Oscars show draws more viewers and mixed reviews
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Daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres drew a million more U.S. TV viewers to the Oscars than last year's telecast, but some critics found her easy-going style too low-key for Hollywood's biggest night.
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LOS ANGELES  -- The Oscar folks don&#39;t want audiences to have to choose between watching the closing ceremonies of the winter Olympics or tuning into the Academy Awards show in 2006.
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NEW YORK  - The Academy Awards are not only a big spectacle for the Hollywood crowd, but also for Madison Avenue folks.
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NEW YORK  - An Oscarcast first: the award show host (or in this case hostess) running a vacuum cleaner in the audience. As amusing as it was, DeGenerously speaking, it did take the glamour of the Oscars down a notch or two.
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The pre-Oscar drumbeat seems particularly intense this year as Web sites of the old media have begun aggressively courting those who watch television and surf the Web at the same time.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."
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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 annual Oscar race heats  up this week with a key group of U.S. movie awards and  nominations that is expected to narrow contenders for the  world's top movie awards.
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Reactions to the announcement of this year's Oscar nominees:
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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 Academy Awards may be more than six months away, but Columbia Pictures is already trying to lure Oscar voters into the "Spider-Man 2" web.
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While audiences half way across the  world shower Chinese arthouse cinema with adulation and awards,  finding viewers at home can seem much harder.
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LOS ANGELES  - If the opinions of the nation's critics are anything to go by, Daniel Day-Lewis can pretty much pick up his best actor Oscar right now.
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Hollywood's major studios are parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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Oscars organisers shake up the way nominees find out who has won and collect awards at the ceremony.
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Producers take heart: It just got a little easier to put your hands on an Oscar.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best  film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with  several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."