28 फ़र॰ 2012
कहीं आपकी दवाई में जानवरों की हड्डी तो नहीं?
क्या हम ज्यादा दकियानूसी हो गए?
26 फ़र॰ 2012
Dujardin wins best Oscar actor
French actor Jean Dujardin has won the best actor Oscar for silent film The Artist, while Michel Hazanavicius was named best director for the same movie.
Hazanavicius thanked the dog, Uggie, who appears in the movie but added: "I don't think he cares".
Meanwhile, Christopher Plummer has become the oldest Oscar winner at 82 for his performance in Beginners.
Plummer was widely tipped to win for his portrayal of a father who comes out as a gay man after his wife dies.
The Canadian actor thanked his real-life wife who, he said, deserved "the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day".
The Help's Octavia Spencer won the best supporting actress Oscar and gave an emotional acceptance speech.
Actor in a Leading Role
- Demián Bichir in "A Better Life"
- George Clooney in "The Descendants"
- Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
- Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
- Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
- Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
- Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
- Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
- Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Actress in a Leading Role
- Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
- Viola Davis in "The Help"
- Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
- Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
- Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
- Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
- Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids"
- Janet McTeer in "Albert Nobbs"
- Octavia Spencer in "The Help"
Animated Feature Film
- "A Cat in Paris" Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
- "Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
- "Kung Fu Panda 2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- "Puss in Boots" Chris Miller
- "Rango" Gore Verbinski
Art Direction
- "The Artist"
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan - "Hugo"
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo - "Midnight in Paris"
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil - "War Horse"
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Cinematography
- "The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
- "Hugo" Robert Richardson
- "The Tree of Life" Emmanuel Lubezki
- "War Horse" Janusz Kaminski
Costume Design
- "Anonymous" Lisy Christl
- "The Artist" Mark Bridges
- "Hugo" Sandy Powell
- "Jane Eyre" Michael O'Connor
- "W.E." Arianne Phillips
Directing
- "The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
- "The Descendants" Alexander Payne
- "Hugo" Martin Scorsese
- "Midnight in Paris" Woody Allen
- "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick
Documentary (Feature)
- "Hell and Back Again"
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner - "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front"
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman - "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory"
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky - "Pina"
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel - "Undefeated"
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas
Documentary (Short Subject)
- "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement"
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin - "God Is the Bigger Elvis"
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson - "Incident in New Baghdad"
James Spione - "Saving Face"
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy - "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom"
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
Film Editing
- "The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
- "The Descendants" Kevin Tent
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
- "Hugo" Thelma Schoonmaker
- "Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
- "Bullhead" Belgium
- "Footnote" Israel
- "In Darkness" Poland
- "Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
- "A Separation" Iran
Makeup
- "Albert Nobbs"
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin - "The Iron Lady"
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
- "The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams
- "The Artist" Ludovic Bource
- "Hugo" Howard Shore
- "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Alberto Iglesias
- "War Horse" John Williams
Music (Original Song)
- "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets"
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie - "Real in Rio" from "Rio"
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown; Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Best Picture
- "The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
- "The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
- "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
- "The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
- "Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
- "Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
- "Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
- "The Tree of Life" Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill, Producers
- "War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
- "Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
- "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
- "La Luna" Enrico Casarosa
- "A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
- "Wild Life" Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Short Film (Live Action)
- "Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
- "Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
- "The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
- "Time Freak" Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
- "Tuba Atlantic" Hallvar Witzø
Sound Editing
- "Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
- "Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
- "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
- "War Horse" Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Sound Mixing
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson - "Hugo"
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley - "Moneyball"
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco and Ed Novick - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin - "War Horse"
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson - "Hugo"
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning - "Real Steel"
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg - "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
- "The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
- "Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
- "The Ides of March" Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
- "Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin
- "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
- "The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
- "Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
- "Margin Call" Written by J.C. Chandor
- "Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
- "A Separation" Written by Asghar Farhadi
'MPs are robbers and murderers', Parliament has become a problem for this country : Kejriwal
NEW DELHI
After lying low following Anna Hazare's disastrous fast in Mumbai, his key aide, Arvind Kejriwal, was back to courting headline-grabbing controversy by making distasteful and outrageous comments against MPs.
Speaking before a sparse crowd of about 2,000 people in Greater Noida on Sunday, Kejriwal called MPs 'robbers', 'murderers' and 'rapists', and went to the extent of saying that Parliament had become a 'problem' for the country.
