Hollywood thanks the troop by sliming them...

Pretty amazing! After having the troops appear from Baghdad introducing the Best Documentary award the academy gives the award to "Taxi To The Dark Side" a documentary that accuses the US of using torture in the interrogation techniques.
Aussie wins best doco Oscar

Australian Eva Orner has won an Oscar for the documentary Taxi To The Dark Side.

The 38-year-old from Melbourne produced the documentary along with Alex Gibney.

The harrowing film throws the spotlight on US interrogation techniques at military facilities and investigates the death in custody of a Afghan taxi driver - Dilawar - at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in 2002.

An investigation into the death later found Dilawar had been repeatedly kicked and punched and was chained to the ceiling of his cell for days.

Gibney, who also produced hit documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, said in his acceptance speech that his wife had wanted him to make a romantic comedy.

"But honestly after Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition that simply wasn't possible," the film-maker said, before dedicating the film to Dilawar and his own father.

"This is dedicated to two people who are no longer with us - Dilawar, the young Afghan taxi driver, and my father, a Navy interrogator who urged me to make this film because of his fury at what was being done to the rule of law.

"Let's hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and go back to the light."

Earlier, Australia's other Oscar hopeful - Cate Blanchett - lost both the best supporting actress and best actress categories.

The 80th Academy Awards is being held in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

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