Toronto critics anoint "Queen" best picture
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The Toronto Film Critics  Association on Tuesday chose "The Queen" as the best picture of  2006, while Helen Mirren won the actress award for her title  role.
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U.S. car-racing movie "Talladega Nights"   shot straight to the top of the UK box office over the weekend,   edging out Helen Mirren's acclaimed regal portrait in "The   Queen," according to Screen International on Tuesday.
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The 31st annual Toronto film festival opened on Thursday amid warnings from critics that happy movies are going to be few and far between, as themes from many of the
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LOS ANGELES  - As Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" prepares to vie with "The Queen" at the Academy Awards, the filmmaker is turning his attention to Queen Elizabeth's great-great-grandmother.
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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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The Toronto International Film Festival  has developed a status in recent years as the curtain-raiser to  Oscar season, when trophy-hungry directors premier their  late-season star-studded epics, biopics, and dramas.
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A sellout crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival gave a warm reception to the British TV movie "Death of a President," which centers on a fictionalized assassination of George W. Bush. The audience applauded at the end and several more times during a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers.
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One will surely not be amused -- &quot;The Queen&quot;, a film about the monarchy's reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales which features intimate snapshots of royal life, is released in Britain this weekend.
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"Bella," a romantic drama by Mexican   director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, won the top award at the   Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, while the contentious "Death   of a President" took home a critics' prize.
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A gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards.Comment
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A film about the backlash the Dixie Chicks received for criticising President George W Bush screens in Toronto.
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TORONTO  - The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday at a time when few, if any, Oscar contenders have emerged so far.
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At the Los Angeles  premiere of director Stephen Frears' "The Queen" on Tuesday  night, partygoers anointed Helen Mirren as the inevitable best  actress Oscar winner for her bravura turn as the dowdily  out-of-touch Queen Elizabeth II, but several Miramax Films  marketing staffers were looking like deer frozen in headlights.
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The 44th New York Film Festival opens on Friday with Stephen Frears's award-winning drama The Queen.
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"Hotel Rwanda" and "Omagh" won the top awards at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday as audiences embraced movies inspired by the real life horrors of genocide and civil conflict.
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Royalty triumphed at the British film awards on Sunday, with "The Queen" clinching best film and Helen Mirren best actress for her portrayal of the monarch, while "The Last King of Scotland" scooped three awards.
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TORONTO  - A critic's reaction to a film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men who all touch an elephant and report wildly different descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the particular body part encountered.