South Africa Hopes for Movie Boom from Oscar Nomination
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South Africa toasted its first  film nominated for an Oscar on Wednesday, hoping the poignant  story of a woman's battle with AIDS could help the fledgling  film industry take flight.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar front-runner "No Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.
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Film fans around the world eagerly await the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Six weeks from today the nominations for the 77th Academy Awards will be announced and the race now has a clear front-runner, Alexander Payne&#39;s &quot;Sideways&quot; from Fox Searchlight.
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Rada Banjanin plans to stay up late on Sunday, fingers crossed that "Babel" will take the best picture Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards.
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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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The Golden Globe nominations, seen as an early steer for the Oscars, are due to be announced in Hollywood.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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The films and actors shortlisted for the 80th Academy Awards will be confirmed in Los Angeles later.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - Botswana is pinning its Hollywood hopes on a new film based on the best-selling fiction series "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
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Reactions to the announcement of this year's Oscar nominees:
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Arts & entertainment: Film starring Morgan Freeman will centre on Mandela's efforts to improve South African race relations through the medium of the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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Canada set a record for foreign Oscar submissions by nominating a Hindi-language film.
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Brazilian director Cao Hamburger has  a good shot at scoring his country's first foreign-language  Oscar nomination in nine years on Tuesday.
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A decade after apartheid ended, South  African filmmaking has come of age and is able to tell stories  about the country's troubled past with humor and affection,  several of the country's directors said on Tuesday.
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Gwyneth Paltrow joins the growing list of stars lining up to present a coveted Academy Award.
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Botswana is pinning its  Hollywood hopes on a new film based on the best-selling fiction  series &quot;The No. 1 Ladies&#39; Detective Agency.&quot;