Producers Guild Names 'The Aviator' Best Film
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The Producers Guild of America,  often an important barometer of Oscar sentiment, on Saturday  night named "The Aviator," director Martin Scorsese's film  biography of billionaire Howard Hughes, best film of 2004.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences on Thursday named the producers eligible to accept  this year's Oscar for best film, and among those excluded was a  man who waged a court fight to be listed as a producer of  Oscar-nominee "The Aviator."
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  - "Sideways," a low-budget  comic tale of two men hunting wine country for true love and  the perfect pinot noir, and Martin Scorsese's epic film "The  Aviator," led the Golden Globe nominations on Monday,  sharpening the focus of Hollywood's Oscar race.
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Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood are among the nominees for the Director's Guild of America awards.
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Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year.
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Kate Winslet received two best actress nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, while Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" was up for 14 awards.
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Just about everyone seemed to be flying high at the world premiere of "The Aviator," director Martin Scorsese's portrait of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.
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The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday nominated makers of five films for best director of 2007 in a key stop on the road to the Oscars during one of the wildest awards seasons in recent Hollywood memory.
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It starts with a good old-fashioned epic, and ends with one. Citizen Kane, Orson Welles' 1941 biopic about a newspaper magnate, topped a poll of the 100 best films announced by the American Film Institute yesterday. At the bottom of the list was Ben-Hur, William Wyler's 1959 spectacle starring Charlton Heston.
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Two hit films that have been snubbed this awards season in Hollywood snared top People's Choice honors on Sunday as anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was named best film and "The Passion of The Christ" best film drama.
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Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima is picked as top movie by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  - Comedy "Sideways" topped  the list of Golden Globe nominees with seven nominations on  Monday followed by six for the Howard Hughes drama "The  Aviator," putting them in position to compete for the U.S. film  industry's highest honors, the Oscars.
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"The Aviator", a big-budget Hollywood biopic of US billionaire eccentric Howard Hughes, soared over its rivals at the BAFTAs, Britain's most important film awards, scooping the prize for best film and improving its odds for Oscar success.
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NEW YORK  - In what was described as "a dogfight" between "United 93" and another fact-based feature, "The Queen," Paul Greengrass' 9/11 drama was named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle Monday. after a four-round tiebreaking vote.
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Martin Scorsese is honoured by the Directors Guild of America for his mob thriller The Departed.
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The Howard Hughes drama "The  Aviator" and female boxing film "Million Dollar Baby" were  among nominees for Golden Globe awards on Monday, positioning  them to compete for the U.S. movie industry's highest honors,  the Oscars.