Finding Neverland wins Oscar curtain-raiser
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Finding Neverland, the biopic of Peter Pan writer JM Barrie, has been named film of the year in the first of a wave of awards in the increasingly protracted run-up to Oscar night.
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&quot;Finding Neverland,&quot; starring Johnny Depp as &quot;Peter Pan&quot; writer JM Barrie, took the season&#39;s first major movie award yesterday, but the National Board of Review&#39;s honors includes a nod to nine other films, too.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences kicked off its run up to the Oscars, the U.S. film industry's top awards, by honoring six fledgling screenwriters Thursday night with its annual Nicholl Fellowship and a check for &#36;30,000.
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ACTOR Johnny Depp&#39;s new film about the creator of Peter Pan is the early frontrunner to win the Best Film Oscar. Finding Neverland has been named Film Of The Year by the prestigious
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Johnny Depp's performance makes up for the liberties 'Finding Neverland' takes with the life of J.M Barrie.
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"The Aviator," Martin Scorsese's  film biography of Howard Hughes, received 11 Oscar nominations  on Tuesday, beating out Clint Eastwood's boxing tale "Million  Dollar Baby" and drama "Finding Neverland," which received  seven nominations each for the 77th annual Academy awards.
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DreamWorks and Walt Disney have three films each in the running for best animated feature Oscar.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men," a gory meditation on moral decline, and "There Will Be Blood," a gritty drama about a pioneering California oilman, led the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards on Tuesday, organizers said.
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US film professionals name Finding Neverland best film, the first major prize of the award season.
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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage&#39;s new adventure movie &quot;National Treasure&quot; unseated the animation hit &quot;The Incredibles&quot; over the weekend as the No.
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If the victory of best-picture champ "Crash" over front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" last winter proved one thing, it's that nothing is ever certain at the Academy Awards.
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Some of this year's most interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award voters hear -- rather than see.
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Finding Neverland has been named best film of 2004 by The National Board of Review, the first major prize of the movie award season.
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No Country For Old Men and Juno win the main prizes at the Writers Guild of America awards.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - The gritty dramas "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" scored eight Academy Award nominations each on Tuesday, leading a somber field in an Oscar season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers' strike.
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"No Country for Old Men" solidified its Academy Awards prospects Sunday by taking overall cast honors alongside Javier Bardem's supporting-actor prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Movie critics have shouted "no, no" as a top prize was announced at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain.