Oscar season has officially begun. The Academy has released the 2009 list of Oscar nominations with some unexpected results.

Rusalka, a movie by Anna Melikyan, has been chosen as Russia's entry for next year's Oscars, Russia's national cinema academy said Tuesday. Rusalka has won the main prize as the Best Feature Film of Golden Apricot International Movie Festival in Yerevan, Armenia this summer.

At the Oscar’s ceremony in Hollywood, Sweden’s Per Hallberg has won his second award for best sound editing – in the film “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

The stars will be out in Hollywood Sunday for the highlight of the year in the movie industry, presentation of the Academy Awards, known as Oscars. Mike O'Sullivan looks ahead to the celebration.

If you're an actor angling for an Academy Award nomination on Tuesday, you better hope you didn't leave the audience rolling in the aisles, suggests a new study from UCLA's California Center for Population Research.