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E! Online - The show was long. The shadow-puppet people were weird.

E! Online - Don't count on Naomi Watts appearing as the face of Escada anytime soon.

E! Online - It took three decades and eight nominations, not to mention close to four hours of awards show banter, but Martin Scorsese's Oscar moment finally arrived, courtesy of The Departed.

Reuters - Music from politically themed films scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to gay marriage.

Reuters - Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns were never about the dialogue.

Reuters - Martin Scorsese finally won the Oscar for best film director on Sunday with the crime thriller "The Departed," ending one of the highest-profile losing streaks in the event's 79-year history.

Movie News

AP - Partial list of winners at the 79th annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

AP - Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron shook up Oscar night with an incredible 16 nominations between them, leading some to compare the group to another trio of renowned filmmakers: Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and John Ford. Del Toro, for one, wasn't buying it.

AP - Alan Arkin won best supporting actor for his role in "Little Miss Sunshine."

Reuters - Host Ellen DeGeneres got the Oscars off to a rousing start on Sunday by telling stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman there was no need to be nervous because only about a billion people were watching.

AP - Celebrities are just like the rest of us when it comes to meeting and greeting famous folks: They're star-struck.

AP - No gas-guzzling stretch limo for Leonardo DiCaprio.

AP - BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from the studios. More Info...  

AP - She might have been the belle of the Academy Awards ball, but Jennifer Hudson seemed a shoo-in to wind up on the night's "worst dressed" list.

Reuters - Nicolas Cage led the North American box office for a second weekend, while Jim Carrey's first attempt at a psychological thriller opened at the lower end of expectations, and the films competing for Academy Awards later on Sunday fought for the scraps.

E! Online - Basic Instinct 2 had all the wrong moves last year.

E! Online - There are a number of ways to crunch the box-office numbers on The Number 23.

E! Online - Whatever Little Miss Sunshine lacked in kiddie pageant glory, it more than made up for with good old fashioned Hollywood pageantry.

Reuters - "Little Miss Sunshine" won the top prize at the Spirit Awards, the art-house world's equivalent of the Oscars, on Saturday, a day before the underdog comedy competes in four categories at the Academy Awards.

Reuters - Pity actress Sharon Stone -- she cannot return to the scene of the crime without getting whacked.