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Tribeca 2012: In 'The Girl,' Abbie Cornish still playing to adults
24 FramesAt the Tribeca Film Festival, Abbie Cornish's The Girl continued the actress trend toward difficult and dark dramas... -
Oscars: Melissa Leo
What a mother. Hell-to-pay-if-you-cross-her fierce and with more fire in her belly than either of her sons, or certainly that is the way actress Melissa Leo brought Alice Ward to life in David O. Russell's gritty "The Fighter."
Though the fighter in...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities, Migration, Academy Awards
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Kirk Douglas' laughs and Melissa Leo's gaffe
For a not-so-brief moment, the Oscars became "The Kirk and Melissa Show."
In an evening marked by predictability, Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas and veteran actress Melissa Leo provided perhaps the most spontaneous — and bleeped — sequence...Tags: Justin Timberlake, Melissa Leo, F-bomb Dropping, Celebrities, Academy Awards
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'Animal Kingdom' and 'Mother and Child' are first DVD screeners of Oscar season
Gold DerbyBeing first out of the gate often matters a lot in the Oscar derby. "Frozen River" and "Little Miss Sunshine" reaped top nominations in 2008 and 2006, respectively, after being the first DVDs shipped to academy members. This year, that distinction goes to... -
Do Gotham Award nominations boost Oscar odds of 'Winter's Bone'?
Gold DerbyOscar hopes run high now that "Winter's Bone" received three nominations from the Gotham Independent Film Awards. That's the same number as "The Hurt Locker" reaped last year before it romped at the Oscars. "The Hurt Locker" won best picture at both... -
Melissa Leo: A lot of fight in her
Melissa Leo is conflicted. For her latest film, "The Fighter," where she co-stars opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a performance that's destined to earn her a second Oscar nomination, has her all knotted up with different emotions.
At once,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, HBO (tv network), Tim Robbins, Mark Wahlberg, Drama (genre)
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Everybody loses: Gotham Awards vs. Indie Spirits ('Hurt Locker' vs. 'Precious')
Gold DerbyJust as we expected, Independent Spirit Awards lavished nominations upon "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" today, thereby addressing the film's ridiculous snub by the other, rival prize for independent films, the Gotham Awards, which... -
Adam Sandler, 'Saw' star and even Oscar winners among academy invitees
Gold DerbyOn Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the names of the "135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" and have been invited to join this club that numbers... -
Shrewd DVD strategies reap rewards with Oscar nominations
Gold DerbySo how did "A Serious Man" pull off that underdog Oscar nomination for best picture? Perhaps because it was among the first wave of DVD screeners shipped to academy members, long before the deluge of discs that arrived during the holiday season. Such an... -
Highbrow films (such as 'Frost/Nixon') wait and see
“I’ve Loved You So Long” is the kind of acclaimed foreign-language movie that should do solid business in unprovincial locations such as New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Nashville and St. Louis. Ten weeks after Sony Pictures Classics first...Tags: DVDs and Movies, The Dark Knight (movie), Heath Ledger, Frost Nixon (movie), Drama (genre)
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During award season it pays to be Kate -- or Cate
If you're an actress, keep in mind that when it comes to getting nominated for an Oscar it doesn't hurt if your name is Kate.
Kate Hepburn managed to do it 12 times, winning a record four as leading actress, more than any other actor.
By age 32, Kate...Tags: Angelina Jolie, Screen Actors Guild, Richard Jenkins, Burn After Reading (movie), The Reader (movie)
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Melissa Leo, 'Frozen River'
Melissa Leo's perfor- mance in "Frozen River" has been ri- veting audiences and critics since the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, winning the grand jury prize. As a woman driven to smuggle illegal immigrants over the Canadian...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Sundance Film Festival, Death, Homicide: Life on the Street (tv program)
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