Sony, Paramount and Weinstein Co. get Oscar boost (Reuters)

January 24th, 2012 - 

Reuters – Movie studio Sony Pictures Entertainment received 21 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, fending off stiff competition from rival companies Paramount Pictures and The Weinstein Co. for Academy Award nods, which can boost box office and DVD sales.

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Oscar nominations announced for lead actress (AP)

January 24th, 2012 - 

AP – The 84th annual Academy Award nominations for lead actress in a motion picture have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Oscar nominations announced for supporting actor (AP)

January 24th, 2012 - 

AP – The 84th annual Academy Award nominations for supporting actor in a motion picture have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Oscar nominations announced for supporting actress (AP)

January 24th, 2012 - 

AP – The 84th annual Academy Award nominations for supporting actress in a motion picture have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Poland’s Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust (Reuters)

January 18th, 2012 - 

Reuters – Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust.

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‘Potter,’ ‘X-Men,’ ‘Apes’ vie for visual Oscar (AP)

January 4th, 2012 - 

AP – The Academy Award for visual effects is shaping up into a showdown among such heroes as Harry Potter, the X-Men, the Transformers and Captain America.

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Amazon Studios hooks up winning scripts with producers (Reuters)

December 15th, 2011 - 

Reuters – A trio of big name producers Denise Di Novi (“Crazy, Stupid, Love”), Bill Gerber (“Gran Torino”) and Academy Award winner Edward Saxon (“Silence of the Lambs”) have signed on to produce scripts uploaded to Amazon’s site, the company announced on Thursday.

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Odyssey of ‘Citizen Kane’ Oscar Statuette Continues (ContributorNetwork)

December 13th, 2011 - 

ContributorNetwork – Orson Welles was a pioneering filmmaker in the 1940s and 1950s. His most endearing works include ” Citizen Kane ,” ” Is Paris Burning?

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Streep, tipped for glory, says Oscars still matter (Reuters)

December 1st, 2011 - 

Reuters – She has been nominated for an Academy Award 16 times, a record for any performer, and won twice, but to Meryl Streep, the golden statuette still matters.

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Parents: No Oscar nod for film about Ark. killings (AP)

December 1st, 2011 - 

AP – The parents of one of three West Memphis, Ark., boys found dead 18 years ago are asking that a documentary about the killings be excluded from Academy Award consideration.

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