American dream, made in India.

At the Oscars, Hollywood finally presented itself again in fine form: emotional, modern - and surprisingly global. The main prize went to the Indian Shakers film "Slumdog Millionaire" - and the Germans got an Oscar, with whom she had not expected.

 

"Bloody wonderful!" With this very British statement said Danny Boyle is not only his victory in the category "Best Director", but also the 81st Oscars, the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Indeed, it was realized the venerable Academy Awards little again. After rate-flops and boredom allegations against up to four-hour show monster, the organizers had not much to lose and turned neatly on the adjuster.

Even the scenery betrayed the courage to change: a huge silver glitter curtain, in the semi-hung over the events, provided elegant glamor, while the bottom part of the stage directly into the auditorium vorwagte, as usual at rock concerts usual. The stage floor itself was an organic blue lines running through. Tradition meets modernity, so this could be summed optical concept, which is also slightly different approach in the presentation and, ultimately, in the awarding of the Oscars continued.

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Host Hugh Jackman did not just good for him typical figure, but was also a passable singing in his opening presentation, the major nominated films to an old-fashioned musical numbers summed - and that even the somewhat flabbergasted Anne Hathaway pulled from the audience. The fact that something is happening spontaneously, is an illusion, but still had the unusual interaction refreshing. The limited in recent years, finally, the feist grinning Jack Nicholson with changing sunglasses to show. Very pleasant, that you switched to this little running gag this time had become abandoned.

Lacrimal gland total

Old braids were cut off. For example, accounted for the speech by the Academy president (he was allowed only once in the round win), and the deaths last year were from a live singing accompanied number. While Queen Latifah long evening dress in the Broadway classic "I'll Be Seeing You" anstimmte, swam behind her on a black screen the images of the deceased as a Flickr photo cloud over - the show industry enters the electronic age.

To the show to give a more cohesive, it was also invented, the awarding of prizes by analogy to the emergence of a movie to make, so after a little story was told. The best idea but it was the actors, each nominated a mentor to allocate, on the stage of a brief assessment of the candidates vortrug. With this effective innovation played the Academy has always been their greatest asset once correctly: Hardly an industry dominated the sustained pressure on the lacrimal gland as well as Hollywood. And when a heavyweight Robert De Niro as a so-humorous pathos as charged homage to "his friend" Sean Penn believes, for its representation of gay politician Harvey Milk was nominated and won, it remains just barely a dry eye.

There were many such emotional moments in this three and a half hours with fairly slender award, from the flaming Plea of victorious
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ( "Milk") for the equality of homosexuals, on the moving speeches of thanks of the survivors posthumously excellent Joker actor Heath Ledger ( "The Dark Knight"), to the performances of Oscar-winners Penélope Cruz and Kate Winslet , both with the text and - jokingly - threatened with impotence wrestled. Another highlight of feelings With a nod in the direction of his favorites as a set but defeated fellow Sean Penn said in his acceptance speech: "Mickey Rourke will rise again."

Pleite for (almost) all Germans

The awarding of the prizes offered few surprises - but not what Kate Winslet: the British woman was nominated five times for her empathetic and representation of the body emphasized uneducated camp warden Hanna Schmitz in The readers' set - and rightly won against already oscardekorierte competitors such as Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. Anne Hathaway and Melissa Leo were both Oscar-novices. Your time will come, this time, the hour of the fearless "Titanic" survivor in the past year as the frustrated wife in "Revolutionary Road" convincing.

Sean Penn has already made a major roll Oscar (for "Mystic River"), it was his victory over Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella and Mickey Rourke eventually earned: The method actor not only changed his appearance, but his entire body language to the charismatic gay Harvey Milk on the canvas to life. Robert De Niro brought Penn theatrical transformation from macho to pithy jovial Homo witty in his speech to the point: "How the hell do you have in the past few years all these hetero roles get it?"

OSCAR 2009 - THE WINNER

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The clearing: Eight Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire

Other winners:

Best Animated Film: "Wall-E"
Best Actress: Kate Winslet "The readers'
Best Actor: Sean Penn "Milk"
Best Actress (supporting role): Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Best Actor (supporting role): Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Best Costumes: "The Duchess"
Three Oscars, "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"
Best Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire"

Mickey Rourke is not the only one on this Monday with a hangover is to wake up. The losers of the evening include Oscar
unfortunately, the German filmmaker, except one, which nobody had really expected: The
Berlin Jochen Alexander Frey won thanks to his short film "Toy Land", while grandees such as Werner Herzog (documentary "Encounters at the End of the World") and Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel ( "The Baader Meinhof Complex") in their categories empty box. The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film goes to Japan to Yojiro Takitas film "Departures," a meditation on dying.

Life and death, that would really good to over-fit the show favorites:
For 13 Oscars was "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" nominated, he has won only three awards in addition to categories. The opulent, very imaginative literature and stirred by David Fincher with Brad Pitt as a man in the body of an old and born in the course of his life is getting younger, the big loser in this Oscar-night. Proponents of a more than Bolly-Hollywood-inspired story about an Indian boy who is in the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire" players and given the chance, the misery of the ghetto to escape - and the love of his life in the arms to close. "Slumdog Millionaire" (Germany Start date: March 19) was the second big favorite in advance of the ceremony and led eight of his ten nominations, including Oscars for best director and best film.

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It is a European-dominated world cinema, which this evening clearly on the old Hollywood-style triumph. The social change that is Barack Obama's election as U.S. president takes, has - consciously or unconsciously - even at the Oscars first traces left behind. "Benjamin Button" is, despite all the brilliance of the good old, something bad always sedate American narrative cinema, during the fast, sleek, with British money-financed and shot in Mumbai "Slumdog Millionaire" the eternal story of the American Dream from a global perspective tells .

From dishwasher to millionaire? This is now also in the Third World, not only in the formerly new. From the Oscars, which will be happy to Gralshüterei tend to have so much clairvoyance did not expect. How beautiful, if you will be surprised. Bloody wonderful!

Oscars 2009 - Winners

Best Film
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best foreign language film
  "Okuribito" (Japan)

Best Animated Film
  "Wall-E"

Best Actress (leading role)
  Kate Winslet ( "The readers')

Best Actor (main role)
  Sean Penn ( "Milk")

Best Actress (supporting role)
  Penélope Cruz ( "Vicky Cristina Barcelona")

Best Actor (supporting role)
  Heath Ledger ( "The Dark Knight")

Best Director
  Danny Boyle ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Original Screenplay
  Dustin Lance Black ( "Milk")

Best adapted screenplay
  Simon Beaufoy ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Camera
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Cut
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Sound
  "The Dark Knight"

Best Sound Effects
  "Slumdog Millionaire"

Best Soundtracks
  A.R. Rahman ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Film Song
  Jai Ho ( "Slumdog Millionaire")

Best Costumes
  "The Duchess"

Best mask
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Equipment (Scene)
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Special Effects
  "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Documentary
  "Man on Wire"

Best Short Documentary
  "Smile Pinki"

Best short animated film
  "La Maison en Petits Cubes"

Best short film Real
  "Toy Land" (Thanks Jochen Alexander Frey, Germany)

Honorary Oscar
  Jerry Lewis