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Spanish Film Academy picks its Oscar applicant (Video)

The Spanish Film Academy has made its final selection for the Spanish film to compete in the Best Film in a Foreign Language category at the Oscars. ‘También la lluvia’ – Even the Rain held off the favourite for [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar hopefuls emerge in Toronto film festival

The Toronto Film Festival may have yet to yield this year’s Slumdog Millionaire hidden gem, Colin Firth’s stuttering king, Natalie Portman’s dark ballerina and Danny Boyle’s graphic survival film that were screene [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Telefilm picks Incendies as Canada’s Oscar entry

Telefilm Canada has chosen Denis Villeneuve's wrenching family drama Incendies as Canada's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 83rd Academy Awards, to be held Feb. 27. The academy invites 90 countries [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Toronto Film Festival Day Six: Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidma...

As the Toronto International Film Festival winds to a close, the Oscar race gets ready to start. But who are the early favorites? This year, it’s harder than ever to say. Previous years saw films – “American Beauty,&rdq [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Bosnian Oscar-Winner's Film Opens Sarajevo Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival opens on Friday with the world premiere of "Circus Columbia," a romantic saga set in the period that led to the region's 1992-95 war, by Bosnia's Oscar-winning film director Danis Tanovic. The [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

‘Milk’ Oscar winner to write ‘Barefoot Bandit’ film

Dustin Lance Black, the gay former Mormon who won an Oscar for his screenplay to Milk, about the slain gay politician, has been hired to write the adaptation of the life of Colt Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old thief labeled “the Bare [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

New Rules For Oscars: Five Films To Compete For The 'Best Vi...

Oscars bosses have approved new rule changes which will enable five films to compete for the Best Visual Effects Academy Award, instead of three. The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided that 199 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Daniel Radcliffe Lands Role in Remake of Oscar-Winning Film ...

Now that his stint in the Harry Potter series is over, actor Daniel Radcliffe isn’t wasting any time before jumping back into movies. According to sources, Radcliffe will star in the upcoming film “All Quiet on the Western Fr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Party with Oscar winners at 360 365 Film Festival

The 360365 George Eastman House Film Festival has announced its public parties where moviegoers will have the chance to mingle with people within the film industry. The parties run throughout the festival at a variety of locations throug [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar-winning film on dolphin hunt shown for Earth Day tonig...

When Oakville's Simon Hutchins steps up to the microphone to take questions after the screening of The Cove in Hamilton tonight, there are sure to be some tear-stained faces in the audience. The Cove is a 2009 Academy Award-winning d [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar film festival gets under way

With a packed auditorium of movie enthusiasts and people from film industry, the ‘Oscars 2010,' a festival of American films that were either nominated for or won the Oscars this year, got under way here on Monday. The auditori [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur left out of Oscars memorial fi...

The lights dimmed, James Taylor settled in with his guitar and began "In My Life," and the faces of movie luminaries who've left us in the last year began to appear on the screen as part of the Oscars annual In Memoriam tri [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2010 | Comments : 1

Heather Bremer: Are today’s Oscar nominees on par with films...

The countdown to Oscar Sunday is now measured in days, not weeks. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual awards show airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC. Ten films are up for the Best Picture statuette. The Academy m [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Israeli film Ajami gets real, aims for Oscar

When the directors yelled "Action!" on the set of Israeli film "Ajami," none of the actors had prepared lines or knew exactly what was expected in their scenes. Most of them had day jobs and never appeared in a movie [...]