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E Online: Cruise, McCarthy Singled Out at Razzies
Jenny McCarthy may have been singled out as this year's top Razzie recipient, but Tom Cruise's couch-jumping antics did not go unrewarded. As the star, writer and producer of 2005's little-seen, but universally panned comedy "Dirty Love," the onetime Playboy Playmate earned a trio of dishonors at Saturday's awards ceremony--namely Worst Actress, Worst Screenplay and Worst Picture. "Dirty Love" failed to sweep the six categories in which it was nominated. Worst Supporting Actress nominee Carmen Electra lost out to "House of Wax" star Paris Hilton, and McCarthy, nominated for Worst Onscreen Couple, along with Anyone Dumb Enough to Befriend or D...
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AP: Chinese Newspaper Praises Director Ang Lee
China heaped praise Tuesday on Taiwanese director Ang Lee for winning this year's best director Oscar with his gay romance "Brokeback Mountain." "Ang Lee is the pride of Chinese people all over the world, and he is the glory of Chinese cinematic talent," the official China Daily newspaper said in a ...
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Reuters: "Brokeback" too controversial after all: writer
Maybe a gay cowboy picture was too controversial after all, or at least that is what the legendary Western writer who adapted "Brokeback Mountain" for the screen thinks. "Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don't want cowboys to be gay," said Larry McMurtry, 69 who has spent his career challengin...
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AP: Was There a 'Brokeback Mountain' Backlash?
We chatted about it, joked about it, argued about it, spoofed it. "Brokeback Mountain" was everywhere in our popular culture yet it lost the big Oscar it was supposed to win. Was there a "Brokeback Backlash," or was "Crash" just the worthy contender that came on strong in the final Best Picture stre...
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DISPATCH FROM AWARDS SEASON: "Crash" Dashes "Brokeback"'s Hopes For Best Picture at 78th Academy Awa
Four films each won three Academy Awards tonight in Los Angeles: "Crash", "Brokeback Mountain", "King Kong" and "Memoirs of a Geisha". The best picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards went to "Crash," which also won the award for best original screenplay and film editing, meanwhile Ang Lee won the ...
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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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The Guardian: And the Award doesn't go to...
Behind every Oscar winner stands someone - unnamed, unthanked - who taught them everything they know. Leo Benedictus talks to Robert McKee, Ivana Chubbuck, Tory Metzger, and Cynthia Swartz, four of Hollywood's key backroom players.
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"Joyeux Noel" Wins Appeal of 'R' Rating
The MPAA has overturned their rating of French foreign language Oscar nominee "Joyeux Noel," giving the movie a 'PG-13' instead of an 'R'. The film's distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, and director Christian Carion, had appealed the rating. In a statement today, Carion said, "It is important this ...
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DISPATCH FROM AWARDS SEASON: The Indiewood Oscars -- Four Specialty Films (Made For $35 Million Comb
Leading up to Sunday's Academy Awards, numerous insiders and observers have quipped that this year's Oscar ceremony will be a bust with TV viewers since there are few big stars and only smaller movies nominated for the big awards. Indeed, the combined budget for the five best picture Oscar nominees ...
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