France honours director Spielberg
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French President Jacques Chirac bestowed the country&#39;s highest honour on director Steven Spielberg at a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Sunday.
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AT THE opening day of the 61st Venice Film Festival yesterday, director Steven Spielberg offered a tribute to escapism, saying times of turmoil call for relief within darkened cinemas.
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President Jacques Chirac made U.S. film  director Steven Spielberg a knight in the French Legion of  Honor on Sunday, hailing him as a great filmmaker committed to  fighting hatred and intolerance.
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PARIS  - French fashion designer Emmanuel Ungaro, British actress Kristin Scott-Thomas and French politician Nicholas Sarkozy have won entry into France's Legion of Honour.
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LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON  - Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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It took a whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's 30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French film, Claude ...
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Actor Jude Law is awarded one of France's top cultural honours at a ceremony in London.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set toward the end of the Communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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BEIJING -- French President Jacques Chirac hailed business deals worth 4 billion euros Sunday as a sign that a state visit to China intended to improve economic ties had been a success.
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French ambassador to Iran, Francois Nicollaud, in a ceremony held at his residence Wednesday awarded the French Literature and Art Cavalier Badge to Iranian theater director, Pari Saberi.
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Israel&#39;s foreign minister praised France on Tuesday for taking steps to stem a four-year wave of violence against French Jews that shows no signs of easing.
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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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Veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach overcame tough competition to win the coveted Palme d&#039;Or as the Cannes jury handed out honours here to films dealing with the brutalities of war.
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Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are bringing the Belgian literary hero to the big screen, 100 years after his creator's birth
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Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg, an influential member of Hollywood elite, on Wednesday endorsed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.
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Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's biggest film stars, will receive France's highest civilian honor later this year.
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President Jacques Chirac, who provided Yasser Arafat with emergency medical care in his final days and an official ceremony befitting a head of state following his death, led a chorus of world statesmen Thursday in praising the Palestinian leader.