Newman ready to face Dreamgirls on Oscar night
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DETROIT (Billboard) - Randy Newman has heard the conventional wisdom about the best original song competition in this year's Academy Awards: With three of the category's five nominations, "Dreamgirls" will split the vote, leaving the race between Newman's "Our Town," from "Cars," and Melissa Etheridge's "I Need To Wake Up" from the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
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The first Oscar nomination for a South African film will boost the burgeoning industry and grab the attention of Hollywood, the film's director said on Tuesday.
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Eddie Murphy has been loved, hated and ignored but now he is back with Hollywood heavyweights rallying around him for his career-redefining turn in "Dreamgirls," a role that may win him an Oscar.
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The Golden Globe nominations, seen as an early steer for the Oscars, are due to be announced in Hollywood.
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Meryl Streep and Judi Dench got  nasty. Kate Winslet stripped and Penelope Cruz padded her rear.  But it is Helen Mirren and her prim silver curls who looks  likely to reign on Oscar night.
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The Aviator is tipped by bookmakers as the favourite to win the best film award at this year's Oscars.
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Specialist movie awards events are held in Los Angeles ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony.
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Hollywood stars and the designers who dress them grabbed Oscar's spotlight on Wednesday in a fashion preview featuring vivid colors and the sparkling jewelry expected to wow fans on the Academy Awards' red carpet.
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The Producers Guild of America  unveiled nominees for its film awards on Monday picking a range  of movies including comedy "Juno" and legal thriller "Michael  Clayton" in a key hurdle in Hollywood's Oscar race.
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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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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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Roll out the black carpet. A lineup of films bleak in tone and worldview will take center stage at the 80th annual Academy Awards next month, with critical darlings like âThere Will Be Blood,â âNo Country for Old Menâ and âMichael Claytonâ dominating t...
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Gwyneth Paltrow joins the growing list of stars lining up to present a coveted Academy Award.
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More than 5,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will soon get their official ballots for the 79th Academy Awards.
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Film fans around the world eagerly await the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Film fans by the hundreds waited under cold, dreary skies for glimpses of stars about to cross the red carpet for the 79th annual Oscars on Sunday, carefully watched by a phalanx of policemen.
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LOS ANGELES  - Oscar beckons: The musical "Dreamgirls" is the odds-on favorite to take home best picture honors.