Critics Group Names Eastwood's 'Baby' Best Film
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A group of leading U.S. film  critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"  as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared  best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion  drama "Vera Drake."
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Snubbed at the Oscars when "The Aviator" lost to Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," Martin Scorsese has assembled a dream cast for his new movie "The Departed," setting the stage for a rematch with Eastwood.
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"Letters From Iwo Jima," the second of Clint Eastwood's two-part look at World War II, is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick as the best film of 2006.
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LOS ANGELES  - On the face of it, Hollywood is getting more mature. This year's Academy Awards race for best actress includes three performers -- Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep -- at the top of their game. Refusing to rest on his laurels, Peter O'Toole is back with "Venus," which brought him his eighth best actor nomination. And at 76, Clint Eastwood directed not one but two of the best-received films of 2006.
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The Director's Guild of America pitted legendary filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood against each other on Thursday when it unveiled its nominees for best director.
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This multidimensional,  deeply personal documentary, for which an informal conversation  between Tony Bennett and producer Clint Eastwood serves as hub,  must be counted as one of the &quot;American Masters&quot; series&#39; finest  accomplishments, refreshingly focusing on the man and his art  rather than sidetracking into personal issues.
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President Jacques Chirac awarded the Legion d'Honneur order to actor and director Clint Eastwood on Saturday, calling his latest films lessons in humanity.Comment
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"Million Dollar Baby," the story of a woman trying to rise above her hard-knock life by training as a boxer, was voted best film and earned awards for actress Hilary Swank and actor-director Clint Eastwood at the National Society of Film Critics awards Saturday.
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US director Clint Eastwood is awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion d'honneur.
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"There Will Be Blood" took top honors from the National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, scoring wins for best picture, best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Clint Eastwood, that most American of actors and directors, has a film nominated for a best-picture Oscar, "Letters from Iwo Jima," that is in Japanese, a language he doesn't speak, and was shot in Iceland because it looks a lot like Iwo Jima but was cheaper.
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Nicole Kidman has emerged a strong chance of gaining her third Oscar nomination in four years after US critics praised her performance in the controversial new film Birth.
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The Clint Eastwood film "Letters from Iwo Jima" was named best film of 2006 by the National Board of Review on Wednesday in the first major award of the Oscar season.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar beckons: The musical "Dreamgirls" is the odds-on favorite to take home best picture honors. Clint Eastwood is again in the driver's seat as a best director nominee for "Flags of Our Fathers."
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IN what is widely regarded as the curtain-raiser to Oscar season, a movie about the creator of Peter Pan, author JM Barrie, has been named Best Film by the US National Board of Review.
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"There Will Be Blood," a tale  of U.S. oil prospectors in a frontier town, picked up three  major nominations, including film of the year, from London's  Critics' Circle.
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Snubbed at the Oscars when "The  Aviator" lost to Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," Martin  Scorsese has assembled a dream cast for his new movie "The  Departed," setting the stage for a rematch with Eastwood.