When we allow ourselves to care

Well on this bleak March cold day I was left with a couple of slaps in the face – metaphorically. First came in the morning, the second one in the afternoon. I am not superstitious at all but leaving my block of flats this morning, I saw a black cat sitting just right in the front of  the entrance door.  She gave me a long stare, I hesitated if I can actually go on, she got scared, I did, too. And so we carefully avoided each other from not so far distance and left for the day. I took it as a kind of bad sign since I had been on my way to take some blood tests and I am a terrible hemophobic. 

What happened today isn’t important at all. What I want to say is just that when we allow ourselves to care about something or someone far too much then we become more vulnerable, fragile and sad I guess. We are not disappointed by the final effect of the thing we care about. The great disappointment only comes when we expect, however we are somehow left in an unpleasant condition. 

So today leaves me with a question whether just fuck everything and don’t care or whether to continue to fight for our emotions, relationships, moral investments, goals and determinations. Whether to continue to invest any emotional energy into anything at all. 

If we can free ourselves from caring, any possible failure can be taken positively. We know it’s not the end of the world. But for me today, two little worlds have faded away, reminding me that not every day can be full of colors but some days are black as the cat I saw this morning. 

None of what happened today had some terrible impact on my life. Not at present, not in the future. But I cried or to be more precise tears were streaming down my face constantly and now I feel emptied and freed from the things I’d deeply cared about. 

Words cannot even describe what’s going on inside me right now. But I remember the words of my best friend Elizabeth who is a great support as always that “At the end of every night, a new Sun comes up.” Though today was not the case, Sun is coming up just now around 6PM. Maybe I woke up to a wrong time along with the cat. 

Eventually, the question what we should care about or what we should take as it is regardlessly, is simple to answer. At least to me, at this very point. The only thing we really do need to continue to care about is love. Cuz there isn’t anybody in this world who accepts you as you are, cares about you deeply too, loves you unconditionally and supports you; other than your best friend – love of your life. The rest of the crew can disappoint, make us fragile and sad, except my dear Elizabeth and Lubka. Cheers to these three people in my life. You are the only thing that *really* matters. The rest are just the details. 

What is it that we are chasing?

I’ve been indoctrinated with yet another beautiful thought. This time by Glen Hansard, leader of the Frames, brilliant Irish musician that I had a chance to see live before he and Marketa became world famous because of brilliant movie Once. Don’t get me wrong, I met him before he was really famous but I guess there’s nothing that changed him since then. 

On a Bonnaroo festival he said and interesting thing during his performance of the song “Happiness”. He basically said that “coolest people he ever met are either kids or old people. Kids don’t give a fuck yet, old people don’t give a fuck anymore”. 

And he’s precisely right. People in between, like me, just give too much fuck about everything even when it’s not needed. The most open-minded people are somehow restricted to be what they are for the simple reason of being judged by close-minded. I know few people who dress differently, have different opinions, and simple don’t give a fuck. But it’s very hard to meet them among generations. 

The worst kind of thing that can happen is that the limits will be pushed further. Young kids will start to care for little too much as they already do and also old people. 

I guess it’s just not right. What are we chasing for? For the cool? Cool is what is unique and independent. If my cool is worn, sung, said or lived then it’s not cool anymore but mundane. 

And why are we chasing after the coolest person we could possibly meet if the one waking up besides us every morning is cool enough? 

I want to say one day, before I get old, that I don’t give a fuck.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Tears stream down your face, when you have someone you can never replace. Well, that shouldn’t make any sense, should it? Why tears when you actually “have it”. (I don’t mean possessing by “having”). 

Relationships aren’t supposed to be easy even though love is actually the simplest and most beautiful thing of all. Why then we struggle for understanding? Why people we don’t even know accept our friendship on some shallow facebook but our loved ones decline our real friendship. I know they don’t really intend to do so but they can’t help it. 

For some time I thought that  when two people fall in love, the love coming from one of them is contagious to the other. But how long does it actually last? Until other negative things interfere.

Love is either madness or nothing at all. It is beautiful but pain flows from it too. And while intimate moments, thoughts and ideas can easily flow from a beautiful friendship, pain does not. That’s why I always put friendship above all. 

