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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Clint Eastwood</title>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-predictions-best-picture-drama-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Globe Predictions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invictus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lovely Bones]]></category>

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2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture &#8211; Drama

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A  US Army  elite unit disarms bombs  in Iraq.

Invictus (above, with Matt Damon), d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup in South Africa so as to unite blacks and whites.

The Last Station (above, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy), d &#38; scr: Michael Hoffman
Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s family life is upended by the writer&#8217;s radical politics.

The Lovely Bones (above, with Saoirse Ronan), Peter Jackson; scr: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
A murdered girl sees the world, chiefly her small Pennsylvania town, from up above.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, d: Lee Daniels; scr: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sally Potter&#8217;s RAGE Multi-Platform Release</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sally-potter-rage-release-jude-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sally-potter-rage-release-jude-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adriana Barraza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babelgum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Balaban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Oyelowo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Wiest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Izzard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jakob Cedergren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Leguizamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judi Dench]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lily Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orlando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick J. Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Crisp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riz Ahmed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Abkarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Buscemi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yes]]></category>

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Judi Dench, Jude Law (as a female top model), Riz Ahmed

In conjunction with its traditional media release worldwide, Sally Potter&#8217;s Rage will be released &#8212; as a series of episodes &#8212; by web TV service Babelgum online and via  mobile through the fall/winter of 2009. 
Starring Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban, Adriana Barraza, Steve Buscemi, Jakob Cedergren, Lily Cole, Judi Dench, Eddie  Izzard, Jude Law, John Leguizamo, David Oyelowo, and Dianne Wiest, Rage premiered at the 2009  Berlin Film Festival.
The film&#8217;s setting is a  New York fashion house, where a young blogger  shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone with an eclectic group of people, including a celebrity supermodel, a seamstress, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 David di Donatello Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-david-di-donatello-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-david-di-donatello-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alba Rohrwacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David di Donatello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David di Donatello 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fausto Brizzi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gianni Di Gregorio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giovanna's Father]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giulio Andreotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giulio Manfredonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giuseppe Battiston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gomorra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gomorrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gran Torino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il Divo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il Papà di Giovanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matteo Garrone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mid-August Lunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non pensarci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Sorrentino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piera Degli  Espositi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pupi Avati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Si può fare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Orlando]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toni Servillo]]></category>
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Matteo Garrone&#8217;s organized crime drama Gomorrah (above, top photo), based on Roberto Saviano&#8217;s polemical book, took top honors at the 2009 David di Donatello awards. The Italian Film Academy voted Gomorrah the best Italian film of the year and Garrone the best director, in addition to handing the film five other awards, including best screenplay and best producer.
Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo (above, lower photo), which also deals (however indirectly) with the mafia, also received a total of seven statues (out of 16 nominations), including the best actor trophy for star Toni Servillo&#8217;s brilliant caricature of former Italian prime minister  Giulio Andreotti, and a best supporting actress win for Piera Degli  Espositi. 
Last year, Gomorrah won  the Cannes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David di Donatello 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/david-di-donatello-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[211: Anna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alba Rohrwacher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biagio Antonacci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carla Signoris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Buccirosso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian De Sica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claudio Bisio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domenico Procacci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fausto Brizzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filippo Nigro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Il Divo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il Papà di Giovanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La siciliana ribelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lemon Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luca Lionello]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marco Amenta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maria Nazionale]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Si può fare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Orlando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solo un padre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Daldry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Servillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutta la vita davanti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valeria Golino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerio Mastandrea]]></category>
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2009 David di Donatello Awards
2009 David di Donatello Award nominations: April 9, 2009
2009 David di Donatello Award winners: May 8, 2009
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Matteo Garrone&#8217;s Gomorrah (top photo); Toni Servillo in Il Divo (lower photo)
&#160;

