Charlize Theron Photo: Oscar 2010 Red Carpet

Charlize Theron
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by Joan Lister | March 7, 2010   
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Barbra Streisand, Kathy Bates, Charlize Theron, Robert Downey Jr: 2010 Oscar Presenters

Barbra Streisand (above in Funny Girl), Kathy Bates, and Charlize Theron — three former Best Actress winners — will join former Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Travolta as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced.
Kathy Bates won her Academy Award for Misery (1990). Barbra Streisand won a Best Actress Oscar in 1968 for Funny Girl (the other Best Actress Oscar that year went to Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter) and in 1976 she and Paul Williams won for the Original Song Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born). In 2003, Charlize Theron received the [...]

by Andre Soares | March 1, 2010   
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Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 5-16, 2006
 

Set in French Indochina shortly before World War II, Minh Nguyen-Vo’s Buffalo Boy depicts the coming-of-age journey of a teenager while transporting his family’s buffalos to safer pastures during the region’s seasonal floods. The line-up of the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival included 232 films from more than 70 countries. Among the festival highlights were Breno Silveira’s Two Sons of Francisco, one of Brazil’s biggest box-office hits ever (and the cause of much consternation to Brazilian President Lula, who was caught watching a pirated DVD of the film); Cristina Comencini’s Don’t Tell, a drama about the consequences of incest-rape and Italy’s submission [...]

by Andre Soares | January 15, 2006   
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