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Meryl Streep Wins Third Academy Award
02/27/2012
It was one of the nail-biters of the 2012 Oscars: would the already legendary actress Meryl Streep, 62, take away the Best Actress Academy Award for her transformation into Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, or would she be beaten out by contenders Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Viola Davis (The Help), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)? When last year's Best Actor winner Colin Firth announced Streep as the winner, there was a mixed bag of reactions about the victory — Streep's first since her Sophie's Choice win in 1982, three decades ago.
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'The Artist' Leads 84th Annual Academy Awards' Winners
02/27/2012
Oscar night always holds its share of surprises, and this year was no different, with the black-and-white silent film, The Artist, sweeping awards in the highly coveted Best Picture, Best Actor (first-time winner Jean Dujardin), and Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius) categories, and also nabbing awards for Costume Design and Original Score.
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OSCARS: Viola Davis, Jean Dujardin Favored To Win
02/24/2012
Are you pumped about the 84th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday? Are you putting up money at your own private viewing party? Before you fill out your ballot, take a look at our predictions. If you're still not sure you're going to watch, we also give you five good reasons why you should.
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Predictions: Who Will Win At The Oscars
02/24/2012
By Monday, the 84th Academy Awards will have come and gone, leaving in their path the crushed hopes of (on average) 80% of the nominated actors, writers, producers, directors and other movie-making folk.
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Meryl Streep, 'The Artist' Win BAFTA Awards
02/13/2012
The race for the Best Actress Oscar is going to be a nailbiter. Meryl Streep was honored for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady Sunday by the British Academy of Film and Television, beating out SAG winner Viola Davis.
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Best Makeup: Will 'Deathly Hallows' Vanquish Thatcher?
02/08/2012
From simply making a star look their best on screen to turning an actor into a character, makeup plays a large part in creating that Hollywood magic. It can make or break a movie. Think the beautiful Charlize Theron's transformation in Monster or Mickey Rooney's horribly offensive role in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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SPOILERS: 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' Historically Accurate?
02/08/2012
Abraham Lincoln is one of the most revered figures in American history, if not the most. So it's a little disquieting that two Lincoln-themed films are scheduled for release in 2012. One, a straight-up biopic directed by Steven Spielberg with Daniel Day-Lewis playing Abe, seems to have attracted the best of the best in Hollywood and will probably be pretty decent.
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TRAILER: Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin On The Verge Of Breakdown
02/01/2012
A new trailer for the HBO movie Game Change, about the 2008 presidential election that put then-Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin on the national stage, has been released, depicting Palin (played by Julianne Moore) as at once tough-as-nails but also, as Woody Harrelson's character puts it, "on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Julie & Julia
08/07/2009
A prestigious triangle of heavyweight female talent combine to realize this impossible sounding screen amalgamation of two separate books, penned by two different women, spanning two continents, and separated by more than forty odd years.
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Best Dressed At SAG Awards: Jessica Chastain Gets 'Help' From Calvin Klein
01/30/2012
The Help's Best Supporting Actress nominee Jessica Chastain did not win an individual award (it went instead to her co-star, Octavia Spencer), but she was one of the stars honored for Best Acting Ensemble in a Motion Picture at the 18th Annual SAG Awards.
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SAG Awards: Last Minute Movie Award Predictions
01/29/2012
The 18th Annual Screen Actors' Guild Awards are starting soon, and we're going to squeeze in some last-minute predictions for the movie acting awards. Expect George Clooney, Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer to win for Lead Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.
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Oscar Nominations 2012: George Clooney, 'The Artist' Honored
01/24/2012
Leading up the highlight of awards season, the Academy Awards nominees for 2012 have been announced, and there aren't too many surprises this time around. The Martin Scorsese adventure flick, Hugo, led the pack, nabbing 11 nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture.
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Oscar Nominations By The Numbers
01/24/2012
The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are in as of today, and we've already told you who's in — and who's out. But on top of all that, there's still a mess of trivia to make sense of before you host your own Oscars party on Sunday, February 26, so we're going to break it down for you by the numbers.
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'The Artist' Nominated For 12 BAFTA Awards
01/17/2012
The Artist has already clinched the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Comedy. Now it's leading the pack of films nominated for BAFTA Awards — the British equivalent of the Oscars. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, who is up against Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin) for Best Director, The Artist earned a total of 12 nods from BAFTA, which stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Keeping Score: What The Golden Globes Mean For The Oscars
01/16/2012
Despite getting Ricky Gervais back as host, the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards weren't as exciting as they've been in years past. "Tonight you get Britain's biggest comedian hosting the world's second biggest awards show on America's third biggest network.
