‘Toy Story 3′ wins best animated feature film Oscar

“Toy Story 3″, the highest grosser of 2010, won the Oscar in the best animated feature film category at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards here.The movie, the third in the “Toy Story” series, made $1.1 billion at the box office - even more than films like Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One” and “Shrek Forever After”.

Directed by Lee Unkrich, the movie was nominated in four categories - best animated feature, best adapted screenplay, best original song, and best sound editing for this year’s Oscars.

Aaron Sorkin won his first ever Oscar for adapted screenplay for “The Social Network”, while David Seidler walked away with the golden statuette for best writing, screenplay written directly for the screen for “The King’s Speech” Sunday at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre.

“The King’s Speech” is about Britain’s King George VI who overcomes his stammering with the help of his speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Libya: Ready for civil war?

The uprising in Libya appears to be growing by the day, and represents the biggest challenge to leader Muammar Gaddafi since he took power in 1969.



The unrest has spread to the capital Tripoli for the first time since protests began and the second largest city of Benghazi is reportedly out of government control.

A major tribe in Libya was reported to have turned against Gaddafi, and a number of Libyan diplomats resigned their posts in protest for using force against demonstrators.

In the regime's first comment on the demonstrations, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi's son, appeared on state television on Sunday night offering significant political reforms.

He says that his father will remain in power and is fully backed by the army. Seif al-Islam also vowed that the regime would "fight to the last bullet" against "seditious elements". He put only two choices in front of the people: Either to accept reforms or be ready for civil war.

As thousands of protesters call for Gaddafi to step down, what is behind these latest statements? Will the uprising turn into civil war?


Source-- Al Jazeera