Best Film /  miglior film
Il divo
produced by Andrea Occhipinti, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Maurizio Coppolecchia
  directed by Paolo Sorrentino
 Ex
produced by Fulvio Lucisano, Federica Lucisano
  directed by Fausto Brizzi
* Gomorra
produced by Domenico Procacci
  directed by Matteo Garrone
Si può fare
produced by Angelo Rizzoli
  directed by Giulio Manfredonia
Tutta la vita davanti
  produced by Motorino Amaranto &#8211; Medusa
  directed by Paolo Virzì
Best Film from the European Union /  miglior film dell&#8217;Unione Europea
  Entre les murs, by Laurent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAUL BLART Beats UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/paul-blart-underworld-box-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/paul-blart-underworld-box-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Box Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Fraser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gran Torino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel for Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inkheart]]></category>
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop  topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with  $21.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. 
Steve Carr’s  comedy  starring Kevin James as a mall security guard successfully fought off its  competition, lifting its domestic gross to an impressive $64 million after only  two weeks in release.

Following closely in second place  was new entry Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which took  home $20.7 million but failed to beat the $26.8 million opening weekend gross  of its predecessor, Underworld: Evolution. 

Things didn’t go so well for Inkheart,  this weekend’s second wide release. The Iain Softley-directed adaptation of  Cornelia Funke’s novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAUL BLART Beats GRAN TORINO at the Box Office</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/paul-blart-moll-cop-gran-torino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Box Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop  secured the top spot at the North American box office this weekend with $33.8  million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Sony’s Steve Carr-directed   comedy stars Kevin James as a devoted security guard struggling to protect his  mall against a bunch of ruthless crooks. The film just fell short of surpassing  the $34.2 million opening weekend gross of James’ previous big-screen comedy, I  Now Pronounce You Chuck &#38; Larry.

Still going strong at No. 2 was  Clint Eastwood’s drama Gran Torino, which earned $22.2  million for a total gross of $73.2 million after six weeks in release.  Eastwood stars as a racist Korean War vet who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRAN TORINO at the Top of the Box Office</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/gran-torino-at-the-top-of-the-box-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Box Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bride Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marley and Me]]></category>
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Clint Eastwood’s Gran  Torino raced to the top of the North American box office this  weekend with $29 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. 
The film, which stars Eastwood as  a war veteran who bonds with a Hmong teenager, easily shook off its competition after  expanding into 2,808 theaters. Its domestic total currently stands at $40  million. 

Debuting at No. 2 with $21.5  million was Gary Winick’s latest comedy, Bride Wars,  starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson (above) as best friends who become the worst  enemies after their weddings are accidentally booked on the same day. 

Meanwhile, new entry The  Unborn finished third with $21 million. The David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2009: Beyonce Knowles, Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Lopez</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/beyonce-knowles-clint-eastwood-jennifer-lopez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beyoncé Knowles]]></category>
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Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Beyonce Knowles © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jennifer Lopez © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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		<title>James Berardinelli Interviewed at Cosmoetica</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dan-schneider-interviews-james-berardinelli-at-cosmoetica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dan-schneider-interviews-james-berardinelli-at-cosmoetica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actors Turned Directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Schneider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Berardinelli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mystic River]]></category>
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Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby

Dan Schneider, whose latest conribution to the Alternative Film Guide was a &#8212; sure to be controversial &#8212; review of Casablanca, interviewed ReelViews critic James Berardinelli a few weeks ago.
Below are a couple of brief snippets, mostly focusing on Clint Eastwood&#8217;s Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River, taken from Schneider&#8217;s extensive chat with Berardinelli, which can be found at Cosmoetica:
DS: And what  of actors as directors? [Clint] Eastwood’s efforts have risen to mediocrity, at best;  and things like Million Dollar Baby are embarrassingly bad &#8211; from the trite screenplay to the anomic  direction to the bad acting. Again, more PC and unrealistic premises, and can  Morgan Freeman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Board of Review Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/national-board-of-review-awards-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/national-board-of-review-awards-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2008 National Board of Review Awards
2008 National Board of Review Award winners: December 4, 2008 
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Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ten Films (in alphabetical order):
  Burn After Reading
  Changeling
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Dark Knight
  Defiance
  Frost/Nixon
  Gran Torino
  Milk
  WALL-E
  The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol
Top Five Foreign Films (in alphabetical order):
The Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Roman de Gare
A Secret
Waltz with Bashir
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Top Five Documentaries (in alphabetical order):
American Teen
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Dear Zachary
Encounters at the End of the World
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Top 10 Independent Films of the Year:
Frozen River
In Bruges
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Mr. Foe
Rachel Getting Married
Snow Angels
Son of Rambow
Wendy and [...]]]></description>
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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>
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&#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;
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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>Berlin 2007: Cinema for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Oscar 2007: Nominated Producers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine

