While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been celebrating film’s best and brightest for more than 80 years, the glamour we associate with the Oscars truly started in the 1950s, when stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Janet Leigh brought high style to the ceremony. Since then, the red carpet has been a can’t-miss staple of the evening, and Hollywood’s hottest stars work with fashion designers, wardrobe stylists, jewelers, hairstylists and makeup artists to create looks they hope will go down in fashion history. This year’s show was no exception, and high-wattage stars such as Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet and Natalie Portman walked the red carpet in stunning couture gowns
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‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins best picture
"Slumdog Millionaire," the little film about a poverty-raised teaboy who goes on a game show as a way to find his lost love, won best picture Sunday night, earning a total of eight Oscars at the 81st annual Academy Awards.
Ledger wins best supporting actor
Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday. His parents and sister accepted the award for the actor, who died in January 2008
Mike Myers, Paris Hilton big ‘winners’ at Razzies
It was a night for neon pink bowties and words like "disaster" and "monstrosity." It was not the night, however, to be Paris Hilton, Mike Myers or Uwe Boll.
Army medic gets life in killing of 4 Iraqis
A U.S. Army medic was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering four detainees in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman in Germany said
Mayhem of meeting ‘Mr. India’
It’s been said that India is full of beggars. I became one of them, before I even arrived My assignment – for CNN’s ‘My City_ My Life’ travel program – was to fly to Mumbai to film with the Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor
Hugh Jackman ready to be ‘drunk and nude’ at the Oscars
This year, the Oscars are on Hugh Jackman’s shoulders. The Australian actor, who earned rave reviews for his hosting of the Tonys, now has the Academy Awards to contend with
When Health Coverage Determines How Much Pain You Feel
Close readers may have wondered how Octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman was able to manage multiple pregnancies and the resulting child rearing while suffering from a back injury so serious that she has been unable to return to work and collected $167,000 in workers compensation in recent years.
Agreement reached on proposed stimulus bill
Negotiators have resolved the differences between the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill, Sen. Harry Reid said Wednesday
Scores killed in Australia’s ‘worst fires’
At least 108 people have been killed in Australian wildfires that the country’s public broadcaster Sunday called the worst in the nation’s history. Kendra Jackson, leading senior constable of Australia’s Victoria state police, told CNN the latest death toll Sunday. The number of dead is now far higher than the toll of 75 in the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983