Holiday Scramble Is on for Oscar Campaigning
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LOS ANGELES  - With the holidays just  one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for  a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those  awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar  nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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The fight for the Oscar is often a bloody one, metaphorically speaking. But this year an unusual amount of mayhem is showing up in the movies themselves.
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Films become more politicized as filmmakers seek to influence the upcoming election.
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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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LOS ANGELES  - It's not quite deja vu all over again. But as the planning proceeds for the Academy Awards on February 24, it's worth flashing back 20 years to the last time Oscar had to deal with a writers strike.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its final stretch.
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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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Oscar season is only just getting under way, but a presumptive front-runner would have to be Clint EastwoodÂs the World War II epic about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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Each year, January and February bring an escalating rush of red-carpet excitement with the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Oscars.
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There just might be  blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter  mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a  competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and  Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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Films exploring an aviation visionary's flight into fame, a female boxer's long day's journey into night and two buddies bumbling through wine and romance are expected to dominate the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.
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HollywoodÂs tight-knit community of Oscar voters may find itself facing a difficult dilemma in the coming weeks: Will they consider Mel GibsonÂs ÂApocalyptoÂ for an Academy Award?
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When the movie "Ray," about legendary singer Ray Charles, hits U.S. theaters on Friday, "Georgia on My Mind" won't be the only thing Hollywood is thinking about. The battle for Oscars nominations will take center stage as well.
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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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It is Oscar week in Hollywood, and  after three months in the dark winter of a bitter labor strike,  the movie industry finally has something to celebrate --  itself.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week said the 2006 edition of Hollywood&#39;s highest honours would be moved back by one week to Sunday, March 5 (March 6th NZ time), to avoid a conflict with the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the presidential race tightening and little time before the first party nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, candidates are trying to woo voters without trampling on their holidays.