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78th Academy Award Winners

Best picture: "Crash"Directing: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"Actress: "Reese Witherspoon" ("Walk The Line")Supporting actress: Rachel Weisz ("Constant Gardener")Actor: "Philip Seymour Hoffman" ("Capote")Supporting actor: George Clooney ("Syriana")Adapted screenplay: "Brokeback Mountain"Original screenplay: "Crash"Foreign language film: "Tsotsi"Documentary: "March of The Penguins"Animated feature: "Wallace & Gromit"Art direction: "Memoirs of a Geisha"Cinematography: "Memoirs of a Geisha"Costume design: "Memoirs of a Geisha"Documentary short: "A Note of Triumph"Flm editing: "Crash"Makeup: "Chronicles of Narnia"Original score: "Brokeback Mountai...

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"Brokeback," "Capote," "Crash," "Transamerica" Honored With Spirit Awards

For the first time in memory, the Independent Spirit Awards honored a group of films that are likely to dominate the Academy Awards. Presented each year on the eve of the Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards (presented by the recently re-branded Film Independent) honor work made outside the Hollywo...

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"Akeelah" and "Sweet Land" Bookend 30th Cleveland International Film Festival

Lionsgate Films' "Akeelah and the Bee" will open the 30th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) on Thursday, March 16th the event unveiled Friday. The film is described by the festival as "a heart-warming drama directed by Doug Atchison and starring Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, and Keke Palmer, is set to open nationwide on April 28th. Closing the festival March 26th is "Sweet Land," described as "set post WWI in Minnesota, about a Swedish emigrant who is a farm owner and needs a wife to fill his home and fulfill his dreams of America." The festival takes place in Cleveland March 16 - 26. indieWIRE will publish an extended festiv...