Mexican directors bring outsiders' edge to Oscars
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In best-picture hopeful "Babel" and two other vanguard movies nominated for Sunday's Oscars, a trio of Mexican directors is bringing an edgy outsider's viewpoint to this year's Academy Awards.
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They are a bloody dictator, diamond smuggler, crack-smoking school teacher, lecherous old man, and self-centered dad. But when it comes to winning an Oscar for best acting, the more human flaws, the better.
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The thrid annual Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles last weekend offered neophyte outsiders the chance to become Oscar-track insiders.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a rule change allowing a best picture Oscar winner to have more than three producers in rare circumstances.
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Zhang Yimou's martial arts epic "House of Flying Daggers" and Alejandro Amenabar's social issue drama "The Sea Inside" are among the 49 vying for a foreign-language Oscar nomination.
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Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, whose fantasy film set in fascist Spain, "Pan's Labyrinth," has become an international hit, says he thinks a lot about water and the defunct East German secret police.
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When the lights come up on  Wednesday's Latin Grammys, many musicians like Mexican band  Cafe Tacuba, who are little known in the United States, will  vie for top honors in a glitzy Hollywood coming out party for  new artists.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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When award-winning movie "Nicotina" lights up U.S. screens on Friday, it will mark an unusually wide release for a Mexican film and highlight a novel plan by Arenas Entertainment to distribute films to Hispanics.
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Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" &#151; a comic drama about women making do without men &#151; has been chosen to represent Spain among movies vying to be candidates for the best foreign film Oscar.
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Gael Garcia Bernal is Mexico&#39;s Tom Cruise, an actor with range and sex appeal who may become an international box-office star.
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Actors such as Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Bruce Willis lend star power to the Sundance Film Festival.
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The low-budget, Sundance  award-winning film "Quinceanera" may teach Americans more about  Latino life in the United States than any other movie -- and  they will have two white men who don't speak Spanish to thank.
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As Hollywood closes in on Oscar night with its attendant round of awards galas, politicians are popping up everywhere but the podium.
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A documentary about last yearâs disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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Wherever you turn at an Oscar event these days, you are likely to hear someone say of director Martin Scorsese: "It's his turn."
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They are a bloody dictator, diamond  smuggler, crack-smoking school teacher, lecherous old man, and  self-centered dad. But when it comes to winning an Oscar for  best acting, the more human flaws, the better.