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2006 Animated Oscar nominations
In a shocking move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences only nominated 3 movies for its best Animated Feature Film category: Cars, Happy Feet & Monster House.
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Celebrity Gossip - Oscar Nominations
Awards season in full force! The 2006 Academy Awards nominations were announced this morning. The only real surprise was the total takeover by the independent film world of the bastion of old line studio dominence, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Paprika gets limited release
Satoshi Kon's Paprika will have a limited screening at 10 am at Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex in Los Angeles. This will make the anime movie eligible for the 2006 Oscars
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Predictions and Outlook for the 72nd Annual Oscar Nominations
The Oscar Nominations will finally be announced on Tuesday. This week, final predictions in the major categories.
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The 74th Oscar Nominations Are Here!
The Academy announced their nominees for the 74th Annual Oscars, and amazingly, their list was pretty much exactly as we predicted it might be, with a small surprise or two thrown in. This week, I look at their nominees, and even make some early predictions.
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2008 Oscar Animated Nominations
Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille, Sony Picture Classics' Persepolis and Twentieth Century Fox's Surf's Up are 2008's Oscar nominees.
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Deepa Mehta's Water Gets Oscar Nod
Water's Director Deepa Mehta and Producer David Hamilton celebrate Water's Academy Award nomination with Toronto well-wishers.
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Heath Ledger's Death and Batman's Success
From A Knight's Tale to the Dark Knight's fable. Exploring the effect Heath Ledger's death has had on the success of The Dark Knight.
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More Academy Precursor Awards in 2000
On this first week of the new year, American Beauty is named Best Picture of the Year by three of the latest precursor organizations awarding honors for 1999! This week, a look at their choices.
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Nora Ephron is 'Hanging Up'
Nora Ephron captures comedy in real life in her award worthy screenplays which include 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'When Harry Met Sally'.
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Notes on a Scandal DVD Review
Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench cling to each other out of loneliness in the psychological thriller, Notes On a Scandal - available on DVD - April 17/07
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Ratatouille Up For Visual FX Oscar
Both Beowulf and Ratatouille have made the fifteen film shortlist for Best Visual Effects category at this year's Oscars. Awards are handed out on February 24th.
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How to Predict Oscar Winners
Just in time for the 2008 Oscar nominations, UCLA researchers revealed the strongest factors in making Oscar predictions & forecasting Academy Award winners.
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Oz Oscar Anticipation
Seven Australians have garnered Oscar nominations for the 71st Annual Academy Awards, but none for their work on Australian films.
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Academy Award Firsts - 1940s
The 1940s saw several firsts that became part of Academy Award history and trivia. From the first foreign film Oscar to the youngest director to receive a nomination.
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Christopher Nolan's Batman: The Dark Knight
Not a comic fantasy, the latest Batman movie is a gripping thriller populated with some excellent performances from the ensemble cast.
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Evolution of Heath Ledger Short Acting Career
Heath Ledger evolved his acting career from heartthrob for teens across America to strong leading man and eventual scene stealer between his first and last movies.
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Michael Caine
A brief biog of the British actor
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New Despereux director
Mike Johnson replaces Sylvain Chomet on animated film The Tale of Despereux
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Ratatouille Robbed of Oscar Nom
Why was the best reviewed film of 2007 not in the Best Picture category in this year's Oscars? Could it be because it was animated?
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Recent Oscar Winners and Nominees
Movie buffs who love Oscar trivia and movies in general may already know all,or most, of these tidbits. For others, it may give new insight into Academy Award history.
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Some 1950s Oscar Nominees/Winners
An African-American actress nominated for her role in a musical and a man who was nominated twice as best actor after he had died were among the unusual Oscar highlights.
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Some Precursor Awards and Some Oscar 72 News
A couple of other precursor awards to the Oscars announced their choices, and there's some more news coming out this week about the upcoming Oscar telecast.
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Which toon gets the Oscar?
