Music from political films win Oscars
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Music from politically themed films scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to gay marriage.
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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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âFalling Slowly,â a song from âOnce,â is ruled eligible for this yearâs Oscar for best song.
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The following is a complete list of the Oscar nominations announced on Tuesday.
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Seven films have been shortlisted for consideration in the Oscar sound editing race by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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There's strong Oscar buzz for his film, Elizabeth.
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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LOS ANGELES - One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days...
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Fresh from their feud on the  campaign trail, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama  beat Bill Clinton in a contest almost as closely watched as the  primaries being waged across the United States -- the music  industry's Grammy Awards.
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LOS ANGELES  Â 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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Never mind the Bruce Springsteen-led Vote for Change movement, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, punkvoter.com or even the two "Rock Against Bush" albums. The most thought-provoking  musical statement made this election year just might be a CD of heartbreakingly beautiful songs for babies.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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Ennio Morricone, the prolific film composer who created music for more than 300 films, such as the memorable coyote-howl theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," is finally getting an Oscar.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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The value of a beautiful  orchestral score in a movie is made clear in Russian director  Alexander Sokurov&#39;s &quot;Alexandra,&quot; an austere glimpse of life in  wartorn Chechnya. Andrei Sigle, who produced the film, also  composed the music, and its sweeping warmth carries something  of the soul of mother Russia to that bleak and torrid  landscape.
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The pushy orchestra music that elbows Oscar winners off the stage has long been a trademark of Academy Awards speeches &#151; and no one has ever used it better than Al Gore.
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"An Inconvenient Truth," the big-screen adaptation of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's slide-show lecture about the perils of global warming, won Academy Awards on Sunday for documentary feature and best song.