Award Season Contenders

Previous Oscar winners present the actress award - photo by WireImage

� FROM THE COUCH
For all the promise of a new approach, the show mostly demonstrated difficulty to reinvent the wheel.

'Slumdog Millionaire' cast and crew - photo by WireImage

'Slumdog Millionaire' cast and crew - photo by WireImage

� FROM THE KODAK THEATER
The Oscar show is a very different experience inside the Kodak. As Danny Boyle said, "I don't know what (this show) looks like on television, but in the room it's bloody wonderful."

'Partly Cloudy'

Animated short films get on short list
Academy announces 10 Oscar contenders

From 37 contenders to 10, the Academy must now select its animated short film nominees.

Oscar ballots by the numbers
A guide to the Academy's preferential system

Few frontrunners for revamped Oscars
Will the new Governors Awards infuse Oscar night?

Film funding fickle
Fine movies forced to to seek money abroad

Pics re-examine the '60s
Directors take fresh look at familiar decade

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20 compete in Oscar toon race

Army Archerd interviewed everyone from Hollywood stars to heads of state in his illustrious 52 years as a Daily Variety columnist.

Army Archerd - A Hollywood Legend

A look back at 1939, considered the strongest time in American film history, when there were 10 Best Picture noms.<BR><a href=/article/VR111800532><B>Oscar expands best pic noms to 10</b></a>

1939: When there were 10

Alicia Keys, Vanessa Hudgens and Halle Berry are among the attendees.

Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Victoria Beckham, Kate Beckinsale, and more attend the musician's annual Oscar soiree.

Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party

Check out the star-studded Governors Ball at Hollywood and Highland.

Academy Awards - Governors Ball

The studio celebrates 'Slumdog Millionaire's' triumphant night in Hollywood.

Fox Searchlight Oscar Party

The music icon holds his Oscar bash in Hollywood.

Prince's Purple Party

Stars making early arrivals on The Kodak Theatre red carpet for Oscar night in Hollywood.

Oscars Arrivals, part 1

The stars continue to stream into The Kodak Theatre, including Robert Pattinson, Marisa Tomei and James Franco.

Oscars Arrivals, Part 2

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Kate Winslet arrive at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre for the Oscars.

Oscars Arrivals, Part 3

Winners pose with Oscar at the 81st annual Academy Awards.

Winners at the 81st Oscars

By year: 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s 1930s 1920s

By category: Picture Director Actor Actress Sup. Actor Sup. Actress Screenplay Foreign Films

'Slumdog Millionaire'
Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, �Slumdog Millionaire� is a blast.

'Frost/Nixon'

'Milk'

'The Reader'

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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