Oscar Night: Kate Winslet win for Best Actors

Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama "The Reader"; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of "Milk"; Heath Ledger, supporting actor for "The Dark Knight"; and Penelope Cruz, supporting actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

Kate Winslet has won the best-actress Academy Award for the Holocaust-themed drama "The Reader," while best-picture favorite "Slumdog Millionaire" has cruised to seven Oscars, including best director for Danny Boyle.

A five-time loser at the Oscars previously, Winslet triumphed for her role as a former concentration camp guard in an affair with a teenager.

"Slumdog Millionaire" is the Academy Awards champion, wrapping up its ghetto-to-glory story by winning best picture and seven other Oscars, including the directing honor for Danny Boyle.

A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India, "Slumdog Millionaire" also had wins that include adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars, score and song.

The evening is following the script of earlier Hollywood honors, with "Slumdog Millionaire" steamrolling through. Its awards include adapted screenplay, cinematography and both music awards, for score and song.

Slumdog Millionaire" has cruised to seven Academy Awards wins including best director for Danny Boyle.

The evening is following the script of earlier Hollywood honors, with "Slumdog Millionaire" steamrolling its way toward the big prize, best picture. The other Oscars for "Slumdog Millionaire" include adapted screenplay, cinematography and both music awards, for score and song.

Kate Winslet Ready For Oscar

Kate Winslet has created big buzz this award season with her roles in "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader."

Having already won two Golden Globes, as well as a BAFTA award, for her roles in both films, she is now busy prepping for the Academy Awards for which she is nominated in the Best Actress category for "The Reader."

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Of her nomination, Kate told People that she is just "so happy...that it's for a film that was so challenging".But even with the awards less than a week away, Kate has yet to look for the perfect dress.

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"It's such fun to work out what you're going to wear. You become incredibly girlie," the actress said. "I don't know what I'm going to be wearing yet. Hopefully it will be wonderful and relaxed."

Don't expect Kate to stress about slimming down for the big night either! The six-time Academy Award nominee claims that crazy diets and workouts are not for her."I have not done a stitch of exercise since October. I literally have not had the time. And I'm just going to eat normally, I'm not going to make cuts. If I'm keeping it together it's by a wing and a prayer. I just want to enjoy this," she added.

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As for what Kate enjoys most about the Academy Awards?"One of the great 'Okay, you can breathe now moments' is when you've gotten through the red carpet," Kate said. " 'Oh god, what if I trip over, what if I say something stupid, I wonder if they can see the big zit on my chin?' The relief moment is that moment when you get in the doors and there aren't any cameras and you go, 'Wheew! Where's the bathroom?' "After six nominations in her career, will this be the year Kate finally takes home an Oscar? Find out when the awards are handed out on Feb. 22.

Julia Roberts Returns to the Spotlight

Julia Roberts has kept a relatively low profile since she married cameraman Danny Moder in 2002. Instead of making movies, the popular actress put her career on the back burner to focus on being a mom to her three children: 4-year-old twins Hazel and Finn, and Henry, who is almost 2. In Allure magazine's March 2009 issue, Roberts talks openly about motherhood, men, money, and the fact that she's over being called "America's Sweetheart." That doesn't mean she doesn't like being a star. In fact, she kind of enjoys it ... until her kids become a target.

"I think it should be against the law to take a picture of a celebritys child," notes Julia. "And all the, like, 'Who's got the cutest baby?' I had to restore my faith in people when, one night, I was on the computer, and I ended up stumbling upon some pictures I had never seen of my children playing at a park. What upset me was all these comments like, 'One is cute; that other one sure is ugly.'" People can be so mean!

Despite this downside of celebrity, the 41-year-old actress, who says she is "very fulfilled" in her home life, is ready to return to the spotlight. "A lot of the mom struggle in life is that everything happens within the four walls of the home, and it can lose its luster a little bit, maybe," she admits. "You just have to bring it in from the outside sometimes."

That's why she signed on to star in two new flicks: "Duplicity" (which reunites her with "Closer" costar Clive Owen), and the family drama, "Fireflies in the Garden," which gave her the chance to work with her hubby, who was the film's director of photography. "There's a great combination of nerves and comfort that I get with him -- the one who's looking at me through the camera," she shares.

And there's no one that she'd rather be looking at than Danny. "The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really," she notes. "[And] the coolest thing you can do for your children is to love each other in their presence. I'm the luckiest girl in town, I really am."

Dina Lohan Defends Lindsay's Thin Frame

Lindsay Lohan fended off attacks earlier this week, after her thin frame became the focus of attention.And now, her mom is stepping up to defend her daughter.

In a new interview for Access Hollywood and "The Billy Bush Show," Dina Lohan defended Lindsay's skinny physique.

"I don't know why people care about other people's weight. I think they should look in their own mirror and stare at themselves," Dina told Billy. "I'm a mom. If I see my daughter a little thin, I say, 'Eat more McDonald's.'"

Earlier this week, Lindsay also referred to the fast-food chain in defending herself from comments in the media suggesting she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson were in competition to see who could become thinner.

"I eat. I had my Big Mac yesterday from McDonald's," Lindsay told Us Weekly on Monday. "I eat as much as I always have."

Still, Dina says it wouldn't kill her daughter to add a few pounds.

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"I told Lindsay I think she's a little thin," Dina admitted. "But we go through this every couple of months. My daughter is happy and healthy and that's all that really matters."

Dealing with tabloid attention is certainly nothing new for Dina and her family and she said it's something they've learned to ignore.

"We try to keep it at bay and not really read it or engage in it because it's just other people's opinions," she continued. "We've got hit pretty hard in the past, so we don't really go there."

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Salma Hayek Marries on Valentine's Day

Salma Hayek picked a romance-lover's ideal time and place for her wedding: Valentine's Day in Paris. The Mexican-born actress wed French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in a civil ceremony Saturday at the City Hall in Paris' chic 6th arrondissement, according to an official there.

The wedding was a small affair, said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, in accordance with policy.

The nuptials followed a rocky romance. The two met in Italy in 2006, announced their engagement and had a baby, Valentina Paloma, in September 2007. Last year they broke off their engagement but made up a few months later.

Hayek, 42, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for the film "Frida," the biography of the painter Frida Kahlo, which she produced and starred in. She is one of the executive producers of the hit series "Ugly Betty" and is also the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Pinault, 46, is chief executive of the French luxury and retail group PPR SA, which owns high-end labels such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Puma.