Oscars Summary

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Once again The Academy Award is over for this time. This year’s Academy Awards was very good. I realized very early in the show that I haven’t seen many of this years nominated movies and my predictions of who the winners would bee was not very correct.
Fortunatelly, it was a very good show better than last year. This year’s Oscar gave us a very unpredictable winner, Slumdog Millionaire that was given as many as eight oscars. I haven’t seen that movie yet but I didn’t think that it was worth eight oscars.
Anyhow I have made a summary of how many oscars the winners got.
A more detailed list can be found here

Here is a summery of the winners, by number of Oscars:

  • Slumdog Millionaire:

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  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

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  • Milk:

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  • The Dark Knight:

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  • The Reader:

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  • Departures:

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  • Smile Pink:

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  • Man on Wire:

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  • Spielzeugland (Toyland):

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  • The Duchess:

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  • La Maison en Petits Cubes:

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  • WALL-E:

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  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona:

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81st Academy Awards

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Once again it’s time for the event I’m looking forward to most a year. This year is the 81st Academy Award and it will be interesting to see Hugh Jackman as a Academy Award host, and as far as I can hear he can sing ^^.

Here is a list of the winners:

(The red marked is the ones I predicted right)

Best motion picture of the year

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

Performance by an actor in a leading role

* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

* Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Achievement in directing

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best foreign language film of the year

* “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

* “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman

Achievement in film editing

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Achievement in sound mixing

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

Achievement in sound editing

* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King

Achievement in visual effects

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron

Best documentary short subject

* “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan

Best documentary feature

* “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

* Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

Best live action short film

* “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in cinematography

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in makeup

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom

Achievement in costume design

* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor

Achievement in art direction

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

Best animated short film

* “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato

Best animated feature film of the year

* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Adapted screenplay

* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

* “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

* Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)


Well the list below is my list on witch I think will get an oscar (The bold ones is my predictions):

Performance by an actor in a leading role

* Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
* Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features) - Winner
* Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
* Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

* Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
* Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) - Winner
* Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

* Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
* Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) - Winner

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

* Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company) - Winner
* Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
* Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
* Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

* “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
* “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton - Winner

Achievement in art direction

* “Changeling” (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo - Winner
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
* “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

* “Changeling” (Universal), Tom Stern
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle – Winner

Achievement in costume design

* “Australia” (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor - Winner
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
* “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle - Winner

Best documentary feature

* “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
* “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
* “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
* “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn - Winner
* “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

* “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
* “The Final Inch” Vermilion Films in association with Google.org, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
* “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan - Winner
* “The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens - Winner

Best foreign language film of the year

* “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
* “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
* “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan - Winner
* “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
* “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

Achievement in makeup

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom - Winner
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
* “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Alexandre Desplat
* “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman - Winner
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

* “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
* “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar - Winner
* “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best motion picture of the year

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
* “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer - Winner

Best animated short film

* “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato - Winner
* “Lavatory – Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
* “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films), A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
* “Presto” (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
* “This Way Up” A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

* “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
* “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
* “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
* “The Pig” An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
* “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank - Winner

Achievement in sound editing

* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King - Winner
* “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
* “Wanted” (Universal), Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty - Winner
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
* “Wanted” (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron - Winner
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
* “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
* “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
* “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
* “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy - Winner

Original screenplay

* “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
* “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
* “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black - Winner
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

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Micro and nano blogging

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Micro-blogging
If you are familiar with blogging, I think you’ve also heard of/or encountered Micro-blogging. With a Micro-blog you have a limit of 140 characters to answer one of the most frequent question: “What are you doing?”. But as the micro-blogging has become increasingly popular and has more users so have the use of it changed. Instead of just typing what you are doing, the micro-blogs has become a tool to share links and tips with each other, and also a way to let people know when you have a new update on your blog. Plurk is one of these micro-blogs that let you choose if you want to tell people what you’re doing or maybe what you’re looking for or if you just want to share a link or a photo.

