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'Juno' Tops the Independent Spirit Awards
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe pregnancy comedy "Juno" was chosen as the year's best independent film and won two other honors Saturday at the Spirit Awards, including best actress for Ellen Page. The ceremony was a warmup for Hollywood's big show, Sunday's Academy Awards, where...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gaming, Awards and Prizes, Radio Industry, August (movie)
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Directors step up to take their shot at Oscar
![THE six nominees for this year's best director Academy Award have made a total of 23 feature films. To put that meager number into perspective, consider this: "The Departed," which finally won Martin Scorsese his directing Oscar last year (on his sixth nomination), was his 21st theatrically released feature. As with the acting categories, the best director Oscar often goes to overdue candidates -- which is to say, it's awarded for bodies of work as much as for the film under consideration -- but this year, instead of the usual lineup of establishment old-timers, voters are picking from a pool of career mavericks and comparative neophytes.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-02/35603767-14175816.jpg "THE six nominees for this year's best director Academy Award have made a total of 23 feature films. To put that meager number into perspective, consider this: "The Departed,\" which finally won Martin Scorsese his directing Oscar last year (on his sixth nomination), was his 21st theatrically released feature. As with the acting categories, the best director Oscar often goes to overdue candidates -- which is to say, it's awarded for bodies of work as much as for the film under consideration -- but this year, instead of the usual lineup of establishment old-timers, voters are picking from a pool of career mavericks and comparative neophytes.")
THE six nominees for this year's best director Academy Award have made a total of 23 feature films. To put that meager number into perspective, consider this: "The Departed," which finally won Martin Scorsese his directing Oscar last year (on his sixth...Tags: Pulp Fiction (movie), Gaming, Steven Soderbergh, Awards and Prizes, Sam Mendes
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TV Review: 'Nashville'
Zap2It.comIn 1975, Robert Altman's "Nashville" used Music City as a backdrop for a multi-layered ensemble about country music, politics, Vietnam and the state of the American Dream in the Bicentennial. Since you probably can't trademark the use of a city's name in...Tags: The Hills (tv program), American Idol (tv program), Terry Bradshaw, Country and Western (genre), Entertainment
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'Juno' scores at Spirit Awards
![The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno" cleaned up at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon as it continues its Cinderella season going into Sunday night's Academy Awards.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-02/35918587-23152504.jpg "The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno\" cleaned up at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon as it continues its Cinderella season going into Sunday night's Academy Awards.")
The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno" cleaned up at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon as it continues its Cinderella season going into Sunday night's Academy Awards.
And Ellen Page and stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gaming, Awards and Prizes, There Will Be Blood (movie), August (movie)
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Men's style with a swagger
Times Staff WriterGOODBYE waxed eyebrows, hello mustache wax? On the runways of the fashion capitals and on the streets of Silver Lake, Venice and Brooklyn, designers and young guns alike are staking out a new frontier: a post-metrosexual ruggedness that's all about...Tags: Texas, Bryan Ray, New York, Mark Simpson, Flowers
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Cult filmmaker Jodorowsky's bloody visions
![As the first of a trio of his movies the Nuart is presenting over the next several days, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo" seems just as pretentious and shallow as it did more than 35 years ago, but, then as now, it is understandable why it caught on as a cult film, helping launch the enduring popularity of the midnight-movie circuit.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-03/28436537.jpg "As the first of a trio of his movies the Nuart is presenting over the next several days, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo\" seems just as pretentious and shallow as it did more than 35 years ago, but, then as now, it is understandable why it caught on as a cult film, helping launch the enduring popularity of the midnight-movie circuit.")
Special to The TimesAs the first of a trio of his movies the Nuart is presenting over the next several days, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo" seems just as pretentious and shallow as it did more than 35 years ago, but, then as now, it is understandable why it caught on as...Tags: Crimes, Clint Eastwood, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Entertainment, Stranger Than Fiction
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Review: 'A Wedding' at the Lobero Theatre
![SANTA BARBARA -- Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, "A Wedding." The more wealth involved, of course, the greater the potential for madcap mishap.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41516673-10090303.jpg "SANTA BARBARA -- Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, "A Wedding.\" The more wealth involved, of course, the greater the potential for madcap mishap.")
Times Music CriticSANTA BARBARA -- Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, "A Wedding." The more wealth involved, of course, the greater the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, William Bolcom, Entertainment, Weddings, Marriage
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New show thumbs its nose at quality criticism
This weekend, when Roger Ebert severs ties with the nationally syndicated movie review show that had been his broadcast pulpit for most of its 33 years, when jumpy Richard Roeper (who replaced lanky Gene Siskel in 2000) bids adieu to the sacred cultural...Tags: Reviews, Layoffs and Downsizing, Tom Brokaw, Ryan Seacrest, Werner Herzog
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A little life, please
Times Staff WriterYou may have heard that the Academy Awards are on tonight, and though the winners will be news in all media, what ultimately lends the Oscars their power is that they're on television. That many viewers of the telecast — viewers all around this...Tags: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Lily Tomlin, Bob Hope, Charlie Chaplin
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Show time at the Wilder
![The UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic <strong>"The Apartment." </strong>](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-02/27795585.jpg "The UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic <strong>"The Apartment.\" </strong>")
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic "The Apartment." Two days later, the archive kicks off its "Art of Light"...Tags: Roberto Rossellini, University of California, Los Angeles, Paul Newman, Los Angeles, George Segal
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Lohan: From Teen Queen to Indie Darling
Zap2It.comIn July, Lindsay Lohan will officially leave her teenage years behind when she turns 20, moving past her usual teen queen films like "Just My Luck" and into the world of independent projects beginning with Picturehouse's "A Prairie Home Companion." The...Tags: Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Lindsay Lohan, Hair and Nails, Adrien Brody
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Oscars 2006: Winners List
Zap2It.comGet a complete list of Oscar winners here throughout the night. BEST PICTURE Crash BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain BEST ACTOR Philip Seymour Hoffman BEST ACTRESS Reese Witherspoon BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR George Clooney, Syriana BEST...Tags: George Clooney, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ang Lee
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