All Academy Awards articles – Page 73
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Full list of Academy Award winners
THE WINNERSClick on film name for reviewBest PictureBabelWINNER: The DepartedLetters From Iwo JimaLittle Miss SunshineThe QueenBest DirectorAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BabelClint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Paul Greengrass, United 93Stephen Frears, The QueenWINNER: Martin Scorsese, The DepartedBest ActorLeonardo DiCaprio, Blood DiamondRyan Gosling, Half NelsonPeter O'Toole, VenusWill Smith, The Pursuit Of HappynessWINNER: ...
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Oscars winners in full
THE WINNERSClick on film name for reviewBEST PICTUREBabelWINNER: The DepartedLetters From Iwo JimaLittle Miss SunshineThe QueenBEST DIRECTORAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BabelClint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Paul Greengrass, United 93Stephen Frears, The QueenWINNER: Martin Scorsese, The DepartedBEST ACTORLeonardo DiCaprio, Blood DiamondRyan Gosling, Half NelsonPeter O'Toole, VenusWill Smith, The Pursuit Of ...
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The 79th Academy Awards
The Departedstole the show at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood,taking top prize for best picture and propelling Martin Scorsese to hislong-awaited first directing Oscar.WarnerBros and Initial Entertainment Group's crime thriller remake took fourawards overall and had been regarded as a solid contender in awide-open best picture race. However its ...
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Leslie Unger named new communications director at AMPAS
Leslie Unger will succeed the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' longtime communications director John Pavlik after the 79th Academy Awards on February 25.Pavlik is stepping down after 15 years of service, in which time he has been the only communications chief in the Academy's history.He had earlier served ...
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Lights In The Dusk and Frozen City top Finland 's Jussis
Concluding his losers' trilogy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk turned up as a winner, cashing in on three out of six nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film prizes - winning Best Film, Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen) and Best Set Design (Markku Patila). The previous instalments ...
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Producing nominees named for Best Picture Oscar
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final roster of producers nominated in the best picture category for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.Graham King was named sole producing nominee on The Departed, while Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Martin Scorsese, ...
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Reactions in full to Oscar nominations
Al Gore, star of documentary feature nominee An Inconvenient Truth'I am thrilled for our director Davis Guggenheim and producers Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns and co-producer Lesley Chilcott. The film they created has brought awareness of the climate crisis to people in the United States and all over the ...
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Dreamgirls leads Oscar nominees but shut out of Best Picture race
Dreamgirls led the Oscar race with eight nominations this morning but the hit musical was shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also took three nominations in the best song category, meaning that it could only win five Oscars at most. Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Volver, Lives, Labyrinth make Oscar shortlist of nine
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has named the nine films that have made it to the shortlist for the best foreign language Oscar.The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:Days Of Glory Algeria (dir Rachid Bouchareb)Water Canada (dir Deepa Mehta)After The Wedding Denmark (dir, Susanne Bier)Avenue ...
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Academy names seven films shortlisted for makeup Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its shortlist of contenders for the best make-up Oscar.The films in alphabetical order are: Apocalypto; Click; Pan's Labyrinth; Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; The Prestige; The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause; and X-Men: The Last Stand.The Academy's ...
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Seven film shortlisted for visual effects Academy Award
Seven film have been shortlisted for consideration for the visual effects Oscar by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).They are Casino Royale, Night At The Museum, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Poseidon, Superman Returns and X-Men The Last Stand.On Jan 17, the Academy's visual effects ...
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Ennio Morricone to receive honorary Oscar in 2007
Italian composerand conductor Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony on Feb 25, 2007, 'for his magnificent and multifacetedcontributions to the art of film music.'Remarkably,Morricone, who has received five nominations before, has never won the Oscar.His nominations were for Days Of Heaven (1978), The Mission ...
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Best in show: best actor contenders
Ifthe winner of the best actor Oscar was hardly a surprise last year whenPhilip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote or 2004 when Jamie Foxx won forRay, 2006 is anything but a one-horse race. No single performance hasleapt out so far, a far cry from the best actress category which is,unusually, ...
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Picture players: Best director contenders
Asthe final wet prints of year-end releases are frantically unveiled toawards voters in Los Angeles, New York and London, a picture of theplayers who will rise to the top in the kudos countdown is emerging.And that picture is a surprising one. 2006 has featured an unusuallylarge number of so-called prestige ...
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Focus on 2006 craft awards
Surveying the patterns that Academy voters follow when choosing the craft awards, Screen selects the likely contenders for this year's categories in production design, cinematography, costume design, editing, music and visual effects. 2006 once again delivered a wide array of epic period and fantasy films which are set to dominate ...
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2006 Academy Award winners
Crash turned the tables on popular wisdom when it was named best picture at the 78th annual Academy Awards last night as it took three Oscars, while the pre-ceremony favourite Brokeback Mountain also took home three awards including best director for Ang Lee.Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon won the ...
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Foreign-language Oscar submissions in full
Argentina Family Law (Daniel Burman) Australia Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer) Austria You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svoboda) Bangladesh Forever Flows (Abu Sayeed) Belgium Someone Else's Happiness (Fien Troch) Bolivia American Visa (Juan Carlos Valdivia) Bosnia and Herzegovina Grbavica (Jasmila Zbanic) Brazil Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures (Marcelo Gomes) Bulgaria Monkeys ...
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Wonders Of The World
You could argue that every year is a banner year for international cinema, but few would deny that 2006 has more than its fair share of crowd-pleasing non-English language movies. And the foreign-language Oscar category is, after all, more focused on films that play with audiences than films that please ...
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Kaurismaki doesn't want to be considered for Oscar
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki has withdrawn from the race for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign-Language Film category. He has told the Finnish Oscar Committee that he does not want Lights In The Dusk - the final film in his losers' trilogy - to be Finland's official submission. ...
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AMPAS names shortlist of 16 for animated feature Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a list of 16 films which are expected to compete for the animated feature Oscar this year. Since the category allows five nominations if there are 16 eligible films or more, 2006 could be the first year since 2002 ...