'The Aviator' Takes 11 Oscar Nominations
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"The Aviator," Martin Scorsese's  film biography of Howard Hughes, received 11 Oscar nominations  on Tuesday, beating out Clint Eastwood's boxing tale "Million  Dollar Baby" and drama "Finding Neverland," which received  seven nominations each for the 77th annual Academy awards.
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"Sideways" charmed even more critics on Wednesday by scoring a leading eight nominations, including best picture, for the 10th annual Critics' Choice Awards, an event with a good track record of foreshadowing the Academy Awards.
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Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple nominees, while the drama "Babel" led Golden Globe contenders with seven nominations.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Sideways" charmed even  more critics on Wednesday by scoring a leading eight  nominations, including best picture, for the 10th annual  Critics' Choice Awards, an event with a good track record of  foreshadowing the Academy Awards.
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"The Departed," "Babel," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Dreamgirls" have each collected seven nominations for the 12th annual Critics' Choice Awards. All four films got a nomination for best picture.
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Films from 49 countries are submitted for consideration for the foreign language Oscar.
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"The Aviator" soared Saturday at the British Academy Film Awards, taking four prizes including best film. The abortion drama "Vera Drake" won three, including best director for Mike Leigh.
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Better hurry. There's just 30 moviegoing days left till the Academy Awards. Studios behind the five best-picture Oscar nominees announced Tuesday are rushing their films out to more theaters this weekend, counting on the awards attention to pad the box-office haul on some of the movies by tens of millions of dollars.
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The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywoodâs bleak state of mind.
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Cate Blanchett comes on strong when she first appears as Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's new Howard Hughes biopic, "The Aviator." She's talking a mile-a-minute in that Hepburn accent.
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Seven films with  sequences ranging from the spy-on-spy battles in "Casino  Royale" to the superhero standoff in "X-Men: The Last Stand"  are on the shortlist for Oscar nominations for best visual  effects.
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Hollywood had a wide-open horse  race on Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two hard-hitting  dramas by veteran directors Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood  against the charm of films about wine drinking, Peter Pan and  Ray Charles.
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Seven films with sequences ranging from the spy-on-spy battles in "Casino Royale" to the superhero standoff in "X-Men: The Last Stand" are on the shortlist for Oscar nominations for best visual effects.
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It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.
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LOS ANGELES  - The shortlist for the  2004 visual effects Academy Award pits Martin Scorsese's  reality-based "The Aviator" against six films that offer  various degrees of fantasy: "Spider-Man 2," "Lemony Snicket's A  Series of Unfortunate Events," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner  of Azkaban," "The Day After Tomorrow," "I, Robot" and "Sky  Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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An Academy Award contender that no one's sure how to pronounce? "Babel" has seven Oscar nominations, meaning the name of the film will be read at least seven times Sunday night. But its pronunciation has stumped even its biggest star.