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• Angelina Headed For Oscar #2?

  Published: November 27, 2007, 11:54 pm

  Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Academy Awards, Girl Interrupted, Daniel Pearl, A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie, Awards Season

  to win Oscars come Academy Awards season. In other words, the Independent Spirit Award results often foreshadow Oscar results. Could Angelina be on her way to Oscar #2? (Her first was for a supporting role in Girl, Interrupted.)    WANT MORE AWARD SHOW NEWS? GET IT ALL BY CLICKING HERE![Read full story on

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• No Country Gets Top-Notch Nod From National Board of Review

  Published: December 5, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Movies, Awards Season, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen

  which usually tests the awards-season winds early in the season, announced their annual awards this afternoon, naming the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men 2007's Best Film of the Year. They also got the best adapted screenplay award and the cast, which includes Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Kelly MacDonald, was named

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• Briton Battsek Keeps Miramax in Awards Race

  Published: December 6, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Movies, Awards Season, Daniel Battsek, Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Film Corp

  over all and won 60 Academy Awards, including 3 for best picture. It is an unrivaled run through the Oscars, but Mr. Battsek is doing a fine job of keeping up. In 2005, his first year running the company, Tsotsi won best foreign film. Last year The Queen garnered six nominations (including best picture) and an Oscar for Helen Mirren

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• Mr. West! Kanye Tops Grammy Nominations, Along With Amy Winehouse, Akon

  Published: December 6, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Amy Winehouse, Awards Season, Bruce Springsteen, Grammy Awards, Kanye West

  for the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced today by The Recording Academy reflecting one of the most diverse years ever, with the Album Of The Year category alone representing the country, hip-hop, jazz, pop and rock genres. Kanye West topped the nominations with eight, Amy Winehouse garnered six, and the Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Timbaland,

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• Grammy Noms? Cue Obligatory Eye Roll

  Published: December 7, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Amy Winehouse, Awards Season, Grammy Awards

  CDATA[[Every year, the music nerd community does a massive eye roll when the Grammy nominations are announced. Sitting on their high bar stools, they thumb their noses and whine that all of their favorite, totally obscure, "indie" artists will never get the recognition they deserve. Even if those artists do make the list, they complain, they'll

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• Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Yes, Juno, It's True! New York City Loves You (and Atonement)

  Published: December 10, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Atonement, Awards Season, Ellen Page, Jason Reitman, Joe Wright, Juno, Michael Cera, The Savages

  CDATA[[While The Golden Compass (No. 1) will be stealing headlines this morning for its lackluster performance $26 million nationally ($420,000 of that from Manhattan) to offset its reportedly $180 million budget this weekend's box office receipts portended the rise of two Academy Award contenders: Jason Reitman's Juno (No. 2) and Joe Wright's

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• No Country Big Winner at NY Film Critics Awards

  Published: December 10, 2007, 1:25 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Awards Season, Coen Brothers, New York Film Critics Circle, No Country For Old Men

  actor award. Full list of awards recipients after the jump. NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS: ACTORDaniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood" ACTRESSJulie Christie, "Away from Her" DIRECTORJoel and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men" SUPPORTING ACTORJavier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men" SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"

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• Regis Philbin to Mount Oscar Carpet, Ask About Garb

  Published: December 10, 2007, 5:33 pm

  Tags: The City, Academy Awards, Awards Season, Joan Rivers, Live With Regis And Kelly, Regis Philbin, Ryan Seacrest

  beat during ABC's Academy Awards preshow on February 24. Regis is the perfect guy to serve as host He knows everyone and everyone loves Regis! I'm thrilled that he has greed to be the ringmaster for this year's extravaganza, said Dennis Doty, a producer of the Academy Awards. This means that Mr. Philbin will have free reign of the

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• I Am Legend Freaked Me Out!

  Published: December 11, 2007, 7:03 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Movies, Awards Season, Cloverfield, I Am Legend, J J Abrams, The Day After Tomorrow, Will Smith

  zenith during the Christmas season, and bright twinkly lights adorn the city streets as people run screaming for an exit. Three years later, Will Smith prowls for food and distraction through an echoingly empty city that's still adorned with dulled and dingy Christmas decorations from auld lang syne. Oh come on, Warner Brothers! Like the

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• Critics Circle Goes Wild

  Published: December 11, 2007, 3:17 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Awards Season, Critics Circle Awards, Emile Hirsch, Into The Wild

  for the 13th Critics Choice Awards, announced today by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The film got nods for picture, director, writer, actor, supporting actor for Hal Holbrook, supporting actress for Catherine Keener and best song for Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" (What? No props for Emile?). The Observer's Rex Reed wrote about Into the

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• Award Shows Beg W.G.A. For Mercy

  Published: December 12, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Awards Season, Golden Globes, Writers Guild Of America

  Actors Guild's 14th annual awards -- not a completely surprising development, given SAG's strong support for the WGA throughout the six-week strike. It's a safe bet that all upcoming televised kudocasts -- which include the Critics Choice Awards, the SAG Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and the big kahuna, the Oscars -- will proceed as

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• Johnny Depp Really Likes His Privacy

  Published: December 12, 2007, 4:54 pm

  Tags: The City, Awards Season, Esquire, Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

  Johnny Depp will likely never drive around L.A. bumping into people and things in a convertible Mercedes. Instead, the Sweeney Todd star, 44, looks forward to the time when he can achieve some sense of anonymity. In Esquire's January issue, on newsstands Friday, the actor imagines what that freedom will be like, saying, I'm sure it will be a

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• Atonement Tops Golden Globe Noms

  Published: December 13, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Awards Season, Golden Globes

  Atonement, a movie so good it's almost sinful, according to the Observer's Andrew Sarris, leads the drama contenders in the Golden Globe race with seven nominations. No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd also bubbled to the top with four nominations apiece. Full list of nominees, which were announced this morning,

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• Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton Welcome Globe Nominations, New Baby

  Published: December 17, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: The City, Awards Season, Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton

  Days after Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton were delivered the news of their joint Golden Globe nominations for the new film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, they returned the favor with a wee baby. Late Saturday night, People reports, the weird and wacky duo added a new member to their family, which already includes

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• W.G.A. Denies Waivers for Oscars, Globes

  Published: December 18, 2007, 9:54 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Academy Awards, Awards Season, Golden Globes, Oscars, Writers Guild Of America

  for both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Writers won't be drafting a script and the organizations won't be able to use use clips of movies and past Academy Awards shows. Broadcasting & Cable reports: In a letter, WGA West president Patric Verrone said, We must do everything we can to bring our negotiations to a

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