In a year that featured a ton of look-alike, sound-alike CG animated movies, which one will walk home with an Oscar? Your fearless animation writer looks at their chances
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The 2003 Fall and Winter Film Preview
Yes indeed, it's September already! The summer is slowly leaving us, and it's time for the more "serious" fall and winter movie season, when we'll likely see the major Oscar contenders for the year. This week, in Part 1 of my fall and winter film preview, I look at the films to be released in September and October.
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Birth and Evolution of Batman's Joker Character
Since his early beginnings the Joker has remained basically true to the core of his character but has also undergone a radical evolution throughout the years.
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Early Outlook for Oscar 2000 Nominations
It's not too early to look at what films from the first part of 1999 stand a chance to be major Oscar contenders in March of 2000 at the next Academy Awards.
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Gloria Swanson: The Original Glamour Girl
Gloria Swanson did it all, and she did it first. Long before Dietrich, Garbo and Hepburn, Gloria Swanson took the steps to become a legend while the rest were dreaming of doing the same.
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Let the 1999 Academy Awards Season Begin!
It's time to start predicting the best film achievements of the year in preparation for the first rounds of year end film awards, and of course the upcoming 72nd Annual Academy Awards.
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Bllue State - Red State Movies
The difference between the movie Sideways and National Treasure is representative of the difference between "blue" and "red" state outlooks.
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Banning Screeners and Lifetime Achievement Awards
In just a few short weeks since the MPAA made the controversial decision to ban the use of screener videos to send to awards organizations for their consideration, the industry has risen up against the ban, and even one awards organization has canceled their upcoming awards. But on the bright side of things, two Hollywood legends will be receiving lifetime achievement awards soon.
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FACES: George C. Scott
Wise, Va., native son dies...

Jack Palance (1919 - 2006)
Farewell to one of the great tough guys of stage and screen.
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James Woods Interview
Woods portrays an intense, hard-to-love character in Shark, a new drama series
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Tom Cruise , Larry Fishburne and Batman -Writing for the Actor
Writing a movie script for Tom Cruise, Laurence Fishburn and Batman.
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The Ten Best Films of 2001 - One To Five
On the eve of the announcement of the 74th Annual Academy Award nominations, I conclude my two part series on the ten best films of 2001, with my choices for the five best films of the year.
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The Ten Best Films of 2001: Ten to Six
Putting together my ten best films of 2001 was not the easy task it usually is, but ultimately I was able to arrange my list of the ten best film achievements for this past year. In this two part series concluding Monday before the Oscar Nominations are announced, I reveal them all and my reasons for selecting them. Today, numbers 10 through 6.
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Animation Awards Presented, Countdown to Oscar Continues
The International Animation Society presented awards this past week, and some further discussion after seeing a potential Oscar candidate, The Insider.
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Little Children Review
An overview of a memorable but disturbing little film.
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Obituary: Dudley Moore, CBE.
Dudley Moore, actor and musician, born April 19 1935; died March 27 2002. An Obituary to a comic and musical genius and kindly Cockney Gentleman .
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Outside Providence-Go See It! It Doesn't Suck After All!
Many critics have savaged "Outside Providence" but here's someone and her mother who-suprise! like the film.
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Tony Winner Alan Bennett
Since 1960 playwright Alan Bennett has delighted audiences and actors from Monty Python alumni to Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Nigel Hawthorne.
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Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine
Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine - from Underappreciated Ugly Duckling to mid-aged Gaia-like Goddess: Retsina, Calamari, and Opa! Life does exist beyond Wall.
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A Woman Who Knows How To Believe
Cher has had a powerful impact on the music and film industries. After being away from both for a short time, she's back-- better than ever.
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Academy Awards Youngest and Oldest
No other twenty year period in Academy Award and Oscar history probably had such a wide range of ages among its nominees. Here they are from Tatum O'Neal to Groucho Marx.
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