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All the nominees for the best supporting actress category during the 81st annual academy awards are hoping to get the title. However, a contest is a contest and follows one common rule and that is to have only one person to be considered as the winner. In this contest, Penelope Cruz is the lucky nominee who got the title. The awards night was held in Los Angeles California on February 22, 2009. Cruz won the title for playing the role as Maria Elena Woody Allen’s film Vicki Cristina Barcelona.
Penelope Cruz was the first Spanish born actress to luckily win an Oscar for best supporting role, and incidentally, it was also the first award of the night. With the said unexpected incident, do you think it is an indication of a more successful career for Penelope Cruz? Well, we just hope that it is. With her pretty face and great acting talent, for sure she will continue to soar like an eagle.
As Penelope receives the award and did her speech, the sexy actress says thank you to her colleagues in the movie Vicki Cristina Barcelona for trusting the award winning role to her. She further thanks the said person for writing some of the greatest character for women. Penelope also stated in her speech that she grows up in a place called Alcobendas wherein being in the Oscars is not a very realistic dream.
Other nominees for the best supporting actress are Amy Adams for the movie Doubt, Viola Davis for Doubt, Taraji P. Henson for the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Marisa Tomei for the movie The Wrestler.
Being a Spanish actress, Penelope has starred to numerous American movies already that includes Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Vicki Cristina Barcelona and some non-English films like the Jamon, Jamon, La Nina de ros ojos and Belle époque. Penelope became known of her work for Volver and Todo sobre ni madre together with her acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Prior to the awards she received in 2009, she has won various awards already including the three Goyas, two European Film Awards, the Golden Palm for Best Actress category, and a BAFTA. This year, aside from the Oscar 2009, Penelope Cruz also got an award in Goya, and a BAFTA for her role in Vicki Cristina Barcelona.
The films starred by Penelope Cruz are also an award winning movies just like her movie Belle Epoque and Todo sobre ni madre that have both won an Academy Awards for Foreign Language Film.
Penelope was also a nominee for the best actress category from various award winning bodies including the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award. In the Academy Award, Penelope Cruz was the first Spanish actress to be nominate in the Best Actress category.
Aside from the award winning films, Penelope Cruz has also starred and co-starred in various Spanish TV series where she molded as an actress. Moreover, her training ground is of no doubt a great one for Penelope is now one of the prestigious actresses we have and her latest award will prove it right.

Another group of winning actors and actresses received their awards during the 81st annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles California last February 22, 2009 and that includes the every beautiful Kate Winslet who won the best actress category.
On her speech, Kate thanked her husband Sam Mendes and kids Mia who is now a beautiful 8 years old daughter of hers, and Joe her 5-year-old cutie son, for loving her just the way she is. According to Kate, she can’t believe that she is now in the category with Meryl Streep and thanked the Academy for giving her such award. She further said that she would be lying if she will tell the people that she haven’t made a version of an academy award winner speech before. She stated that it was when she was about eight years old when she stared in a mirror and the as if Oscar would be a shampoo bottle. However, this time around, it is not a shampoo bottle anymore but the real Oscar award and just like any other awardees, she is very happy with it.
The occasional singer Titanic girl had starred various movies already and was renowned for her role as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility and as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic. She had also played the role of Clementine Kruczynski for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Sarah Pierce for Little Children. Also included in the list is her role as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and as Schmitz in The Reader.
Winslet’s top notch performances can be noticed on her numerous award nominations from various award winning bodies including the six Academy Awards nominations. She has also been nominated for an Emmy.
Another evidence of Kate Winslet’s fineness was her various awards that includes her recent Academy Awards for Best Actress for the movie The Reader. Another awards that she got are from Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Aside from being a successful actress, Kate is also enjoying her career as a singer and was briefly successful with it with her single What If, a soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie. The single reached number one in Ireland and number six in the UK charts. Winslet also filmed a music video for the said song. Aside from her single, Kate also did a duet with Weird Al” Yankovic for the Sandra Boynton CD Dog Train. In 2006, she sang in the film Romance and Cigarette, and sang an aria from La boheme, called “Sono andati” for the film Heavenly Creatures wherein she is one of the stars.
Other nominees for the best actress category includes Anne Hathaway for the movie Rachel Getting Married, Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Melissa Leo for Frozen River, and Meryl Streep for the movie Doubt. With all the previous awards Kate has received, she unquestionably deserves to win the best actress award for this year’s annual Academy Award, and will never be using a shampoo bottle anymore, for she already had the Oscars. Clippers Tickets | Heat Tickets | Magic Tickets | Thunder Tickets | Entertainment News | hearing aid amplifier | Dancing Lessons |