The Oscars

IDevice Icon The Oscars Feb 2009

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iDevice icon Nominees for Best Picture
Read the following Film Synopsis for the Best Picture and fill in with a word.

FILM SYNOPSIS, The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonĀ 

Benjamin Button's life begins the close of World War I, when he is born with the body an old man. As the years pass, however, Benjamin discovers that he is gradually becoming younger even he grows older in experience and wisdom--a situation that informs his relationship with the lovely Daisy, reenters his life periodically as they grow closer together in physical age.

FILM SYNOPSIS, Slumdog Millionaire

An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look at his earlier life. The show's host, , insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.

FILM SYNOPSIS, The Reader

In late 1950s Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins an affair Hanna, a woman in her mid-thirties. Hanna's past contains a dark secret, however, the revelation of , in the decades following the period of his first experience with love, both shock Michael and force him to confront country's history.

  

iDevice icon Nominees for Best Picture
Read the following Film Synopsis for the Best Picture and use the word in capitals to write the correct family word.

FILM SYNOPSIS, Milk

As the emerging Gay Pride (MOVE) gathers force in the 1970s, it finds a champion and a public face in San Francisco camera store (OWN) Harvey Milk. Leaving his closeted life in New York behind, Milk moves to California with his lover and soon turns his efforts to politics, (CAMPAIGN) for a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors--a quest that will make him the country's first openly gay man to be (ELECTION) to public office.

FILM SYNOPSIS, Frost/Nixon

Following his 1974 (RESIGN), Richard Nixon withdraws from public life until talk show host David Frost persuades him--with the help of a (SIZE) payment--to participate in a series of television interviews. For Frost, the much-anticipated event offers a chance to establish himself as a serious (JOURNAL), while the disgraced former president regards the interviews as an opportunity to (ESTABLISH) himself on the political stage.