Oscars 2016: Alejandro G. Inarritu is best directorFebruary 29, 2016 - 10:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Sam Smith has won his first Academy Award. The British singer took home Best Original Song for creating the music and lyrics of "Spectre" theme song "Writing's on the Wall", sharing the prize with co-writer Jimmy Napes, AceShowbiz reports. "I actually can't breathe right now," Smith said when accepting the prize. He gave a shout out to fellow nominee Lady GaGa, exclaiming, "You're incredible." He also dedicated his win to LGBT community, "I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community around the world ... We can all stand together as winners." Smith becomes the first openly gay man to win an Academy Award. He took the stage earlier that night to perform "Writing's on the Wall". Alejandro G. Inarritu was the next winner taking the stage that night. He accepted the trophy for Best Director for his work on "The Revenant". He edged out Adam McKay ("The Big Short"), George Miller ("Mad Max: Fury Road"), Lenny Abrahamson ("Room") and Tom McCarthy ("Spotlight") for the honor. "I can't believe this is happening," he said. "It's amazing to receive this award tonight but it's much more beautiful for me to share it with the talented cast and crew members," he said, before praising the movie's star Leonardo DiCaprio, "Leo, you are The Revenant." Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |