In a bid to reduce primary school dropout rate and eradicate child labour in the state, the Tamil Nadu Government, an NGO and four Tamil film stars have joined hands to send across a message to the society on the evils. Read the rest of this entry »

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 were presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center.

• Best Motion Picture - No Country for Old Men.
• Best Lead Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood.
• Best Lead Actress - Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose.
• Best Director - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men.
• Best Animated Feature Film - Ratatouille.
• Best Visual Effects - The Golden Compass.
• Foreign Language Film - The Counterfeiters, Austria.

• Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men.
• Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton.
• Adapted Screenplay - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men.
• Original Screenplay - Diablo Cody, Juno.
• Art Direction - Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
• Original Score - Atonement, Dario Marianelli.
• Original Song - Falling Slowly from Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
• Cinematography - There Will Be Blood.
• Sound Mixing - The Bourne Ultimatum.
• Sound Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum.
• 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’).