OSCAR CEREMONY 2012

   Yesterday the Oscar ceremony took place in Los Angeles. All the most important people in the film industry was there.

This year some things were different. The best film of the year is French and mute. Nobody speaks in this film called "The artist". And it is in black and white too, so it is quite strange in the Hollywood world.


The supporting actress award was for a black actress and the supporting actor for Chistopher Plummer, who is eighty two years old. Other remarkable facts in the Oscar ceremony history.

Here you have a video with the red carpet and an interview with one of the winners.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Here are more news about Liz Taylor's death. She has been buried in California but Richard Burton's family is accepting her in his grave, so finally they will be together.

You can see her in a video when she was awarded an oscar. By the way, she received a third oscar for her actions in favour of people suffering AIDS.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Today one of the best and most famous actresses in Hollywood has died at the age of seventy nine years old.
She was born in London in 1932 and being a small child her mother took her to castings and ballet lessons.
She went to Hollywood and soon became a film star. She was awarded two Oscars and many other prizes.
Apart from being a good actress she was famous for her romantic life. She married seven times, twice to the actor Richard Burton. He was his partner in "Cleopatra" and she declared that he was her true love. She will be probably buried next to him.

In this video you can see photographs of her films. She appeared on screen with Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift and others.

AND THE WINNER IS

A second video about the Oscars ceremony where you can see Sophia Loren saying the old expression: and the winner is. So you notice the difference between the old sentence and the new: and the oscar goes to..

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO

Do you know that the expression:And the oscar goes to is quite new?. Until 1988 the presenter used to say:and the winner is...Why do you think they changed the sentence?. Well, if there is a winner there is a loser, and this expression was created to avoid this situation. This way nobody is hurt.Curiosities of the language