Tonight, many of the year's most critically acclaimed films vie for Oscars, including Best Picture nominees There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Juno, Michael Clayton, and Atonement.
Among the favorites are No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, each with 8 nominations, and Atonement and Michael Clayton, each with 7 nominations. All four films are nominees for the Best Picture award, along with breakout hit Juno.
The telecast finished tonight, in eastern standard time; it often goes past midnight.
Nominees
Best Picture
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As English-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis took home his second Oscar for his leading role as a mean early oil enterpreneur in the motion picture There Will Be Blood, the top four honors for acting were swept away by European actors.
Earlier in the evening, Best Supporting Actress went to British actress Tilda Swinton, won for her portrayal of Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton. Spaniard Javier Bardem took Best Supporting Actor for his role of psychotic killer Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.
French actress Marion Cotillard took the B
In the year 2000, Dries Buytaert created Drupal, a freely licensed and open source tool to manage websites, as a bulletin board for his college dorm. Since Dries released the software and a community of thousands of volunteer developers have added and improved modules, Drupal has grown immensely popular. Drupal won the overall Open CMS Award in 2007, and some speakers in Drupal's spacious developer's room at FOSDEM 2008 were dreaming aloud of its world domination.
Buytaert (now 29) just finished his doctoral thesis and has founded the start-up
In a recent press conference by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China, Armorize Technologies disclosed details on web-phishing crimes related to the "Edison Chen photo scandal".
The scandal which has become a hot topic in the Chinese-language world - especially in Hong Kong - has seen some governments discipline the public for distributing these related photos.
According to Armorize Technologies, organized crime gangs have distributed malicious code recently masquerading as "Edison's photos" through phishing, e-mail hacking, and p
A war museum located in Norway has stated that Adolf Hitler has drawn characters from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and were found hidden inside a painting signed "A. Hitler".
Director William Hakvaag says that colored images of the characters Bashful and Doc along with the initials 'A.H.' appear hidden in a painting which tests say date back to 1940, sometime during World War II. Pinocchio is also reported to be among the characters drawn by Hitler. He says that he bought the painting for US$300 at an auction in Germany
The Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) has taken full responsibility for four people splattering latex paint on the front of British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell's office in Vancouver Thursday afternoon. They tried to break into the office and frightened staff.
The four were described as three women and one man wearing white painter suits and face masks. One was recording the event on video. A constituency assistant said they put posters on the outside of the building. They splattered the front of the building with paint.
The paint represented
Wikinews held an exclusive interview with James Burns, one of the candidates for the Libertarian Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Burns, the former chairman of the Nevada Libertarian Party, was asked if he thinks he has a good shot at winning the Libertarian nomination and ultimately the presidency. He replied, "My chances of winning are not all in my hands. I shall do my best, but it comes down to what others will do. What will you do?"
When asked about America's shrinking middle class he said, "The economic policies
Two pilots are uninjured after a United States B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base, a U.S. airbase on Guam. No one on the ground was injured as a result of the crash either.
According to a statement released by the U.S. Air Force, the two pilots from the 509th Bomb Wing were able to safely eject from the plane before it crashed into the ground at around 10:45 a.m. local time (00:45 GMT) and are said to be in good condition. Witnesses say a large plume of black smoke could be seen rising from the wreckage.
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There were 4 games played in the National Hockey League on February 22, 2008, all 8 teams being in a Western Conference race.
Game summaries
Edmonton Oilers @ Dallas Stars
Loui Eriksson scored his 7th goal of the season to put the Stars up first. Jere Lehtinen scored on a second period power play to put the Stars up by 2. Brenden Morrow scored on his own rebound off Mathieu Garon, who was replaced by Dwayne Roloson at the start of the third period. Lehtinen scored his second of the night to gave Dallas a 4 goal lead, a power play goal at
Discontent with parliament having to sit on a Friday without question time, the Australian opposition parties (comprising the Liberal/National coalition) vowed to continue disrupting Friday sittings until the government bows to its demands. The vow follows a sitting on Friday where the House of Representatives descended into chaos. The opposition says it is protesting against the Friday sittings, which were ordered by the Rudd government to "allow for greater scrutiny and accountability".
The opposition is furious that the sittings will not in
The US State Department is withdrawing non-essential personnel and family members of U.S. diplomats from Belgrade after Thursday's mob attack on the U.S. embassy there. Serbian authorities have pledged there will be no repeat of the incident, in which members of a crowd protesting U.S. Kosovo policy burned part of the embassy.
The draw-down of the diplomatic presence in Belgrade came at the request of U.S. ambassador to Serbia, Cameron Munter, who says the embassy cannot be sufficiently confident of the safety of its personnel after Thursday's
Wikinews held an exclusive e-mail interview with James Bruno, author of the political thrillers CHASM and Permanent Interests.
Bruno, a former diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, military intelligence officer and journalist, retired early to take up writing. He says that because of his experiences, his books "possess an authenticity rarely matched in the political thriller genre."
When asked about what inspires him to write he replied, "During twenty-five years of working on national security in the federal government, I regularly fa
