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Serious subjects get early Oscar honors: Best supporting awards go to Mo’Nique, Christoph Waltz The Cleveland Plain Dealer

The Oscars reached for fun and lively Sunday night, but kept honoring serious subjects: abused children and the Iraq war. In the early awards, the love was spread around to several first-time nominees. Mo’Nique won best supporting actress for playing the brutally abusive mother in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” a film that also collected a best adapted screenplay statue for …