Winners of this year´s Academy Award have spoken about the ceremony
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British
actor Daniel Day-Lewis has made Oscars history as the first man to win three
best actor awards. Alongside this year's honour for Lincoln, he won for There
Will be Blood and My Left Foot
Argo won
the award for best picture, despite the fact that Ben Affleck was not nominated
in the best director category - the first time this has happened since Driving
Miss Daisy in 1989
Taiwanese
director Ang Lee has joined filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone and
Steven Spielberg in winning an Oscar for best director on two occasions. His
first was for Brokeback Mountain
Anne
Hathaway has done an awards triple this year, winning best supporting actress
for Les Miserables at the Golden Globes, the Baftas and the Oscars
The 85th
Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and hosted for the
first time by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane
Adele's
best original song award for Skyfall was the first ever for a Bond film. For
Your Eyes Only was nominated in 1981, but lost to the theme from Arthur
Reuters) - The Oscars rolled out the red carpet on Sunday for the movie industry's biggest night, with Iran hostage drama "Argo" and presidential drama "Lincoln" in a tight race for Best Picture. Read more here
It is is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.
Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil predicts it won't stay cold much longer.
Thousands gather at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania town for Phil's annual ritual – and the lack of a shadow spells good news TheGuardian
After
recent weather that has included freezing cold snaps, fierce tornadoes
and then record-breaking seasonal highs, it's perhaps not surprising
that Americans are looking for climatic solace in bizarre places.
So the news that a small, fat, Pennsylvania rodent called Phil has predicted a looming end to winter will perhaps come as a relief. Yes, it's Groundhog Day in America. In
front of thousands of people at Gobbler's Knob, a rural area near the
small town of Punxsutawney, a group of town elders repeated the famous
tradition of consulting the town's famous groundhog on the prospects of
when winter might turn to spring. To the relief of many, they
reported that Phil had emerged from his lair and did not see his shadow –
a sign that winter is soon to end. If he had seen his shadow, it would
have indicated at least six more weeks of cold weather. The warm
weather prognostication will please many in America's north-east, who
are currently enduring a return to freezing temperatures after a see-saw
week which had included a couple days of warm, almost summery, days. Punxsutawney
Phil was made famous to the outside world via the classic comedy movie
Groundhog Day in which a jaded newsman played by Bill Murray is trapped
to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again after being forced to
cover the event. Since then, other groundhogs have popped up in
towns elsewhere, no doubt with one canny eye on the hordes of tourists
that descends on Phil's hideout. There's Staten Island Chuck in New
York, General Beauregard Lee in Atlanta, and even the normally more
staid Canadians have got in on the act with Wiarton Willie in Wiarton,
Ontario. This year, Staten Island Chuck is also reported to have
missed seeing his shadow and thus predicted an end to winter. Not that
such groundhog co-ordination is a sure sign of their forecasting skills.
Last year, Phil predicting a continuation of freezing temperatures,
only to see January to June come in as the warmest seven-month period
since systematic records began in 1895.
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