Critics Group Names Eastwood's 'Baby' Best Film
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A group of leading U.S. film critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion drama "Vera Drake."
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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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Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple Golden Globe nominees Thursday, while the multinational ensemble drama "Babel" led contenders with seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.
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Eastwood has been presented with the prestigious Legion d'honneur, the highest civilian distinction in France, at a special ceremony in Paris.Comment
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"Million Dollar Baby," the story of a woman trying to rise above her hard-knock life by training as a boxer, was voted best film and earned awards for actress Hilary Swank and actor-director Clint Eastwood at the National Society of Film Critics awards Saturday.
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Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima is picked as top movie by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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Director Martin Scorsese's crime thriller "The Departed" won the Oscar for best film on Sunday in a show that turned Hollywood's biggest night into a showcase for environmental activism.
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Two critics' associations name wine-tasting comedy Sideways the best film of the year.
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US director Clint Eastwood is awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion d'honneur.
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Clint Eastwood was declared filmmaker of the year by his peers, winning the Directors Guild of America honor for the boxing saga "Million Dollar Baby."
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Oscar season is only just getting under way, but a presumptive front-runner would have to be Clint EastwoodÂs the World War II epic about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty  thriller about a killer who cuts a path of destruction across  Texas, was named best film at the Critics Choice Awards on  Monday, leaving contenders such as "Into the Wild" and "Juno"  by the wayside.
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The National Society of Film Critics has named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
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The Clint Eastwood film "Letters from  Iwo Jima" was named best film of 2006 by the National Board of  Review on Wednesday in the first major award of the Oscar  season.
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Nicole Kidman has emerged a strong chance of gaining her third Oscar nomination in four years after US critics praised her performance in the controversial new film Birth.
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The San Francisco Film  Critics Circle gave "Little Children" its first best picture  and adapted screenplay wins of the awards season.
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Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year.