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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Cate Blanchett</title>
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		<title>Marley Beats Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
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David Frankel’s comedy Marley  &#38; Me raced to the top of the North American box office this  weekend with $37 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer  Aniston as a couple struggling to keep their dog in check, Marley  &#38; Me lifted its  domestic total to an impressive $51.6 million after only four days in release. 


At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest  comedy Bedtime Stories took home $28 million, reaching a  cumulative gross of $38.5 million. The Adam Shankman-directed effort follows  a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories come true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s  acclaimed drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Film Institute Awards 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2008 Australian Film Institute Awards
2008 Australian Film Institute Award  nominations: Oct. 29, 2008 
2008 Australian Film Institute Award  winners: Dec. 5 (&#34;industry&#34; categories) and Dec. 6 (top categories), 2008
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
&#160;

Elissa Down&#8217;s feature-film debut, The Black Balloon, chronicles the difficulties encountered by a teenager (Rhys Wakefield) whose younger brother (Luke Ford) is autistic. With the help of his girlfriend (Gemma Ward), the teen struggles to come to terms with the issue.
&#160;

FEATURE FILM NOMINEES
L’Oréal Paris AFI Award for Best Film
* The Black Balloon. Tristram Miall
  The Jammed. Dee McLachlan, Andrea Buck &#38; Sally Ayre-Smith
  The Square. Louise Smith
  Unfinished Sky. Cathy Overett &#38; Anton Smit
AFI Award for Best Direction
* The Black Balloon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE AVIATOR Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Martin Scorsese&#8217;s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; &#34;Great To Be Nominated&#34; series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy Sloan, production sound mixer Petur Hliddal, special effects supervisor R. Bruce Steinheimer, and miniature effects supervisor Matthew Gratzner will take part in a discussion about the film.
The US$100-million-plus The Aviator wasn&#8217;t quite the hoped-for critical and box-office hit, though the biopic won numerous accolades and did good business thanks to the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Jon McLaughlin, Owen Wilson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jon McLaughlin performs &#34;So Close&#34; from Enchanted

Cate Blanchett

Owen Wilson
Photos: Darren Decker / &#169; A.M.P.A.S.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.

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		<title>Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Penelope Cruz, Amy Adams</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/anne-hathaway-penelope-cruz-cate-blanchett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Cate Blanchett

Anne Hathaway

Penélope Cruz

Amy Adams
Photos: Matt Petit (Adams), Richard Harbaugh (Blanchett), Michael Yada (Hathaway), Armando Flores (Cruz). All photos: &#169; A.M.P.A.S.

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		<title>Spirit Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/film-independents-spirit-awards-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2008 Spirit Awards
Film Independent&#8217;s 2008 Spirit Award nominations: November 27, 2007
2008 Spirit Award winners: February 23, 2008
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
&#160;

Ellen Page in Juno
&#160;

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
I&#8217;m Not There, Producers: Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
* Juno, Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
A Mighty Heart, Producers: Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
Paranoid Park, Producers: Neil Kopp, David Cress
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Director: Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
The Band&#8217;s Visit, Director: Eran Kolirin (Israel)
Lady Chatterley, Director: Pascale Ferran (France)
* Once, Director: John Carney (Ireland)
Persepolis, Directors: Vincent Paronnaud &#38; Marjane Satrapi (France)
BEST FIRST [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2008 Richard Attenborough Film Awards
2008 regional British film critics&#8217; Richard Attenborough Film Award winners: Jan. 30, 2008
&#160;

James McAvoy in Atonement
&#160;

Film of the Year: Atonement
Best Director: Joe Wright, Atonement
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Actor: James McAvoy, Atonement
Best Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Rising Star Award: Sam Riley, Control
&#160;
People&#8217;s Choice Awards
Film of the Year: The Bourne Ultimatum
&#160;
Richard Attenborough Film Awards: 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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		<title>Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Foreign-Language Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Dziemianowicz in the New York Daily News:
&#34;Who says it&#8217;s never as good as the first time! Cate Blanchett, up for leading actress for playing QE1 in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, was up for the same award for the same role in 1998&#8217;s Elizabeth. She joins an elite club that includes Al Pacino &#8212; he was nominated twice playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather and the first sequel.&#34;
***
Others who earned two Oscar nods for the same role: Bing Crosby as Father O&#8217;Malley in Going My Way (1944, he won) and The Bells of St. Mary&#8217;s (1945); Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986, he won); and Peter O&#8217;Toole as Henry II [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2008 Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

