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		<title>Oscar Show Reviews: Mostly Thumbs Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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James Cameron is ecstatic that Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s The Hurt Locker was the night&#8217;s big winner

First the good news: the Adam Shankman-Bill Mechanic-produced 2010 Oscar telecast drew 14% more viewers than last year, when Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture. Whether that was because of Avatar, the Super Bowl Ratings Effect, Sandra Bullock, The Twilight Saga: New Moon&#8217;s Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson (who wasn&#8217;t there), Twitter, The New Tenants&#8216; Joachim Black, the Elinor Burkett-Roger Ross Williams to-do, the rotten economy, or the John Hughes &#38; horror movie tributes, no one can tell.
Now the not-so-good news: Reviews for the Oscar show have been mostly negative. And even the ones that weren&#8217;t downright pans were at best unenthusiastic. 
Tom O&#8217;Neil at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest Oscar Snubs #3b: Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s VOLVER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Penélope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s Volver (Emilio Pereda &#38; Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics)
Volver (2006)

Biggest Oscar Snubs #3a: CITY OF GOD
&#34;A touching, beautifully plotted film, full of memorable images and  jokes, it zips along without a wasted second in its 121 minutes,&#34; wrote Philip French in The Guardian. 
&#34;Peopled with superbly drawn, attractive  characters smoothly integrated into a well-turned, low-tricks plotline,  Volver may rep Almodóvar&#8217;s most conventional piece to date, but it is  also his most reflective, a subdued, sometimes intense and often comic  homecoming that celebrates the pueblo and people that shaped his  imagination,&#34; rhapsodized Jonathan Holland in Variety.
&#34;Like most homecomings (or at least most good ones),&#34; remarked Carina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest Oscar Snubs #7: DREAMGIRLS, THE DARK KNIGHT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dreamgirls]]></category>
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Oscar Nomination Snub #7
 Dreamgirls (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008)

Biggest Oscar Snubs #8c: Catherine O&#8217;Hara
Both Bill Condon&#8217;s Dreamgirls and Christopher Nolan&#8217;s  mega box-office hit The Dark Knight  received nominations from the Producers Guild and   the Directors Guild. Additionally, the Dreamgirls cast was shortlisted by the Screen Actors Guild, while The Dark Knight got a nod from  the Writers Guild. 
Both films went on to garner a total of 8 Oscar nominations &#8212; but not in the Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Screenwriting categories. 
 I&#8217;m assuming that Dreamgirls and The Dark Knight received lots of votes from Academy members in the aforementioned categories, but not enough of those votes were in the #1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meryl Streep, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS: National Society of Film Critics Contenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Meryl Streep in Julie &#38; Julia (Columbia Pictures) (left); Yolande Moreau in Séraphine (Music Box Films) (right)

Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Quentin Tarantino,   Abbie Cornish, Inglourious Basterds, and Everlasting Moments were a few of the top contenders for the 2010 National Society of Film Critics Awards, announced earlier today. Both indieWIRE and The Gold Derby&#8217;s Tom O&#8217;Neil have full lists of the NSFC&#8217;s runners-up, with O&#8217;Neil providing detailed information about voting procedures. As he explains, things can get really twisted around when a winner isn&#8217;t decided on the  NSFC voting members&#8217; first ballot. (Out of its 64 members,  46 voted this year.)
Meryl Streep, for instance, was the critics&#8217; initial top choice for best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes&#8217; Firsts and Mosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Queen]]></category>
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Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada (top); Helen Mirren in The Queen (bottom)

Tom O&#8217;Neil in the Gold Derby:
&#34;No, no, no, no &#8212; contrary to some wrongheaded sources over the past few days, Helen Mirren did not make Golden Globe history by becoming the first star to win kudos for acting on film and TV in the same year. Joan Plowright did so back in 1992, winning best supporting actress in [the] film Enchanted April and best supporting TV actress for Stalin.
&#34;In addition to tying Rosalind Russell as the biggest winner of film awards by a woman (five), Meryl Streep tied another Globe record, too. Back in 2003, remember, she won a trophy for appearing on [...]]]></description>
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