Makers of Cranes, Illusions Take Home First Oscars
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PASADENA, Calif.  - Actress Scarlett Johansson  handed out the first Oscar statuettes of the 77th Annual  Academy Awards to movie engineers on Saturday while gamely  slogging though complex descriptions of inventions she admitted  she did not quite comprehend.
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The Venice Film Festival opened its 75th anniversary edition Wednesday with an all-world premiere competition for the coveted Golden Lion and a cascade of stars including George Clooney, Keira Knightley and Woody Allen.
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Oscar voters proved to be a fickle bunch on Sunday giving early awards both to winners expected, such as supporting actress Jennifer Hudson, and unexpected, like supporting actor Alan Arkin.
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The Oscar race of 2007 has begun with a pair of grim films capturing attention over more widely-hyped movies, indicating to awards watchers that the race for Hollywood's most prestigious awards is wide open.
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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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, winner of Golden Lion at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, and Imelda Staunton, winner of the best actress award for her role in the movie, attend the opening ceremony of the 48th London Film Festival in London
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Two films about people working  to triumph over personal tragedy took the top prizes at the  Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night as the key event for  U.S. independent movies honored a new generation of stars.
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Technology to  preserve digital movies on black and white film and  environmentally friendly sound tracks got awards at the Oscars  ceremony for scientific achievement on Saturday night, but the  favorite technical accomplishment was a juggler performing to  Beatles music.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences kicked off its run up to the Oscars, the U.S. film industry's top awards, by honoring six fledgling screenwriters Thursday night with its annual Nicholl Fellowship and a check for &#36;30,000.
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David A. Grafton, a designer of lenses used for optical effects, will receive an Academy Award.
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Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards.
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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 Chinese movie "Still Life," a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year's Golden Lion &#151; the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck took the top acting awards.
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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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NEW YORK  - Hollywood woke up Tuesday to one weird awards season.
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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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A kid nominee and the kid of a nominee nearly stole the show at Sunday's Oscars.