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Yay! The envelopes have been opened for this year's academy awards.  Here are the winners:

Best Picture:                                        Shakespeare in Love
Directing:                                             Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
Original Screenplay                           Shakespeare in Love  (by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard)
Screenplay-Adaptation                    Gods and Monsters (by Bill Condon)
Best Actress                                      Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
Cinematography                                Saving Private Ryan (Janusz Kaminski)
Original Song                                     The Prince of Egypt's "When You Belive
                                                             Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Costume Design                                Shakespeare in Love (Sandy Powell) 
Honorary Oscar                                 Elia Kazan
Documentary Feature                       The Last Days (James Moll/Ken Lipper)
Documentary Short Subject            The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years (Keiko Ibi)
Best Actor                                         Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)
Visual Effects                                     What Dreams May Come (Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson & Kevin Mack)
Thalberg Award                                Norman Jewison
Film Editing                                        Saving Private Ryan (Michael Kahn)
Original Dramatic Score                   Life is Beautiful (Nicola Piovani)
Original Musical/ Comedy Score   Shakespeare in Love (Stephen Warbeck)
Foreign Language Film                    Life is Beautiful- Italy
Best Sound                                        Saving Private Ryan (Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Ronald Judkins )
Sound Effects Editing                      Saving Private Ryan (Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns)
Best Supporting Actress                 Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)
Animated Short Film                         Bunny (Chris Wedge)
Live-Action Short FIlm                     Election Night (Valgaften)  Kim Magnusson and Anders Thomas Jensen
Makeup                                               Elizabeth (Jenny Shircore
Best Art Direction                              Shakespeare in Love (Martin Childs, Jill Quertier)
Best Supporting Actor                      James Coburn (Affliction)

Play the "Oscars Game" here! (An amazingly un-java game!) I made it all by myself

I'd just like to mention a great source for movie info at the Internet Movie Database at imdb.com.  You can find practically every movie ever made and also information of tv shows, tv movies, etc.

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Speaking of movies, Disney is probably out of fresh ideas and among the animated features in the future, they include Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, Toy Story 2, and Treasure Planet (an updated remake of Treasure Island.) They are practically all sequels or remakes, which is all Disney seems to be good at making these days. You can find vague, if any, information on these upcoming films at disney.com.

Click here to go to a list of Disney's upcoming animated movies.

I think that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shouldn't have let themselves be bought out to Turner..... Gone are the days of elaborate musicals and dance sequences, in with the dirty, junky R-rated movies.   How depressing.  I bet Gene Kelly would've quit.  Heck, they don't even have stuff like that on their entire web site (at www.mgm.com)!

Since "DREAMWORKS SKG" is new and fresh (information available at Dreamworks.com) and "DISNEY" is old and has outlived its freshness, I believe that eventually Dreamworks will be its successor, although Disney will fight to its last days of life. (Although I thought that 1998's A Bug's Life was much better than Antz, even though they were practically completely different.

AFI has released its list of "100 Years, 100 Movies." Visit the list here.  Just for the record, the ranking spans the years from 1896 to 1996.