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Golden Globe nominations 2013: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' top list
Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among the top nominees...
Tags: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Steven Spielberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Tommy Lee Jones, Maggie Smith
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For Baltasar Kormakur, an extreme route to the Oscar shortlist
Baltasar Kormakur has had one strange career. After starting out as an actor in his native Iceland in the mid-1990s, he soon added directing to his dossier. He began with small Icelandic-language slacker films like “101 Reykjavik,” segued to...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Mark Wahlberg, Festive Events, Awards and Prizes, Interior Policy
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African-American Film Critics name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the search for terrorist Osama bin-Laden, continued its winning ways Sunday evening when it was named best film of 2012 by the African-American Film Critics Association. The film, which opens Wednesday,...
Tags: Arbitrage (movie), Rise of the Guardians (movie), The Intouchables (movie), Flight (movie), The House I Live In (movie)
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...
Tags: Academy Awards, Career and Workplace, Nat Faxon, Ang Lee, The Invisible War (movie)
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Thanksgiving newcomers can't beat final 'Twilight,' 'Skyfall'
There were three fresh offerings at the box office over the Thanksgiving holiday, but moviegoers opted for leftovers instead. For the second consecutive weekend, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" claimed the No. 1 position. After...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Holidays, MGM Inc., Shrek (fictional character), Ang Lee
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'Breaking Dawn 2' is no turkey. Dodgers and Fox near deal.
After the coffee. Before burning off all the food I ate last week. The Skinny: I spent the weekend with family in Washington, D.C., and can report that traffic in the nation's capital is worse than it is here. And I didn't even get on the Beltway much....
Tags: Dallas 2011 (tv program), Peter Jackson, Keith Moon, Time Warner Cable Inc., Ang Lee
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Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack
Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...
Tags: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Steven Spielberg, The Social Network (movie) , Film Festivals, Tommy Lee Jones
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Best movies of 2012: 'Pi,' 'Master,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' make cut
It's as if this year filmmakers remembered why God made movies. In a world of nonstop data where most of the static is gossip in 140 soul-destroying words or less, cinema has had a transcendent 12 months — a visual renaissance that has burned past...
Tags: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Impossible (movie), Peter Jackson, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), The Loneliest Planet (movie)
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Ang Lee, Suraj Sharma became each other's lifeboat in 'Pi'
By all accounts, director Ang Lee is the soul of civility on a film set, sure-footed but collaborative, meticulously focused but ready to smile — the patient but quietly demanding center of an adventurous array of films. Lee gives his actors...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Movies, Entertainment, Celebrities, Heath Ledger
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Lincoln,' 'Flight' nominated for WGA awards
This post has been corrected, as detailed below. The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012....
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Tony Kushner, Ken Burns, Ang Lee, Arts and Culture
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'Pi,' 'Impossible': Nature's fury unleashed on the film screen
It could be a dark and stormy Oscar night. Among the historical epics, political thrillers and romantic dramas on the awards scene, several films that feature nature's fury are clouding the horizon. "Life of Pi," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The...
Tags: The Impossible (movie), Academy Awards, Natural Disasters, Ewan McGregor, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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At 'Les Miserables' debut, a director who likes love and loathes lip-synching
NEW YORK -- Ever since Victor Hugo unleashed his five-volume novel on a politically minded France 150 years ago, "Les Miserables" has been generating tears and admirers across several forms of media. On Friday at Lincoln Center, Oscar winner Tom...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Baz Luhrmann, Entertainment Events, Christmas, Movies
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