Coens, Penn vie for top directors honor
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Members of Hollywood's union for filmmakers had an interesting range of choices for their top prize this year.
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Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Tommy Lee Jones are in discussions to star in an untitled mystery
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Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese are among the contenders to win the Director's Guild of America award.
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Oil epic starring Daniel Day-Lewis and the Coens' No Country For Old Men each up for eight awards
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The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and honor the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the internationally minded festival.
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You know it's a weird year at the Academy Awards when the Coen brothers are not only front-runners, but potential history-makers.
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Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men wins top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards.
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Sean Penn's wilderness drama "Into the Wild" topped a surprising list of Screen Actors Guild nominees on Thursday with four nods overall, including best ensemble cast and best actor for its star Emile Hirsch.
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Actor and director Sean Penn will head  the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the organizers  announced on Thursday, a move that could reinforce the event's  reputation for supporting left-wing causes.
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LOS ANGELES  - On the face of it, Hollywood is getting more mature. This year's Academy Awards race for best actress includes three performers -- Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep -- at the top of their game. Refusing to rest on his laurels, Peter O'Toole is back with "Venus," which brought him his eighth best actor nomination. And at 76, Clint Eastwood directed not one but two of the best-received films of 2006.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will  vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season  overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its  final stretch.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar beckons: The musical "Dreamgirls" is the odds-on favorite to take home best picture honors. Clint Eastwood is again in the driver's seat as a best director nominee for "Flags of Our Fathers." And everyone is talking about how Jackie Earle Haley scored a comeback with his supporting nomination for "All the King's Men."
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Sean Penn's road trip movie Into the Wild gets four nominations for next year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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The Toronto International Film Festival  has developed a status in recent years as the curtain-raiser to  Oscar season, when trophy-hungry directors premier their  late-season star-studded epics, biopics, and dramas.
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LOS ANGELES  - "The Great Debaters" moved to the top of the class for the Image Awards, nabbing eight nominations, including a pair for Denzel Washington, the film's actor and director, organizers said Tuesday.
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Ethan Coen and his brother  Joel have made some of the smartest and most entertaining films  of the past 25 years, from "Blood Simple" to "Barton Fink" and,  most recently, "No Country for Old Men." But Ethan's foray into  theater via three one-acts warily titled "Almost an Evening" (a  world premiere) is, to put it kindly, not up to standard.
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Arts & entertainment: Event also plays host to new features from Ang Lee, Julian Schnabel, Sean Penn and Todd Haynes.