Not everyone will fit into the 2007 Academy Award&#8217;s van.
The Academy&#8217;s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in this year&#8217;s Best Picture category. They are:

 Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin for Babel
 Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz for Letters from Iwo Jima 
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub for Little Miss Sunshine
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward for The Queen

The nominees for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine were determined by the executive committee at a meeting held yesterday evening. 
Even though up to three producers can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 San Diego Film Critics Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The San Diego Film Critics Society tends to go its own way when it comes to year-end film awards. For instance, last year most critics&#8217; groups chose Brokeback Mountain as the best film of 2005. The San Diego Film Critics, for their part, opted for King Kong. Hardly a superior choice, but different nonetheless. Other more esoteric picks include Almost Famous as the best film of 2000 and Vera Drake as their top choice for 2004. To a large extent, the San Diego critics&#8217; picks for 2006 demonstrate their continual avoidance of groupthink. 
Even though the best film, best director, and best actress categories were filled with expected names &#8212; Letters from Iwo Jima and its director,  Clint Eastwood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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2006 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2006 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 18, 2006
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Ken Watanabe in Letters from Iwo Jima
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Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Foreign-Language Film:  Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, directed by Zhang Yimou
Best Non-Fiction Film: Shut Up &#38; Sing directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
 Best Actor: Ken Takakura,  Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
 Best Supporting Actor: Ray Winstone, The Proposition
Best Supporting Actress: Lili Taylor, Factotum
Best Ensemble Performance: Babel
Best Original Screenplay: Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl 
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking
Best Animated Film: Cars directed by John Lasseter and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satellite Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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2006 Satellite Awards
2006  International Press Academy&#8217;s Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2006
2006 Satellite Award winners: Imperial Ballroom of le Méridian in Beverly Hills on December 17, 2006
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Vera Farmiga in The Departed
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MOTION PICTURES
Motion Picture, Drama
Half Nelson
*  The Departed
Flags of Our Fathers
The Queen 
The Last King of Scotland
Babel
Little Children 
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
The Devil Wears Prada
Stranger Than Fiction
Venus
* Dreamgirls 
 Motion Picture, Foreign Language 
The Lives of Others, Germany 
* Volver, Spain
Changing Times, France 
Water, Canada
The Syrian Bride, Israel 
Apocalypto, U.S.
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Cars
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Flushed Away
* Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth
Motion Picture, Documentary
* Deliver Us from Evil
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards: Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the  Broadcast Film Critics Association&#8217;s  2007 Critics&#8217; Choice Awards.
Both Todd Field&#8217;s  psychological sex drama Little Children (above, with Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) and Clint Eastwood&#8217;s Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima were nominated in the best film category, but Eastwood&#8217;s highly praised Flags of Our Fathers was not.
Letters from Iwo Jima also showed up in the best foreign language film shortlist (a first at the Critics&#8217; Choice Awards), along with Mel Gibson&#8217;s Apocalypto, which has been both panned and praised (sometimes in the same review).

