O'Connell receives 20th Oscar nomination
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Kevin O'Connell's previous 19 Oscar nominations were nothing like this.
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The Producers Guild of America,  often an important barometer of Oscar sentiment, on Saturday  night named "The Aviator," director Martin Scorsese's film  biography of billionaire Howard Hughes, best film of 2004.
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Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates is to receive a lifetime achievement award marking her 35 years in film.
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LOS ANGELES  - If you wanted to take a few swipes at Sunday night's Oscar ceremony, it wouldn't be that hard.
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Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fatih Akin is riding two horses as the Oscar race for foreign-language feature rounds the far bend, heading to the January 22 announcement of Academy Award nominations.
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Adaptation of Ian McEwan novel appears to be film to beat at next month's awards
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Bruno Delbonnel, the cameraman for the French World War I epic "A Very Long Engagement," won the award for best cinematography in a feature film on Sunday in an industry prize given out two weeks before the Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES  - Production designer Robert Boyle will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, organizers said Wednesday.
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Fatih Akin is riding two  horses as the Oscar race for foreign-language feature rounds  the far bend, heading to the January 22 announcement of Academy  Award nominations.
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"The Aviator," Martin Scorsese's  epic film biography of Howard Hughes, received 11 Oscar  nominations on Tuesday, beating out Clint Eastwood's boxing  saga "Million Dollar Baby" and drama "Finding Neverland," which  received seven each.
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An Iranian photographer will be  recognized as the previously anonymous winner of the 1980  Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography, the panel overseeing  the prestigious U.S. journalism awards said on Thursday.
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Guardian Unlimited film editor Xan Brooks runs through this year's Oscar nominations
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Pedro Almodovar's award-winning film Volver is chosen to represent Spain at next year's Academy Awards.
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The thriller Michael Clayton is among the films shortlisted for Hollywood awards often seen as a good predictor of the Oscars.
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A movie about a difficult relationship between a young father and his handicapped son by director Gianni Amelio has been selected as Italy's candidate for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.
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Suri Cruise has already made her first Academy Awards appearance.