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Academy Sets Due Date for Foreign Language and Short Films
Foreign Language and Short Film Oscar hopefuls mark your calendars. Friday, October 1 marks the deadline to submit entries in the Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film and Foreign Language Film categories to be considered for the 83rd Academy Awards. Entries must arrive to the Academy of Motio...
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For Your Consideration: Post-Toronto Oscar Predictions
It's exhausting to even consider the extensive amount of awards season-related information Venice, Telluride and Toronto just gave folks to chew on. Just two weeks ago, very little was known about this year's awards race. Now all of a sudden there's a false sense that nearly everyth...
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"Rabbit Hole" Picked Up For 2010 Awards Season
Lionsgate has confirmed that John Cameron Mitchell's Toronto premiere "Rabbit Hole" has been acquired by the distributor for North American release later this year. That means "Hole" will factor in to this year's awards season, with performances from the likes of Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Di...
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For Your Consideration: Updating Oscar Contenders In The Eye of The Storm
In the past seven days or so, there have probably been more developments in the awards race than will be seen during any time period this year. Except for maybe the next seven days. With the Telluride Film Festival over, the Venice Film Festival entering its eighth day, and the Toronto Film Festival...
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For Your Consideration: 10 Things The Fall Fests Should Say About Awards Season
The kick-off of the Venice Film Festival today marks the annual turning point for the fall awards season. Over the next 19 or so days, Venice, Telluride and Toronto next week will offer both industry and - in Toronto's case at least - the public, a glance at dozens of films that may or may not fact...
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Academy Governors Honor Coppola, Godard, Wallach, and Brownlow
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors has voted to honor Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, given to “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production,” at this year's Governor's Award...
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For Your Consideration: Assessing Oscar In The Calm Before The Storm
It's been almost six months since indieWIRE's coverage of the mammoth 2009-2010 awards season came to an end. This "For Your Consideration" column has laid dormant ever since, its most recent edition a near year-in-advance stab at what might become of the next awards season. B...
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Michael Moore and Kathryn Bigelow Among the Academy's New Board of Governors
Oscar winners Michael Moore, Kathryn Bigelow and editor Anne Coates will join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors. The trio are first-time elected members, and will be joining nine incumbents who were reelected in addition to three other filmmakers making their retur...
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Cohen, Mischer Set To Produce Academy Awards
Film producer Bruce Cohen and television producer/director Don Mischer have been announced as the producers of the 83rd Academy Awards telecast. Mischer will also serve as the telecast’s director. This will be the first involvement with the Oscar telecast for both men, though the two worked together...
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NYU & UT Austin Among Top Schools at Student Academy Awards
Concluding a national competition that began regionally, AMPAS presented the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night. Luke Matheny from NYU won the award for best narrative film for "God of Love" while Ruth Fertig from the University of Texas at Austin won the documentary prize for "Yizkor ...
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