2011 Oscars nominations


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BEST PICTURE

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids Are All Right

The King's Speech

127 Hours

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter's Bone

BEST ACTOR

Javier Bardem, "Biutiful"

Jeff Bridges, "True Grit"

Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network"

Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"

James Franco, "127 Hours"

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, "The Kids Are All Right"

Nicole Kidman, "Rabbit Hole"

Jennifer Lawrence, "Winter's Bone"

Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"

Michelle Williams, "Blue Valentine"

BEST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky, "Black Swan"

David O. Russell, "The Fighter"

Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech"

David Fincher, "The Social Network"

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "True Grit"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, "The Fighter"

John Hawkes, "Winter's Bone"

Jeremy Renner, "The Town"

Mark Ruffalo, "The Kids Are All Right"

Geoffrey Rush, "The King's Speech"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, "The Fighter"

Helena Bonham Carter, "The King's Speech"

Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"

Hailee Steinfeld, "True Grit"

Jacki Weaver, "Animal Kingdom"

ANIMATED FILM

"How to Train Your Dragon"

"The Illusionist"

"Toy Story 3"

FOREIGN FILM

"Biutiful" (Mexico)

"Dogtooth" (Greece)

"In a Better World" (Denmark)

"Incendies" (Canada)

"Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)" (Algeria)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mike Leigh, "Another Year"

Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story) "The Fighter"

Christopher Nolan, "Inception"

Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, "The Kids Are All Right"

David Seidler, "The King's Speech"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, "127 Hours"

Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"

Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story), "Toy Story 3"

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "True Grit"

Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, "Winter's Bone"

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz, "Exit through the Gift Shop"

Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic, "Gasland"

Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, "Inside Job"

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, "Restrepo"

Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley, "Waste Land"

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Matthew Libatique, "Black Swan"

Wally Pfister, "Inception"

Danny Cohen, "The King's Speech"

Jeff Cronenweth, "The Social Network"

Roger Deakins, "True Grit"

COSTUME DESIGN

Colleen Atwood, "Alice in Wonderland"

Antonella Cannarozzi, "I Am Love"

Jenny Beavan, "The King's Speech"

Sandy Powell, "The Tempest"

Mary Zophres, "True Grit"

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips, "Alice in Wonderland"

Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"

Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell, "Hereafter"

Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb, "Inception"

Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick, "Iron Man 2"

ART DIRECTION

Robert Stromberg (production design) and Karen O'Hara (set decoration), "Alice in Wonderland"

Stuart Craig (production design) and Stephenie McMillan (set decoration), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"

Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design) and Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration), "Inception"

Eve Stewart (production design) and Judy Farr (set decoration), "The King's Speech"

Jess Gonchor (production design) and Nancy Haigh (set decoration), "True Grit"

How much do leading UAE’s UK curriculum schools charge for Year 6?
  1. Nord Anglia International School (Dubai) – Dh85,032
  2. Kings School Al Barsha (Dubai) – Dh71,905
  3. Brighton College Abu Dhabi - Dh68,560
  4. Jumeirah English Speaking School (Dubai) – Dh59,728
  5. Gems Wellington International School – Dubai Branch – Dh58,488
  6. The British School Al Khubairat (Abu Dhabi) - Dh54,170
  7. Dubai English Speaking School – Dh51,269

*Annual tuition fees covering the 2024/2025 academic year

SERIE A FIXTURES

Saturday Spezia v Lazio (6pm), Juventus v Torino (9pm), Inter Milan v Bologna (7.45pm)

Sunday Verona v Cagliari (3.30pm), Parma v Benevento, AS Roma v Sassuolo, Udinese v Atalanta (all 6pm), Crotone v Napoli (9pm), Sampdoria v AC Milan (11.45pm)

Monday Fiorentina v Genoa (11.45pm)

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COMPANY PROFILE

Company name: Letstango.com

Started: June 2013

Founder: Alex Tchablakian

Based: Dubai

Industry: e-commerce

Initial investment: Dh10 million

Investors: Self-funded

Total customers: 300,000 unique customers every month

The specs

Engine: Turbocharged four-cylinder 2.7-litre

Power: 325hp

Torque: 500Nm

Transmission: 10-speed automatic

Price: From Dh189,700

On sale: now

Conflict, drought, famine

Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.

Band Aid

Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.

Singham Again

Director: Rohit Shetty

Stars: Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff, Deepika Padukone

Rating: 3/5

NO OTHER LAND

Director: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal

Stars: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham

Rating: 3.5/5

UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Islamophobia definition

A widely accepted definition was made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims in 2019: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” It further defines it as “inciting hatred or violence against Muslims”.

COMPANY PROFILE

Name: Qyubic
Started: October 2023
Founder: Namrata Raina
Based: Dubai
Sector: E-commerce
Current number of staff: 10
Investment stage: Pre-seed
Initial investment: Undisclosed 

Rashid & Rajab

Director: Mohammed Saeed Harib

Stars: Shadi Alfons,  Marwan Abdullah, Doaa Mostafa Ragab 

Two stars out of five 

Despacito's dominance in numbers

Released: 2017

Peak chart position: No.1 in more than 47 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Lebanon

Views: 5.3 billion on YouTube

Sales: With 10 million downloads in the US, Despacito became the first Latin single to receive Diamond sales certification

Streams: 1.3 billion combined audio and video by the end of 2017, making it the biggest digital hit of the year.

Awards: 17, including Record of the Year at last year’s prestigious Latin Grammy Awards, as well as five Billboard Music Awards

Key findings of Jenkins report
  • Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, "accepted the political utility of violence"
  • Views of key Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, have “consistently been understood” as permitting “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” and “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
  • Muslim Brotherhood at all levels has repeatedly defended Hamas attacks against Israel, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.
  • Laying out the report in the House of Commons, David Cameron told MPs: "The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism."