Sometimes fans go paranoid! An example of an abnormal fan’s behavior is the following: actor Hugh Grant was handcuffed by a female-fan at his movie’s premiere. She wanted to be linked to Grant forever, but she did not choose right her instruments. Handcuffs will never draw any one’s attention, but of the police’s.
The incident happened while Grant was walking the red carpet and posing for pictures at the Dutch premiere of “Music and Lyrics”, his new movie. It was then when a brunette woman jumped forward and clamped the metal handcuff and chain on Grant’s left wrist, attaching herself to the actor.
The actor was shocked, but he had to continually walk the red carpet still chained to the woman. For more than ten minutes, the actors had to also sign autographs while dragging the woman.
Grant knew to stay in silence and to wait for the fire fighters to free him. He looked relieved when he disappeared in the theatre, although he spent the rest of the night still wearing the other half of the handcuffs.
The woman, however, was arrested by the Dutch police. Her name was Cielke Sijben and she was a journalist working for a Dutch TV station.

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After 56 years of dry spell at the Oscars, Norway has finally had a reason to be proud. Torill Kove’s “The Danish Poet” has won at the Animated Short Film category. It has been the first time when a Norwegian movie wins an Oscar, since Thor Heyerdahl won the first Oscar for his country with his documentary “Kon-Tiki”.
Although Torill Kove has been living for some time in Montreal, Canada, and although her project was backed by the National Film Board of Canada, the story “could not have been more Norwegian” - as she has said. “I am Norwegian, and there is not a trace of doubt in my soul that this film is 100-percent Norwegian.” 48-year-old Torill Kove has also said.
“The Danish Poet” is a movie about a young Danish poet who’ll travel to Norway for finding inspiration by meeting the Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Sigrid Undset. Norwegian actress Liv Ullman is narrating the tale. Ullman was twice nominated for an Oscar (first in 1970 for her playing in “The Emigrants”, secondly in 1996 for “Face to Face”), she did not win.
Kove has also been nominated previously for an Oscar for her 1999 animated short film “My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts”.
Kove is the second to bring Norway an Oscar award, after Thor Heyerdahl did it in 1951. Heyerdahl died in 2002, at the age of 87.

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At the Best Supporting Actress category Jennifer Hudson has rocked! Her speech on stage, after she has collected the golden statuette from George Clooney, has been a very thrilled one. The young singer and recently actress has thought about her grandmother whose influence she has been always receiving: “If my grandmother…I didn’t think I was going to win… but wow! if my grandmother were here to see me now! She was my biggest inspiration for everything, because she was a singer, and she had the passion for it, but she never had the chance, and that was the thing that pushed me forward to continue, but I’m so grateful to have my mother here celebrating with me, my boyfriend, my sisters, and my brothers back home, and then I’ve got two of them here.”
Jennifer Hudson’s debut in the movie industry was a very prolific one as the singer and actress has won very many awards for her supporting role in „Dreamgirls”. Hudson won the BAFTA Award, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, two Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards, a Golden Globe and many others.
Hudson’s happiness on stage has been similar to the one of the public who has this way welcomed Hudson to become a great, great star!
The Best Supporting Actor Oscar has been won by Alan Arkin, for his role as an nervous grandfather in „Little Miss Sunshine”. Arkin has been very modest on the stage and he has thanked the team behind the movie for bringing „the sense and joy, trust and community that the film speaks about”. He has also added his being deeply moved at all the attention that the movie received.

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Best Leading Actress Oscar-winner Helen Mirren’s story is quite similar to director Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-related story. The 61-year-old British Actress had been nominated before for two times for an Oscar, but it is only now that she has won. However, this is imcomparable to Scorsese’s seven nominations without any winning. The 8th nomination for an Oscar seems to have been the lucky one. Martin Scorsese has finally won the Best Director Oscar at this year’s Acadamy Awards ceremony.
When he has got on stage Scorsese has joked: „Could you double-check the envelope?” He has added: “So many people over the years have been wishing this for me - strangers. I walk in the street and people say something to me: ‘You should win, you should win.’” And he has won!

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For Forest Whitaker, 45 years old, winning the Oscar has been a dream coming true. On stage, Whitaker has said that “It wasn’t my reality to think I would be acting in movies – so receiving this honour tonight tells me it is possible”. “[…] when I first started acting, it was because of my desire to connect to everyone, to that thing inside of each of us, that light that I believe exists in all of us. Acting, for me, is believing in that connection, and it’s a connection so strong, and it’s a connection so deep, that we feel it, and through our combined belief we can create a new reality.” “The Last King of Scotland” leading actor has added. Then he has thanked the people of Uganda for their help.
Dame Helen Mirren, who has won the Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in “The Queen”, has simply said on stage: “All kids love to get gold stars, and this is the biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had.” A Buckingham Palace spokesperson has said that it is sure thing “that the Queen will be pleased” by Mirren’s victory, specially because this Oscar has added to other important awards like the Golden Globe, the BAFTA award and the Screen Actors Guild prize. Mirren has said when receiving the prize: “For 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. If it wasn’t for her, I most certainly wouldn’t be here - ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen.”

