Mira Nair to receive &#39;Maverick Award&#39; at Woodstock Film Fest
257997
India-born filmmaker Mira Nair has been selected for the Honorary Maverick Award to be presented at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 16 for her &quot;independent vision and social activism.
123865
Yash Raj FilmsÂ KABUL EXPRESS has been invited to be a part of AfricaÂs most prestigious film festival -- the Casablanca Film Festival.
147174
British actress Dame Helen Mirren is to be honoured at the Mill Valley Festival in California.
448174
Al Gore&#39;s image as a rock-star eco-warrior gets another high-voltage jolt of celebrity endorsement Saturday when the music world gathers to raise awareness for global warming at Live Earth.
253481
A special event has been organised Friday night to celebrate the 32nd birthday of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, currently here for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Weekend.
472520
Film director Stephen Spielberg, singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta will be honored in December by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
416135
Some of Indian cinema&#39;s top stars will be taking to the cricket pitch and partying hard for actress Shilpa Shetty&#39;s birthday Friday as Bollywood reaches for a wider audience with its answer to the Oscars.
335643
Movie director Mira Nair has a great, warming, infectious laugh and a mind that works like a steel trap.
291508
WHETHER they were street kids, strippers or prostitutes in Bombay, Mira Nair has always had a soft, but not sentimental, spot for outsiders.
524194
Palekar's film Maati Maay gets raves at the festival.
78811
Amisha Patel is the latest Bollywood celebrity to join the league of personalities who have raised their voice to promote prevention of cruelty against animals.
614792
Director Mira Nair wants a larger audience to enjoy Thackery&#39;s &#39;banquet of a novel,&#39; writes Jay Stone. Mira Nair, who was born in India and raised in an Irish Catholic boarding school there, learned about England from books -- Shakespeare, Dickens, Blake.
663948
As a teenager growing up in India, director Mira Nair spent her days and nights voraciously reading her favorite novel, &quot;Vanity Fair.
62077
Jamie Foxx takes home the best actor honors for Ray, while Annette Bening earns actress kudos for Being Julia. As the awards season gets underway, score one for Miramax Films&#39; Finding Neverland, which was
127491
The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
105602
Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx is given a star on the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame.
162158
Actress Reese Witherspoon is starring as the consummate social climber in a film adaptation of 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, directed by well known India-born film maker Mira Nair.