German movie scoops top prize at European film awards
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The German film 'Head On' has scooped the top prize at the annual European Film Awards Ceremony in Barcelona, swaying the judges with its tale of the travails of a Turkish couple in Germany.
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"Downfall," a controversial depiction of Adolf Hitler's final days, has won the Bavarian Film Prize's audience award, one of Germany's top film honors, organizer Bayerische Fernsehen said Wednesday.
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&quot;Eastern Promises,&quot; a Russian mob  thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won  the Toronto International Film Festival&#39;s top prize on  Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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Movies from 49 countries are in competition for the foreign-language prize at February's Academy Awards, among them the film festival hits "House of Flying Daggers," "Nobody Knows" and "Kontroll."
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set towards the end of the communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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Oscar-nominated film The Sea Inside wins 14 prizes at Spain's top movie ceremony, the Goya Awards.
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A German film about Nazi dictator Adolf  Hitler's final 12 days leapt to the top of the country's box  office with nearly half a million tickets sold in its opening  weekend, distributor Constantin Film said on Monday.
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for No Country for Old Men, giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards Â assuming the Oscars go on amid the writers strike.
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"The Lives of Others," a drama about how  East Germany's Stasi security police shattered the lives of  ordinary people, won top prize at the European Film Awards on  Saturday held in Poland's capital.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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British director Mike Leigh&#39;s &amp;quotVera Drake&quot;, a movie portraying a back-street abortionist in 1950s London, won the top prize on Saturday for the best film at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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Cristian Mungiu, the first Romanian to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, says his country's recent movie output helped him win the award.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set toward the end of the Communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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Germany's "The Lives of Others," a searing look at totalitarian powers once wielded by East German secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday.
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British director Ken Loach won  the &quot;Palme d&#039;Or&quot; at the Cannes festival on Sunday for his Irish  civil war film &quot;The Wind That Shakes The Barley,&quot; and called  the award a triumph for political cinema.
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The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival.