"No Country," "Blood" lead grim Oscar field
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - The gritty dramas "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" scored eight Academy Award nominations each on Tuesday, leading a somber field in an Oscar season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers' strike.
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"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem Â but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers' picket lines to attend the ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES  - Academy members' eagerly  awaited choices for best picture suggest a tight Oscar race  rivaling the suspense of the 1999 derby, when "Shakespeare in  Love" enjoyed a shock triumph over "Saving Private Ryan."
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Meryl Streep and Judi Dench got nasty. Kate Winslet stripped and Penelope Cruz padded her rear. But it is Helen Mirren and her prim silver curls who looks likely to reign on Oscar night.
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The race for the Oscars is heating up, with Martin Scorsese's 'The Aviator', Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby' and the road movie 'Sideways' dominating Hollywood's awards chatter.
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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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This year's Academy Awards has something it hasn't had in ages: A neck-and-neck race for Best Picture.
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The Academy Awards presentation is still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor clash in two decades.
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The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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Oscar voters proved to be a fickle bunch on Sunday giving early awards both to winners expected, such as supporting actress Jennifer Hudson, and unexpected, like supporting actor Alan Arkin.
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The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywoodâs bleak state of mind.
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The Oscars are still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor clash in two decades.
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The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named There Will Be Blood, a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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Some of this year's most  interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award  voters hear -- rather than see.
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Hollywood had a wide-open race on  Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two powerful dramas by  veterans Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against the charm  of films about wine tasting, Peter Pan and Ray Charles.
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"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem Â but whether any actors would show up was in doubt because of the writers strike.