Photo gallery: Red carpet arrivals
Photo gallery: Red carpet arrivals: Part 2
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The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has lamented the fact that Hollywood chose to honour films that were "without hope" and violent at the Oscars ceremony.
"Hollywood was moved this year by films that were sober, full of violence and above all without hope," said the paper, referring to No Country for Old Men by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen and There Will be Blood by Paul Thomas. No Country for Old Men won the best picture Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards while Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for his role in There Will be Blood.
"A sign of the times? Probably," wrote Gaetano Vallini, who praised Juno, by Jason Reitman, about "a story of a teenager who decides to follow through with an undesired pregnancy".