A few brief remarks about the Oscar 2008 nominations:
The top nominees are: There Will Be Blood (8 nominations), No Country for Old Men (8), Atonement (7), Michael Clayton (7), Ratatouille (5), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (4), Juno (4).
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Whether in dramas or in comedies, dark themes dominated in just about every category:

 greed (There Will Be Blood, American Gangster), 
murder (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Sweeney Todd, Eastern Promises, No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah), 
corruption (Michael Clayton, Sicko, Charlie Wilson’s War),
 war (No End in Sight, War/Dance, Beaufort, Katyn),
 illness (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Savages, Away from Her),
 political/religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2008 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association&#8217;s 2008 Golden Globe nominations: December 13, 2007
2008 Golden Globe Award winners: January 13, 2008
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
&#160;

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy in Atonement
&#160;

MOTION PICTURES
Best Motion Picture &#8211; Drama
American Gangster, Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
* Atonement, Working Title Productions; Focus Features
Eastern Promises, Kudos Pictures &#8212; UK Serendipity Point Films &#8212; Canada A UK/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
The Great Debaters, Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
Michael Clayton, Clayton Productions LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures
No Country for Old Men, A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
There Will Be Blood, A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films
Best Motion Picture &#8211; Musical or Comedy
Across The Universe, Revolution Studios International; Sony Pictures Releasing
Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/central-ohio-film-critics-awards-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2008
&#160;

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
&#160;

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up:
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others 
Juno
Once
There Will Be Blood
Lars and the Real Girl
3:10 to Yuma
The Savages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Le Scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
 Runner-Up: El Orfanato / The Orphanage 
Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
 Runners-Up (tie): In the Shadow of the Moon and No End in Sight
Best Director: Joel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.
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Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
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Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) &#8211; Paul Thomas Anderson 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) &#8211; Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) &#8211; Joel and Ethan Coen 
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) &#8211; Cristian Mungiu 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) &#8211; Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) &#8211; Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
 Paul Thomas Anderson (47) &#8211; There Will Be Blood 
 Joel and Ethan Coen (29) &#8211; No Country for Old Men
 Julian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I
Best Supporting Actor:

  1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men 
    2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 
    3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild 
    4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War 
    5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood 
    6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 
    7 Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton 
    8 Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    9 Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn 
    10 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Society award winners: December 20, 2007
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Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men

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Best Picture: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-Up:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3:10 to Yuma
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Zodiac
Into the Wild
Juno
Eastern Promises
The Lookout
Sunshine
Best Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary: Sicko by Michael Moore
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
  Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I&#8217;m Not There
Best Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Film Critics Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 18, 2007
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Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
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Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Zodiac
Best Foreign-Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
Runners-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; The Lives of Others
Best Canadian Film: Away from Her by Sarah Polley
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Radiant City
Best Documentary: No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson
Runners-up: Iraq in Fragments; My Kid Could Paint That 
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Runners-up: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises; David Fincher, Zodiac
Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Runners-up: George Clooney, Michael Clayton; Gordon Pinsent, Away from Her
Best Actress (tie): [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Film Critics Online Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2007 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2007 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 9, 2007
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Max von Sydow, Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (top); There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson (bottom)
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BEST PICTURE (tie)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
There Will Be Blood 
Runners-up (alphabetical)
Atonement (Focus Features)
Before the Devil Knows You&#8217;re Dead (THINKFilm)
The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight)
I&#8217;m Not There (The Weinstein Company)
Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax)
Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sweeney Todd (DreamWorks)
BEST FOREIGN PICTURE (tie)
The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sicko by Michael Moore
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson &#8212; There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis &#8212; There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS
Julie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Film Critics Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominations: December 10, 2007
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 12, 2007
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
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BEST PICTURE
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
* No Country for Old Men
Once
There Will Be Blood
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Black Book
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Darfur Now
The King of Kong
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
* Sicko
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson &#8212; There Will Be Blood
* Joel and Ethan Coen &#8212; No Country for Old Men
David Fincher &#8212; Zodiac
Tony Gilroy &#8212; Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman &#8212; Juno
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney &#8212; Michael Clayton
Ryan Gosling &#8212; Lars and the Real Girl
Frank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin 2007: Cinema for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Goodbye Bafana by Bille August

