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Oscar nominees announced

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The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced earlier today. Here is the complete list: BEST PICTURE "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Frost/Nixon" "Milk" "The Reader" "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, "Changeling" Melissa Leo, "Frozen River" Meryl Streep, "Doubt" Kate Winslet, "The Reader" BEST ACTOR Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon" Sean Penn, "Milk" Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin [Read more...]

Golden Globe winners announced

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The winners of the 2008 Golden Globe Awards were announced earlier today. Here they are: BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY Burn After Reading In Bruges Happy-Go-Lucky Mamma Mia Vicky Cristina Barcelona BEST DIRECTOR Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire Steven Daldry - The Reader David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard - [Read more...]

Broadcast Film Critics honour Slumdog Millionaire, Heath Ledger, Sean Penn

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The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 14th Critics' Choice Awards at a ceremony held yesterday at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner of the evening, taking five awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Danny Boyle, Best Writer for Simon Beaufoy, Best Young Actor/Actress for Dev Patel and Best Composer for A.R. Rahman. Sean Penn took home the award for Best Actor and Milk also won Best Ensemble. Here are all [Read more...]

Director’s Guild reveals DGA 2008 nominees

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Directors Guild of America Third Vice President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2008. "A film is a collaboration, but it is the director's energy and vision that brings the elements of script, performance and production into a satisfying totality. Today's nominees demonstrate how vision, combined with skill and talent, creates magic on the screen," said Hackford. "What makes this award truly [Read more...]

Satellite Awards 2008 – the winners

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The winners of the 2008 Satellite Awards, voted by the International Press Academy, were announced at a ceremony at the InterContinetal Hotel in Century City last night. Here they are: MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA ANGELINA JOLIE Changeling ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA RICHARD JENKINS The Visitor ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL SALLY HAWKINS Happy-Go-Lucky ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL RICKY GERVAIS Ghost Town ACTRESS [Read more...]