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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Alexander Belenky

And the Oscar goes to ...

Taxi to the Dark Side for best documentary, and screenwriter Diablo Cody for Juno.

In addition to my mother, father, agent, fitness trainer and hairdresser (wait! stop the music!) I'd also like to thank Chris Orr for bringing my attention to Once. It may have only been up for best song, but the award was certainly a nod to the film as a whole, and stars John Carney Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová treated it as such in their acceptance speeches - two of the nicest of the night.

Update: As a commentor points out below, I mixed up Once's director, John Carney, with singer/actor Glen Hansard. Hey, after suffering through nearly four hours of acceptance speeches and movie clip jobs, can you really blame me?

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