"No Country For Old Men" positioned for Oscar
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The gritty crime drama "No Country For Old Men" became the front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday after winning top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on a night of traditional Hollywood glamour and emotion over the sudden death of Heath Ledger.
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When the Academy Award nominations are announced next month, no one should be surprised if the Oscar race is led by two middle-age guys on a wine-tasting bender and Howard Hughes.
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Organizers on Thursday unveiled  details of this year's Academy Awards, including  Oscar-presenting roles for stars such as Tom Hanks and Nicole  Kidman whose presence was in doubt due to the Hollywood writers  strike.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES  Â Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards.
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âAtonement,â adapted from the Ian McEwan novel and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as suffering lovers, was named best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (popularly known as the Baftas) on Sunday night in London, The Associated Press reported. Daniel Day-Lewis, above, came away with best actor honors for his performance as the oilman in âThere Will Be Blood,â and Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her portrayal of Ãdith Piaf in âLa Vie en Rose.â Joel and Ethan Coen won the award for directing for âNo Country for Old Men,â and the prize for best original screenplay went to Diablo Cody for âJuno.â.
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The Directors Guild of America on Saturday chose Ethan and Joel Coen as best feature film directors for 2007 for their gritty crime drama "No Country for Old Men," an award known for signaling which filmmakers will win top Oscars.
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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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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.
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&#39;Finding Neverland&#39; has been named Film of the Year by the New York based National Board of Review. The award is considered the first indicator of which film will win the Oscar for Best Picture.
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Modest wine country comedy  "Sideways" staged a surprise knockout over favorites "Million  Dollar Baby" and "The Aviator" by winning the top prize for  best ensemble acting at the Screen Actors Guild awards on  Saturday, an important pre-Oscar test.
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Early awards-season favorites "Into the Wild," "Michael Clayton" and "No Country For Old Men" scored another accolade on Sunday by making the year's top 10 list from the American Film Institute.
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Hilary Swank racked up a Best Actress nod for her hard-muscled   performance as a female boxer in the Clint Eastwood-directed pic and   Morgan Freeman picked up the Best Supporting Actor prize for his turn as   a wise ex-prizefighter, moving them into favorite status for the   upcoming Academy Awards.
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Oscar front-runner "No  Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as  the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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." And everyone is talking about how Jackie Earle Haley scored a comeback with his supporting nomination for "All the King's Men."
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.