>Best Documentary Feature:<br />
No End in Sight<br />
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience<br />
Sicko<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Taxi to the Dark Side</span><br />
War/Dance</p>
<p>Best Documentary Short:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Freeheld</span><br />
La Corona<br />
Salim Baba<br />
Sari's Mother</p>
<p>Best Film Editing:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Christopher Rouse - The Bourne Ultimatum</span><br />
Juliette Welfling - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<br />
Jay Cassidy - Into the Wild<br />
Roderick Jaynes - No Country for Old Men<br />
Dylan Tichenor - There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Foreign Language Film:<br />
Beaufort (Israel) in Hebrew<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Counterfeiters (Austria) in German</span><br />
Katyń (Poland) in Polish<br />
Mongol (Kazakhstan) in Mongolian<br />
12 (Russia) in Russian</p>
<p>Best Live Action Short:<br />
At Night<br />
The Substitute<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Mozart of Pickpockets</span><br />
Tanghi Argentini<br />
The Tonto Woman</p>
<p>Best Makeup:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald - La Vie en Rose</span><br />
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji - Norbit<br />
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End</p>
<p>Best Original Score:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Dario Marianelli - Atonement</span><br />
Alberto Iglesias - The Kite Runner<br />
James Newton Howard - Michael Clayton<br />
Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille<br />
Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma</p>
<p>Best Original Song:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" from Once</span><br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "Happy Working Song" from Enchanted<br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "So Close" from Enchanted<br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "That's How You Know" from Enchanted<br />
Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas - "Raise It Up" from August Rush</p>
<p>Best Sound Editing:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum<br />
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Skip Lievsay - No Country for Old Men<br />
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers - Ratatouille<br />
Matthew Wood - There Will Be Blood<br />
Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins - Transformers</p>
<p>Best Sound Mixing:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis - The Bourne Ultimatum</span><br />
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland - No Country for Old Men<br />
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, and Doc Kane - Ratatouille<br />
Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube - 3:10 to Yuma<br />
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - Transformers</p>
<p>Best Visual Effects:<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Golden Compass</span><br />
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End<br />
Transformers</p>
<p>Academy Honorary Award<br />
Robert F. Boyle - "In recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction."</p>
<p>Cate Blanchett:<br />
Blanchett's nomination for Best Actress renders her the first actress in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated twice for playing the same character in different films. Blanchett portrayed Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and in Elizabeth (1998); she earned a Best Actress nomination for both performances. The first person to achieve this distinction was Peter O'Toole, who was nominated twice for portraying Henry II. O'Toole earned Best Actor nominations for both Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968).</p>
<p>Blanchett's nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress place her among only 11 performers in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for two acting Awards within the same year. They are, in chronological order: Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, and Jamie Foxx.</p>
<p>Robert F. Boyle, at age 98, becomes the oldest winner ever of an Honorary Award in the history of the Academy Awards.</p>
<p>Ruby Dee:<br />
Dee's nomination for Best Supporting Actress renders her performance in American Gangster, which lasted less than five minutes, as the shortest performance ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.<br />
Dee's nomination, at age 83, ranks her among the oldest nominees ever for Best Supporting Actress in the history of the Academy Awards. Specifically, Dee becomes the second oldest nominee ever, and her nomination displaces Jessica Tandy (age 82), who previously held this distinction. Gloria Stuart (age 87) remains the oldest nominee ever in the history of this Award.</p>
<p>Hal Holbrook's nomination, at age 82, ranks him as the oldest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actor in the history of the Academy Awards. His nomination displaces Ralph Richardson (age 82), who previously held this distinction.</p>
<p>Kevin O'Connell's nomination for Best Sound Mixing brings his total Academy Award nominations to 20 and distinguishes him as the artist with the most unsuccessful nominations ever.</p>
<p>Ellen Page's nomination, at age 20, ranks her among the youngest nominees ever for Best Actress in the history of the Academy Awards. Specifically, Page becomes the fourth youngest nominee ever, and her nomination displaces Marlee Matlin (age 21), who previously held this distinction.</p>
<p>Jason Reitman's nomination, at age 30, ranks him among the youngest nominees ever for Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards. Specifically, Reitman becomes the seventh youngest nominee ever, and his nomination displaces Spike Jonze (age 30), who previously held this distinction.</p>
<p>Saoirse Ronan's nomination, at age 13, ranks her among the youngest nominees ever for Best Supporting Actress in the history of the Academy Awards. Specifically, Ronan becomes the seventh youngest nominee ever, and her nomination displaces Bonita Granville (age 14), who previously held this distinction.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[80th Academy Awards]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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“The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring outstandi]]></description>
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<p>“The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring outstanding achievements in film for 2007, is scheduled for Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It would be the seventh time that the Kodak Theatre will host the ceremonies since its construction, and the 33rd time that the ceremony will be televised in the United States by ABC, which is under contract through 2014. Gil Cates will be the producer, making it his 14th show, a record. Jon Stewart is scheduled to host the awards, his second time after previously presiding over the 78th Academy Awards.”</p>
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<p>Best Picture:<br />
Atonement<br />
Juno<br />
Michael Clayton<br />
No Country for Old Men<br />
There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Director:<br />
Director: - Film:<br />
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood<br />
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen 0 No Country for Old Men<br />
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton<br />
Jason Reitman - Juno<br />
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</p>
<p>Best Actor:<br />
Actor: - Film:<br />
George Clooney - Michael Clayton<br />
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood<br />
Johnny Dep-Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<br />
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah<br />
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises</p>
<p>Best Actress:<br />
Actress: - Film:<br />
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age<br />
Julie Christie - Away from Her<br />
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (La môme)<br />
Laura Linney - The Savages<br />
Ellen Page - Juno</p>
<p>Best Supporting Actor:<br />
Actor: - Film:<br />
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<br />
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men<br />
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War<br />
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild<br />
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton</p>
<p>Best Supporting Actress:<br />
Actress: - Film:<br />
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There<br />
Ruby Dee - American Gangster<br />
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement<br />
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone<br />
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton</p>
<p>Best Adapted Screenplay:<br />
Film: - Writer(s): - Source:<br />
Atonement - Christopher Hampton - Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan<br />
Away from Her - Sarah Polley - “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”, short story by Alice Munro<br />
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood - Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby<br />
No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy<br />
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson - Oil!, novel by Upton Sinclair</p>
<p>Best Animated Feature:<br />
Film:<br />
Persepolis<br />
Ratatouille<br />
Surf’s Up</p>
<p>Best Cinematography:<br />
Roger Deakins - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<br />
Seamus McGarvey - Atonement<br />
Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<br />
Roger Deakins - No Country for Old Men<br />
Robert Elswit - There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Art Direction:<br />
Arthur Max and Beth Rubino - American Gangster<br />
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer - Atonement<br />
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock - The Golden Compass<br />
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<br />
Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson - There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Costume Design:<br />
Albert Wolsky - Across the Universe<br />
Jacqueline Durran - Atonement<br />
Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth: The Golden Age<br />
Marit Allen - La Vie en Rose<br />
Colleen Atwood - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</p>
<p>Best Documentary Feature:<br />
No End in Sight<br />
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience<br />
Sicko<br />
Taxi to the Dark Side<br />
War/Dance</p>
<p>Best Documentary Short:<br />
Freeheld<br />
La Corona<br />
Salim Baba<br />
Sari’s Mother</p>
<p>Best Film Editing:<br />
Christopher Rouse - The Bourne Ultimatum<br />
Juliette Welfling - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<br />
Jay Cassidy - Into the Wild<br />
Roderick Jaynes - No Country for Old Men<br />
Dylan Tichenor - There Will Be Blood</p>
<p>Best Makeup:<br />
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald - La Vie en Rose<br />
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji - Norbit<br />
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End</p>
<p>Best Original Score:<br />
Dario Marianelli - Atonement<br />
Alberto Iglesias - The Kite Runner<br />
James Newton Howard - Michael Clayton<br />
Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille<br />
Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma</p>
<p>Best Original Song:<br />
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - “Falling Slowly” from Once<br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - “Happy Working Song” from Enchanted<br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - “So Close” from Enchanted<br />
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted<br />
“Raise It Up” from August Rush</p>
<p>Best Animated Short:<br />
I Met the Walrus<br />
Madame Tutli-Putli<br />
Even Pigeons Go To Heaven<br />
My Love<br />
Peter and the Wolf</p>
<p>Best Live Action Short:<br />
At Night<br />
The Substitute<br />
The Mozart of Pickpockets<br />
Tanghi Argentini<br />
The Tonto Woman</p>
<p>Best Sound Mixing:<br />
Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis - The Bourne Ultimatum<br />
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland - No Country for Old Men<br />
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, and Doc Kane - Ratatouille<br />
Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube - 3:10 to Yuma<br />
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - Transformers</p>
<p>Best Sound Editing:<br />
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum<br />
Skip Lievsay - No Country for Old Men<br />
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers - Ratatouille<br />
Matthew Wood - There Will Be Blood<br />
Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins - Transformers</p>
<p>Best Visual Effects:<br />
The Golden Compass<br />
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End<br />
Transformers</p>
<p>Best Foreign Language Film:<br />
Beaufort (Israel), in Hebrew<br />
The Counterfeiters (Austria), German<br />
Katyń (Poland), Polish<br />
Mongol (Kazakhstan), Mongolian<br />
12 (Russia), Russian</p>
<p>Special honors:<br />
Academy Honorary Award:<br />
Robert Boyle</p>
<p>Multiple nominations:</p>
<p>The following films received multiple nominations:<br />
8 nominations - No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood<br />
7 nominations - Atonement, Michael Clayton<br />
5 nominations - Ratatouille<br />
4 nominations - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon), Juno<br />
3 nominations - Enchanted, The Bourne Ultimatum, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, La Vie en Rose (La môme), Transformers<br />
2 nominations - 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Away from Her, The Golden Compass, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Into the Wild, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Savages</p>
<p>Notable nominations:</p>
<p>Cate Blanchett becomes the eighth actress (and the 11th performer) ever to be nominated for both leading and supporting acting categories in the same year. The ten artists who have previously done so are, in chronological order: Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, and Jamie Foxx.</p>
<p>Ruby Dee’s nomination, at age 83, ranks her # 2 on the Top Ten list of oldest nominees for Best Supporting Actress. Her nomination displaces Jessica Tandy (age 82) from the # 2 position on the list. It also displaces from the list altogether Peggy Wood (age 74), who had been on the Top Ten list since 1966.</p>
<p>Hal Holbrook’s nomination, at age 82, ranks him # 1 on the Top Ten list of oldest nominees for Best Supporting Actor. His nomination displaces Ralph Richardson (age 82) from the # 1 position on the list. It also displaces from the list altogether Cecil Kellaway (age 74), who had been on the Top Ten list since 1968.</p>
<p>Ellen Page’s nomination, at age 20, ranks her # 4 on the Top Ten list of youngest nominees for Best Actress. Her nomination displaces Marlee Matlin (age 21) from the # 4 position on the list.</p>
<p>Jason Reitman’s nomination, at age 30, ranks him # 7 on the Top Ten list of youngest nominees for Best Director. His nomination displaces Spike Jonze (age 30) from the # 7 position on the list. It also displaces from the list altogether Frank Perry (age 32), who had been on the Top Ten list since 1963.</p>
<p>Saoirse Ronan’s nomination, at age 13, ranks her # 7 on the Top Ten list of youngest nominees for Best Supporting Actress. Her nomination displaces Bonita Granville (age 14) from the # 7 position on the list. It also displaces from the list altogether Patty Duke (age 16), who had been on the Top Ten list since 1963.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Wheel of life.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t expect that Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger, both died this month of Januay, in the year]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn't expect that Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger, both died this month of Januay, in the year of 2008.</p>
<p>I learned that, from the Featured section, of the front page of <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a>.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Renfro" target="new">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
<p>Brad Renfro Renfro was found dead on January 15, 2008 in his Los Angeles apartment, after he had reportedly spent the previous night drinking with friends. The cause of death has yet to be determined. He starred in the movie, The Client, with Susan Sarandon, and Tommy Lee Jones.</p>
<p>On the other hand, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger" target="new">Heath Ledger</a> is starred in these movie: The Patriot, Monster's Ball, and Brokeback Mountain.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Walang kamatayang ratings.]]></title>
<link>http://supertipid.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/walang-kamatayang-ratings-2/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sana, sa buong Pilipinas yung ratings sa Bacolod.
Nakaka-asar din minsan ang GMA at ang ABS-CBN, pag]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sana, sa buong Pilipinas yung ratings sa Bacolod.</p>
<p>Nakaka-asar din minsan ang GMA at ang ABS-CBN, pagdating sa ratings, pagdating sa pagalingan, at sa pagkuha ng awards and recognitions.</p>
<p>Hindi ko lang alam kung may nangyayaring ganyan sa ibang lugar/bansa.</p>
<p>Ang ibang local networks, hindi ganyan. Paano magiging healthy, patas, at masigla ang panonod ng television shows sa bansa natin kung ganayan ang nangyayari?</p>
<p>Para sa akin, parehong may tinatagong mga baho ang GMA at ABS-CBN na yan.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What really happened 21 years ago?]]></title>
<link>http://supertipid.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/walang-kamatayang-ratings/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I was about 3 years and 7 months old, when the Mendiola Massacre happened.21 years later, based on w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was about 3 years and 7 months old, when the Mendiola Massacre happened.21 years later, based on what I've understood last night's news, hindi ko alam kung sino yung may responsibilidad, at may kasalanan, yung mga nag-ra-rally, or yung mga pumipigil sa mga nag-ra-rally.Hindi ko alam kung ano ang pinag-ra-rally nung mga nag-ra-rally.Sana, wala nang mga ganitong pangyayari dito sa bansa natin.</p>
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