Directors cut: No screeners for DGA Awards
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LOS ANGELES  - Once again marching to its own beat, the Directors Guild of America said Thursday it would ban studios from mailing promotional DVDs to its members ahead of the group's annual awards ceremony.
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Avoiding controversy that  cast a shadow over last year's ceremony, the Gotham Awards have  selected only lower-budget films from indie distributors and  specialty divisions in this year's crop of nominees.
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Neither Julia Roberts nor George  Clooney has opened a film so far this year, but both stars made  the cut in nominations announced on Tuesday for the annual  fan-driven People's Choice Awards.
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Late actor Christopher Reeve was among five nominees named Monday for the Directors Guild of America's annual award recognizing made-for-TV films.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - There is no such thing as writer's block in Hollywood this week.
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Uncertainty rules the Academy Awards as "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led Tuesday with eight nominations each, two other best-picture contenders trailed with seven, and a writers strike left the fate of the show itself up in the air.
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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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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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With no picket signs in sight, stars were free to attend the Critics' Choice Awards on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg will not receive the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year's stripped-down Golden Globes, which NBC will broadcast in a press-conference format Sunday night.
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Golden Globe-nominated actors and presenters won't attend the televised award show Jan. 13 because of the writers' strike, the Screen Actors Guild announced Friday.  "After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representative...
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The Golden Globes film and television awards are reduced to a press conference amid a writers' strike.
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This year's Golden Globes awards will not have any actors attending the show.
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The guild will not allow the Golden Globe show to use its writers, and is denying historical film clips to the Oscars.
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The Screen Actors Guild, which represents film and television actors, on Thursday nominated the performers in grim crime thriller "No Country for Old Men" and western "3:10 to Yuma" for best ensemble cast in a movie.
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LOS ANGELES  - Late actor Christopher  Reeve was among five nominees named Monday for the Directors  Guild of America's annual award recognizing made-for-TV films.