‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements have been instituted for the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category. These consist of hiring and representation demands of debatable effectiveness.
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Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz as next ‘Bond Girl’? Whether you find “age-appropriateness” all-important or just another politically correct inanity, it’s both surprising and good news that 39-year-old Academy Award winner…
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Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Along with Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg produced…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides box office: Starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, latest franchise entry about to become one of the biggest box office hits in film history.
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Colin Firth and Wife Livia Giuggioli: Academy Awards. Best Actor Oscar winner railed against censorship, dismissed message movies.
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Prison dramas: Luis Tosar and Juan Oliver in Cell 211. Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the…
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Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn: 3 surviving Oscar winners will present plus Academy Awards’ Less Glamorous Side.
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SAG Award honoree Betty White. In addition to Betty White’s and Sandra Bullock’s speeches, another highlight at the SAG Awards ceremony was much less polished though quite memorable nevertheless. That…
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Sophia Loren, Penélope Cruz were present at the Rome Premiere Party of Rob Marshall’s musical Nine, co-hosted by Martini, at the Martini Terrazza on Jan. 13. Federico Fellini’s 8½, on…
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The Golden Globes are over. A folksy looking and sounding Jeff Bridges (above, in Crazy Heart), not George Clooney (for Up in the Air), got the chance to thank family…
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Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: Top classic movies at “Last Remaining Seats” series in Los Angeles. The L.A. Conservancy has announced a list of tentative titles for the 2010 edition…
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Betty White, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (Kerry Hayes / Touchstone). Sandra Bullock, up for a best actress SAG Award for The Blind Side, will present the Screen Actors Guild’s…
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SAG Awards: Diane Kruger Surprise + Bizarre Best Cast vs. Individual Screen Actors Guild nominations Mismatch and Orson Welles upset failed to materialize.
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Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, “given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly…
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Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads…
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Actor Gael García Bernal, Academy Award-winning actress Penélope Cruz, veteran director Mario Monicelli, veteran screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr, and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Ethan Coen are a few…
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Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjelica Huston, Penélope Cruz, Tilda Swinton, and Eva Marie Saint. “This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now,” said best…
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Oscar Luncheon: Amy Adams and Marisa Tomei plus Penélope Cruz + Kate Winslet Lead or Supporting? And did Bette Davis really name the Oscars?
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Freida Pinto + Dev Patel: SAG Awards’ Best Cast truly = Oscars Precursor? Winners Meryl Streep + Kate Winslet while Producers Guild honors ‘foreigners.’
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Los Abrazos Rotos: Pedro Almodóvar darkness-Inspired Neo-Noir + Paul Rudd and Jason Segel comedy trailer aims for the lowest common denominator.
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Critics Poll: Why So Few Faves Winning Critics Groups Awards? A strange thing happened on the way from critical top picks lists and their groups winners.
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Hugh Jackman Oscar Host brings movies back to ceremony + Surprising Best Actor & Best Picture Ties and Sally Hawkins an Academy Award fave?
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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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Tropic Thunder box office: Ben Stiller action comedy dethroned The Dark Knight and was dethroned by a Nicolas Cage dud.
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William Castle and the Rosemary’s Baby ‘curse.’ William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars of…
Vicky Cristina Barcelona set with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Woody Allen. I saw Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona at its Canadian premiere at the 32nd Montreal World…
Meryl Streep. Sigourney Weaver, Justin Timberlake, Kyra Sedgwick, Ray Romano, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan, Anthony Mackie, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Huffman and Brian Geraghty have been announced as presenters at the…
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom). In…
The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke. Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are: Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best…
Zac Efron Werner Herzog Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman, Sairaa Rahman Robert Pattinson, Edward Cullen in the Twilight movie franchise. Photos: Bryan Crowe / © A.M.P.A.S. James Franco, Ahna O’Reilly…
Beyoncé and Jay-Z + Tom Cruise and rare double winner Kate Winslet + Meryl Streep is biggest loser ever: Predictable but eclectic Golden Globes.
Los Angeles and New York Film Critics winners: 1st Animated movie + Slain Gay leader biopic tops as Sally Hawkins now serious Best Actress Oscar contender.
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