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By Xan Brooks In the wake of Sony's decision to bail out of the film, Moneyball was turned down by two other Hollywood behemoths. "In the light of the economic climate, Warner Bros and Paramount said they weren't going to make the movie," confirmed Pitt's manager, Cynthia Pett-Dante.

By Xan Brooks 2 July 2009: Karl Malden, the Oscar-winning actor with one of the most distinctive profiles in Hollywood, died yesterday aged 97. Here are some of his best roles in a career spanning more than 60 years

It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," she said.

By The Huffington Post News Team He was nominated again as best supporting actor in 1954 for his performance as Father Corrigan, a fearless, friend-of-the-workingman priest in "On the Waterfront." In both movies, he costarred with Marlon Brando. In 2004, Malden received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievemen...

Malden's family informed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences of his death on Wednesday. Malden served as the academy's president from 1989-92. He made his screen debut in the 1940 movie "They Knew What They Wanted," and was praised for his role as Mitch in the 1951 classic "A St...

By Marshall Fine Or, ignoring that hypothetical, another question: How many of the films on a top-10 list for the year's first half will survive to make it to year-end lists? Or receive Oscar nominations - even in a year when the Academy has made the chuckleheaded decision to water down the best-picture ca...

By Becky Lee The Americans are certainly hero worshipers and always take their heroes from the criminal classes." While this statement by playwright Oscar Wilde is a harsh... "The Americans are certainly hero worshipers and always take their heroes from the criminal classes."

By radmila Born in Skopje, Macedonia, Labina Mitevska studied in the faculty of Art and Archaeology at the University of Sts Cyril and Methodius, as well as at the European Film College in Denmark and the University of Arizona's Department of Art History. Ever since she has been chosen by European Fi...

By MarlaLewinGFV We have attended the Palm Springs International Shortfest through the years, and it is one of the best short film festivals in the world.   Award winners receiving a first place prize in four categories are automatically eligible to submit their films to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...

By Ben Child Oscars committee decides to only bestow the music award in years when there is a worthy nominee Variety reports that the suggestion, which follows last week's move to expand the number of nominees for the best film category from five to 10, has been ratified by the Academy of Motion Pictur...

By I stare at the napkin. It was white and square. In another significant change for next year's show, the academy is moving its honorary Oscars out of the Academy Awards ceremony itself and presenting them at a separate event. The two changes come days after the academy made its most drastic Oscar change in decades, doubling the number o...

By Jon Chattman For far too long comedies and box office blockbusters (and fantasy movies not frolicking with hobbits) have got little to no respect. Well, they had to do something. Year-in, year-out, decade after decade, the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have dropped the ball when it comes to...

By IschiaFilmFestival Sir Ken Adam, who was declared an Honorary citizen of Ischia, became a production design master internationally renowned thanks to his visionary settings and theoverwhelming architectural creations that made the James Bond’s set designs unforgettable between the Sixties and the S...

Disappointingly, I think Michael Mann's much-anticipated (by me and many othes) "Public Enemies'' -- which screened last night in Manhattan in advance of Chicago premiere tonight and its July 1 opening (when I will have an actual review) -- is probably going to have a hard time getting a...

By Hugh Hart Pajama Gladiator hit the sci-fi sweet spot and came up a winner Saturday when the short film earned its maker, Glenn Harmon of Brigham Young University, the Student Oscar for best animation. Harmon was one of 13 college students to pick up trophies from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts an...

By Andrea Chalupa Two years ago, while at Portfolio.com, I was moved by my colleague's review of the Webby Awards -- the Oscars for the Internet. She was... Two years ago, while at Portfolio.com, I was moved by my colleague's review of the Webby Awards -- the Oscars for the Internet. She was disappointed that, given...

By Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks lt;p>On this edition of Film Weekly, Ryan Fleck, co-director of the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson, joins Jason Solomons to talk about his new film <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/126617/sugar">Sugar</a>, a subtle take on the American dream through t...

