Million Dollar Baby movie with Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood. ‘Million Dollar Baby’ movie: Clint Eastwood contrived, overlong drama made (barely) watchable by first-rate central performance Fresh off the enthusiastically…
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The Consequences of Love: Italian Oscars’ surprise favorite. Paolo Sorrentino’s psychological mafia thriller was the big winner at the Italian Academy of Cinema’s David di Donatello Awards, topping five categories.…
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph: The star of Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby has become the 21st century’s first two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Her previous victory,…
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Guild Awards: Best Film vs. Best Director split goes on unabated. This awards season, many groups selected one Best Picture – e.g., The Aviator – while selecting another in the…
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Director Eastwood’s surrogate father-daughter boxing drama Million Dollar Baby won SAG Awards for Best Actress Hilary Swank, who beat top competitor Annette Bening, and, more surprisingly, for Best Supporting Actor…
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A Very Long Engagement: One of several British Academy Awards “casualties,” Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s sweeping World War I drama received one single BAFTA nomination – in the ghettoized Best Foreign Language…
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The Aviator: Martin Scorsese’s Best Film - Drama Golden Globe winner stars Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured) as unbalanced Texan billionaire Howard Hughes, who made movies, dated Hollywood stars, got Hughes Aircraft…
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Written by Tina Fey, Mean Girls quotes have become quite popular with both moviegoers – the teen comedy grossed $86 million at the domestic box office – and WGA Award…
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The NSFC Awards’ surprisingly mainstream winner, Clint Eastwood’s maudlin boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby is unlike most of the group’s recent Best Film selections – e.g., American Splendor, Mulholland Dr.,…