Few Front-Runners in Academy Award Race
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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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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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Film fans finally will soon learn who's competing for this season's Academy Awards. Now all we need to know is whether any nominees will turn up for the big show amid a writers strike that has thrown the awards season into turmoil.
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This year Oscar was deluged with so many good foreign films, they didn't have room to nominate all the good ones.
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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Forget about sharing the stage with fellow Democrats on cable TV. Al Gore goes prime time, red carpet Sunday night at the Academy Awards before tens of millions, reviving talk of a possible presidential run.
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If the victory of best-picture champ "Crash" over front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" last winter proved one thing, it's that nothing is ever certain at the Academy Awards.
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The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywoodâs bleak state of mind.
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The nominations for the 77th Academy Awards are just six weeks away, and critics are buzzing about Alexander Payneâs film, Sideways.
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New stars such as Ellen Page of  "Juno" and veterans like Hal Holbrook from "Into the Wild"  bathed in the Oscar spotlight on Monday with little difference  between generations when it came to being nominated for the  world's top film honors.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Oscar hopefuls have  begun to march out to a steady drumbeat.
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The countdown to February's Oscars begins as ballot papers are posted to the Academy Awards' 5,829 voters.
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The past two years have seen a rise in skirmishes over who has the right to walk up and accept an Academy Award as a named producer.
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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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Timing isn't everything when it comes to the Academy Awards &#151; but it helps.
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It takes guts to chase  after an Oscar. It also takes serious money, luck, and insider  experience. Fail to land a nomination, and that cash doesn't  magically come back.
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Fatih Akin is riding two  horses as the Oscar race for foreign-language feature rounds  the far bend, heading to the January 22 announcement of Academy  Award nominations.