Political parties, cutting across ideological affiliations, were quick to condemn his verbal attack and said it amounted to a breach of parliamentary privilege.
'All types of elements have entered Parliament, including robbers, murderers and rapists,' Kejriwal declaimed.
'Parliament has become the biggest problem of the country. It is now essential to change its character,' he added.
Kejriwal, obviously undeterred by the breach of privilege notices issued (and then withdrawn) not so long ago to Team Anna members, aired his opinions during an 'awareness summit' for voters organised by a local organisation called Jan Sashaktikaran.
And he did not stop with just a couple of observations. Urging UP voters to elect legislators who were in favour of a strong Lokpal, Kejriwal said, 'I am sure after these elections the people will lose and these parties and their leaders will win. We have always got a loot-tantra.' He termed the probes against politicians accused of being involved in corruption scandals as 'just a drama'.
Suresh Kalmadi, A. Raja and Kanimozhi, Kejriwal said, 'are sent to jail for just a few days and come out very quickly'.
The CBI, he added, had become a tool in the government's hands. The Congress reacted by saying the outburst wasn't worthy of a reaction.
'Such intemperate comments do not have to be dignified with a reaction,' party spokesperson Manish Tiwari said.
The BJP, which had tacitly backed Team Anna's campaign, was furious at Kejriwal crossing the line.
'I haven't seen his comments, but if he has made such remarks, it's unfortunate,' party spokesperson and MP Prakash Javadekar said.
'It could be seen as an attempt to denigrate Parliament and MPs will raise this matter during the upcoming Budget session. People who denigrate Parliament are denigrating democracy,' he added.
Similar strong sentiments were expressed by veteran CPI leader and MP Gurudas Dasgupta, who said, 'Kejriwal's comments were in bad taste. Such statements are unknown in the vocabulary of a gentleman. This is nothing but an attempt to denigrate Parliament.'
Kejriwal, though, didn't seem to think so. Lashing out at MPs for 'cheating the nation on the issue of Jan Lokpal', the Team Anna core committee member called for a 'revolution'.
He said, 'We need a complete revolution in the country and a change of the system.'
Unrelenting in his attack on the government, Kejriwal said, 'The government's talk of giving constitutional status (to the Lokpal) means nothing because it has no power, not even investigative powers. The government's version of the Bill is like a dead body being offered floral tributes.'
Team Anna members have been addressing rallies in Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections are underway. In the past, their main target has been the UPA, particularly the Congress.
Even before the elections in UP were announced, they had declared their plan to campaign against the Congress.
But on Saturday, Kejriwal, like the proverbial loose cannon, directed his barbs at all parties and their leaders.
'People like Lalu, who ridiculed Anna and his health in Parliament, did not insult him but the entire country. These people have become 'kings' and have completely forgotten that they are actually public servants,' Kejriwal said.
'Who says only a rich man pays taxes? Even a poor man earning Rs 20 per day or Rs 600 per month pays 10 per cent of his income as tax. That means even a beggar pays Rs 60 of his earnings as tax. It is with such money that Lalu and Rabri are earning money and sitting inside air-conditioned roomed,' Kejriwal declared amid applause from the gathering.
He said Team Anna had lost faith in the entire political class and did not expect them to work for development in the state.
'The Congress wants to have UP, but they already have the entire country with them. What have they done there? What has the BJP done in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh?' he asked.
He then directed his attack at the regional parties. "The SP was here until five years ago and they were involved in a Rs 2 lakh crore ration theft and pilfering thousands of crores of rupees in police recruitments. The BSP remained with you for 10 years and they looted you," Kejriwal alleged.
The Samajwadi Party, incidentally, also indicated that it was planning a breach of privilege move against Kejriwal.
The Team Anna member, meanwhile, pointed out how all parties and candidates were striving to get the better of each other by making false assurances and lampooning rivals, but none talked sincerely about improving law and order and reining in corruption.
His colleague, Manish Sishodia, added: 'All parties are the same. Mulayam Singh wants to give free laptops to children, but there is no power in the state to charge these laptops. They want to distribute free laptops so that they can pocket commissions on each.'
Brave words, but will the targets of their attack let Team Anna get away with such pronouncements? The Budget session will have the answer.