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Out of Competition Opening Film: Shine a Light, USA by Martin Scorsese with the Rolling Stones Fireflies in the Garden, USA (World Premiere) by Dennis Lee with Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson Katyn, Poland (International Premiere) by Andrzej Wajda with Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski and Andrzej Chyra The Other Boleyn Girl, USA / Great Britain (World Premiere) by Justin Chadwick with Natalie [...]

Best Film: No Country for Old Men Until late last week, things were still somewhat murky in the best film race. No Country for Old Men (above, with Tommy Lee Jones) and There Will Be Blood were the front-runners, while Juno was the fluffy dark horse that could potentially tip the scale against the heavy-drama heavyweights. But after its SAG best ensemble and DGA wins, [...]

Katyn (top); The Counterfeiters (middle); Mongol (bottom) The filmmakers of this year's Academy Award-nominated foreign-language films will take part — "subject to availability" — in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium on Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [2008 Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium Photos.] The event, which [...]

Oscar 2008: Best Foreign Language Film Semi-Finalists The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies' economies Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy [...]