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There were no jaw-droppers among the nominees for
best picture by the Producers Guild of America: "The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Dark Knight," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire." A winner will be announced on Jan. 24. Most of the ...
Every December, Turner Classic Movies produces a lovely
montage honoring the actors and filmmakers who died that
year, and here's the one for 2008. Apparently they released it around Dec. 10, then updated it to include Van Johnson, who died Dec. 15, ...
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PGA Nominations Hint at Good Things for Batman
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Producers Guild Nominations
5 hours ago at Film Experience Blog
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The Producers Guild of America has tapped the
producers of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire as the nominees for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award. The ...
For weeks now, film reviews, writers and Oscar
prognosticators have lamented that 2008 was not the great
year for cinema that was 2007. Further, some suggest that most of this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls wouldn't stand a chance in...
Billy Wilder is one of those tough unsentimental
directors whose films get better with time. Years later,
they still feel contemporary. And the Oscar-winning The Apartment, reviewed here on video by the NYT's A.O. Scott , is on my All-Time Top Ten ...
BANGKOK -- Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada will
begin shooting the family drama "Otouto" in mid-January, with
stars Tsurube Shofukutei as the "otouto" or younger brother and Sayuri Yoshinaga as his older sister. Written by Yamada and Emiko ...
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics have added
more heat to the Slumdog Millionaire awards juggernaut, awarding
four prizes to the film including Best Film and Best Director. Here are the winners: Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire/Fox ...
One of the potential nominees for Best Supporting
Actor Academy is Kirk Lazarus…I mean Robert Downey Jr.
As we know Oscar season is approaching and Parmount Pictures are pushing their reminder of Downey’s work in “ Tropic Thunder ” who underwent a controversial ...
Well, Australia's second-weekend drop indicates that it isn't
doing well enough with adult audiences to ever make
it into a success here. Here are some of the reasons this movie couldn't make it. The heart of the movie--the part that ...
Gomorra , the Italian submission for the Oscars,
won five prizes at the 21st European Film Awards
held on December 6 in Copenhagen. The gangster movie based on a novel by Roberto Saviano won best film, best actor (Toni Servillo) and best director ...
I was discussing Milk with somebody today and
bemoaned the fact that we here in Australia aren't
being allowed to see it until January 29 - lovely, no? - and then started wondering when all the other notable 2008 movies are to be released. The ones ...
In her Variety column today, Anne Thompson contrasts
Sam Mendes’ star-studded, Oscar-positioned, somewhat tonally revisionist adaptation of
Revolutionary Road with the work and life of author Richard Yates. Thompson reminds what unlikely ...
Yes, another Dark Knight news posting — but
this time it’s not just another third film rumor
or “Christopher Nolan is still considering a Dark Knight sequel” report. In November, the Executive Committee of the Academy of ...
It's a comic line from Sister Aloysius that
Streep sells gamely in film and trailer ( Doubt
opens this weekend in several major markets) ... but offscreen there's no blowing Meryl Streep 's light out. The woman has charisma to spare. She could ...
Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in
the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy
Awards . One of them is “ $9.99 ” a stop motion animated movie for grown-ups based on the Short Stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret .
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian
Award at the 81st Academy Awards. The AMPAS board
of governors will bestow an Oscar statuette to the comedian at the Feb. 22 ceremony. "Jerry is a legendary comedian who has helped thousands upon ...
Refresh your screen for more details. It has
begun. I always forget that there's lots of TV
stuff. Recount, Doris and Bernard, Mad Men, In Treatment, etcetera Comedy Actor Bardem -Vicky, Farrell -In Bruges, Franco -Pineapple EXpress, Gleeson -In ...
Dreamworks has launched their Best Supporting Actor campaign
for Kirk Lazarus, the character that Robert Downey Jr
plays in Tropic Thunder. Dreamworks is also pushing Downey Jr. for the same award in real life. I wonder if viral web marketing ...
Kate Winslet’s performance as a concentration camp guard
in The Reader has been the subject of much
debate over the past week, though little of the discussion has actually concerned her craft. The argument lies in whether or not this specific ...
EXCLUSIVE: I reported yesterday that the Academy Of
Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had chosen someone "way
outside the box" to host the 81st Oscars on February 22nd. Today, I've learned that the person is not just outside the box but outside ...
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- SAG Nominations
- Awards Tally 2008: Handicapping Oscar CONSTANT UPDATES!
- Will 'Wall-E' be nominated for best picture at the Oscars?
- Robert Mulligan dies at 83; directed 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Los Angeles Times
- Robert Mulligan, 1925 - 2008.
- A Shot at the Oscars Podium, Thanks to a Publicist




















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