Palm Springs Film Festival: Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood honored + Carl Theodor Dreyer rarity and world cinema screenings including Ciao Bella.
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Kate Winslet 2 Goldens Globes nods as Meryl Streep breaks record + Nicole Kidman snubbed and DreamWorks Animation (not Pixar) tops Annie Awards.
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Wong Kar-Wai (image: Mattias Lindbäck ) Screenwriter-director Courtney Hunt’s immigrant smuggling drama Frozen River takes place in the days before Christmas near a border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New…
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Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron Disney musical box office: The low-budget High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a bona fide sleeper hit.
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Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso composer gets Honorary Oscar after 500 scores plus five nominations but no wins.
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National Board of Review Winners: First Foreign-Language Best Film in almost 6 decades shows key World War II battle from the Japanese side.
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Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a…
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The winners of the various Guild Awards’: Season’s curious Best Director and Best Film bifurcation continues and thus further complicates this year’s Oscar predictions.
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Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
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Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood have performed an unexpected Golden Globes turnabout, while Hilary Swank and Annette Bening have an awards season rematch ‘tie.’
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NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
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A superlative Hilary Swank can’t beat the odds against Clint Eastwood’s cliché-ridden boxing + surrogate father-daughter melo Million Dollar Baby.
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Critics’ favorites: A crowd-pleasing Wine Country road movie and a polemical political documentary are the top selections this awards season, while Imelda Staunton is the Best Actress fave.
Most shocking movie moments: Charles Chaplin goes murderous in the dark comedy-drama Monsieur Verdoux, with Martha Raye. Most shocking movie moments: Martha Raye eclipses murderous Charles Chaplin in ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ In The…
Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
Awards season news: In an ungodly twist of fate, Jesus + Jason + Napoleon have all lost out to Spider-Man, while Kate Winslet has nabbed a surprise win.
New York Film Critics Awards: Alexander Payne’s California-set road movie Sideways named Best Film. Imelda Staunton and gay noir Bad Education among other winners.
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