The race for Oscar glory reached its peak when Hollywood meets recent Sunday. Annual Academy Awards, with the successful silent film artists and Hugo Martin Scorsese, who goes to the wire. After months of campaigning, apparently, and dozens of smaller prizes is the annual awards season in Hollywood to an end with the highest honor of all, the coveted gold statuettes.

Veteran Oscar host Billy Crystal is to take the stage for the amazing show, watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world who vote in the fashion the red carpet before the show itself.

The show is bound to the distribute of revelation - flashy British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has been threatened and was warned by the organizers against the strip of red carpet stunt for his latest film to be promulgated.

Glamour also a prominent role, with last year's best actor and actress Colin Firth and Natalie Portman, the newest additions to the presenters of the evening, along with Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz and Halle Berry, among others.

But in the serious business of the night, visually compelling 3D adventure game veteran Scorsese Hugo goes to the fair with the most nominations at 11, with the French-led black and white artists in his heels 10th

Others wait; her name is called out for the top award is fellow heavyweights Scorsese Woody Allen for his successful comeback in the center of Paris, and Steven Spielberg with the warhorse.

Pitt for his character as instructor Billy Beane in baseball film Moneyball, while Clooney has got numerous awards for his character in the offspring, a family drama set in Hawaii, also spoke about the best picture.