Oscar race heads into key week of critics awards
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Hollywood's annual Oscar race heats up this week with a key group of U.S. movie awards and nominations that is expected to narrow contenders for the world's top movie awards.
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Here's a look at the Oscar favourites.
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Film fans finally will soon learn who's competing for this season's Academy Awards. Now all we need to know is whether any nominees will turn up for the big show amid a writers strike that has thrown the awards season into turmoil.
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's  biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the  Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show  that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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Hollywood award watchers on Monday picked comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and thriller "The Departed" as clear Oscar front-runners, but cautioned several races remained wide open two weeks ahead of the world's top film awards.
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The film awards season gets under way with Golden Globe nominations starting the countdown to the Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the holidays just  one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for  a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those  awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar  nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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Optimism was in the air Monday among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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It's no secret that the nomination choices for the Golden Globes have helped define the field of Academy Awards contenders. This year, a fairly wide-open awards season has yet to produce clear front-runners.
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More than 5,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will soon get their official ballots for the 79th Academy Awards.
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Oscar voters must whittle down 267 films to the final five which will compete for the best picture Academy Award.
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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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Films exploring an aviation visionary's flight into fame, a female boxer's long day's journey into night and two buddies bumbling through wine and romance are expected to dominate the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.
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Lawyers will decide who gets these Academy Awards.
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When the movie "Ray," about  legendary singer Ray Charles, hits U.S. theaters on Friday,  "Georgia on My Mind" won't be the only thing Hollywood is  thinking about. The battle for Oscars nominations will take  center stage as well.
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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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When the movie "Ray," about legendary singer Ray Charles, hits U.S. theaters on Friday, "Georgia on My Mind" won't be the only thing Hollywood is thinking about. The battle for Oscars nominations will take center stage as well.