2009 Oscar Award Result

Great A.R.Rahman Won 2 Oscar Award

Complete list of winners and nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards.

BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“The Reader”
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Winner)

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie, “Changeling”
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep, “Doubt”
Kate Winslet, “The Reader” (Winner)

BEST ACTOR
Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn, “Milk” (Winner)
Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “Doubt”
Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (Winner)
Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Taraji P. Henson, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr., “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” (Winner)
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” (Winner)
Stephen Daldry, “The Reader”
David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon”
Gus Van Sant, “Milk”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Dustin Lance Black, “Milk” (Winner)
Courtney Hunt, “Frozen River”
Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Martin McDonagh, “In Bruges”
Andrew Stanton, and Jim Reardon; original story by Stanton and Pete Docter“WALL-E”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire” (Winner)
David Hare, “The Reader”
Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon”
John Patrick Shanley, “Doubt”
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Baader-Meinhof Complex” (Germany)
“The Class” (France)
“Departures” (Japan) (Winner)
“Revanche” (Austria)
“Waltz with Bashir” (Israel)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
“Bolt”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“WALL-E” (Winner)

BEST ART DIRECTION
“Changeling”
“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” (Winner)
“The Dark Knight”
“The Duchess”
“Revolutionary Road”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Changeling” Tom Stern
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Anthony Dod Mantle (Winner)
“The Reader,” Chris Menges
“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,” Claudio Miranda
“The Dark Knight,” Wally Pfister

BEST FILM EDITING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
“The Dark Knight,” Lee Smith
“Frost/Nixon,” Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
“Milk,” Elliot Graham
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Chris Dickens (Winner)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Australia,” Catherine Martin
“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,” Jacqueline West
“The Duchess,” Michael O’Conner (Winner)
“Milk”, Danny Glicker
“Revolutionary Road,” Albert Wolsky

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)”
“Encounters at the End of the World”
“The Garden”
“Man on Wire” (Winner)
“Trouble the Water”

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Jai Ho” (Winner)
“Slumdog Millionaire,” “O Saya”
“WALL-E,” “Down To Earth”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,” Alexandre Desplat
“Defiance,” James Newton Howard
“Milk,” Danny Elfman
“Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman (Winner)
“WALL-E,” Thomas Newman

BEST MAKEUP
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,”(Winner)
“The Dark Knight,”
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army,”

BEST SOUND EDITING
“The Dark Knight”(Winner)
“Iron Man”
“Slumdog Millionaire”
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

BEST SOUND MIXING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Winner)
“WALL-E”
“Wanted”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Winner)
“The Dark Knight”
“Iron Man”

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Auf der Strecke (On the Line)”
“Manon on the Asphalt”
“New Boy”
“The Pig”
“Spielzeugland (Toyland)” (Winner)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“La Maison en Petits Cubes” (Winner)
“Lavatory – Lovestory”
“Oktapodi”
“Presto”
“This Way Up”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
“The Conscience of Nhem En”
“The Final Inch”
“Smile Pinki” (Winner)
“The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306″

Sachin Tendulkar’s wax statue inaugurated at Madame Tussauds Museum

Sachin Tendulkar become the first Indian sportsman to be featured with wax statue inaugurated in Madame Tussauds  museum.

It is the first instance, that a celebrity’s wax statue has been unveiled outside London. It took the efforts of 20 people, four months and a budget of 150,000 pounds to realise the model.

A Garden For All The Family

There are two differing family views about a garden. Parents may regard it as a place to grow fruit, flowers and vegetables, and as somewhere to sit on hot summer days. Growing children, however, look upon it solely as their private playground. With some planning you can have an attractive, productive garden while still leaving play space for your children.

Adapting the garden

These are the basic features of your garden that will need attention:

Lawn – You will have to postpone any plans for a lawn of bowing-green standard while children want to use it as a cricket pitch or as a site for an Indian camp.

Garden pool – If you move into a house that already has a pool, drain it before your first child can walk.

Sandpit – Make a sandpit on well-drained soil in a sunny part of the garden. Cover the sand with polythene, held down with bricks or stones.

Flower beds – Avoid using stakes to support plants. A child dashing into the bed to pick up a ball may bend down suddenly and a ram a stake into his eye.

Greenhouses – Any gardener must be prepared for damage to glass from a mis-hit ball. You might, however, hang a naylon-mesh screen on stout supports on the most vulnerable side of the greenhouse.

Caring For A Sick Child

knowing your own child more intimately than anyone else can, you will be the first person to realise that he is unwell. Naturally you will feel concerned and will want to find out what is wrong. When a child is to be nursed through an illnes at home, his greatest need is the companionship of parent. uring the daytime, this will probably be provided by you. A baby or toddler wants warm physical contact and reassurance, so it is important to sit comfortably with him. Have some of his favourite “quiet” toys at hand; do not worry, however, if he shows no real interest in them, at this phase will pass. Often when a child is sick, housework suffers. Try not to worry over this. The house will still be there when your sick child is up and well again, but your chance to draw close to him at a critical time will be gone.

If the Heart Stops

Drowning, severe electric shock and suffocation can cause the heart to stop beating. Signs of a stopped heart are stopped breathing, a dusky-blue complextion, dilated pupils, and the absense of a pulse.

Check the pulse either at the wrist, or in the neck to one side of the Adam’s apple. If you have help, one person should give mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration and the other the heart massage, at the rate of one puff to five compressions. If you are on your own, do not give alternate puffs and compressions. In this way lose less precious time in changing over.

Immediate Action: Try to get the child breathing by means of mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. If you fail, continue trying to revive breathing, and at the same time begin to give heart massage.