I don’t want to say more on this subject. It is plagiarism anyways. These ideas are stolen even though life is teaching me them every day. And I wish I was such a good student at school. At least these days. 

Anyways. I just want to say that authentic love gives this life meaning. 

I could be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. I could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, I’d have to let it go. But what am I doing to think it’s not right?

Long lost days

I am supposed to be studying really. I am having the biggest written exam of my life tomorrow and I am not even bit worried.

But I can’t help myself. I have to write for a while. I am reading my old posts. Something I haven’t done in a long time. I’ve got to February archive only to posts that were moved from my old livejournal blog. First the blog post about my sister had me crying cuz I just love her so much. And even though I would write such post differently today, I realize how true that all is and how pure love between me and my two siblings is. They are my only family really. 

Then when I read this in another blog post, I completely burst out with tears: 

“Where will I be? Where will the news come to? Will I endlessly care about me and my life and me and my happiness? What do I really want?” 

The sad thing is that I still haven’t figured out any of these questions. The good thing is that insecurities fade, as we go. I learned that in April last year and will never forget. But thinking about this, I should know. And I am nowhere near getting the answers yet… 

My answer back then was simple “I want to fucking feel. I want to fucking be there for someone. Instead of this, I’ve been making the Grand Plans for my life.” I did achieve this. I am fed up with myself, though. I’ll never be satisfied in life because I’ll always demand more. It doesn’t have to be essentially a bad thing but sometimes I should just learn to shut up and enjoy what I have.

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th belongs to a nice group of ridiculous superstitions. Bad things may practically  happen at any time. I’ve never had a bad day on Friday the 13th. And this one also belonged to the bunch of days that were wonderful in every direction. 

This is my first post in March, this is my 100th post on my blog, this is also first post after my 1 year birthday of having this blog. Last year in March I migrated from Livejournal leaving my old style of writing there along with 3 years old stories and rants. It has been a wonderful year really. So many colors… 

I am having the time of my life again. With first sun rays came new energy, new point of view. Love is in the air and most of all march solitude is. Bringing up old terms like walking in the rain, dancing around the pain, perceiving the beauty, exploring the spaces in between, adoring the uniqueness and all that and more outside the world of cancered society and crowd. 

I successfully finished the first part of my graduation process and the next step is coming on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday is meant for exam from Slovak language, Wednesday for English language. Both of them should be easy and I am not really going to prepare much. I will only prepare for the last part that is coming in 70 days in May.

The world is at my feet these days and I feel like I am capable of overcoming any obstacles that may come my way. With the strength I am having inside of me now I can really do anything and it’s more difficult to make me pessimistic. I love being in such condition naturally.

I get drunk on life, I dream, I live, I love. I am so alive. So yeah, I am just happy if that makes any sense. And tonight all of this is going to double or maybe even triple. I can’t believe that it is already coming. The very thing that makes my life worthwhile from one side. Thank you everybody. And thank *you*.

A new challenge: writing a script

I’m getting to an interesting point of my life where I am standing firmly on the ground and at the same time with my head in clouds. I love being in balance, especially in such case. 

As you can tell by the title of the post – I am writing the script. Or better yet, preparing to write one. Last two times I started writing a script failed cuz I hadn’t done any research at all on how to, what to avoid, etc. This time I have basic steps in my mind and after 2 years I am getting back to writing. 

It won’t necessarily mean that I will finish the story this time. By no means I will let it be proofread if it isn’t ready. I think I am at the point when I can select how the story should flow, create characters that would speak for themselves and simply come up with something new in its own unique way. I am not ready for actual writing, yet.

I think the story has huge potential and if anything else I believe this to be true for every single story I have in mind. But because I am an uneducated weirdo, it will take much time to finish the script until my perfection is satisfied. And I will wait for the right moment even if it takes my whole life. I don’t want to spoil this wonderful thing. 

Before I start writing and that’s what I do now is deciding what I want to tell in this story the most, what topics I need to cover. I have some written down, constantly making up new ones and then I’ll choose what can work best. It’s very important cuz that would eventually determine how big the potential of this script might be.

I have 84 days until I graduate. I am absolutely not prepared for any topic or exam. I am also doing driving license exam to which I am not prepared either. I am giving myself an award of best procrastinator of 2009 so far but at least I am learning a new language and doing great, staying optimistic despite the problems that occur every day and now I am having myself occupied with the script. 

