German film about secret police wins Oscar
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Germany's "The Lives of Others," a searing look at totalitarian powers once wielded by East German secret police, the Stasi, won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday.
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Shooting began Thursday in a forest outside Berlin on a movie starring Tom Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter. The German government said it was letting filmmakers shoot anywhere they requested, except the former German general staff headquarters.
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Bruno Delbonnel, the cameraman for the French World War I epic "A Very Long Engagement," won the award for best cinematography in a feature film on Sunday in an industry prize given out two weeks before the Oscars.
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Basle Theatre head Michael Schindhelm survived allegations of ties to the Stasi East German secret police to win appointment Tuesday as the general director of Berlin's three opera houses.
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Martin Scorsese is honoured by the Directors Guild of America for his mob thriller The Departed.
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A German film that sparked a scandal  over its star's porn movie past and a Spanish yarn of gay  friends traumatised by childhood sexual abuse head the field in  Saturday's European Film Awards competition.
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Kylie Minogue and Robert de Niro are to receive Germany's top showbiz honour, the Golden Camera.
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Can a film that humanizes Adolf Hitler win an Oscar? Oliver Hirschbiegel hopes so.
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Martin Scorsese, the creator of  "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver," finally won Oscar recognition  on Sunday but he had to share the spotlight with politician Al  Gore, regal actress Helen Mirren and Cinderella story Jennifer  Hudson.
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Two hot-button issues in Germany &#151; the Nazi era and Scientology &#151; are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country's most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin.
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The two most overtly political movies in competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival won the top prizes, surprising some critics who had questioned their message and methods.
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Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
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The release of a major movie about Hitler is, by definition, a remarkable event in Germany, especially if it portrays one of history&#39;s great monsters as a human being, given
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A German film that sparked a scandal over its star's porn movie past and a Spanish yarn of gay friends traumatised by childhood sexual abuse head the field in Saturday's European Film Awards competition.
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A Kazakh-financed film has been  nominated for best foreign film at this year's Oscars, a  welcome creative boost to this central Asian country that was  so heavily lampooned by the hit "Borat" movie.
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Movies from 49 countries are in competition for the foreign-language prize at February's Academy Awards, among them the film festival hits "House of Flying Daggers," "Nobody Knows" and "Kontroll."
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In the thriller 'Democracy,' actor Richard Thomas portrays an East German spy.