Leonardo DiCaprio received two best actor nods (another first), for Blood Diamond and The Departed, while Ben Affleck (above, with Diane Lane) was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Award Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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The most interesting winner at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards was best supporting actress Luminita Gheorghiu (above, with Ion Fiscuteanu), who plays a nurse assisting a sick old man in Cristi Puiu&#8217;s acclaimed Romanian comedy-drama  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
Not only was Gheorghiu&#8217;s win a major surprise &#8212; U.S. film critics only sporadically opt for performers acting in non-English-language productions &#8212; but I could visualize Catherine O&#8217;Hara, one of this year&#8217;s top best supporting actress contenders and National Board of Review Award winner going nuts because L.A. critics chose a Romanian instead of her. (I saw the funny For Your Consideration yesterday; in that film, there&#8217;s a French Oscar nominee who inadvertently pushes O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s Oscar contender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Film Critics Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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2006 Nastri d&#8217;Argento
2006 Nastri d&#8217;Argento winners: Auditorium di Via della Conciliazione in Rome on February 7, 2006
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Set mostly in the 1970s, Michele Placido&#8217;s Crime Novel follows three juvenile delinquents whose goal is to reach the top of Italy&#8217;s underworld. Things get complicated when an investigator obsessed with bringing them to justice falls in love with the girlfriend of one of the criminals. In the cast: Kim Rossi Stuart (photo, left), Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Riccardo Scamarcio, Claudio Santamaria, Anna Mouglalis, and Elio Germano. Crime Novel is the second consecutive Nastri d&#8217;Argento winner starring Kim Rossi Stuart, following last year&#8217;s The Keys to the House.
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REGISTA DEL MIGLIOR FILM ITALIANO / BEST ITALIAN DIRECTOR
Pupi Avati La [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Directors Guild Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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2006 Directors Guild Awards
2006 DGA award winners: January 28, 2006
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee &#169; Directors Guild of America
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Theatrical Features:
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck. 
Clooney&#8217;s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Barbara A. Hall
First Assistant Director: David Webb
Second Assistant Director: Melissa V. Barnes
Second Second Assistant Director: Richard Gonzales
Paul Haggis, Crash 
Haggis&#8217;s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Betsy Danbury
First Assistant Director: Scott Cameron
Second Assistant Director: Simone Farber
 * Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain 
Lee&#8217;s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Scott Ferguson, Tom Benz
First Assistant Directors: Michael Hausman, Pierre Tremblay
Second Assistant Director: Donald Murphy
Second Second Assistant Director: Brad Moerke
Bennett Miller, Capote
Miller&#8217;s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Ellen Rutter, Caroline Baron 
First Assistant Directors: Ronaldo Nacionales, Richard O&#8217;Brien Moran 
Second Assistant Director: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Directors Guild Awards 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2005 Directors Guild Awards
2005 Directors Guild of America winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 29, 2005
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
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Best Director &#8211; Motion Picture
Martin Scorsese &#8211; The Aviator 
Marc Forster &#8211; Finding Neverland 
* Clint Eastwood &#8211; Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford &#8211; Ray 
Alexander Payne &#8211; Sideways  
Best Director &#8211; Documentary
* Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni &#8211; The Story of the Weeping Camel  
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski &#8211; Born Into Brothels
Ross McElwee &#8211; Bright Leaves
Michael Moore &#8211; Fahrenheit 9/11
Jehane Noujaim &#8211; Control Room
 Best Director &#8211; Television Movie
Robert Altman &#8211; Tanner on Tanner, Parts 1-4
Stephen Hopkins &#8211; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Lloyd Kramer &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2005 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 25, 2005
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Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
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Best Film: Million Dollar Baby 
Runners-up (tie): Sideways and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Others in the top ten: The Incredibles, The Aviator, Before Sunset, Closer, Dogville, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Maria Full of Grace
Best Direction: Alexander Payne, Sideways 
 Runner up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Best Lead Performance:  Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Runner up: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Supporting Performance: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner up: Clive Owen, Closer
Best Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Runner up: Alexander Payne &#38; Jim Taylor, Sideways
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work): Cate Blanchett, Coffee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAFTA 2005: Nomination Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Clint Eastwood&#8217;s Million Dollar Baby (above, with Eastwood and Hilary Swank), Jean-Pierre Jeunet&#8217;s Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement, Bill Condon&#8217;s Kinsey, and Alexander Payne&#8217;s Sideways have been shortchanged by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts&#8216;
new rules. 
The aforementioned films were officially eligible for the 2004 BAFTA awards, but Sideways only managed to get one nomination for its screenplay, Un long dimanche de fiançailles received one nod in the best foreign-language film category, while Million Dollar Baby and Kinsey were completely ignored.
