Best-director Oscar: A study in extremes
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Looking at winners of the best-director category at the Academy Awards over the past decade is a study in extremes.
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When the worst movie director ever challenges his web critics to a boxing match, four idiots actually meet him in the ring. By Chris Baker from Wired magazine.
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LOS ANGELES - Oscar and the Olympics were headed for a scheduling clash, and Oscar blinked first. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday said the 2006 edition of Hollywoodâs highest honors
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Otto Preminger became one of Hollywoodâs first and most successful producer-directors. A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
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Viewers may think some of the nominees for best picture at next week's Academy Awards are dark, but they pale in comparison with the movies competing for the coveted Oscar for best documentary.
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Oscar voters must whittle down 267 films to the final five which will compete for the best picture Academy Award.
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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Guardian Unlimited film editor Xan Brooks runs through this year's Oscar nominations
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When it comes to getting Oscars, Martin Scorsese is one of the unluckiest men in Hollywood. As we approach the 79th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday, the big question is "will his luck change?" This year, he is heavily favored to take home the Best Director Oscar, but an upset isn't out of the question. Martin Scorsese has been down this road before and always lost. The real question is, does it matter?    Of course it doesn't. If Crash winning Best Picture last year hasn't dispelled the myth that the Academy Awards have anything to do cinematic merit, then you're likely the type of person who thought Pearl Harbor should have won Best Picture. Even if Scorsese loses once again, that only means he's in the same boat as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles etc. Also, I don't know anyone who still adores Ordinary People, but Raging Bull gets a spin in the old DVD player at least once a year. And the Goodfellas disc (despite being one of those early crappy "flipper" discs that splits the movie onto both sides of the DVD) gets watched even more than that. Kevin Costner? Didn't he direct The Postman?
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Our critic chooses his favorite movies for the year--and finds they tend to blur the line between fiction and reality.
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With nearly six months until Hollywood's biggest party, everyone already is thinking about the Academy Awards. Not many will admit that the thought of winning an Oscar crosses their mind, though.
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This yearâs Academy Award nominations are being announced this morning. The list will be posted here.
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Among the five Academy Award directing nominees, one name seems to be on everyone's lips: Martin Scorsese.
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For decades now, the Academy Award voters have been looking for an excuse to give a best-directing Oscar to Martin Scorsese, and they finally have one in &quot;The Aviator.
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LOS ANGELES  - Most directors strive for control. Werner Herzog thrives on chaos.
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After Khel, which he directed for Suniel Shetty three years ago, thereÂs plenty of  ÂconfusionÂ in director Yusuf KhanÂs mind and life. And why not? ThatÂs the title of YusufÂs next film.
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After weeks of relentless Oscar  campaign ads, talk-show interviews and red-carpet events,  members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have  made up their minds. The next step is to count their votes.