In 84 days, I will be born again into Lenka that I’ve always wanted to be. And there’s nothing I am looking forward to more. Well, there might be one or two other things ;) Right?

Wish me luck! :))

Ride bikes far from this urban sprawl

I feel like sticking to an idea I got two years ago – leave this place, sail off from safe harbor and end up on some deserted place with laptop as the only thing to connect you with outer world. 

I see no plans, no fears, just colors. I don’t know what I am going to do. It’s me who has to decide yet I don’t know what for. 

I can’t go to the US that’s for sure. At the same time I feel like it’s the only choice. 

World calls me with its opportunities. There’s whole lot of them so that after all I don’t hear any. Which to choose than?

Life is not a movie but it works in reverse

I’ve been postponing this blog post for a long time. I have spring vacation now and I try to study and relax at the same time but finally I found some time to get this together.

Makes me really happy to be back on track. I’ve been neglecting so many movies because of other responsibilities. So I am still catching up. But before I continue with that, I want to comment on the films I’ve seen. 

In no particular order… I’ve seen: 

Sex and the City - I saw it only a month ago. In fact I’ve never seen a single part on the television, only bits when my brother was watching it. Nice movie for women. Even though it’s totally unlike me, I liked it. That’s how I imagine women from Manhattan anyways. :) 

Death Race - some action movie. This was the first film of this kind that I’ve seen. No further comments. I just did it because of my loving one. 

Jumper - It’s kind of film that you would watch on the TV. I can’t even remember what was it about. Only vaguely. But it’s okay to watch such films from time to time.

Lost in translation - I’ve seen it long time ago, so I decided to re-watch it. In fact I fell asleep in middle of the film but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it. I love it. And I finally know what Bill says to Scarlett at the end of the movie! Can’t tell though! It was way better not to know :D I love Bill and Scarlett!

Romeo and Juliet - it might be the worst film I’ve ever seen. No offense, sweetie. I try to forget that I’ve seen it. 

2 days in Paris - This was the first movie that me and my boyfriend saw together in the cinema. I kind of regret that it could be something better. It was nice independent movie but bit annoying. It had wonderful parts but in general I expected more. 

Something’s Gotta Give – My favorite. I’ve seen it so many times. Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson… Could it get any better? :)) 

Religulous - This one was very good. Nice documentary that points to ridiculous things that people who believe in God think. Bill Maher sometimes cross the line of tolerance but so do the people in documentary. You should watch that. But if you have opinion similar to “God doesn’t like gay people because he doesn’t like them” then don’t even watch it. You’re lost case just like those people. Religion can be dangerous.

The Pursuit of Happyness - I only got to watch it this year cuz I had missed it. It was wonderful movie. Will Smith in a great role finally and his son was such a sweetheart. Inspirational movie. If I ever struggle too much I need to watch it. And the best part comes with the quote “ It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?” Great film really. 

8 Mile - It wasn’t the first time I’ve seen it but had feeling to watch it again. Very good film even though it isn’t completely my style. 

American Beauty - I saw this one very long time ago so I decided to watch it again. Of course that being older it shed a completely different light to me. I enjoyed it thoroughly. 

W. - This was a great one. A chronicle on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. Josh Brolin was amazing as W., another great performance like the one in Milk. I wish movie W. had more attention. It seems to be a bit ignored. I love how Oliver Stone is never afraid of anything. After all, you see clearly in the movie that even though W. accomplished bigger fame than his father he’s never even pursued the true happiness. 

Boy in the stripped pyjamas - This movie needs more attention. My sister advised me to watch it and it was such an intense experience to watch it. Really sad story. Highly recommended. 

MOVIES NOMINATED FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD 2008

Happy Go Lucky - British movie, British main character, British people and their habits. My brother advised me to watch it saying that I will laugh much. I didn’t. It’s clear that he hasn’t spent much time in Britain. After three summers over there, I am kinda fed up with lifestyle of young Britons. No offense. The main character Poppy is so optimistic that it gets on your nerves. It’s admirable what she can endure and with a smile (For example the instructor at driving school that I couldn’t stand even for a minute) but it is a bit annoying. But it’s true that young people over there are way too happy. What is a positive thing. But still. I hate when they go too much flamboyant like they owned the world. The film received nomination for best screenplay. 

Rachel Getting married - wtf? probably the second worst movie I’ve seen in a long time. I didn’t see a point. Anne Hathaway is nice person but I don’t agree with her nomination at all. What for? The performance of a young woman that is back from rehab for he sister’s wedding was way too ordinary. Nothing touched me in this movie, especially not her long monologues to her family. Boring. 

Frozen River - I saw it only hours before Oscars begun. Perfect movie, especially when I think it is independent. Great script, great idea for a film. The plot takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Mellissa Leo deserved the nomination for best actress in a leading role. I like movies where characters go through life with its up’s and down’s. How they fight and how they find the strength to fight. Very inspirational for me. 

Milk - I already commented on this one in my blog. I loved it, I loved Sean Penn and I knew he was going to be awarded. Highly deserved. I am glad that I could see the story of Harvey. And I hope it will stay in people’s mind and I hope it will be kind of wake up call for the ones who are responsible for setting the equal rights for everybody. 

Frost/Nixon – another great movie to see. Especially for a non-American girl like me who didn’t knew much about Watergate. It shows both humanity and inhumanity of Nixon. If only Bush learned from Nixon’s mistakes. That when somebody is a president it doesn’t necessarily mean he can do anything, especially things that are illegal or against society’s morals. Frank Langella, thumbs up! Great work!

Revolutionary road – This one was also watched before the Oscars began. I am glad that I had time to watch it before. Such a perfect movie. I can’t even believe how many great movies are produced these days. Kate Winslet, my most favorite actress along with Leo Dicaprio. Leo should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this one. I cried a lot during this one, especially if I realized that it’s okay to be normal but not common. The risk of falling into the trap of conventions and traditions is very high these days. And this movie gave me hope to fight against the common, stay aware, never fall into the trap and fight to get to a place where one can breathe freely. You need to watch it if you haven’t yet. I could go on and on about this movie but I guess there will come the time when I use some of the wonderful quotes this movie contains.

Wall-e - That was a cute little animated movie. Bit ironic I guess. But I liked it. :) 

Man on Wire - One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Philippe Petit is one of the biggest heros and inspirations for this world. Again this is a movie for the times when you feel like something’s impossible. Then you have to remind yourself what Philippe says: “Impossible. It’s impossible, that’s sure. So let’s start working.” And you have the same feeling the whole time until he really is on wire between the Twin Towers. Brilliant tribute to them, too.  And this is why he should be world’s hero: “Philippe Petit: To me, it’s really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life on the tightrope.”

The reader - I made a little comment about it before. So now I just repeat that I loved Kate Winslet and the way she performed Hana. The story is overwhelming. One of the best movies, really. 

Vicki Christina Barcelona – I regret that I didn’t post a separate blog post for this one. It is definitely one of the greatest movies of our time. Though it’s the one that you either can love or hate for its content. For me it was very familiar. I can’t imagine better threesome than with Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson. Javier Bardem was also fantastic. It breaks my hear when I realize that working title for this one was “Midnight in Barcelona”. Woody Allen, you’re the king of the world :) 
During the moments like when Juan Antonio says “We are meant for each other and not meant for each other. It’s a contradiction.” I didn’t even breathe. I know exactly what he meant by that… 

Or this is also incredible:

“Juan Antonio: No, no, no, no, I’m not. The trick is to enjoy life, accepting it has no meaning whatsoever.

Cristina: No meaning? You don’t think that authentic love gives life meaning?  ”

Huh, makes you really wondering if that can be said by anyone else. Perfect movie. I am now reading the actual script since I was told that before writing one I need to read several. So this one is perfect to read. 

Slumdog Millionaire - I left it as the last and the best. I am pretty sure it will be the best movie I’ve seen in 2009. I need to rewatch it soon. It was moving, believable and it was simply written. I was being skeptical at first because to be honest, I am not really fond of anything that comes from Asia. My manager in Bristol and my colleague were Indians and I really like them but I could never imagine that they might have come from Slums. 

I don’t even know what to say about this movie. It makes me speechless everytime I think about it. Such a strong story. Sorry Zeezat, I thought I could do much better. But I can’t say anything except the fact that I am still overwhelmed by it. Jai Ho song is really great. 

30 movies in 2 months isn’t that bad. 

Next to watch are: One flew over the cuckoo’s nest; Dear Zachary; Changeling, Doubt, The Class, The Wrestler, The Visitor and many many others. Any recommendations? Thanks for reading.

The Oscar night

Here I am, after 5 hours sleep. Here I am, after such an exciting night spent with Oscars ceremony. I could watch it online after all and it felt like I was 14 again, the age when I first watched the Oscars. 

The enormous exciting made me stay up all night and I was literally glued to the screen and played Oscar Live challenge and Oscars.com. Basically I put the predictions there in advance, but changed them along the way before the name was about to be said. 

Finally, out of almost 15000 people I ended up having the rank of 700 and it would be even better if I didn’t miss to fill Best supporting actor category that I was sure it would be Heath Ledger. 

So to continue my bragging, I didn’t miss any major pick, except my loving Penelope Cruz. As much as I love her and would even sinned for her cuz she’s damn hot I bet on Taraji P. Henson in the Curious Case of benjamin Button. I loved Penelope in Vicki Christina Barcelona, the film that speaks to me more than any other, but I jut thought this was a small role to get the Oscar for. She did and I’m so glad. Her speech was ne of the few memorable this year. 

“I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always on the night of the Academy Awards, I stay up to watch the show and I always felt that this was, this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival.” Penelop Cruz

Such moments totally made me cry. I am so happy for Slumdogs who got 8 awards out of 10 nomination (they had two songs, so they could win only 9). It’s more than deserved. If I think of 2008 as far as films, I will think of Slumdog Millionaire film that shocked me, moved me, made me cry and happy. The cast and crew did an amazing job and I am glad that they won it all. 

Man on Wire might be the best documentary I’ve ever seen. The message that it passed me these days has been crucial and fell into place with other significant events that happened in my life. Phillippe Petit, the man on wire, is an incredible person. After watching the movie, I realized the world and especially me have found a new hero. Congrats!

Kate Winslet. Oh I have to mention her again. She was not only stunning at the Oscars but also kept her mind focused on what she was saying during the speech. It’s not like I would ever get the Oscar but if I did, I guess I would be too overwhelmed by the situation. Kate was perfect. Well deserved Oscar for the role of Hana alone. But also for her past achievements in Little Children (which is one of my most fav films), Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind and Titanic. I expected bit more from the speech but again, when she said 

“Okay, that fainting thing, Penelope. I’d be lying if I hadn’t made a version of this speech before, I think I was probably eight years old and staring into the bathroom mirror. And this (holding up her statuette) would’ve been a shampoo bottle. Well, it’s not a shampoo bottle now!” 

it just made me burst out with tears again. 

And Sean Penn. I will always remember his entire speech of 2004 when he received the Oscar statue for Mystic River. Making Oscars political is sometimes silly but Sean always knows what to say. I am glad he mentioned gay rights because it’s ridiculous that the world preaches equality but they haven’t been given the same rights yet. I am looking forward to a day when I wake up in the morning and a gay boy will be able to raise a child with his gay partner without judgement. There’s no evidence that women are capable of better upbringing. 

“And finally, for those, two last finallies, for those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are, and there are, these last two things. I’m very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president and a country who, for all its toughness, creates courageous artists.” Sean Penn

Amazing moments of 81st Annual academy awards. I am glad I could watch it. It was a dream to watch it yesterday at this time, it feels natural today. It was a dream to see majority of nominated films 2 months ago, it’s natural today. It *is* a dream to be in Hollywood to watch the Oscar, participate and I am not even saying about being nominated. But who knows what’s coming for me, maybe that will once be perfectly natural too! :) 

I’ll be back in a few to post all the movies I’ve seen past 2009 with little comments.

Oscar picks and predictions for tonight!

The world smells of movies today. It’s the Oscar night, the biggest movie event of the year. I get obsessed every year and very excited to the extent that I would leave Slovakia right away and just fly over to the US to fulfill the American Dream of mine. I’ve been having an actual dream for past couple of days about writing a script and promoting it. Well, you just can tell that I am very excited and with this post, I will make my predictions for tonight since this is the first year when I saw majority of nominated movies. 

