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Splintered selections
SO the 82-voting members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. have punted.
They're either unable or unwilling to designate any sort of Oscar front-runner.
Instead, the group has nominated as many as 12 films for either best film, drama or comedy, for...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Angels & Demons (movie), Ellen Page, Organized Crime, Television
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Critics' Oscar predictions
Oscar picks
Still need to fill out that ballot for your office Oscar pool? Not sure who will take home the trophy Sunday night? Well, look no further. Here are Times critics Kenneth Turan's and Carina Chocano's Academy Award predictions -- plus a look at...Tags: Documentary (genre), Arts and Culture, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Coen, Daniel Day-Lewis
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The Oscars: Show must go on, with a yawn
Sentinel Movie CriticAlmost everybody won the Oscar they were supposed to, with No Country for Old Men taking the most -- four, including best picture and best directors (Joel and Ethan Coen). Fittingly, the first big Hollywood event after the 100-day Writer's Guild strike...Tags: Documentary (genre), Paul Thomas Anderson, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Ethan Coen
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'Ratatouille'
Times Staff WriterBrad Bird's 'Ratatouille' is so audacious you have to fall in love with its unlikely hero. If we are living in a golden age of animation — and we are — one of the reasons is writer-director Brad Bird. That's somewhat ironic, because as his new...Tags: Peter O'Toole, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Movies, Rube Goldberg
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Oswalt, Garofalo make 'Ratatouille' a nice combo platter
Times Staff WriterShow up and be yourself — and get paid to do it. That's the job description Patton Oswalt accepted when he was cast as the lead voice in the new Pixar/Disney film, "Ratatouille." The film revolves around a rat named Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of...Tags: Peter O'Toole, Restaurants, SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Dining and Drinking, Academy Awards
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Hollywood Awards afflicted by Affleck
The EnvelopePrepare to see a lot more of Casey Affleck in the coming awards season. The actor, who stars in "Gone, Baby, Gone," has been chosen to receive the Hollywood Breakthrough Actor of the Year award at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony, the closing event...Tags: Festive Events, Movies, Entertainment, Film Festivals, Ben Affleck
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Washington, Boston Critics Honor 'Old Men'
Zap2It.comShaping up as an early critical award season favorite, the Coen Brothers' "No Country For Old Men" was named best picture of the year by reviewers in Washington and Boston. The Washington and Boston critics overlapped in several key categories beyond...Tags: Documentary (genre), Ellen Page, Ethan Coen, Death, Cinema Industry
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The Iron Giant (1999)
What if a gun had a soul? A gigantic mobile weapon from another planet is sent to destroy Earth, but is damaged on arrival and loses its memory. It is soon befriended by a young boy, Hogarth, who is an outcast at school and relishes the chance to have a...Tags: Family
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A season with a silver lining?
Now it's really starting to look like an awards season we can place bets on.
The weekend was filled with talk of defensive struggles and opening possessions -- and we're not talking about Super Bowl XLII.
First we heard word that the writers strike...Tags: Health, Celebrities, Super Bowl, Career and Workplace, Periodicals
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The hierarchy
Times Staff WritersOn TV, it played like the year of the Big Tent. Old Hollywood, black Hollywood, Spanish-speaking Hollywood, trailer-park Hollywood, Magic-Johnson-Theatres Hollywood — this year's Oscars seemed to have something for every constituency. But Big Tents...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Brooke Shields, Gwyneth Paltrow
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The Iron Giant
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday August 4, 1999 Straight-arrow and subversive, made with simplicity as well as sophistication, "The Iron Giant" remembers the wonder of being a child and understands how to convey that in a media-savvy age. Both a step back and a step...Tags: Vin Diesel, Superman (fictional character), Harry Connick Jr., Entertainment, Gaming
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