At Berlin&#8217;s Cinema for Peace charity event attended by Richard Gere, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lee, and Bob Geldorf this past Monday, a one-minute segment from a short video by Sergiu Matei was shown. Matei&#8217;s film depicts a Sept. 30, 2006, incident in which Chinese border police opened fire on Tibetan refugees attempting to flee the country.
Gere, a relentless Tibet advocate, stated that as this year&#8217;s head of the (do-nothing) G8, Germany has the &#34;responsibility to encourage China to become part of the modern world [where] these kinds of actions and policies can not be tolerated.&#34; (Considering the atrocities perpetrated in and/or by the &#34;modern world,&#34; I&#8217;m assuming that Gere must have been joking.)
Cinema for Peace award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOTES ON A SCANDAL &#8211; Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary Westwell</dc:creator>
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Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Direction: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Patrick Marber; from Zoe Heller&#8217;s novel
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Phil Davis, Anne-Marie Duff
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Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
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Directed by Richard Eyre, Notes on a Scandal is a must-see for those who enjoy a cleverly constructed plot that explores human relationships to the core. 
Jaded older teacher Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) contrives to ensnare young and beautiful new teacher Bathsheba Hart (Cate Blanchett). In the meantime, 15-year old student Steve Connolly (Andrew Simpson) entices Bathsheba into a turbulent affair, while Sheba&#8217;s husband (Bill Nighy) and children all tear at Sheba&#8217;s loyalties.
Credible characters fill Patrick Marber&#8217;s clever script (from Zoe Heller&#8217;s novel): The management-minded headmaster, the happily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Oscar Nominated Actors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Martin Scorsese 
20 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
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1974

Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore * 
Diane Ladd (s) Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore
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1976

Robert De Niro Taxi Driver
Jodie Foster (s) Taxi Driver
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1980

Robert De Niro Raging Bull *
Joe Pesci (s) Raging Bull
Cathy Moriarty (s) Raging Bull
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1986
Paul Newman The Color of Money *
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (s) The Color of Money
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1990
Joe Pesci (s) Goodfellas *
Lorraine Bracco (s) Goodfellas
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1991

Robert De Niro Cape Fear
Juliette Lewis (s) Cape Fear
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1993
Winona Ryder (s) The Age of Innocence
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1995
Sharon Stone Casino
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2002

Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York
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2004

Leonardo DiCaprio The Aviator
Cate Blanchett (s) The Aviator *
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2006
Mark Wahlberg (s) The Departed

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		<title>Berlin Film Festival 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (top); Cate Blanchett, George Clooney in The Good German (bottom)

English-language productions dominate the  Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s 2007 official competition line-up. In all, 22  films are competing for the Golden Bear and four  are being screened out of competition at this year&#8217;s Berlinale, which runs between Feb. 8-18.
Most of the  English-language fare hails from the United States and the United Kingdom, in addition to several  American or British co-productions with other nations. 
Robert De Niro&#8217;s Cold War drama The Good Shepherd and Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s post-WWII murder mystery The Good German had been announced earlier in January. Both films have big names attached to them (Matt Damon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners: Vancity Theatre on January 15, 2007
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
&#160;

