Composer Morricone to get honorary Oscar
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Ennio Morricone, the prolific film composer who created music for more than 300 films, such as the memorable coyote-howl theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," is finally getting an Oscar.
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Director Sidney Lumet can't head to the West Coast until four days before the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremony where he will receive an honorary Oscar, because of post-production deadlines on his latest feature, "Find Me Guilty." So the Academy will throw him a "Congratulations, Sidney" party here at the Plaza Athenee on Feb. 23.
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Cncerto con Garfunkel per il premio George Gershwin
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Master movie maker Martin Scorsese took a major step toward winning his first Oscar on Saturday when he was named the Directors Guild of America's best film director for 2007 for his thriller "The Departed."
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LOS ANGELES  - Veteran director Sidney  Lumet, who picked up five Oscar nominations but never took home  a prize, will receive an honorary statuette at the 77th annual  Academy Awards on Feb. 27, organizers said Wednesday.
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With more than 300 film scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific--and maybe the best--film composers who ever lived.
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NEW YORK  - It has been almost a year since Robert Altman stood on the stage of the Kodak Theater on March 5 to receive his long-overdue honorary Academy Award.
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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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Movie composer John Williams earned four Grammy nominations, not five as organizers originally announced this week, a spokeswoman for the music industry's most prestigious awards said on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES - No baloney: an honorary Oscar will go to a man named Mayer.  The award announced Thursday for Turner Entertainment Co.
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The pushy orchestra music that elbows Oscar winners off the stage has long been a trademark of Academy Awards speeches &#151; and no one has ever used it better than Al Gore.
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Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger is to present an Academy Award at this year's ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES  - Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio might as well enjoy the dual nominations they each received Thursday from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. while they can. Because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' rule book -- as well as practical realities -- are going to prevent a repeat performance when the Oscar nominations are announced January 23.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - There aren't many composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a couple of whistled notes. Such is the influence of Ennio Morricone that all it takes is a bit of whistling to evoke the Italian composer's masterful, genre-defying work on the spaghetti westerns he scored for Sergio Leone -- films such as 1967's "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
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A movie about a difficult relationship between a young father and his handicapped son by director Gianni Amelio has been selected as Italy's candidate for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.
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Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese took a giant step toward winning his first Oscar on Saturday when he was named the Directors Guild of America's best director for 2007 for his crime thriller "The Departed."