Oscar coverage: from the red carpet, to Colin Firth, to Melissa Leo’s swearing

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Our coverage of the Oscars begins here, with highlights from Colin Firth’s, Natalie Portman’s and Melissa Leo’s acceptance speeches.
   The King’s Speech won best film while its star Colin Firth took the best actor prize at the Academy Awards. The movie took four honours in total, including best original screenplay for David Seidler and best director for Tom Hooper.
   Natalie Portman won best actress for Black Swan, and we have her emotional winning speech below.
   One talked-about moment was Melissa Leo dropping the f-bomb for the first time in an Oscar ceremony as she received her best supporting actress award from veteran actor Kirk Douglas, 94.
   On the red carpet, Russell Brand joked about security and humorously handed over interview duties to his Mum. Christian Bale called his best supporting actor nomination for The Fighter ‘gravy’ (he was later successful), while both Firth and Helena Bonham Carter are delighted at the number of people who have seen The King’s Speech.

Natalie Portman

Melissa Leo

Colin Firth

Russell Brand

Christian Bale

Helena Bonham Carter

British stars head to the red carpet

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2. [...] Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman, the face of Miss Dior Chérie, has issued a statement condemning the anti-Semitic words of John Galliano, creative director of Christian Dior.    Portman issued her statement after a video surfaced on a Murdoch Press website, showing a drunk Galliano expressing his love for Adolf Hitler, along with remarking to a couple he mistakenly identified as Jewish, ‘People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.’    The video was filmed on a separate occasion to one which Galliano had faced questioning on Monday afternoon by the Paris public prosecutor’s office, in which he allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks while drunk to a woman, Géraldine Bloch, and an anti-Asian slur to her friend, Philippe Virgiti, at La Perle restaurant in Paris. Virgiti is of Asian extraction.    Portman stated, ‘I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s comments that surfaced today.    ‘In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr Galliano in any way.    ‘I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combatting these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.’    Galliano has already been suspended by the Christian Dior house, citing its ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on anti-Semitism. Share this articleSubscribeBloglinesDiggdel.icio.usFacebookNewsVineStumbleUponTechnorati [...]

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