I won’t be able to watch it live, but I am staying up all night checking the backstage cameras at oscars.com along with updates and pictures of winners. It’s a shame that we no longer have the programme on TV which would have it live. I am very disappointed cuz I am a huge Oscar fan since 2004 when I first saw it live. 

So here’s my comments about movies and predicitions. 

Slumdog Millionaire 
Best picture of the year. I was totally overwhelmed… It literally took my breath away. It should get the best picture as well as the Oscar for best director and cinematography. The screenplay is wonderful, too but I am betting on The reader in this case. Music (Score) and Music (Song) for Jai Ho also should get the Oscar. I am not totally fan of the song but there is nothing better this year compared with last years Once songs performed by Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard.
Slumdog Millionaire is maybe a strongest story I’ve ever seen with an option D – it was written. You’d say such situation is improbable but in fact as you watching it you’ve got a feeling it’s all real. I’m not a fan of of Asian culture at all but this just got me. The movie leaves me speechless. 

The Reader
Second best this year for me. I totally love Kate Winslet, she’s definitely the best actress of present time. She’s been nominated 8 times if I remember well and never took the Oscar statue home. This year it’s her chance. I’ve seen many of her films since I am a huge fan and this role was the most difficult to create and she did more than well. To find humanity in such person as Hana must have been difficult. I loved the movie thoroughly and I love Kate.
So I am betting on her as the best actress, I also like the screenplay because it isn’t easy to write and isn’t easy to pick what is crucial to the movie and can’t be erased from the script.  

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This was the first Oscar nominated movie I’ve seen from all of nominated ones. After it ended, I was totally overwhelmed. It is a great film but because I watched The reader and Slumdog afterwards, this one is left behind. Brad and Cate were amazing but I don’t think Brad will take the award. But Taraji P. Henson should definitely take the award for best supporting actress. (even though I haven’t seen Doubt yet).  Also I think makeup artists and costume designers did a terrific job and should get the statue. And one Oscar for Art Direction, too. 
Even though that makes 4 Academy awards according to me out of 13 nominations, Benjamin Button will either be the biggest disappointment or the other way around. I guess these 4 Oscars would be appropriate and that’s it. But I won’t be mad if any other will conjure up.

 Milk
Great movie. I didn’t know anything about Harvey Milk prior to watching the movie. I think Sean Penn performed him in a brilliant way and therefore I hope he will get the Oscar tonight. He got his first Oscar when I first watched the show in 2004 and his speech was wonderful. I bet he will say something meaningful again if he’s there. And that’s what speeches should be about except the “thanks” part. I also think it should get the statue for best original screenplay. 

Man on Wire
Best documentary feature. The best quote that best express what the film is about “It’s impossible. Impossible. So let’s keep working on it”. It inspired me greatly and reminded me that dreams can come true with bravery and ridiculous amount of work. Thumbs up! 

So I guess I will rather write about all films I’ve seen since 2009 began tomorrow and now I’ll leave you with predictions. I am staying up all night so I might get back to writing. :) 

Best Picture – Slumdog Millionaire
Directing – Slumdog Millionaire
Actor in a leading role – Sean Penn
Actress in a leading role – Kate Winslet
Actor in a supporting role – Heath Ledger
Actress in a supporting role – Taraji P. Henson
Writing (Adapted screenplay) –  The Reader
Writing (Original screenplay) – Milk
Animated feature film – Wall-e
Short Film (Animated) – Lavatory-Lovestory (I haven’t seen)
Short Film (Live action)  - New Boy (I haven’t seen)
Foreign Language Film – Waltz with Bashir (Haven’t seen yet)
Documentary Feature – Man on Wire
Documentary short – The Witness – from the Balcony of Room 306 (haven’t seen)
Music (Score) - Slumdog Millionaire
Music (Song) - Slumdog Millionaire – Jai Ho
Art Direction – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cinematography - Slumdog Millionaire
Costume design –  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Film editing – Milk
Makeup - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sound Editing – Wall-e
Sound Mixing – Slumdog Millionaire
Visual Effects – The Dark Knight

 

Enjoy the night if you’re gonna watch it! :))