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Academy Penalizes "Hurt Locker" Producer
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that should Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" be given the Best Picture Oscar, one of the film's four credited producers will not be there to celebrate.
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Oscars 2010 | "Food, Inc."'s Robert Kenner: "We aren’t seeing the real costs of cheap food yet"
"While trying to put the film together, people thought they had already seen it because of 'Supersize Me' but I wanted to go beyond the evils of food and start a dialogue about the industrialization of the whole system," "Food, Inc." director Robert Kenner told indieWIRE. "I wanted to make a film f...
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Ebert: To Honor and Be Honored
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert has a lot going on these days. Today, the San Francisco International Film Festival announced that Ebert will be celebrated with the Mel Novikoff Award, which goes to an individual or institution who fosters a love and appreciation of film, at the fest's fifty-third installment. The award ceremony, on Saturday, May 1, will precede a screening of one of Ebert's favorite films of 2009, Erick Zonca's Tilda Swinton-starrer "Julia." As The Wrap's Steve Pond reported yesterday, Ebert and his wife Chaz are, this year, endowing the Film Independent Spirit Award's Truer than Fiction Award, given to an emerg...
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Canada's Genies Toast "Polytechnique," Snub "Mother"
Perhaps the most discussed Canadian film on the festival circuit last year - and its submission to the Academy Awards, Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother," was almost entirely snubbed at this morning's announcement of the 30th Annual Genie Awards, Canada's version of the Oscars. "Mother"'s sole reco...
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Oscars 2010 | Carey Mulligan On Her "Education"
EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of "An Education"'s release, and is now being included in a series of profiles on this year's Oscar nominees.
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Spirits 2010 | "Practice"'s Alvarez: "Everyone who worked on the film should feel like they own it"
Kyle Patrick Alvarez makes his feature debut with "Easier with Practice," the story of a man who becomes embroiled in a phone-sex relationship while on a road trip. The film opens in theaters this week, having previously screened at AFI Fest, Edinburgh, and CineVegas among other festivals. indieWIRE...
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"Hurt Locker" Leads Award Season Heading Into Oscar Night
After over three months of dozens and dozens of awards announcements celebrating cinema in 2009, the grand finale approaches with this Sunday's Academy Awards. While much media attention has been given to the "Avatar" vs. "The Hurt Locker" Oscar showdown, when one looks back at the awards that prec...
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Eugene Hernandez: Megabucks v. Made on a Shoestring or "Avatar" v. "Hurt Locker"
Twenty three weeks ago, in a column, I called awards season a marathon. Back in mid-September -- just a few weeks or so into the season -- as I considered ten films I'd watched that might figure prominently at the end of the year. Now we've passed 26th mile marker with under a week to go before Osca...
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Oscars 2010 | "Air"'s Anna Kendrick: "I had to prove myself to everybody else."
EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival, and is now being included in a series of profiles on this year's Oscar nominees.
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