Black Actors Gain Record Oscar Esteem
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Six years ago, Chris Rock joked that the Academy Awards looked like the "million white man march" for its traditional under-representation of blacks.
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The Oscar nominee talks about his movies, his favorite Boston insults and his own new entourage
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New stars such as Ellen Page of "Juno" and veterans like Hal Holbrook from "Into the Wild" bathed in the Oscar spotlight on Monday with little difference between generations when it came to being nominated for the world's top film honors.
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Forest Whitaker deserves his Best Actor Oscar.
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Forest Whitaker won the Academy Award for best actor on Sunday for a critically hailed performance as Ugandan ruler Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland," beating out 74-year-old screen legend Peter O'Toole.
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Some of Hollywood's most famous stars are getting facelifts before the Academy Awards.
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After weeks of relentless Oscar  campaign ads, talk-show interviews and red-carpet events,  members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have  made up their minds. The next step is to count their votes.
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Actors who appear in dramas rather than comedies are more likely to be nominated for Oscars, a study suggests.
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For most of their first 13 years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards played little more than the role of a seat-filler. This year they might be the biggest star in town.
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Among the tales of depravity and violence that dominate this year's Academy Awards race sits the bright and shining "Ratatouille." A rat never seemed so sanitized.
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Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters" and Tyler Perry's TBS series "House of Payne" took top honors at Thursday night's NAACP Image Awards.
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Celebrities who take their charity work seriously are to be recognised.
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Actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis was remembered Friday as a man of strength and integrity, as mourners including Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover paid their respects at a Harlem church.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is giving some lucky movie buffs the chance to see their favorite stars up close at the Oscars next year.
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Host Ellen DeGeneres got the Oscars  off to a rousing start on Sunday by telling stars like Leonardo  DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman there was no need to be nervous  because only about a billion people were watching.
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British talent will be out in force on the Oscar red carpet on Sunday after a bumper year for UK actors, writers and directors who have made small and quirky a virtue in an industry better known for big and brash.
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Oscar loves a British accent Â and a Brit who can pass for American is even better.