The Oscar Winners

The Winners of the 88th Academy Awards. All in one place.

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BEST PICTURE:

SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson (Michael Keaton), reporters Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

BEST ACTOR:

LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials, after which he had recurring roles in TV series. He won his first Oscar in 2016 after being nominated for the award several times before.

BEST ACTRESS:

BRIE LARSON

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and singer. She won her Oscar in 2016 for the best actress.

Best Supporting Actor:

Mark Rylance

David Mark Rylance Waters is an English actor, theatre director and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005.

Best supporting Actress:

Alicia Vikander

Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress and dancer. Born and raised in Gothenburg, she began acting as a child in minor stage productions.

Best Director:

Alejandro Gonzalez

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and former composer. He Won the Oscar for his Film ' THE REVENANT' in 2016.

Best Original Song:

Writings on the Wall

Best Foreign Language Film:

Son of Saul

During World War II, a Jewish worker (Géza Röhrig) at the Auschwitz concentration camp tries to find a rabbi to give a child a proper burial.

Best Writing adapted Screenplay:

The Big Short

In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his investors' money into credit default swaps. His actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and other greedy opportunists. Together, these men make a fortune by taking full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America.

Best Original Screenplay:

Spotlight

This is the 2nd Oscar award for this movie. It also won the Oscar for The Best Movie.

Best Documentary Feature:

Amy

Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.

Best Animated Film:

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Inside Out

Young Riley lives a happy life in Midwest until she has to move to San Francisco with her parents. Her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust conflict on how to make her happy in her new life. They create numerous problems inside Riley's head. It surely is one of the masterpieces in the world of Animated movies.

Best Cinematography:

Emmanuel Lubezki

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. is a Mexican cinematographer. He sometimes goes by the nickname Chivo, which means "goat" in Spanish.

Best Original Music Score:

The Hateful Eight

While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to a stagecoach stopover located on a mountain pass. Greeted there by four strangers, the eight travelers soon learn that they may not make it to their destination after all.

Best Costume Design:

Jenny Beavan

Jenny Beavan is an English costume designer. She has won two Academy Awards, most recently in 2016 for Costume Design in Mad Max: Fury Road, and has been nominated an additional eight times.

Best Visual Effects:

Ex Machina

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) a programmer at a huge Internet company, wins a contest that enables him to spend a week at the private estate of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), his firm's brilliant CEO. When he arrives, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to be the human component in a Turing test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava (Alicia Vikander), a beautiful robot. However, it soon becomes evident that Ava is far more self-aware and deceptive than either man imagined.

Best Live Action Short Film:

Stutterer

A man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship.

Best Sound Mixing:

Gregg Rudloff, Ben Osmo, Chris Jenkins

The Award was given to Mad Max: Fury Road.

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OSCARS 2016. Nominees And Predictions for Best Actor and Picture.

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honor the best films of 2015 and is scheduled to take place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre.

The Nominations and our predictions for the winner are the following.

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Rooting is actually breaking into your android's system. It is the Android equivalent for jailbreak. It is a means of getting Super user access to all the functions in your device.

You can install unapproved apps, remove bloatware, update the android and customize almost everything.

How to Root your android:

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10 Ways to Improve Your Android's Battery Life

The top android mobile phones like Samsung Galaxy Series are powerful, but they don't have unlimited power in them. Many people even hope that if their android device runs throughout a whole day without the need of being charged, it would be sufficient.

10 ways to improve Android's battery life.

You can try the following 10 ways to improve the battery life of your mobile device:

1. See which application is draining the most of your battery. Go to Settings>Battery and see if there is an application draining a lot of battery which you barely use. You can uninstall the particular application or 'Force Stop' it.

2. Turn Off unnecessary radios in your mobile phone. If you are not using NFC, Wi-Fi, or GPS etc. turn them off. These features drain your battery very much. You will notice a significant increase in your phone's battery timing by this. You can turn these features off by using a power control widget or directly from the notification bar of your phone.

3. Turn on Auto Brightness in your phone settings. This will increase or decrease the screen brightness of your phone according to the outside light and hence when you are in a place where low brightness will do the job, the Auto-Brightness option will automatically reduce the brightness and hence will serve a purpose in increasing the battery life.

4. Many Modern smartphones have a Battery saver mode in them. These modes reduce some of the automatic functions of your mobile phone and reduce the push notifications. Turn the battery saver mode on and save some battery. Although, it does not save battery for more than an hour, but still does the job handsomely.

5. Cut short the use of animated widgets or live wallpapers. The animations in these use up a lot of battery. Ordinary static wallpapers are much stable in battery usage than live wallpapers which use more energy. Moreover, animated widgets also use battery. Turn them off to save battery.

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6. Destroy all the un used apps in the background. Go to Settings>Apps, Swipe left and you will see a list of apps running in the background, draining battery. Close these apps. Click on them to see what they are running for and destroy them if you don't need them.

  

7. Several of the Samsung's mobile devices have some extraordinary features in them. These include eye scanner which no one probably uses. It is wise for you to turn them off to keep them from draining your precious battery.

8. Update your apps regularly. Many apps are updated to use lesser battery. They are developed so that they use less battery life of the mobile phone. Make sure that you keep Auto-update feature on in the google play-store so tat apps are automatically updated as soon as an update is available.

9. Reduce the refresh frequency for Facebook, Twitter or email apps. Set there refresh frequency to manual and let the system decide when to refresh the date in these apps. You will be amazed  to see that it makes such a significant difference. once you see the results, you can turn on the most important ones again.

10. Turn off the Auto- Syncing feature with respect to Google or Dropbox services. This step will increase the battery timing significantly. The auto uploading process uses up data and battery even when the phone is idle. So, keep this feature off and it will help your phone run longer with just one charge.

 In some areas, where the network signal is low, the phone will work harder to find some signal. This will use some battery too. There is nothing much you can actually do about it. But if you don't need your mobile at the moment, you can just switch it to airplane mode in a low signal strength area.

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