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Complete list of winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

Best Motion Picture: "No Country for Old Men."

Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood."

Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose."

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men."

Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."

Foreign Language Film: "The Counterfeiters," Austria.

Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno."

Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille."

Art Direction: "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

Cinematography: "There Will Be Blood."

Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
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Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli.

Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Costume: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."

Documentary Feature: "Taxi to the Dark Side."

Documentary Short Subject: "Freeheld."

Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Makeup: "La Vie en Rose."

Animated Short Film: "Peter & the Wolf."

Live Action Short Film: "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (`The Mozart of Pickpockets')."

Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass."
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Supermodel Heidi Klum really got her teeth into a TV interview with chatshow host Jay Leno - by clamping her gnashers around his famous lantern jaw.

The catwalk queen announced she wanted to chomp on Leno’s jaw as they discussed her biting comic Will Ferrell in a saucy magazine photoshoot.

Heidi and Ferrell posed biting chunks out of each other for Sports Illustrated and jealous Leno moaned: “You’ve never once asked me to bite you.”

The German beauty told him: “I would love to bite you.

“You have one real big thing I would love to bite.

“He has this great chin you can just bite.”

And Heidi was as good as her word when Leno’s ‘Tonight Show’ returned from a commercial break to find her apparently biting into the host’s chin.

Leno joked: “Last time I got that it cost me $300.”

Heidi told Leno she ordered ‘Semi-Pro’ star Ferrell to bite her for real during their shoot, even though it was the first time they had met. She said: “I was like, ‘Don’t pretend or no-one will believe us.’”
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1. Best Dressed Star — Katherine Heigl dazzled in crimson Escada, paired with a Jimmy Choo clutch and heels. She worked two of the big trends — a one shouldered gown and the color red, which dominated the red carpet.

2. Renee Zellweger — sparkled in a shimmery silver hand embroidered gown by her go-to designer- Carolina Herrera.

3. French actress Marion Cotillard can add an Access Hollywood Best Dressed award to her Oscar win. She stunned in her custom made Jean Paul Gaultier white mermaid gown. Tres chic!

4. Penelope Cruz radiated old Hollywood glamour in her feathered navy Chanel Haute Couture organza gown, designed especially for her by Karl Lagerfeld.

5. Heidi Klum also worked the red dress trend, accessorizing her John Galliano for Dior gown with a major beehive bun. She joked that she hid her blackberry and some snacks in there for when she gets hungry!

And special honors go to Nicole Kidman in Balenciaga, Jessica Alba in Marchesa and Cate Blanchett in Dries Van Noten. These three pregnant stars deserve a shout out - they all looked beautiful.

As for the worst dressed - Helen Mirren's custom red duchess satin Georges Chakra gown was OK… but the Swarovski crystal sleeves look like they were attached as an afterthought.

And I am still scratching my head over Julie Christie, who accessorized her gown with long pink gloves that went up past her elbows. Tilda Swinton may have won Oscar Gold, but her unflattering black Lanvin sack dress was not a winner. In fact, it looked like a garbage bag. Throw this one out in the trash.
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John Travoltas's wife Kelly Preston looks gorgeous but what happened to John Travolta's hair? Anyone know?

1929: First Academy Awards held at Hollywood's Hotel Roosevelt. WWI drama "Wings" wins Best Picture.

1930: Best Actor George Arliss ("Disraeli") and Best Actress Norma Shearer ("The Divorcée") pose with their statuettes two days before the banquet.

1931: Ten-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in "Skippy," falls asleep during the ceremony.

1932: Academy members pay $10 to attend the banquet. It sells out, anyway.

1933: The Academy skips a year in order to honor films made during the previous calendar year.

1934: Walt Disney calls his statuette "Oscar" while accepting Best Short Subject for "The Three Little Pigs." Insiders used the nickname after Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, on first seeing the trophy, said, "It's looks like Uncle Oscar." The Academy adopts the name in

1939.

1935: Bette Davis snubbed for "Of Human Bondage." Ensuing outrage inspires the Academy to allow write-in candidates.

1936: In an Oscar first, Best Writer winner Dudley Nichols ("The Informer") refuses his award in solidarity with striking unions.

1937: Best Supporting Actor and Actress are recognized for the first time. But winners get plaques instead of statuettes.

1938: Spencer Tracy's Best Actor Oscar for "Captains Courageous" is incorrectly engraved "Dick Tracy."

1939: Shirley Temple stands on a chair to present Walt Disney with an honorary award for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

1940: Hattie McDaniel breaks the color barrier. She's the first African American to attend the Oscars and the first to win, as Best Supporting Actress in "Gone With the Wind."

1941: Orson Welles becomes the first simultaneous nominee for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay for "Citizen Kane." He wins as a writer.

1942: As a symbolic gesture to the war effort, Oscar statuettes are made of plaster.

1943: The show is held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the Awards' first public venue.

1944: Best Supporting Actor and Actress receive full-sized Oscars instead of a miniature on a plaque.

1945: The Best Picture category is limited to just five nominees instead of as many as 10. Other categories soon follow.

1946: For the first time, nominated songs, including winner "It Might As Well Be Spring" from "State Fair," are performed at the ceremony.

1947: For the first time, only Academy members can cast ballots.

1948: Foreign films finally get their due, as Italy's "Shoe-Shine" picks up an honorary award.

1949: Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" becomes the first foreign film to win Best Picture. Olivier wins Best Actor.

1950: The Academy begins numbering statuettes, beginning with 501. "Mighty Joe Young" wins that one, for Best Special Effects.

1951: Marlene Dietrich steals the show when, ascending stairs to present an award, she flashes her fabulous gams.

1952: Marlon Brando's breakout role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is usurped for Best Actor by Humphrey Bogart in "The African Queen."

1953: An estimated 43 million viewers tune in for the two-hour broadcast.

1954: Brando finally wins Best Actor for "On the Waterfront," beating out, among others, Bogart in "The Caine Mutiny."

1955: Best Actress nominee for "A Star Is Born," Judy Garland is unable to attend because she's in the hospital - as the mother of day-old Joey Luft.

1956: "Marty" becomes the first TV-to-motion-picture transfer to win Best Picture.

1957: For the first time, every Best Picture nominee is in color. "Around the World in 80 Days" wins.

1958: Miyoshi Umeki becomes the first Asian actress to win an Oscar, as Supporting Actress in "Sayonara."

1959: "Gigi" breaks the record for most Oscars for a single film: nine.

1960: "Ben-Hur" shatters the record from the previous year, claiming 11 Oscars.

1961: The Oscar broadcast moves from NBC to ABC.

1962: Sophia Loren delivers the first foreign-language performance to win Best Actress in "Two Women."

1963: At 16, Best Supporting Actress Patty Duke is the youngest Oscar winner for "The Miracle Worker."

1964: Sidney Poitier is the first black man to win an Oscar, as Best Actor in "Lilies of the Field."

1965: All four acting awards are won by non-Americans: Rex Harrison ("My Fair Lady"), Julie Andrews ("Mary Poppins"), Peter Ustinov ("Topkapi") and Lila Kedrova ("Zorba the Greek").

1966: "The Sound of Music" wins Best Picture, but star Julie Andrews loses her bid for a second Best Actress award to Julie Christie in "Darling."

1967: Sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave are both up for Best Actress (for "Morgan!" and "Georgy Girl," respectively). But Elizabeth Taylor beats them both for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

1968: Bob Hope emcees the awards for the 14th straight year.

1969: First worldwide telecast goes out to 37 nations.

1970: Cary Grant receives an honorary Oscar. He'd been nominated twice, but never won.

1971: Best Picture winner "Midnight Cowboy" is the first and only X-rated film to be honored.

1972: The awards' golden sheen wears thin. The LA Times claims host Bob Hope is "excruciatingly unfunny" and Variety says, "At 43, Oscar looked tired."

1973: Marlon Brando sends Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his Best Actor award for "The Godfather" to protest film portrayals of Native Americans.

