"No Country,"  "Blood" lead grim Oscar field
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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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The National Society of Film Critics has named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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Oscar front-runner "No  Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as  the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.
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With no J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy to lord over Hollywood's prom night, an eccentric mix of real-life characters may step in to fill the void at the Academy Awards.
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The Oscar race of 2007 has begun with a pair of grim films capturing attention over more widely-hyped movies, indicating to awards watchers that the race for Hollywood's most prestigious awards is wide open.
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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 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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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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Some of this year's most interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award voters hear -- rather than see.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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The Academy Awards typically are a gloomy Sunday, ending with a heavy drama crowned as best picture.
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It's awards season in Hollywood,  with all red carpets leading to the Oscars. But winning that  prestigious award can sometimes lead to nothing more than bad  roles and even oblivion.
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.
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The red-state warriors and blue-state battlers are at it again.   This time, the goal isn't the White House. It's the Oscar.
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Viewers may think some of the nominees for best picture at next week's Academy Awards are dark, but they pale in comparison with the movies competing for the coveted Oscar for best documentary.
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The two Oscar-snubbed filmmakers don't like each other.
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It was a memorable but not completely triumphant Oscar night for black actors as Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson won trophies but Eddie Murphy lost in an upset.