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The 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival: Cinema’s United Nations

source: fest21.com

The centerpiece of the Festival is its annual Awards Gala, which serves as "a precursor to the Golden Globes and Oscars," per Festival Director Darryl Macdonald. Three of last year's honorees - actor Anne Hathaway, director Gus Van Sant and composer Alexandre Desplat - were nominated fo...

Published 9 hours ago

Amy Adams Expecting

source: Star Magazine

Amy, who was twice nominated for Academy Awards (Junebug and Doubt), will next appear in Leap Year with John Lithgow in January. and more »

Published 16 hours ago

Oscars 2010: The Race So Far - Best Supporting Actress

source: Inside Movies

If you want to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress this year, it helps to be in one of three movies: 'Precious,' 'Up in the Air' and 'Nine.' This is one of 2009's most competitive races, and multiple actresses from each of these movies will be ... Read more

Published 17 hours ago

Five Reasons Tim Burton Needs to Knock It Off

source: Washington College Elm

Of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the last Academy Awards only two (“Milk” and “Frost/Nixon”) truly deserved their spots. ... and more »

Published Fri, Dec 4

Local museum to show 'Fiddler on the Roof' Dec. 16

source: Grand Haven Tribune

Fiddler on the Roof," nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1971, will be the featured film at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum's Curator's Choice Movie ...

Published Fri, Dec 4

Tribeca Film: Free Flick Fridays: Chaplin

source: Huffington Post

Robert Downey, Jr.'s two Oscar nominations make an amusing pair of bookended actors. Most recently was 2008, when he was nominated for Tropic Thunder, delivering a wicked parody of the pomposity of actors with his so-method-he-went-blackface Kirk Lazarus, and then there was 1992, wher...

Published Fri, Dec 4

Dam Busters actor Richard Todd dies

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

After the war he gained fame in the London stage version of The Hasty Heart, which took him to Broadway. He returned to England to appear in the film version, and was nominated for the best actor Oscar in 1949. Todd was the first choice of author Ian Fleming to play James Bond, but because of othe...

Published Fri, Dec 4

Playing Live

source: Chicago Daily Southtown

He has been nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Grammys. In 2008, his hand print was added to the Wembley Square of Fame in celebration of his ... and more »

Published Fri, Dec 4