1974: As David Niven introduces Elizabeth Taylor, a streaker runs across the stage, flashing a peace sign.

1975: "The Godfather: Part II" is the first sequel to win Best Picture.

1976: Best Actress for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Louise Fletcher is the first Oscar recipient to use sign language at the podium.

1977: "Network" star Peter Finch receives the first posthumous Best Actor award. He died of a heart attack two months before the awards.

1978: "Annie Hall" is the first comedy to win Best Picture since "Tom Jones" in 1964.

1979: Johnny Carson makes his first appearance as host of the Oscars.

1980: Sally Field wins Best Actress for "Norma Rae," but later jokes that "the Academy is slacking off in the class quotient - after all, I won."

1981: The awards are postponed for 24 hours after the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

1982: Katharine Hepburn's fourth win, as Best Actress for "On Golden Pond" makes her the all-time Academy Award champ.

1983: German sub flick "Das Boot" gets six nominations, the most ever for a foreign film. It wins nothing.

1984: Oscar's longest show, at three hours and 42 minutes. Says Shirley MacLaine: "This show has been as long as my career."

1985: Steven Spielberg rages when the Awards producers consider barring his unwed and pregnant lover, Amy Irving, from appearing on the show.

1986: With 11 nominations and no wins, "The Color Purple" joins

1977's "The Turning Point" as the two most nominated nonwinning films in the Academy's history.

1987: Nominated for Best Actress in "Aliens," Sigourney Weaver is the first female action star to be recognized by the Academy.

1988: The ceremony moves to LA's Shrine Auditorium. Drivers get lost on the way and many stars, including pregnant Glenn Close, dash through traffic to get inside on time.

1989: The phrase "and the winner is" is replaced with "and the Oscar goes to."

1990: "Driving Miss Daisy" is the first film to win Best Picture without a Best Director nod since "Grand Hotel" in 1932.

1991: "Dances With Wolves" is the first Western to win Best Picture since "Cimmaron" in 1931.

1992: Upon winning Best Supporting Actor for "City Slickers," Jack Palance does one-arm push-ups.

1993: Al Pacino is the first actor to be nominated for leading ("Scent of a Woman") and supporting ("Glengarry Glen Ross") roles. He wins Best Actor.

1994: "Schindler's List" is the first (mostly) black-and-white film to win Best Picture since "The Apartment"

1961.

1995: Elton John and Tim Rice's three "Lion King" songs are the most ever nominated in a single year. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" wins.

1996: In "Dead Man Walking," Susan Sarandon is the first Best Actress winner to portray a nun.

1997: With nine Oscars, "The English Patient" dominates, but stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas go home empty-handed.

1998: "Titanic" ties "Ben-Hur" as the most-honored film in history with 11 awards. None of its actors wins.

1999: For the first time, the ceremony is held on Sunday.

2000: Angelina Jolie wins Best Supporting Actress for "Girl, Interrupted," making her and Jon Voight the only father-daughter Oscar winners other than Henry and Jane Fonda.

2001: For the first time in 51 years, the Best Picture winner ("Gladiator") doesn't pick up an additional award for either Best Director or Best Screenplay.

2002: Halle Berry becomes the first African-American woman to win Best Actress for "Monster's Ball."

2003: All five of the Best Picture nominees were released in the last two weeks of 2002 (December 18 or after). "Chicago" wins.

2004: Billy Crystal hosts the awards for the eighth time.

2005: Clint Eastwood and Albert Ruddy share the Best Picture Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood had been the presenter for Best Picture when Ruddy won his first Oscar as producer of "The Godfather" in 1973.

2006: With "Good Night, and Good Luck," and "Syriana," George Clooney is the first nominee for Best Director and Supportng Actor for different films. He wins Best Supporting Actor.

2007: With 71 letters and 12 words, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" has the longest title of any film ever nominated.

