"Little Miss Sunshine" wins indie film awards
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"Little Miss Sunshine" won the top prize at the Spirit Awards, the art-house world's equivalent of the Oscars, on Saturday, a day before the underdog comedy competes in four categories at the Academy Awards.
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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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Little Miss Sunshine takes a top prize from the Writers Guild of America, which also honours The Departed.
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Lesser-known movies are  stealing the spotlight from star-studded ones at the annual  Sundance Film Festival this week, making the top U.S. event for  independent films among the least predictable in years.
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Twelve students were honored with trophies and prize money Saturday for their short films at the 34th annual Student Academy Awards.
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CANNES, France  - A powerful performance by South Korean star Jeon Do-yeon in "Secret Sunshine" is one of a striking array of notable female roles at this year's Cannes film festival.
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Honoring Hollywood's indie spirit, cracking a few jokes and walking a red carpet lined by porta-potties -- just another year at the Independent Spirit Awards
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Smack in the middle of  the summer&#39;s CG-heavy, massively budgeted tentpole  blockbusters, Fox Searchlight is boldly going where few have  gone before. On Friday (July 20), the specialty films  distributor launched the sci-fi thriller &quot;Sunshine.&quot;
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Two small studios recovering from corporate upheaval shone brightly in the Academy Award nominations on Tuesday.
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Arts & entertainment: Going to the movies doesn't have to mean a faceless multiplex - the little, independent filmhouse is alive and thriving, writes Peter Bradshaw
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âFrozen River,â a first feature about a struggling single mother in upstate New York who joins a Mohawk widow in smuggling Chinese migrants from Canada into the United States, won the grand jury prize for best American drama on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, The Associated Press reported. Quentin Tarantino, one of the jurors, described the film, starring Melissa Leo, above right, and Misty Upham, above left, as âa wonderful depiction of poverty in America.â Trade papers reported that Sony Pictures Classics had bought the film, adapted by Courtney Hunt from her 2004 short of the same title, for under $1 million. âTrouble in the Water,â a film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about a New Orleans coupleâs survival through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, won the grand jury award in the American documentary category. The audience award for favorite American drama was won by âThe Wackness,â starring Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson" led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Lesser-known movies are stealing the spotlight from star-studded ones at the annual Sundance Film Festival this week, making the top U.S. event for independent films among the least predictable in years.
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Oscar winner West Bank Story, a short film directed by Ari Sandel of Los Angeles, was the first the first film ever profiled on MySpace Film.  West Bank Story won the Oscar for best live-action short film Sunday during the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Hudson won the supporting-actress Academy Award on Sunday for "Dreamgirls," though her co-star and fellow front-runner Eddie Murphy lost the supporting-actor prize to Alan Arkin of "Little Miss Sunshine."
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Honoring Hollywood's indie spirit, cracking a few jokes and walking a red carpet lined by porta-potties - just another year at the Independent Spirit Awards
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Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, producers of studio films like the âIndiana Jonesâ trilogy, are moving into more indie territory.