Clive Owen in Children of Men
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Best Film:
* Children of Men 
The Departed 
Little Children
Best Canadian Film:
Away from Her
Manufactured Landscapes
* Maurice Richard / The Rocket
Monkey Warfare
Best Foreign-Language Film:
L&#8217;Enfant / The Child
Letters from Iwo Jima
* Volver 
Best British Columbian Film:
Everything&#8217;s Gone Green
* Fido
Mount Pleasant
Unnatural &#38; Accidental
Best Director: 
* Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Andrew Currie, Fido
* Reg Harkema, Monkey Warfare
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Actor: 
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland 
Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2006 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle award winners: December 24, 2006
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 Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runner-up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Others in the top ten (in alphabetical order):
 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 
Casino Royale
Half Nelson
The Last King of Scotland
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth
The Queen
Best Foreign-Language Film:  Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Best Director:  Martin Scorsese, The Departed
 Best Actor:  Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
 Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/florida-film-critics-circle-awards-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2006 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Florida Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 22, 2006
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Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
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Best Film: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Best Foreign-Language Film:  Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro 
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
 Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
 Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Best Non-Fiction Film: An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim 
Best Animated Film: Monster House directed by Gil Kenan 
Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro,  Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film: Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman, director and producer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luc Dardenne]]></category>
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2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association award nominations: Dec. 16, 2006
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2006
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen
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BEST PICTURE
The Departed
*  The Queen 
United 93 
BEST CANADIAN FILM
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen 
* Manufactured Landscapes 
Monkey Warfare 
Six Figures 
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* L&#8217;Enfant / The Child
Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth
Volver 
 BEST FIRST FEATURE
Brick, directed by Rian Johnson
Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton &#38; Valerie Faris 
* Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us from Evil 
An Inconvenient Truth 
* Manufactured Landscapes 
 BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Happy Feet 
Over the Hedge 
A Scanner Darkly 
BEST DIRECTOR (tie)
* Jean-Pierre Dardenne and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2006 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 19, 2006.
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Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up (in alphabetical order): 
Babel 
Bobby 
Borat 
Children of Men 
The Departed 
The Last King of Scotland 
Letters from Iwo Jima 
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim 
Best Animated Film: Flushed Away directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed 
 Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
 Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2006 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: December 18, 2006
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Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up: The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond, Little Children, Flags of Our Fathers.
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up:  Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth; Water; Volver; Apocalypto
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Runners-up: Paul Greengrass, United 93; Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel; Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima; Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed; Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Peter O&#8217;Toole, Venus; Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runners-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Meryl Streep, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Golden Globes: Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/golden-globe-awards-2006-nominees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/golden-globe-awards-2006-nominees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Following the announcement of the 2007 Golden Globe nominations early yesterday morning, I watched three entertainment &#34;journalists&#34; discussing the choices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as if they meant significantly more than the outcome of good marketing tools. 
In all fairness, the same can be said about nearly every other group, no matter how self-important, that gives out film awards. After all, their choices are usually the result of p.r. and marketing strategies, past or expected box-office  revenues, and personal or professional politics.
That said, those types of biases &#8212; who, when, where is giving out awards to which films and individuals &#8212; are exactly what make those myriad film awards worth reporting. By looking at the choices, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Swank]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Million Dollar Baby]]></category>
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2005 Academy Awards
2005 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &#38; Highland in Los Angeles on February 27, 2005
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: &#169; HO/AMPAS
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Best Film
The Aviator &#8211; Michael Mann, Graham King&#8224;
Finding Neverland &#8211; Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower 
*  Million Dollar Baby &#8211; Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg&#8224; 
Ray - Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin&#8224;
Sideways &#8211; Michael London 

Best Foreign-Language Film 
Les Choristes / The Chorus - Christophe Barratier (France) 
Der Untergang / Downfall &#8211; Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany) 
*  Mar adentro / The Sea Inside &#8211; Alejandro Amenábar (Spain) 
Så som i himmelen / As in Heaven &#8211; Kay Pollak (Sweden) 
Yesterday &#8211; Darrell Roodt (South Africa) 

Best Documentary, Features
* Born Into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAG Awards 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2005 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Garner]]></category>
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2005 SAG Awards
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award winners: Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles on February 5, 2005
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Sandra Oh, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
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FILM
Male Actor in a Leading Role
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland 
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator 
* Jamie Foxx, Ray  
Paul Giamatti, Sideways 
Female Actor in a Leading Role
Annette Bening, Being Julia 
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace 
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake 
* Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby  
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways 
Jamie Foxx, Collateral 
* Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby  
James Garner, The Notebook 
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Female Actor in [...]]]></description>
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