Film Academy Honors Six Writers with Nicholl Award
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences kicked off its run up to the Oscars, the U.S. film  industry's top awards, by honoring six fledgling screenwriters  Thursday night with its annual Nicholl Fellowship and a check  for $30,000.
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At the first Academy Award presentations of the year, 20 computer geeks graciously accepted honors for their work on particle flow simulation technology Â stuff that makes water scenes in the movies look more realistic.
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The National Board of Review Wednesday delivered its first major award of the season naming &#39;Finding Neverland,&#39; a fictionalized account of the creation of âPeter Pan,â the best film.
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Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron shook up Oscar night with an incredible 16 nominations between them, leading some to compare the group to another trio of renowned filmmakers: Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and John Ford.
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The movie awards season picked up steam today, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave seven Golden Globe nominations to &quot;Sideways,&quot; the comedy by director Alexander
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Once an evening of backslapping and merrymaking within the narrow confines of Hollywood, the Academy Awards this time look like a United Nations exercise in diversity.
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:
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LOS ANGELES  - Their courageous stand  against the Hollywood blacklist has earned Kirk Douglas and  Edward Lewis the Freedom of Expression Medal from the Institute  of Modern Letters.
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Finding Neverland, the biopic of Peter Pan writer JM Barrie, has been named film of the year in the first of a wave of awards in the increasingly protracted run-up to Oscar night.
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Actors who write got major kudos Thursday from writers who vote   for awards.
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Clint Eastwood's boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby" won this year's University of Southern California Scripter Award, an honor bestowed by The Friends of the USC Libraries for the best adaptation of a book or short story to film.
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Movies are an evolving  art, especially when animals are involved, agreed the six  directors nominated for the DGA's feature film award.
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Six emerging authors, whose work includes poetry, short stories and "creative nonfiction," were named this year's winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, given to "women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers."
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Sir Elton John and Warren Beatty are among six stars honoured for lifetime contributions to US culture.
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Organizers on Thursday unveiled details of this year's Academy Awards, including Oscar-presenting roles for stars such as Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman whose presence was in doubt due to the Hollywood writers strike.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood," two violent portraits of moral decline, led the Oscar race with eight nominations each
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&quot;Finding Neverland,&quot; starring Johnny Depp as &quot;Peter Pan&quot; writer JM Barrie, took the season&#39;s first major movie award yesterday, but the National Board of Review&#39;s honors includes a nod to nine other films, too.