Vera Drake scoops best film award
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Mike Leigh's 1950s drama Vera Drake is named best film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
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Martin Scorsese's film, "The Aviator," won the award for best drama, and director Alexander Payne's "Sideways" picked up best comedy.
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A gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards.
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On the face of it,  Hollywood is getting more mature. This year's Academy Awards  race for best actress includes three performers -- Helen  Mirren, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep -- at the top of their  game. Refusing to rest on his laurels, Peter O'Toole is back  with "Venus," which brought him his eighth best actor  nomination. And at 76, Clint Eastwood directed not one but two  of the best-received films of 2006.
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"Vera Drake," a film about a back-street abortionist in 1950 London, is the English director Mike Leigh's best work in a decade.
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As the Venice Film Festival winds down a  handful of front-runners have emerged in the competition for  the top prizes, with "Vera Drake," British director Mike  Leigh's story about an abortionist, inching ahead.
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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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"Juno," the story of an American teenager  dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, won the best film award at  the Rome film festival on Saturday.
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Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie turn out for the UK premiere of their latest film, the historical epic Alexander.
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British director Ken Loach won  the &quot;Palme d&#039;Or&quot; at the Cannes festival on Sunday for his Irish  civil war film &quot;The Wind That Shakes The Barley,&quot; and called  the award a triumph for political cinema.
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Mike Leigh says he is "overwhelmed" that Venice winner Vera Drake will open the London Film Festival.
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(ANSA)-ROMA, 11 SET-Prime indiscrezioni sui premiati della 61esima edizione del Festival del Cinema di Venezia: a &#39;Vera Drake&#39; andrebbe il Leone d&#39;oro. La Coppa Volpi come miglior attrice sarebbe stata assegnata a Imelda Staunton.
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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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(ANSA)-VENEZIA, 6 SET- Molti applausi alla proiezione stampa, battimani alla conferenza pubblica per &#39;Vera Drake&#39;, il nuovo film di Mike Leigh. La pellicola e&#39; in concorso, e gia&#39; in odore di leone, alla 61/ma Mostra del Cinema.
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ROME Sept. 12, 2004 - Italian media grumbled Sunday over the failure of a hometown film to win big prizes at the Venice Film Festival, where the British movie &quot;Vera Drake&quot; by director Mike Leigh grabbed the best-picture award.
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"Vera Drake," Mike Leigh's tough tale of  a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal  abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice  Film Festival on Saturday, including the coveted Golden Lion.
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French Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose, wins the most Baftas including best actress for Marion  Cotillard while Atonement gets just two gongs