Kate Winslet Wins Best Actress/Sean Penn Wins Best Actor

Slumdog Millionaire was named best picture at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The film's director Danny Boyle was named best director.

In the best actress category, Kate Winslet won for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader.While accepting her award, she joked that she wrote her first Oscar acceptance speech when she was 8, staring into a bathroom mirror. Holding her Oscar, she added, "This would have been the shampoo bottle. Well, it's not a shampoo bottle now!"Said Winslet (who made her father whistle from the audience so she knew where he was sitting), "I feel fortunate to have made it from there to here!"

Accepting the award for best actor for playing gay politician Harvey Milk, Milk's Sean Penn joked that the Academy was a group of "homo loving sons of guns!"
"I did not expect this. I am touched by the appreciation," said Penn, who previously won for Mystic River.
Before leaving the stage, he gave a shout out to fellow nominee Mickey Rourke ("he is my brother," Penn said). Piggybacking off the themes of Milk, he also told the audience, "We've got to have equal rights for everyone."