Sam Mendes gets directing honour
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Film-maker Sam Mendes is to get a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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Film-maker James Miller, who died while making a documentary in Gaza, wins a Rory Peck award.
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Among the five Academy Award directing nominees, one name seems to be on everyone's lips: Martin Scorsese.
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Tom Cruise is honoured by the American Film Institute at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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LOS ANGELES : US filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who directed the 1970s classics &quot;Dog Day Afternoon&quot; and &quot;Network,&quot; is to receive an honorary Oscar at next year&#39;s Academy Awards, organisers said Wednesday.
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''The Departed'' won the Academy Award for best picture Sunday.
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Joel and Ethan Coen woke up on Sunday as the favorites for the Academy Award for directing after being chosen best directors by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday night in Los Angeles for their latter-day western, âNo Country for Old Men,â Reuters reported. Since the guild began honoring directors in 1949, only six of its choices have failed to win the Oscar . âItâs nice to get the acknowledgment of critics and even audiences, but there is something about being acknowledged by people who do the same thing you do,â said Joel Coen, above right, who has joined his brother, in cowboy hat, in making films like âFargoâ and âBlood Simpleâ in the last 25 years. The last time the guild honored two men as best feature-film directors was 1961, when the winners were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for âWest Side Story.â âNo Country for Old Menâ has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
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The Departed may get Martin Scorsese the best director Oscar award.
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Actor Jude Law is awarded one of France's top cultural honours at a ceremony in London.
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UK film Atonement, up for seven Golden Globes, is nominated for another seven prizes by London critics.
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Looking at winners of the best-director category at the Academy Awards over the past decade is a study in extremes.
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Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski will receive a lifetime achievement honor during the European Film
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One of India's greatest directors will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on February 2.
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Wes Anderson will be awarded the Stockholm film festival's Visionary Award for his humane and humorous portrayals of lonely people.
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Stephen Frears' "The Queen" is the   critics' favorite to take the best picture award at the Venice   Film Festival this year, with Emilio Estevez's star-packed   "Bobby" leading a strong chasing pack.
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The actress will star in Paul Mayeda Berges' directorial debut.