"Little Miss Sunshine" wins indie film awards
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"Little Miss Sunshine" won the top  prize at the Spirit Awards, the art-house world's equivalent of  the Oscars, on Saturday, a day before the underdog comedy  competes in four categories at the Academy Awards.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson" led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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Indie thriller The Dead Girl takes the top prize at the Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy in France.
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In Italia il cult "Little Miss Sunshine", grosso (e inaspettato) successo Usagrazie al passaparola. Grandi incassi, pubblico impazzito, critica entusiasta                                                  Tutti in viaggio con la baby-miss e un piccolo film diventa fenomeno                                                                                                  Una strampalata famiglia di perdenti accompagna la figlia a un concorsoper mini-reginette di bellezza. Tra cocaina, morti improvvise, amori gay infelici...di CLAUDIA MORGOGLIONE
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Mike Leigh's abortion film Vera Drake wins six prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.
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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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A love story about a mismatched  Chinese couple was the big winner at an Asian film festival for  first-time film makers in Singapore on Wednesday, scooping up  three awards including best film and best screenplay.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drugs drama "Half Nelson" led the  list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit  Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson"  led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent  Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the  Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Independent Feature  Project/New York's 14th annual Gotham Awards, set for Dec. 1 in  Manhattan, will introduce a best film category, with one award  for best feature and another for best documentary.
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This quirky comedy from Argentina is a small movie about a small world, but its modesty is part of what makes it durable and satisfying.
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"Ballast," the Southern-set  drama by Lance Hammer that won two awards at the 2008 Sundance  Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC.
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âFrozen River,â a first feature about a struggling single mother in upstate New York who joins a Mohawk widow in smuggling Chinese migrants from Canada into the United States, won the grand jury prize for best American drama on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, The Associated Press reported. Quentin Tarantino, one of the jurors, described the film, starring Melissa Leo, above right, and Misty Upham, above left, as âa wonderful depiction of poverty in America.â Trade papers reported that Sony Pictures Classics had bought the film, adapted by Courtney Hunt from her 2004 short of the same title, for under $1 million. âTrouble in the Water,â a film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about a New Orleans coupleâs survival through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, won the grand jury award in the American documentary category. The audience award for favorite American drama was won by âThe Wackness,â starring Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana.
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Actress Dame Helen Mirren wins a special prize at the British Independent Film Awards in London.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.
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OutKast have picked up four &#39;moon men&#39; at this year&#39;s MTV Video Music Awards, held in Miami on last night (Sunday). The duo won Best Video and Best Hip-Hop Video for Hey Ya!
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Roger Ebert will be honored at the 17th annual Gotham Awards for a career of championing independent cinema.