The problem is that several potential contenders for the BAFTA Awards have been just released in the United Kingdom, or they are yet to be released in that country. 
Since the BAFTAs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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2004 Golden Globes
2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association&#8217;s Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2005
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
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Best Motion Picture &#8211; Drama
* The Aviator
Closer 
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda 
Kinsey 
Million Dollar Baby
Best Motion Picture &#8211; Musical or Comedy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 
The Incredibles 
The Phantom of the Opera 
Ray 
* Sideways 
Best Foreign Language Film 
Les Choristes / The Chorus (France) 
Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries (Brazil / Argentina / US) 
Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement (France) 
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Spain / France / Italy)
Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle Film Critics Awards 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2004 Seattle Film Critics Awards
2004 Seattle Film Critics Award winners: December 30, 2004
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Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
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 Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Best Foreign-Language Film: Maria Full of Grace
 Best Documentary (tie): Control Room and Touching the Void
 Best Animated Film: The Incredibles
 Best Director: Clint Eastwood &#8211; Million Dollar Baby
 Best Actor: Jamie Foxx &#8211; Ray
 Best Actress: Imelda Staunton &#8211; Vera Drake
 Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church &#8211; Sideways
 Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen &#8211; Sideways
 Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman
Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
 Living Treasure Award: Henry Bumstead
 Special Citation: Brian Jamieson and Richard Schickel for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller&#8217;s 1980 The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego Film Critics Awards 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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2004 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2004 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 21, 2004
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Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake
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Best Film: Vera Drake directed by Mike Leigh
Best Foreign-Language Film:  The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Best Documentary: Tarnation directed by Jonathan Caouette
Best Animated Film: The Incredibles by Brad Bird
Best Director: Clint Eastwood,  Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jim Carrey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton,  Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor: Phil Davis, Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actress: Natalie Portman, Closer
Best Original Screenplay: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake 
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor,  Sideways 
Best Cinematography (tie): Christopher Doyle, Hero, and John Mathieson, The Phantom of the Opera 
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Film Critics Awards 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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2004 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2004
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Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church in Sideways
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Best Film Sideways
Best Foreign-Language Film  A Very Long Engagement
Best Director Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
 Best Actor Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
 Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways
Best Cinematography (tie) Christopher Doyle, Hero, and Robert Richardson, The Aviator
Best Score Howard Shore, The Aviator
Best Documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
Best New Director Zach Braff, Garden State 
 Most Promising Performer Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace 
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Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Film Critics Awards 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 13, 2004
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Best Film  Sideways
Best Foreign Film La Mala educación / Bad Education
Best Director Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
 Best Actor Paul Giamatti Sideways
Best Actress Imelda Staunton Vera Drake
 Best Supporting Actor Clive Owen Closer
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen Sideways
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways
Best Cinematographer Christopher Doyle Ying xiong / Hero
Best Non-Fiction Film Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Animated Film The Incredibles
 Best First Film Maria Full of Grace
Special Award Milestone Films received a special award in honor of 15 years of restoring classic films. 
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New York Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MILLION DOLLAR BABY &#8211; Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenplay: Paul Haggis, mostly from &#34;Million $$$ Baby,&#34; one of the six short stories found in F. X. Toole&#8217;s (aka Jerry Boyd) Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker
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Fresh off the multiple Academy Award nominee Mystic River, Clint Eastwood has gone on to tackle the ups and downs of the boxing world in Million Dollar Baby. Despite the cheery title, this is not the usual Rocky-esque rags-to-riches story of the determined underdog who inevitably becomes a super-topdog once she (in this case it&#8217;s a &#8220;she&#8221;) puts on her gloves, jumps into the boxing ring, and starts using other women as punching bags. About two-thirds [...]]]></description>
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