Wide-open races may boost Oscars ratings
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A classic Hollywood cliffhanger will conclude Sunday's Academy Awards, and organizers hope the suspense of an up-for-grabs best-picture race will be enough to keep TV audiences tuned in through the finale.
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Some of this year's most  interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award  voters hear -- rather than see.
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Thousands of Oscar nomination ballots were mailed out Wednesday, heralding the official start of Academy Awards season.
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LOS ANGELES  - There's no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn't until February 24. But a number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so quietly.
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LOS ANGELES: The Academy Awards may be more than six months away, but Columbia Pictures is already trying to lure Oscar voters into the Spider-Man 2 web.
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The first Oscar nomination for a South African film will boost the burgeoning industry and grab the attention of Hollywood, the film's director said on Tuesday.
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Actors who appear in dramas rather than comedies are more likely to be nominated for Oscars, a study suggests.
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Academy Awards contenders demurely say it's nice just to be nominated. In this wide-open Oscar season, just about any nominee could end up winning.
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Wherever you turn at an Oscar event  these days, you are likely to hear someone say of director  Martin Scorsese: "It's his turn."
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Los Angeles, Aug. 18 : The Academy Awards may be more than six months away, but Columbia Pictures is already trying to lure Oscar voters into the Spider-Man 2 web.
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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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NEW YORK  - The Academy Awards are not only a big spectacle for the Hollywood crowd, but also for Madison Avenue folks.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best  film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with  several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."
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Oscar season is only just getting under way, but a presumptive front-runner would have to be Clint EastwoodÂs the World War II epic about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood offers  moviegoers a choice this weekend: two new thrillers and a  handful of films laden with Academy Award nominations.
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Hollywood award watchers on Monday picked comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and thriller "The Departed" as clear Oscar front-runners, but cautioned several races remained wide open two weeks ahead of the world's top film awards.
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Here's a look at the Oscar favourites.