'Hotel Rwanda' and 'Omagh' Win Toronto Film Awards
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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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Toronto - With a final tally of 328 films (including 98 world and 81 North American premieres), from 60 countries, unspooling over 10 days, the 29th Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday, September 19th with its annual Awards Brunch at
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Politics had top billing at the Toronto film festival last night with the screenings of The Motorcycle Diaries and a drama about post-apartheid South Africa.
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TORONTO -- So enough already about the great films in Toronto this year -- how about the stars? Well, Jamie Foxx hasn&#39;t won the best actor Oscar he&#39;s being promised by fawning critics for his amazing impersonation
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The stars showed up and the likes of Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood took home the major awards
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âFrozen River,â a first feature about a struggling single mother in upstate New York who joins a Mohawk widow in smuggling Chinese migrants from Canada into the United States, won the grand jury prize for best American drama on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, The Associated Press reported. Quentin Tarantino, one of the jurors, described the film, starring Melissa Leo, above right, and Misty Upham, above left, as âa wonderful depiction of poverty in America.â Trade papers reported that Sony Pictures Classics had bought the film, adapted by Courtney Hunt from her 2004 short of the same title, for under $1 million. âTrouble in the Water,â a film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about a New Orleans coupleâs survival through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, won the grand jury award in the American documentary category. The audience award for favorite American drama was won by âThe Wackness,â starring Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana.
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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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The stars showed up and the likes of Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood took the major awards
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The films have been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.
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The wine-happy indie comedy scored a leading five awards Saturday from the Los Angeles Film Association, including the top prize of Best Picture.
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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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Director Terry George said he had made Hotel Rwanda to show that 'human beings are a much more important
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TORONTO  - Toronto movie critics jumped  on the "Sideways" bandwagon Tuesday, naming the Fox Searchlight  comedy as their best film of 2004.
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New York producer John Clancy received the  first Edinburgh International Festival award on Friday as the  prestigious arts gala extended a friendly hand to the city&#39;s  anarchic Fringe festival.
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Martin Scorsese, the creator of  "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver," finally won Oscar recognition  on Sunday but he had to share the spotlight with politician Al  Gore, regal actress Helen Mirren and Cinderella story Jennifer  Hudson.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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A film portraying US President Bush being shot dead has received applause at its Toronto Film Festival premiere.