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Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet in Nicole Holofcener's Please Give Eligibility rules for the New York-based Gotham Awards and the Los Angeles-based Spirit Awards aren't the same. Voting committees — the people who select the nominees — aren't the same. Categories are different as well. All that helps to explain the discrepancies found among the nominations of those two award groups dedicated to promoting the cause [...]

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), which bills itself the United States' "oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers," announced today the nominees for the 20th Gotham Independent Film Awards. A total of 26 films, among them early awards-season favorites The Kids Are All Right, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, and Winter's Bone, were shortlisted. The Gotham Awards [...]

Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station AFI FEST 2009, Sat., Nov. 7 at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. AFI FEST 2009 comes to a close with the following screenings: Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, which is set near the end of Leo Tolstoy's life, has been getting lots of Oscar buzz for its stars: [...]