Critics Group Names Eastwood's 'Baby' Best Film
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A group of leading U.S. film  critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"  as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared  best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion  drama "Vera Drake."
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NEW YORK  - Fact-based fiction ruled this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" took home best film of the year honors.
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This multidimensional,  deeply personal documentary, for which an informal conversation  between Tony Bennett and producer Clint Eastwood serves as hub,  must be counted as one of the &quot;American Masters&quot; series&#39; finest  accomplishments, refreshingly focusing on the man and his art  rather than sidetracking into personal issues.
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Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima," the second of his two World War II sagas this year, was picked as the top movie of 2006 Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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Hijack drama United 93 is named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics' Circle.
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The National Society of Film Critics named âThere Will Be Blood,â directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as the best picture of 2007.
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Eastwood has been presented with the prestigious Legion d'honneur, the highest civilian distinction in France, at a special ceremony in Paris.Comment
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Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language film "Letters from Iwo Jima" was named best film of 2006 by the National Board of Review on Wednesday in the first major award of the Oscar season.
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Just hours after being named one of the year's 10-best films by the National Board of Review in New York, the new political drama "Blood Diamond" got the red-carpet treatment in Hollywood. And there was much serious talk among the glittering attendees.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar beckons: The musical "Dreamgirls" is the odds-on favorite to take home best picture honors. Clint Eastwood is again in the driver's seat as a best director nominee for "Flags of Our Fathers."
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"Die Hard," starring Bruce Willis as a tough cop battling terrorists, was named the best action film ever by Entertainment Weekly magazine -- two weeks before the series' fourth installment, "Live Free or Die Hard," hits theaters.
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Director Clint Eastwood is to be awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion of Honour.
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In an important pre-Oscar film  industry award, the Directors Guild of America named Clint  Eastwood best director Saturday for his bittersweet female  boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby."
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Director Martin Scorsese's crime thriller "The Departed" won the Oscar for best film on Sunday in a show that turned Hollywood's biggest night into a showcase for environmental activism.
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NEW YORK  - In what was described as "a dogfight" between "United 93" and another fact-based feature, "The Queen," Paul Greengrass' 9/11 drama was named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle Monday after a four-round tiebreaking vote.
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Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year.
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The ending of Million Dollar Baby has conservatives and some advocacy groups campaigning against CLINT EASTWOOD'S film, which is up for seven trophies. Will the dustup hurt it? Oscars' past may tell us.