Oscar organizers expect big party in Hollywood
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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Just hours after being named one of the year's 10-best films by the National Board of Review in New York, the new political drama "Blood Diamond" got the red-carpet treatment in Hollywood. And there was much serious talk among the glittering attendees.
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Director Sidney Lumet can't head to the West Coast until four days before the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremony where he will receive an honorary Oscar, because of post-production deadlines on his latest feature, "Find Me Guilty." So the Academy will throw him a "Congratulations, Sidney" party here at the Plaza Athenee on Feb. 23.
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Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and  George Clooney were set to parade up the red carpets on Friday  at the Toronto International Film Festival, setting the stage  for a weekend of star-filled, gala premieres.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - With the threat of picketing writers having passed, Oscar organizers on Thursday unveiled presenters and performers for their upcoming telecast.
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A day after the writers  strike pulled the rug out from under the Golden Globes, Oscar  organizers said Tuesday that preparations for the biggest night  on Hollywood's calendar are already behind schedule.
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Hollywood is fearing that the writers' strike, supported by many actors, may prove disastrous for the   Oscars, just as it has forced a big paring down of the Golden Globes Awards ceremony scheduled Jan   13.
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With nearly six months until Hollywood's biggest party, everyone already is thinking about the Academy Awards. Not many will admit that the thought of winning an Oscar crosses their mind, though.
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Specialist movie awards ceremonies are held in Los Angeles ahead of the 79th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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A global mix of British stars, Hispanic ingenues, hip-hop royalty, politicos and Oscar winners united under one language at this year's Academy Awards parties: glamour.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the holidays just  one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for  a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those  awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar  nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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The films and actors shortlisted for the 80th Academy Awards will be named in Los Angeles later.
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The end of the Hollywood writers strike means the Oscar show will be the usual star-studded, fashion-filled extravaganza, organizers promised.
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The film awards season gets under way with Golden Globe nominations starting the countdown to the Oscars.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its final stretch.
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Once an evening of backslapping and merrymaking within the narrow confines of Hollywood, the Academy Awards this time look like a United Nations exercise in diversity.
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Hollywood star George Clooney said he was backing Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama here Monday as Hollywood gathered for a pre-Oscars bash on the eve of "Super Tuesday."