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The story of Love in Bombay "Slumdog Millionaire" became a millionaire on Sunday with eight Academy Awards, including Best Film, in a night of glory for the Spanish Penelope Cruz, Britain's Kate Winslet, Australian Heath Ledger and American Sean Penn.


"The curious case Benjamin Button" took only three of the 13 statuettes at sucking and technical categories.

In the categories of actors Sean Penn took out only the face by the United States by winning the Oscar for Best Actor for "Milk," the second in his career, while Britain's Kate Winslet won his sixth nomination as Best Actress, Spanish Penelope Cross made history by rising with the trophy for Best Actress and Australian Heath Ledger catapulted his legend by winning a posthumous Oscar as supporting actor.


The interpretation of Ledger as the Joker in Batman "The Dark Knight", won the second of which receives a posthumous Oscar after his fellow actor Peter Finch in 1976 for her role in "Network."

The film "Milk" won the statuette for Best Original Screenplay, "Slumdog Millionaire" took the trophy for Best Adapted Screenplay, "WALL-E" won for Best Animated Film and the Japanese "Departures" took the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.


"All those from Spain are now sharing this moment with me, and think that this is also dedicated to them and all the players in my country," said an excited Penelope Cruz in Spanish to thank for the statue, while Woody Allen remember Pedro Almodovar and Fernando Trueba, Bigas Luna, who marked her film career.

Actress madrileña of 34 years won the statuette which aspiring Viola Davis ( "Doubt"), Marisa Tomei ( "The Wrestler"), Amy Adams ( "Doubt") and Taraji P. Henson ( "The curious case of Benjamin Button").


The 81 prizes Oscar started at 17H30 (01h30 GMT Monday) at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood with a scenario of competition and a television musical by the Australian Hugh Jackman, to build a more intimate format sensitized these to tears on several occasions.

"I want to celebrate and listen to music. Where can I dance?" Said Penelope Cruz to speak to the press at the Kodak Theater shortly after receiving his award, the first of the gala and twelve months after Javier Bardem won the same trophy in the male list.


The winner for Best Director, the Briton Danny Boyle, the architect of the great winner of the night "Slumdog Millionaire", was accompanied by the entire cast of the film, mostly from India, including two of the six children of the plot who traveled from their homes in Dharavi, the largest shanty town in Mumbai miserable Asia, where the movie was filmed.

The fictional story of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The curious case of Benjamin Button" competed for the Oscar for Best Film with three other plots based on real life: "Frost / Nixon," "The Reader" and "Milk."


Upon receiving his Best Actor statuette for her performance in "Milk," Sean Penn dedicated his speech to defend the special right to marry for homosexuals, then the writer of the tape of Gus Van Sant, Dustin Lance Black, excited to be the statuette for Best Screenplay also advocates social equality of the gay community.

In the category for Best Actress, Kate Winslet Oscar managed to rise to five times that he was shy, this time for his character in "The Reader" and with that managed to beat Meryl Streep ( "Doubt"), Melissa Leo ( " Frozen River "), Angelina Jolie (" Changeling ") and Anne Hathaway (" Rachel Getting Married ").


Oscar since 1929, which are awarded to 24 categories of cinema after the 5830 vote on this industry professionals and members of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.