'Virtuoso' actors discuss Oscars, strike
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All of hot young Hollywood is not in this room, but it sure feels that way. Posing for photos on an antique sofa are Casey Affleck, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Amy Ryan, and James McAvoy: four first-time Oscar-nominated actors, and the leading man of an Oscar-nominated Best Picture contender.
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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence
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Unbowed by the writers' strike, the season's first big movie awards show puts Hollywood glamour on display
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is giving some lucky movie buffs the chance to see their favorite stars up close at the Oscars next year.
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Quotes from Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards:
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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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LOS ANGELES - Oscar and the Olympics were headed for a scheduling clash, and Oscar blinked first. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday said the 2006 edition of Hollywoodâs highest honors
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As hope grows the Oscars will escape the Hollywood writers' strike, experts at New York Fashion Week are split among some saying the industry needs red carpet events and others not bothered by their absence.
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Some of Hollywood's most famous stars are getting facelifts before the Academy Awards.
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The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards.
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Behind the scenes in Hollywood days  before the Oscars, the sounds of zipping, ripping, sucking-in  and sighing fill the air as film stars try out gowns before  Sunday's red carpet parade.
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The Monitor asks three experts on the Academy Awards for their reactions to this year's nominations.
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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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Hollywood is rolling out the red carpet for Oscar on Saturday, but what about the real talent in Tinseltown: the geeks? Jason Silverman celebrates the scientific and technical awards.
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If the strike continues, the Oscars could become an infomercial about the importance of writers.
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Sets are being built. A stretch of Hollywood Boulevard is closed. Rehearsals have begun. With the writers strike finally in the rear-view mirror, round-the-clock preparations are under way for Sunday's Academy Awards.
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The stars turn out in force to honour the UK's top teachers at a lavish awards ceremony.