Holiday Scramble Is on for Oscar Campaigning
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With the holidays just one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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The Oscar race appears to be off to a slow start this year as many early hopefuls have met only limited success at film festivals and in wide release, leaving award watchers hoping the best films are yet to come.
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The film awards season gets under way with Golden Globe nominations starting the countdown to the Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the arrival of  Christmas weekend, it's Hollywood's last chance to open a box  office bonanza or two before the calendar year ends.
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LOS ANGELES  - There just might be blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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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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You know it's going to be a strange year for the Oscars when November is just around the corner and the talk in Hollywood is about "The Phantom of the Opera."
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The Aviator is tipped by bookmakers as the favourite to win the best film award at this year's Oscars.
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It is Oscar week in Hollywood, and  after three months in the dark winter of a bitter labor strike,  the movie industry finally has something to celebrate --  itself.
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There&#39;s no official  starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for  the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn&#39;t until February 24. But a  number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so  quietly.
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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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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week said the 2006 edition of Hollywood&#39;s highest honours would be moved back by one week to Sunday, March 5 (March 6th NZ time), to avoid a conflict with the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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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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Hollywood's support drive for US Democratic presidential contender John Kerry is moving into top gear, with stars like Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson joining the bid to unseat George W. Bush.
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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 awards race is on.  Not the race to position films for year-end awards  consideration -- that dance has been going on since at least  the September trifecta of the Telluride, Venice and Toronto  film festivals, if not before. No, the current race is the rush  by film organizations and critics' groups to be among the first  to anoint the best films of 2006.
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Some of this year's most  interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award  voters hear -- rather than see.