By Brad Balfour

By Marshall Fine When Departures won the Oscar in February as best foreign-language film, no one was more surprised than director Yojiro Takita. But then, Departures was a... When Departures won the Oscar in February as best foreign-language film, no one was more surprised than director Yojiro Takita.

By tomoneil Pixar's 10th flick, "Up," is getting a joyous reception at the Cannes Film Festival. It's the fanciful tale of a grumpy old man (voice of Ed Asner) who ties thousands of balloons to his house so he can travel in comfort and see South America. Four previous Pixar flicks won best animated featur...

By tomoneil Who's ahead to be nominated at the Tony Awards? Drama Desk nominations Should the Drama Desk revamp its awards? Billy' vs. green goliath at Outer Critics Circle nominations Tony nominations to be announced on May 5 Inside track: Tony Awards' derby for best play

By Brad Balfour I made another picture, Harry Brown [recently] and I saw the one picture that the director Daniel Barber made. I think that it was called The Tonto Woman. He got nominated for the [Best Live Action Short] Oscar in 2008 for it and this is his first feature. So I like to do that. I mean, even Christoph...

Judi Dench is probably the least likely great actress to play a stalker. The dame's a Dame, for queen's sakes! Yet in Notes on a Scandal — a kind of same-sex Fatal Attraction imagined by Jane Austen in a really foul mood — the Oscar winning legend turned in an Oscar-nominated performance as a l...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) My list is by no means definitive. If you have a favorite performance from 2008 that sticks with you, this is a great place to tell the world. There were 20 actors nominated on Oscar night, but there is a lot of great work that hasn’t been recognized with a walk down the red carpet.

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By Gwladys Fouché Last year the Coen brothers' drama, No Country for Old Men, won the Oscar for best picture. This year their comedy, Burn After Reading, was nowhere to be seen in the list of nominations, even though it was stuffed with on-form A-listers. Was it simply a less good film? Or is there an inbuilt bia...

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By Alan Au Picture SEVEN Pciture EIGHT Picture NINE Picture TEN Picture ELEVEN Ryan Seacrest in a 1 button peak looked slick covering the red carpet. The bowtie was the perfect size to frame his face. With such a trim sleeve, I think he could have shorten his coat a little to show off a little shirt cuff.

By The Huffington Post News Team Rinna noted, however, that from her perch she saw fewer stars than she had expected. It was a tactic to keep some stars off the red carpet so they'd be a surprise during the ceremony. Jennifer Aniston and Tina Fey were among those kept under wraps until the telecast.

Shadow and movies and light and it's almost 11 pm, do you realize that? I really thought you people were going to bring this in on time... ish. We were doing so well, and then it's like, we have four awards left and suddenly they take ten minutes each or something. Here's a montage of the current best...

Please enjoy my icon's brand-new Oscar gown from Yahoo Avatars.) Sarah Jessica Parker, belted Dior ballgown in kind of an off white, long loose wavy hair. Viola Davis in a gold halter dress, diamond brooch--kind of a burnished gold, not a scary Vegas lamé gold. Very nice.

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By Jason Solomons Oscar night has lost a certain mystique for us in the UK, that's for sure. Gone are the days when a fuzzy telecast graced the BBC, with Hollywood royalty such as Bob Hope or Bette Davis or even John Wayne. The Oscars used to be a chance to catch celebrities "as they really are", maybe mouthing "sh...

By Hugh Hart Despite the Academy's longstanding bias against popcorn flicks, Ledger is expected to win the Best Supporting Actor trophy Sunday. (The Academy also managed to toss six technical category nominations in the direction of Christopher Nolan's Batman epic.)

By Hannah Pool Are you going to the Oscars? Yes. I'm looking forward to it. It's my first time at the Oscars. It was my first time at the Baftas, the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, my first English film, my first everything. It couldn't have been a better first.

By Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks How does it feel to be nominated for a Bafta and what does it mean when you win one? Jason Solomons gets the lowdown from Simon Chinn, the Bafta-winning producer of Man On Wire, the acclaimed documentary about Philippe Petit's WTC wire-walk which is about to be rereleased theatrically – ap...

By tomoneil Nominated for 11 awards at the 1974 Oscars, "The Godfather: Part II" won six: best picture, director (Francis Ford Coppola), supporting actor (Robert De Niro), screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo), music score and art direction. In the best picture derby, it beat Coppola's ot...

By tomoneil By winning best picture at the BAFTA Awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" just became the second film, after "American Beauty," to sweep the top prizes from all of these awards: Golden Globes, National Board of Review, Critics Choice and the four guilds — producers, directors, writers and ac...

By tomoneil Considering how restrictive the Oscars are about membership, let's guess that no more than half of that BAFTA gang also belongs to the Oscar academy. My guess is that means that there's probably an overlap of 1,000 voters between the two voting groups, which both have between 5,000 and 6,0...

By Andrew Pulver, Jason Solomons First up, Cruz tells Jason about her extreme gratitude for her Bafta and Oscar nominations, playing the seductive and unhinged Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and how she ended up playing go-between in the mutual admiration society of Pedro Almodóvar and Woody Allen.

By Jason Solomons, Catherine Shoard Next, Jason gets together with Catherine Shoard to review the reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road (clue: it ain't Titanic), Jean-Claude van Damme's comeback film JCVD (not Charlie Kaufman) and the reissued Barry Lyndon ("extraordinarily prescient a...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss their thoughts on this year’s deeply unsatisfying Oscar nominations, reflect on the intellectual bankruptcy of a Tom and Jerry movie, and vehemently debate the merits of Alan Ball’s Towelhead. We...

By Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks Next, Xan Brooks checks in to chat about the Golden Globes and how the Oscar race is shaping up, as well as to review the week's big releases: Mickey Rourke's comeback performance in The Wrestler, the French star-stuffed A Christmas Tale, the luminous Ingrid Bergman in the reissued Notor...

By Kyle Buchanan The year-end demolition derby that is Oscar season is ramping up, and among the next big films to face the gauntlet is Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk. Already the recipient of oodles of pre-release buzz (so there, says Focus Features), its release Wednesday will cap a period of rea...

By Ed Liu He may still be the only producer of an animated film nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, but Don Hahn is more than ready to get some company. To help speed the process, the veteran producer for the Walt Disney Company and two-time Oscar nominee (the second time for "The Little Matchg...

By James Rocchi Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room won acclaim for its inventive, expressive but journalistic and rigorous expose of the facts and finances behind a story that came to represent turn-of-the-millennium capitalism gone mad. Now, with Taxi to the Dark Side, which opens tod...

By Kim Voynar There Will Be Blood continues to stand firmly in fifth place on the Oscar watch list for Best Picture over at Movie City News' Gurus o' Gold, with Atonement still pretty firmly in the top slot. Beneath Atonement, the Gurus have No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, and Charlie Wilson's...

By James Rocchi In an Esquire piece celebrating "The Casting Mistake of the Year," Joel and Ethan Coen explained how Josh Brolin wound up cast in one of No Country for Old Men's lead roles: "Our movie version of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men had Tommy Lee Jones in place -- no mistake there -- as a cr...

By James Rocchi What movies are going to be snubbed by Oscar because they don't speak Hollywood's language? Does Into the Wild play better for Baby Boomers than younger audiences? Can Once get a second chance? And do movie journalists have a responsibility to reflect the Oscar race, or to try and influen...

By Daryl D Don’t get me wrong: this isn’t an awful film. However, it appears to be overhyped, possibly for political reasons. Until recently, Hollywood has downplayed African American actors. Films that deal with African American culture have not always fared well at the box office despite their e...