Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen were big winners at this year's Academy Awards ceremony Sunday. Their grisly crime tale No Country for Old Men earned four of Hollywood's top honors. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan has more on the Oscar winners from Hollywood.

As English-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis took home his second Oscar for his leading role as a mean early oil entrepreneur in the motion picture There Will Be Blood. The top four Oscar winners for acting were European actors.

No Country for Old Men - a film about a drug deal gone horribly wrong - captured the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year at Hollywood's 80th Academy Awards ceremony in California.

Hollywood nutcase, Gary Busey came running up to Ryan Seacrest on the redcarpet while he’s trying to interview Jennifer Garner and yells out “You! I’ve been looking for you for years!” then goes and kisses Jennifer Garner on the neck.

The 2007 Oscars are timed to be presented today, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a branded Oscars channel on YouTube –www.YouTube.com/Oscars – featuring Academy Awards® show highlights and exclusive video interviews with members from each of the Academy’s branches. Participants include Quincy Jones, Alfred Molina, Sidney Poitier and John Travolta.

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.

Nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 22) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar® winner Kathy Bates.

This morning, just an hour ago NBC aired Oscar Nominations for 2008 on a live broadcast. Motion Picture Association Of America has prepared very interesting movies for 2008 Oscar Nominations, particularly interesting oscar nominees being the foreign language films of "Mongol" (about Chingiz Khan) and "12" (very heated drama about justice).

A record 63 countries have entered the race for Oscars glory in next year's Best Foreign Language Film category. Academy Awards organisers have announced the list of entries for the coveted prize roughly three months ahead of the formal announcement of nominations.

It won only one Oscar, but Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane is widely considered his best movie. Now the Academy Award Welles received for his masterwork can be bought for a cool million - or maybe more.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ruled that a best-picture Oscar winner can have more than three producers in "rare and extraordinary" circumstances, it announced Wednesday.