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Phillipe Pollet-Villard – best live action short film winner, The Mozart of Pickpockets Photo: Matt Petit / © A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Best Makeup Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel Of the three nominees, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End boasts the showiest example of movie makeup. For the record, the other two nominees are La Vie en Rose, in which gorgeous Marion Cotillard was transformed into plain Edith Piaf, and Norbit.   Best Documentary Short Sari's Mother, James Longley [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 2007 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, on Tuesday, February 19, at 7 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). They are: Animated Short Film I Met the Walrus (top photo), Josh Raskin, [...]