Seven Oscar Contenders Picked for Effects Bake-Off
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LOS ANGELES  - The shortlist for the  2004 visual effects Academy Award pits Martin Scorsese's  reality-based "The Aviator" against six films that offer  various degrees of fantasy: "Spider-Man 2," "Lemony Snicket's A  Series of Unfortunate Events," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner  of Azkaban," "The Day After Tomorrow," "I, Robot" and "Sky  Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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Here's a look at the Oscar favourites.
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Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple Golden Globe nominees Thursday, while the multinational ensemble drama "Babel" led contenders with seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.
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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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Season 7 begins in earnest with 12 male finalists that run the gamut from "forgettable" to "karaoke." Still, at least one early favorite has emerged
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DreamWorks and Walt Disney have three films each in the running for best animated feature Oscar.
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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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A slew of A-list actors like Kevin Spacey and Will Smith are vying for a part in Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg's new movie.
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Nominations for this year's Bafta film awards are to be announced in London on Monday.
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"Juno" is a tart, and "Michael Clayton" a Dover sole -- at least in the mind of a top chef who has created five dishes inspired by the best-picture nominees for New York's official Oscar night party.
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The trio will make an interesting combination on screen.
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The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday nominated makers of five films for best director of 2007 in a key stop on the road to the Oscars during one of the wildest awards seasons in recent Hollywood memory.
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"Dreamgirls" and three other films  scored seven nominations each on Tuesday for the Broadcast Film  Critics Association awards, putting the highly touted musical  among the favorites vying for Oscars.
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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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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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Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple Golden Globe nominees Thursday, while the multinational ensemble drama "Babel" led all contenders with seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.
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The animated spandex-superhero movie figures on Producers Guild of America's list.