Hollywood big stars left out of the Oscars by Zuzana Zelenakova

The Oscar ceremony is second most watched event annually, the first one being the Super Bowl. However, the 80th Academy Awards had only 32 million viewers. Why the word only? Well, in 1998 with "Titanic" winning the best film award about 55 million people tuned in. This year's Oscars were a bit special though. Majority of winners were outside of the United States and so big stars of Hollywood fell flat this time. But Joel and Ethan Coen who are from Minnesota we must exclude from this. As expected their drama "No country for old men" based on Cormac McCarthy's praised novel won the best picture category, and the best director, adapted screenplay and the best supporting actor in addition. The latter prize went to Spanish actor Javier Bardem in the role of a creepy assasin. He was the first Spanish who won Oscar in 80-year Academy Awards history. An Irish actor Daniel Day Lewis won the best actor category for another one of his negative characters in "There will be blood". Best actress went to French performer Marion Cotillard for brilliant portrayal of famous chanteuse Edith Piaf in "La vie en rose". British actress living in Scotland Tilda Swinton got the best supporting actress prize for the role in "Michael Clayton". "Hollywood is built on Europeans," she said."Go back and look. I'm just really said I couldn't give my speech in Gaelic. Don't tell everybody. We're everywhere." Recently unknown Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard took the best original song Oscar for their duet "Falling slowly" from low-budget movie "Once". Box office hit "Ratatouille" became the best animated film. Austrian "The Counterfeiters" from Second World War period was the best foreign language film.

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by Zuzana Zelenakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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