Where, Oh Where, Are the Oscar Contenders?
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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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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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Fashion Wire Daily - After a four hour-plus Oscar awards ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, the winners, the nominees and the rest of the entertainment world elite headed to Morton's in West Hollywood for the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party to extend Hollywood's biggest night a few hours more.
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Hollywood had a wide-open race on  Tuesday as Oscar nominations pitted two powerful dramas by  veterans Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against the charm  of films about wine tasting, Peter Pan and Ray Charles.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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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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During Oscar season, it's all about building buzz. Here are the leading contenders and how they've fared thus far:
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Hollywood's annual Oscar race heats up this week with a key group of U.S. movie awards and nominations that is expected to narrow contenders for the world's top movie awards.
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The guessing game is almost over at the Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the prize ceremony on Saturday evening.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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By the numbers, the Academy Awards are roughly 50 percent less relevant than they have been the last five years. While all five candidates for the top Oscar have managed respectable ticket sales, they collectively have been seen by fewer moviegoers than any batch of best-picture nominees in 20 years.
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Lead or supporting  actor? That is the question that various awards groups as well  as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are turning  their attention to as "for your consideration" season gets  under way.
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The Oscars have a piece of the Rock. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced Chris Rock will host the next Academy Awards telecast.
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Will there be any kind of recognizable Oscars show if the writers strike continues?
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The Toronto International Film Festival offers a glimpse at next year's potential nominees
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Many questions came to mind when the Oscar nominations were announced: Who's going to win best picture? Why wasn't "Once" nominated more than once?
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The Academy Awards are four months away, but studios are already placing ads positioning their films. The ads are expected to herald a wide-open and expensive Oscar season.