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'Argo' wins Producers Guild award
Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov won the the Darryl F. Zanuck outstanding producer of motion picture for "Argo," besting "Lincoln" and other contenders in the category. It was the latest triumph for the film, which won the Golden Globes...
Tags: Grant Heslov, Movies, Golf, Bully (movie), Bob Weinstein
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Studios relying more on outside funding to make award contenders
For this awards season, Hollywood came through with a bumper crop of movies that were critical and fan favorites. But in many cases, the big studios themselves can't take much of the credit. Among the films basking in Oscar nominations — and...Tags: John Carter (movie), Movies, Paramount Pictures, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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Oscars: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo,' 'Les Miz' - hits poised for nominations
Film buffs who like to complain that the Academy Awards only favor art-house titles that most mainstream moviegoers avoid will have to come up with a new gripe: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will unveil Oscar nominations Thursday...
Tags: Movies, Steven Spielberg, Awards and Prizes, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., The Walt Disney Co.
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Spielberg, Affleck and Bigelow among DGA award nominees
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Four former winners and one newcomer were nominated for the 65th annual Directors Guild of America Award for directorial achievement in feature film for 2012. Steven Spielberg, 66, earned his 11th DGA nomination for "Lincoln," the acclaimed epic about...Tags: Literature, Ang Lee, David O. Russell, The Pianist (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie)
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'Les Miserables': Scary undertaking for Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway
"Les Misérables" is a 19th century period piece. The film adaptation was being directed by Tom Hooper, who recently won the Academy Award for "The King's Speech" but had never made a musical. And he wanted his actors to sing each of their songs live, in a...Tags: Movies, Music, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Theater
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Tom Hooper and Mychael Danna to be honored at Palm Springs festival
Tom Hooper, who won an Oscar for directing 2010's "The King's Speech," and composer Mychael Danna ("Life of Pi," "Moneyball") will be honored at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's awards gala on Jan. 5 at the Palm Springs...
Tags: Movies, Moneyball (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...
Tags: Movies, Literature, The Great Escape (movie), Ang Lee, David O. Russell
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Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack
Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...Tags: Movies, Johnny Depp, The Deep Blue Sea (movie), Arts and Culture, Screen Actors Guild
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Boublil, Schonberg revisit, rework the songs of 'Les Miserables'
By Todd Martens"We were very reluctant," said one of the principals of 2012 film adaption of "Les Misérables," "to have an all sung-through movie." Such a statement could be guessed to originate from, say, a studio executive, one who is weighing the financial pros and...Tags: Alain Boublil, Movies, Music, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway
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Movie talk with Affleck, Bigelow, Gervasi, Hooper, Lee and Russell
When your movie is making a killing at the multiplex and collecting all manner of rave reviews, it's safe to assume that your movie is working. But the six filmmakers who came together for the fourth annual Envelope Directors Round Table looked for a...
Tags: Movies, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Hugh Jackman, Ang Lee, Argo (movie)
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'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Evita (musical), Ridley Scott, Movies, Amanda Seyfried, Gerard Depardieu
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For 'Les Miserables' fans, it's a spectacular dream
A theater fan can cycle through a litany of apprehensions about the new film adaptation of "Les Miserables." The lead, Jean Valjean, is portrayed by Hugh Jackman, an actor with Broadway chops but whose best-grossing films involve mutants, penguins and...Tags: Movies, Celebrities, Hugh Jackman, Spider-Man (fictional character), Russell Crowe
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