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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: Lasse Hallstrom, Iran, The Descendants (movie), Tommy Lee Jones, Los Angeles Hotels
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'Lincoln' aims to enlighten as it entertains
In "Lincoln," director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner have pulled off the improbable: They have built this season's prestige hit around congressional proceedings that might seem more appropriate for C-SPAN than the big screen. Any...
Tags: Ethics, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Best movies of 2012: 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' 'Dark Knight Rises,' more
If the movies are a feast or famine business — and they are — we are in the heart of the feast at the moment. Both the studios and the smaller distributors, having hidden away their strongest films like squirrels hoarding especially tasty...
Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Louis B. Mayer, Central Intelligence Agency, Les Miserables (musical), David O. Russell
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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: Life of Pi (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Arts and Culture, Writers Guild of America, Abraham Lincoln
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'Lincoln' writer Tony Kushner on working with Steven Spielberg
Tony Kushner had a decade's worth of plays behind him when his epic two-part masterpiece, "Angels in America," exploded in the mainstream in 1992, going on to win the Pulitzer Prize, two best play Tonys and a clutch of other stage awards. In adapting...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Religion and Belief, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Television Industry, Entertainment Events
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The complete nominations list
"Lincoln" earned a record-breaking 13 nominations for Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It received nominations for best film, director for Steven Spielberg, actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, supporting actress for Sally Field,...
Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Matthew McConaughey, David O. Russell, Tommy Lee Jones, Channing Tatum
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Oscar nominations: 'Les Miserables' scores eight nods
After it opened in New York in 1987, the Broadway production of "Les Miserables" garnered eight Tony Awards, including best new musical. Twenty-five years later, the movie version of the beloved epic has scooped a total of eight Academy Award nominations,...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Les Miserables (musical), Pulitzer Prize Awards, The King's Speech (movie), Entertainment Events
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Review: 'Nora's' excellent cast cuts to the heart of a masterwork
Creator of such epic projects as “Fanny and Alexander” and “Scenes From a Marriage” -- both later edited into feature-length format -- Ingmar Bergman hardly seems the go-to guy when it comes to condensing an existing script....
Tags: Dave Brubeck, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Ingmar Bergman
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Two new Tony Kushner books: 'Lincoln' script and revised 'Angels'
"Lincoln" has been a big hit in movie theaters, and on Jan. 22 Tony Kushner's screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film will arrive in book form, to be followed in late February by another new Kushner book -- the revised script for "Angels in America," the...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Ronald Reagan, AIDS, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Arts and Culture
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The New Yorker's John Lahr quits regular theater reviewing
One of the most recognizable names in the world of theater criticism is stepping down. John Lahr, the senior theater critic for the New Yorker for close to 20 years, is quitting regular reviewing for the magazine to concentrate on profile writing and book...
Tags: The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Entertainment Events, Off-Broadway Theater, Periodicals, Ingmar Bergman
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Review: Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' a towering achievement
Hollywood's most successful director turns on a dime and delivers his most restrained, interior film. A celebrated playwright shines an illuminating light on no more than a sliver of a great man's life. A brilliant actor surpasses even himself and makes...
Tags: Human Interest, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Tommy Lee Jones, Hal Holbrook, Entertainment Events
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Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter among Whiting Award winners
Four playwrights are among this year's 10 winners of the Whiting Writers' Awards, which honors writers in various fields. The playwrights are Danai Gurira and Meg Miroshnik, both of whom reside in Los Angeles, and Samuel D. Hunter and Mona Mansour, who...
Tags: The Walking Dead (tv program), Arts and Culture, Treme (tv program), Kirk Douglas, Bruce Norris
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