For Etheridge, Oscar nod is a dream
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Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the "rock goddess" with the classic hit, "Come to My Window." Then there was "lesbian singer." Then came "cancer survivor." Now there's "Oscar nominee."
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Film fans around the world eagerly await the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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CANNES, France  - How does one get to be an Oscar-nominated actor? Try a little torture to the soul. It evidently worked for Joaquin Phoenix.
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HollywoodÂs tight-knit community of Oscar voters may find itself facing a difficult dilemma in the coming weeks: Will they consider Mel GibsonÂs ÂApocalyptoÂ for an Academy Award?
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The selection of Ellen DeGeneres as host of the Academy Awards was a reaffirmation of television as the dominant water-cooler medium â for the moment.
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For decades now, the Academy Award voters have been looking for an excuse to give a best-directing Oscar to Martin Scorsese, and they finally have one in &quot;The Aviator.
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Jamie Foxx has ambition, talent and acres of self-esteem. All that and the movie Ray may snag him an Oscar nod
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it will now, âin a rare and extraordinary circumstance,â consider crediting more than three producers as nominees for Oscars.
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Sure,  Melissa Etheridge is used to singing in front of thousands of people. It's just that Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg aren't usually in the audience, at least not all at once.
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Its Oscar time folks! It is that time of the year whereby millions of ÂdirectorialÂ hearts broken to make one heart happy.
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The Oscar nominee talks about his movies, his favorite Boston insults and his own new entourage
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LOS ANGELES  - Drew Barrymore is  getting lucky.
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Oscar beckons: The  musical "Dreamgirls" is the odds-on favorite to take home best  picture honors. Clint Eastwood is again in the driver's seat as  a best director nominee for "Flags of Our Fathers."
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  Â If it truly is a pleasure just to be nominated for an Oscar, Alan Menken must be Hollywood's happiest man.
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Optimism was in the air Monday among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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Cio-Cio-San has known many directors, but Anthony Minghella has something extra: an Oscar.