Film awards flurry as Oscars near
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Specialist movie awards ceremonies are held in Los Angeles ahead of the 79th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards.
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The Oscars are almost as much about momentum as the films themselves. Here's a list of what honors the top movies are winning this awards season:
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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The Academy Awards presentation is  still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony  found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor  clash in two decades.
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Better hurry. There's just 30 moviegoing days left till the Academy Awards. Studios behind the five best-picture Oscar nominees announced Tuesday are rushing their films out to more theaters this weekend, counting on the awards attention to pad the box-office haul on some of the movies by tens of millions of dollars.
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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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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The Oscar race appears to be off to a slow start this year as many early hopefuls have met only limited success at film festivals and in wide release, leaving award watchers hoping the best films are yet to come.
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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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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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We've seen plenty of political moments at the Oscars before.  But on Sunday, we could see the most unusual political moment ever.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  - The long walk down the  Oscar aisle will be a lot shorter for some of this year's  Academy Awards winners -- in fact, some will not make it to the  stage.
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Oscar is on the move again, as it emerged yesterday that a potential scheduling clash with the 2006 Winter Olympics has prompted Academy Award organisers to move that year&#39;s ceremony back to the traditional March slot.
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A contingency plan is drawn up for the Oscars ceremony as the writers' strike continues.
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Film fans around the world eagerly await the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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The films have been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.