Sources: "65 Years of Oscar," by Robert Osborne, "Inside Oscar" by Damien Bona and Mason Wiley, "The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History," by Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza

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A European invasion swept into the 80th Academy Awards Sunday night, nabbing England's Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor spot and Spain's Javier Bardem Best Supporting Actor.

But big surprises came as France's Marion Cotillard got Best Actress and Brit Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress.

Yet American-bred grittiness still grabbed the top spots, as long-predicted favorites Joel and Ethan Coen won Best Director for "No Country for Old Men," which also got Best Picture.

"We're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox," said Joel Coen, the (slightly) more talkative of the quirky, dry-witted siblings.

He said the movies the brothers make now "don't feel much different" than the ones they made as kids growing up in Minnesota.

Among the actors, a classic-looking Cotillard said through tears, "Thank you, life! Thank you, love! It is true that there is magic in this city!" She won for portraying Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose."

The first acting award of the night went to Spanish actor Bardem, the dead-on favorite by everyone for his role as a chilling killer in "No Country for Old Men."

He dedicated his award to his mother, who was in the audience, ending his speech with a heartfelt dedication to her in Spanish.

Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for playing a coolly calculating corporate lawyer in "Michael Clayton." She beat safe-bet nominees Cate Blanchett ("I'm Not There") and Ruby Dee ("American Gangster"). Day-Lewis, the no-doubt winner since "There Will be Blood" opened, said, "This is the closest I'll get to a knighthood," as he received his award from last year's Best Actress winner for "The Queen," Helen Mirren. Even a French rat was victorious, as Pixar's "Ratatouille" won its expected Best Animated Film statuette.

"Falling Slowly" from the Irish romance "Once" won Best Song. The weepy, smiling faces of musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who starred in the film, earned rousing applause. "We made this film two years ago, it took us three weeks to make, and we never thought we'd come into a room like this and be in front of you people," said Hansard. "This is amazing." After Hansard spoke, the duo was hurried off the stage by the Oscar musical cues; a few minutes later, a shyly smiling Irglova was welcomed back onstage by host Jon Stewart to give her part of the speech, a plea for artists to "keep dreaming."

Teams from overseas even triumphed with technical awards. "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" won for Best Costume Design; "La Vie en Rose" won Best Makeup; "The Golden Compass" won Best Visual Effects; Best Art Direction went to "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The Coens won Best Adapted Screenplay for "No Country." And stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Juno") strutted up to the stage, complete with tiger-print dress and girl-power tattoo on her right arm, to accept the award for Best Original Screenplay, thanking her family for "loving me exactly the way I am."

Austria's "The Counterfeiters" won Best Foreign Language Film. "There Will Be Blood" won Best Cinematography. Dario Marianelli's music for "Atonement" won Best Score. Despite the international wins, New York was well-represented by several nominees, as well as the IMPACT Repertory Theater, a kids' music group from Harlem whose voices filled the Kodak Theatre as they performed Best Song nominee "Raise it Up," from "August Rush."
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Kevin Federline's custody battle with ex-wife Britney Spears seems to be doing wonders for the rapper's fledgling acting career.

After appearing briefly in episodes of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and 'One Tree Hill', Federline's career really seems to be taking off, according to his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan.

"He is evaluating two or three opportunities right now and he'll decide shortly which one he wants to put his energy into," said Kaplan.

The attorney is quick to point out that Federline's sons Sean Preston and Jayden James come first, however.

"Regardless which job he chooses, it won't require him to be away from his children on any extensive basis."

Federline won full and physical custody of his two sons last month.
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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL star ZAC EFRON has confessed to a secret passion - he loves U.S TV show AMERICAN IDOL.

The teen actor loves the talent contest so much he often hides at the back of studio shows - and watches the wannabes perform live.

He tells MTV.com, "I like American Idol because it deals with regular people who really have a dream and like to perform.

"There was a period where I was actually going to the shows of American Idol. A few years ago, I went, like, almost every week. That was the season Taylor Hicks won.

"It was great. It's a completely different experience live. You really get to see who is a good singer, and who can really captivate a crowd. And you can tell it's really influential on the judges' decisions."
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