Here are few of many micro-blogs out in the bloggosphere:

  • TwitterThis is the original(?) and also the biggest of the micro-blogs on the net
  • BloggyThis is the Swedish counterpart to Twitter
  • JaikuThis was meant to be the “Twitter killer”
  • Plurk -On this micro-blog you can choose in which category your post belongs

Nano-blogging
This way of blogging I ran in to yesterday when I stumbled around on the net. A Nano-blog is similar to a micro-blog, but only that a nano-blog is even smaller than a micro-blog. Instead of a limit to 140 characters, you have a limit to one word to explain whatever you want to say. I think this is a quite fun idea and a little bit of a challenge. it may sound easy but try to explain i.e “I have a bad headache and don’t want to work any more today” with just a single word, it’s quite of a challenge but it’s fun. I think that many new and strange words will be born via Nano-blogging.. So far, I have only find a Swedish version of the Nano-blog, and the name of that site is Nanoblogg.se

You can find links to my pages at these services or watch my activites on my “social me” page.

Thanks for reading and you’re welcome to leave a comment

Further reading:

Twitter in plain English

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

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Werid Al – Albuquerque

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I think this is my new favorite song of Weird Al.. The lyrics is so funny.
What is your favorite Weird Al song?

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Epoch time 1234567890

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Epoch time 1234567890 on TwitPic

When the Epoch clock struck 1234567890, I think many computer geek was watching when this happened.
I watched it because for me, it was a…

“once in a lifetime experience!!!”

and life is too short to miss things like these..

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New Look

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As the Smurf above, I’ll be painting my blog

As you may see, my blog has a new look and it will keep changing for a while until I’m satified with look. If I’m right, it will take a while before I’ve made my decision. If you have any tip or suggestion on any design, please leave a comment or sent me a feedback to my e-mail: daniel@aspenback.se. Any feedback or comment are appriciated.

What I’m trying to achive is a plain and stylish look with a nice color mix, not too garish. I’ll try to add one of these jQuery menu effekts: http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites2. I hope I’ll make it… =)

Stay tuned for updates!

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Christan Bale uses his rage against David..

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This is a funny remix of Christian Bales rageattack and “David after Dentist”.. Poor little David, he’s too wasted to listen to Christian ^^

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Look up who is who on the socialweb

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The social web is getting bigger and bigger, and along with that it’s getting harder to kow who is adding you as a friend on FriendFeed or Twitter, untill now.

SocialWhois.com offers a free service that lets you look up a user on Twitter or FriendFeed, but the information about the user depends on what (s)he has added to the profile.

If you want to change your information on SocialWhois.com it’s very easy to do that, just go to socialwhois.com and search for your username on FriendFeed/Twitter. Then you have to confirm that it’s you by fill in your Twitter details or FriendFeed details. You can also, if you don’t want people to find you on Socialwhois, make you invisible on the page (but that just boooring and unsocial..)

Klick the link below and let people know who you are..
socialwhois.com

Further reading at: readwriteweb.com

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Funny commercial

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Pepsi Max – video powered by Metacafe

This is a really funny commercial for Pepsi Max, watch and laugh. At least I did ^^

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The Guarantor of Design

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We all have to take our responsibility for our decisions

We all have to take our responsibility for our decisions

Yesterday I had a presentation of the article “The Guarantor of Design” written by Erik Stolterman and Harold Nelson. It is a very interesting article in whitch they raises the ways a designer use to move the design responsible from the designer to an external gurantor.

i. e. Let’s say that I’ve made this site for a customer but the customer is not completely satisfied with the outcome. Instead of taking the fully responsible I’ll probably say that it looks like this because this is what you wanted it to look like.
In this case I’ve moved the responsibility to the customer and according to E. Stolterman and H. Nelson (2000) in this article, I’ve become more a facilitator than a designer.

As a designer you have the full responsible for every decisions you make in a desigprocess, but as the humans we are, we always find a way to move our responsibility to other things, also as a designer. But is this the right thing to do if you are a designer? Do you have the right to blame your decisions you make in a designprocess on other things or other people? What do you think?

In the article “The Guarantor of Design” they raise this subject, I really recommend you read this article. It’s really interesting and I think as a designer, this article will help you to become a better designer because you will be aware of things you maybe didn’t thought of before.

If you have any thoughts, you’re welcome to leave a comment below.

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