Whole Network Most Recent TOP10 Beads Bridal Jewelry Gemstones Jewelry Designers

 

Oscars for Blood Diamond?

Filed in archive Celebrity Jewelry by tammy on January 26, 2007

wleone26.jpg
Leonardo DiCaprio's latest film, Blood Diamond, has gotten the Oscar nod. He is up for best actor, and there are many other possible Oscars for this movie including best sound and editing. You can vote for your favorites right now on the Yahoo Movie site.

This movie has been stirring up controversy before it was even released, and it hasn't stopped according to this article from Telegraph News, Oscar-nominated film unearths curse of Sierra Leone's 'blood diamonds':

He [Richard Foray ] and thousands of other small-scale miners in Sierra Leone fear that Hollywood's portrayal of their country's civil war could now rob them of their livelihoods.

Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio's latest film, opens across Britain today, charting the trade in illegally-mined and sold gemstones during Sierra Leone's 11-year conflict, which ended in 2002. Bootleg copies of the film are already showing here, on flickering screens in tin-shack video halls. Few are impressed.

"It's true that it shows the way things were during the war, but people here are so worried that others in the West will think that is the way it is now,"' said Mr Foray, 41, in Koidu, 210 miles northeast of Freetown.

It is not. The people who are mining now are not the rebels; we are true miners trying to make money for feeding the family and school fees."

Koidu, the capital of the country's Kono district, is Sierra Leone's diamond mining heartland, peppered with craters excavated by hand by the town's 100,000 artisan miners. Beneath hills covered in coconut palms and along muddy riverbanks lie some of the richest diamond deposits in the world. Working mines already earn Sierra Leone more than £75 million a year.


Advertisement


Permalink: Oscars for Blood Diamond?
Tags: diamond  blood+diamond  Leonardo+DiCaprio  Oscar 

Trackback: http://www.creative-weblogging.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.pl/51102



Related Entries:

Internet Jewelry Trunk Show - 05 December 2005

Fur Fashion and Jewelry Controversies - 14 June 2006

Blood Diamond Trailer - 04 October 2006

Blood Diamond No Biggie - 14 December 2006

Tome Gallery Valentine Jewelry Show - 08 February 2007

Charming Time Pieces - 30 March 2007

Blood Diamond - 01 Juni 2007

Advertisement


Advertisement


CW ToolbarInstall
RSSrss   | See all blog subscribe options
Googlegoogle   |   What is RSS?
Yahoo!yahoo
AddthisAddThis Feed Button
BloglinesBloglines
Newsletter
Advertisement - Book yours here.

Use our search feature to look for other interesting posts

Just this blog Whole network
 
  • Would you like to see your text link here? Let us know!
Advertisement
Book yours here.



  • Testimonials

  • 'I very much enjoy your blog and the fine pieces of jewelry.'

    I work with for Cartier [...] I am familiar with your jewelry blog and I thought you would be interested to know (if you don't already) that Cartier is re-launching their iconic LOVE collection.

    Very interesting!
  • Other blogs in the same channel in the Creative Weblogging Network

Advertisement -
Book yours here..






Advertisement - Book yours here..
 
Tagcloud: Beads Bracelets Bridal Jewelry Celebrity Jewelry Costume and Fashion Jewelry Designer Jewelry Earrings Fine Jewelry Gemstones Holiday Jewelry Jewelry Awards Jewelry Careers Jewelry Collections Jewelry Contests Jewelry Designers Jewelry Designing Jewelry for a Cause Jewelry Gifts Jewelry History Jewelry News Jewelry Polls Jewelry Resources Jewelry Sales Jewelry Shops Jewelry Shows Jewelry Techniques Jewelry Trends Jewelry Videos Jewelry/Fashion Blogosphere Jewelry/Gem Resources Men's Jewelry Metallic Jewelry Mixed Media Jewelry Native American Jewelry Necklaces Pearls Rings Seasonal Jewelry Sponsored Post Sterling Silver Jewelry Vintage Jewelry Watches