"Recycled Life" brings trash and hope to Oscars
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Director Leslie Iwerks doubts any  of her fellow Oscar nominees had spiders in their trousers  while filming, nor would they find dead babies, animal  carcasses, bubbling gases and an unbearable stench on location.
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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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The Oscar race of 2007 has begun with a pair of grim films capturing attention over more widely-hyped movies, indicating to awards watchers that the race for Hollywood's most prestigious awards is wide open.
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Maybe it was the crippling writers' strike or the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or was it something in the expensive bottled water in Beverly Hills where Oscar organizers are based.
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Optimism was in the air 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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Quite a few categories in this yearâs Oscar race bring all of the challenge of the wading pool. While some head out to the deep end.
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Hollywood is in a bleak mood this year, and the Oscar nominees announced Tuesday reflected that state of mind.
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There was joy in the room at the Vanity Fair party at Mortonâs, by now an Oscar night tradition that has cowed the competition.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  - The long walk down the  Oscar aisle will be a lot shorter for some of this year's  Academy Awards winners -- in fact, some will not make it to the  stage.
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It takes guts to chase  after an Oscar. It also takes serious money, luck, and insider  experience. Fail to land a nomination, and that cash doesn't  magically come back.
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With no J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy to lord over Hollywood's prom night, an eccentric mix of real-life characters may step in to fill the void at the Academy Awards.
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An Oscarcast first: the  award show host (or in this case hostess) running a vacuum  cleaner in the audience. As amusing as it was, DeGenerously  speaking, it did take the glamour of the Oscars down a notch or  two.
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The battle over the environment has found a new front: the inside of a Kleenex box.
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The ending of Million Dollar Baby has conservatives and some advocacy groups campaigning against CLINT EASTWOOD'S film, which is up for seven trophies. Will the dustup hurt it? Oscars' past may tell us.
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The Oscars are over. It's time to pick up the red carpet and move on to the Sammies.
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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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Its Oscar time folks! It is that time of the year whereby millions of ÂdirectorialÂ hearts broken to make one heart happy.