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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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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"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.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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Reactions to the announcement of this year's Oscar nominees:
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Some surprises among the Oscar nominations Tuesday:
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Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson win awards from a US civil rights group.
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The stars showed up and the likes of Atonement, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood took home the major awards
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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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Alberto Iglesias, who composed the soundtracks for Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her" and "All About My Mother," has won Spain's 2007 National Film Award, the Culture Ministry said Monday.
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The latest movies to spark political controversy are two animated family films, 'The Incredibles,' and 'Polar Express.'
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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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WASHINGTON  - The music industry scored   some brownie points with rising star, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama,   when it handed him its ultimate award on Wednesday, a Grammy   that he won earlier this year for best spoken word album.
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Politics had top billing at the Toronto film festival last night with the screenings of The Motorcycle Diaries and a drama about post-apartheid South Africa.
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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The Grammys could take a rare step into the political arena on Sunday if the Dixie Chicks win the coveted album-of-the-year award, as observers of the music industry's biggest honors are predicting.