'Maria Full of Grace' takes top honors at Deauville film festival
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&quot;Maria Full of Grace,&quot; a compelling tale of a Colombian girl who becomes a drug mule in an attempt to escape her country for the United States, won the Grand Prize at the Deauville film festival in France.
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French director Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens" opened the annual film festival in Deauville, a beach town in Normandy where he shot his 1966 love story, "A Man and a Woman."
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"Juno," the story of an American teenager  dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, won the best film award at  the Rome film festival on Saturday.
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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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"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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A string of standout performances by female leads, playing roles ranging from Lady Chatterley to Edith Piaf, have rescued several movies at this year's Berlin film festival, critics say.
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The road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" won best picture and three other prizes for independent films at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, one day before competing for Hollywood's top honors at the Academy Awards.
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Michael Douglas has been honored by the Aspen Filmfest for his contributions to film culture.
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French Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose, wins the most Baftas including best actress for Marion  Cotillard while Atonement gets just two gongs
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - French actress Marion Cotillard won the Golden Globe Award on Sunday as best actress in a movie musical for her role as legendary singer Edith Piaf in the subtitled biopic "La Vie En Rose."
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Lloyd Newson's extraordinary film, "The Cost of Living," has won several awards at dance-film festivals, including the top prize at the Dance on Camera Festival.
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"Love's Brother," a romantic drama directed by Jan Sardi, won the &#36;50,000 grand prize at the Heartland Film Festival.
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TORONTO  - Billed as a world premiere  -- until it landed a sneak preview last weekend at the  Telluride Film Festival in Colorado -- "Being Julia" kicked off  the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday, with stars  Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon on hand to  support the romantic comedy.
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A Turkish film about fear overwhelming a true believer when he is caught up in religious corruption has been chosen as the best movie at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu will be  honored at this year&#39;s tribute of the Film Society of the  Lincoln Center which recognizes the extraordinary career of a  distinguished film artist each year.
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Documentary filmmaker Peter Kosminsky has come under the spotlight at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs in France, where he has been awarded a EuroFipa of honor for his work.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set towards the end of the communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.