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Viewers Anticipate Academy Awards Show By: Cynthia Lopez Staff Writer
If you’re an actor or actress, reaching the peak of your career would mean receive an Oscar. For 81 years, the Academy Awards have honored people with awards such as Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Film. This year it will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Oscar-nominated actor Hugh Jackman, who starred in Australia and upcoming film Wolverine, will be this year’s host. On Thursday, January 22nd, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker announced the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards in Beverly Hills. There are a total of 24 awards that will be given out along with two special awards. Well, there may be one slight difference. Academy Awards nominees traditionally come from films that usually have great performances but have done poorly in the box office. This year, that isn’t the case. Although praised films as Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Revolutionary Road, Doubt, and The Wrestler were not nominated for the top awards, the Oscars have nominated other top films for the different categories. For instance, Angelina Jolie has been nominated as Best Actress for her role in Changeling; Mickey Rourke has been nominated for Best Actor for The Wrestler; and Wall-E has been nominated for Best Animated Film; For Best Director, Ron Howard has been nominated for Frost/Nixon. Slumdog Millionaire has been nominated for Best Film. Other awards that will be presented will be for Best Cinematography, Best Original Song, Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary, Best Foreign
Language Film, and Best Animated Film. Wall-E has been nominated for six different awards, Slumdog Millionaire has been nominated for ten awards but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has taken the crown for most nomination for a total of 13 including Best Film. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button holds the record for the most nominees this decade tying with The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring; and Wall-E ties the most nominees for an animation film with The Beauty and the Beast. The Dark Knight broke record for the most nominated superhero film in Academy Award history. One out of two special award will be given out the evening of the Academy Awards and one of them will be The Academy Honorary Award. The Academy Honorary Award is an award that recognizes talents of years of accomplishments such as 1932 winner Walt Disney for creating Mickey Mouse. The other award is the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded every other year for outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. It is named after screen actor Jean Hersholt who served as the president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for 18 years. This year’s honorary will go to Jerry Lewis. To find out who the winners will be at this year’s Academy Awards, tune in to ABC on Sunday, February 22, 2009.
“This year it will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.”
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