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1. The world's worthy: thirty international contenders vying for 2008 film awards glory

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture actors and actresses -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
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JAVIER BARDEM While Bardem, one of Spain's most popular exports, was mysteriously left out of the Oscar race three years ago for his stellar turn as a paraplegic in 'The [...]

Published
2007

2. Why Oscar got it right

Author

Shargel, Raphael

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion pictures -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, Motion picture industry -- Achievements and awards, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
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FINALLY, the Academy Awards got most things right. For the first time since Best Picture went to Annie Hall in 1977, the winner in that category was not only a [...]

Published
2005

3. Ruby Dee gets Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in 'American Gangster'

Author

Waldron, Clarence

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture actors and actresses -- Achievements and awards, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, General interest, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

Ruby Dee says her husband, Ossie Davis, is up in heaven proud that she is nominated for an Academy Award. 'He's probably up there with a big smile on his [...]

Published
2008

4. Fresh 'Blood' flows without quick cuts: not all of this year's Oscar contenders subscribe to the rapid editing style commonly seen in 21st-century movies

Author

Bordwell, David

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Academy Awards -- Evaluation, There Will Be Blood (Motion picture) -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, Motion pictures -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
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In 'There Will Be Blood,' a mysterious young man, Paul Sunday, bends over a map to show oilman Daniel Plainview a spot ripe for drilling. The scene lasts nearly two [...]

Published
2008

5. Acad tongue-tied: omissions revive foreign-language debate

Author

Jaafar, Ali

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Foreign films -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
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When it comes to Oscar's foreign-language race, there's one language everyone speaks: controversy. Amid all the kudos uncertainty this year, many Oscar-watchers were practically champing at the bit for a [...]

Published
2008

6. Fickle finger of fate: an overcrowded field made Oscar very elusive in 2005

Author

Fritz, Ben

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion pictures -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture industry -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
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If there's one thing the Academy can't be accused of this year, it's catering to popular whims. In a year when the five best picture nominees combined grossed only about [...]

Published
2006

7. Token credit: Philip Kerr on Denzel Washington's plea to be recognised for his acting and not his race. (Film)

Author

Kerr, Philip

Subjects
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture industry -- Achievements and awards, Actors -- Achievements and awards, Actresses -- Achievements and awards, Literature/writing, Political science, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

I have no objection to Sidney Poitier receiving a lifetime achievement award at last month's Oscars ceremony, but the truth of the matter is that he has not made a [...]

Published
2002

8. OSCAR COUP

Author

Larsen, Josh

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, The Thin Red Line (Motion picture) -- Achievements and awards, Saving Private Ryan (Motion picture) -- Achievements and awards, Motion pictures -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, International relations, Political science, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

Don't look now, but a conservative coup is in the works for the Academy Awards. Best Picture front-runner Saving Private Ryan has stolen the thunder from The Thin Red Line, [...]

Published
1999

9. Next year's contenders come into focus: offerings from past Oscar power players pack an '08 slate that's delicious to anticipate

Author

Chang, Justin

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion pictures -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

As one character tells another in 'No Country for Old Men,' 'You can't stop what's coming.' You can, however, try to predict it. This year's Oscars may not have happened [...]

Published
2008

10. Oscar's good-luck charms: for acting awards aspirants, appearing with these icons has been a real boon

Author

Collins, Keith

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Actors -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Actresses -- Achievements and awards -- Evaluation, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

BURT LANCASTER Charmed co-stars: 9 Personal wins: 1 * Among thesps who have shared the screen with Academy Award-winning performances Lancaster is the all-time champ, beginning with Shirley Booth's 1952 [...]

Published
2007

11. A modest proposal for Oscar. (Screen Trade)

Author

Goldman, William

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture industry -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the best movie of this year so far--the documentary 'Spellbound'--was up for an Oscar last year. I mention this at the outset because [...]

Published
2003

12. Several foreign-lingo film Oscar entries cleaned up at their national film awards ceremonies as well. (Campaign Notes)

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Foreign films -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

Several foreign-lingo film Oscar entries cleaned up at their national film awards ceremonies as well. 'Mondays in the Sun' took five Spanish Goya awards. Lukas Moodysson's 'Lilya 4-Ever' also won [...]

Published
2003

13. Visual vets still Oscar virgins: creators of great film looks are overdue for spotlight

Author

Scott, K.C.

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Cinematography -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, Fashion design -- Evaluation -- Achievements and awards, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Evaluation, Works, Achievements and awards
Abstract

If Hollywood sentiment suggests Martin Scorsese is long overdue for his director Oscar, then what are the chances of winning of his similarly overdue contemporaries who work below the line? [...]

Published
2003

14. One foot clapping

Subjects
Academy Awards -- Evaluation, Motion picture industry -- Achievements and awards, Business, Economics, Business, international, Evaluation, Achievements and awards
Abstract

THERE are two sorts of Oscar ceremony: the grand slam, where one film wins almost every award on offer (but never quite as many as the 1959 'Ben Hur', which [...]

Published
1990

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