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“Pan’s Labyrinth” is a Spanish-language movie presenting a very interesting and technically well realized junction: a union between the cruel post-war fascist regime in Spain and a fantastic, fabulous world created by a very sad, lonely and pure little girl. Being realized by the Mexican film-maker Guilermo del Toro, who realized other famous movies like “Mimic” (1997), “Blade II” and “Hellboy”, the movie has been able to transmit a message in a very interesting and sensitive manner.

“Pan’s Labyrinth” or “El Laberinto del Fauno” on its original Spanish title has won three Oscars: one in the Achievement in Art Direction category, the second in the Achievement in Art Cinematography and the third in the Achievement for Makeup category. Indeed, allegory is a maybe the nicest and most sensitive way to stress on the cruel but true realities of life and war and, indeed, the makeup of those beasts and fantastic creatures succeeded in transmitting feelings and also the message of the movie.

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“Pan’s Labyrinth” realizes a very delicate stage on which the primordial and never-ending battle between good and evil is being placed. Fascism remains a plague on world’s face and there is never too late to emphasize what totalitarian regimes mean for the human souls.

At this year’s magic Sunday of the Academy Awards gala in Los Angeles, Forest Whitaker has been chosen to receive the Best Actor Oscar, for his playing despot Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland”.
Forest Whitaker has said that his winning the Oscar is proving his possibility to achieve dreams, although for Whitaker acting “wasn’t in my reality” when he was just a young boy.
In his speech, the Best Actor of 2006 has thanked people of Uganda and also his ancestors for their continually guiding his steps.
Forest Whitaker has been chosen Best Actor from Leonardo DiCaprio (“Blood Diamond”), Ryan Gosling (“Half Nelson”), Peter O’Toole (“Venus”) and Will Smith (“The Pursuit of Happyness”).

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This year it has been Martin Scorsese’s lucky year. He has been nominated for many times, but only now he has finally won the Oscar. Scorsese has been first nominated back in 1981 for his directing “Raging Bull”, when he was beaten by Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People”. Next it was “The Last Temptation of Christ”, then “Goodfellas”, “Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator”.
So, after many unsuccessful nominations, Martin Scorsese has won the Oscar in the Best Director category. Now he has been the one who has beaten the others. Scorsese has won in front of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (“Babel”), Stephen Frears (“The Queen”), Paul Greengrass (“United 93”) and Clint Eastwood (“Letters from Iwo Jima”), although Eastwood seemed to be the favourite.
Scorsese’s “The Departed” has been also chosen the best in the Achievement in Film Editing category, out of the following movies: “Babel”, “Blood Diamond”, “Children of Men” and “United 93”.
“The Departed” has also been chosen winner in the Adapted Screenplay category, where it competed with “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, “Children of Men”, “Little Children” and “Notes on a Scandal”.
In the Original Screenplay category, the Oscar has gone to “Little Miss Sunshine”, a movie about a dysfunctional family who travel together in an old car for taking their child to a young-talents contest.

“The Lives of Others” Has Won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
The German movie “The Lives of Others” has won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, beating movies like “After the Wedding” (Danish movie), “Days of Glory (Indigenes)” (Algerian movie), “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Mexican movie) and “Water” (Canadian movie).
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s movie debut is about the system of observation in the former East Germany. The movie has also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film in Santa Monica, California.

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The message of the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” is the same of “Happy Feet”: a warning about global warming.
“An Inconvenient Truth” has won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Director and executive producer Davis Guggenheim has said that the film was made because of the former Vice President Al Gore, who delivers the film’s message.
The other films nominated at this category were “Iraq in Fragments”, “My Country, My Country”, “Deliver Us from Evil” and “Jesus Camp”.
The song “I Need to Wake Up” from the same film has also won an Oscar at the Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) category.
The music of Gustavo Santaolalla from “Babel” has gained an Oscar for Best Original Score.
At the Best Documentary Short Subject category “The Blood of Yingzhou” has been the winning film. “The Blood of Yingzhou” has been chosen out of the following movies: “Recycled Life”, “Rehearsing a Dream” and “Two Hands”.

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“Happy Feet” has won the big prize for Feature Animated Film. The other nominees in this category were “Monster House” and “Cars”.
The movie’s director is George Miller and he has been the one who has received the Oscar on stage.
“Happy Feet” is an allegoric feature animated film, from which children and parents should learn at least one thing: that global warming is a real threat for the human world.

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