Winslet to Keep Her Oscar In The Toilet
Kate Winslet is going to keep her Oscar in the toilet.
The "The Reader" star, who won the Best Actress Academy Award at last week's ceremony, is planning to display the famous statuette in an unusual place in her home.
Kate - who is married to Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes - said: "The statue is going in the toilet, next to Sam's!"
"I'm not taking it on a
Penelope Cruz Sleeps With Oscar Award
Penelope Cruz is sleeping with her Oscar award.
The Spanish star picked up the Best Supporting Actress prize for her role in "Vicky Christina Barcelona" on Sunday (February 22, 2009) and was so thrilled she took the famous golden statue to bed.
She told US TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey: "When they gave it to me I could not stop crying for 20 minutes."
"I could not
Penelope Cruz Wins Supporting Actress Oscar
Penelope Cruz won the first Academy Award of the night Sunday, claiming the supporting-actress honor as a tempestuous artist in Woody Allen’s Spanish romance “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
The win capped a big weekend for Cruz, fresh off her win Saturday for the same prize at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” features Cruz as an unstable Spaniard in a steamy three-way affair with
Heath Ledger Wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar
Heath Ledger will now forever be known as an Oscar winner.
Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as The Joker in “The Dark Knight.”
It is the first Oscar for the late actor. He was previously nominated for Best Actor for 2006’s “Brokeback Mountain.”
Heath’s father Kim Ledger, his mother Sally Ledger Bell and sister Kate Ledger accepted the award on the
Kate Winslet Wins First Career Oscar
After six nominations, British actress Kate Winslet finally picked up her first Academy Award on Sunday night.
Kate won the Oscar for Best Actress for playing Hanna Schmitz in “The Reader,” and she took the stage composed and poised.
“I’d be lying if I haven’t made a version of this speech before,” Kate said as she picked up her Oscar. “I think I was probably eight years
Jessica Biel Goes Geek at Sci-Tech Oscars
Actress Jessica Biel hosted the 81st Annual Science and Technical Oscars Saturday night, which honors the critical-yet-complicated side of movies most people just don't understand.
Catmull, president of Pixar Animation Studios, picked up the night's first - and only - Oscar statuette for his lifetime achievement in computer graphics. Pixar's WALL-E is up for this year's Oscar for best animated feature. In its 23-year history, the
Oscar Winner Faces 9/11 Backlash
Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard is facing criticism after footage of her apparently questioning the 9/11 attacks surfaced on the internet.
In a interview she reportedly gave a year ago, the star is shown commenting on the events of 11 September 2001.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," the Paris-born 32-year-old is seen saying in French.
Cotillard's best actress Oscar was one of several awards
Blooming Alba Gets Ready For Baby
Jessica Alba put her baby bump on show during a shopping trip in LA yesterday, trading in her glamorous Oscars look for street chic.
The Fantastic Four actress, who is rumoured to be expecting twins, kept it casual with a full length black summer dress and flip flops as she hit the stores with her fiancé Cash Warren.
Jessica, who recently revealed she is in her "third