Gil Cates to Produce Academy Awards
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Gil Cates has signed on to produce next year's Academy Awards broadcast, his 12th time overseeing Hollywood's biggest bash.
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The Golden Globe nominations, seen as an early steer for the Oscars, are due to be announced in Hollywood.
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Gwyneth Paltrow joins the growing list of stars lining up to present a coveted Academy Award.
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David A. Grafton, a designer of lenses used for optical effects, will receive an Academy Award.
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Producers of the upcoming Academy  Awards are getting what they paid for when they hired  sharp-tongued comic Chris Rock to host the Oscars -- a bit of  pre-show controversy that could boost TV ratings.
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The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday nominated makers of five films for best director of 2007 in a key stop on the road to the Oscars during one of the wildest awards seasons in recent Hollywood memory.
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The Producers Guild of America  unveiled nominees for its film awards on Monday picking a range  of movies including comedy "Juno" and legal thriller "Michael  Clayton" in a key hurdle in Hollywood's Oscar race.
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This year's Academy Awards has something it hasn't had in ages: A neck-and-neck race for Best Picture.
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A contingency plan is drawn up for the Oscars ceremony as the writers' strike continues.
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Actors who appear in dramas rather than comedies are more likely to be nominated for Oscars, a study suggests.
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It's another working lunch for Gil Cates. Sitting behind a broad desk in his office at the Geffen Playhouse, the theater he helped establish 12 years ago, Cates faces a wall of autographed posters from past shows. Beside him is a computer screen covered with tiny bits of paper bearing inspirational quotes.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - Production designer Robert Boyle will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, organizers said Wednesday.
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Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates arrives for the 75th annual Academy Awards in this Sunday, March 23, 2003 file photo in Los Angeles.
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The Aviator wins the Producers Guild of America's top award, a prize that often indicates Oscar success.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its final stretch.
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"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem Â but whether any actors would show up was in doubt because of the writers strike.