The Oscars were awarded last night in the Kodak Theater of Los Angeles. Watch this video to learn about the winners.
or see the full list of nominees. Have you seen any of the films in this list? Choose a film and prepare a two-minute talk about it: the plot, the actors, your opinion about it and if it got an Oscar, did it deserve it or not?
The Brit awards (the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards) were presented yesterday. Duffy picked up three awards. Her biggest hit to date, Mercy, was at number one in the singles chart for five weeks last year, and her first album, Rockferry, sold 1.7m copies in the UK last year. Other winners were Girls Aloud, Kings of Leon or Katy Perry. Learn more about the awards and their winners, or watch some images and videos below:
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15.
King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law (at his time, for example, coloured people had to sit at the back of the buses, or had to give their seat to the whites, and there were segregated toilets for coloured and white people). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
His most famous words were a speech he delivered in 1963, which goes "I have a dream..."
The Oscars were awarded last night in the Kodak Theater of Los Angeles. Watch this video to learn about the winners.
