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80th Academy Awards - Oscars

AWARDS WATCH '08 | Foreign Language Oscar Race May Offer Fewer Surprises and Acquisitions

http://www.indiewire.com/biz/Gomorrah-thumbnail.jpg by Anthony Kaufman (October 10, 2008) From Bangladesh to Vietnam, nearly 100 countries were invited to submit films for this year's foreign-language Oscar race. (The official...

Oscar invites film ads to its party

Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Mainstream movies to get seven-figure push -- The Academy Awards have been branded elitist in some quarters for a tendency to shower glory on arty pics that rarely pack 'em in at the multiplexes.

Rudin closes book on The Reader

The long-running dispute over the release date of the film The Reader - as reported here the Hollywood producer Scott Rudin has attacked Harvey Weinstein (pictured) for attempting to bully the director Stephen Daldry to get the...

8 Doc Shorts Shortlisted for 2008 Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject entries for the 81st Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar®...

Iran Sends Film by Majidi in Bid for 2008 Oscar

Source: Iran Times Iran has chosen the Majid Majidi film "The Song of Sparrows" to submit for a possible Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 81st Academy Awards. Majidi is the only Iranian...

Esquire names Halle Berry 'Sexiest Woman Alive'

by Shubha Krishnappa - 0 comments Esquire magazine has bestowed its annual "Sexiest Woman Alive" title on Hollywood actress Halle Berry. The 42-year-old Oscar winning actress, who gave birth to her first child, baby girl Nahla...

Leigh's `Happy-Go-Lucky' could extend Oscar touch

Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake." His latest find is Sally Hawkins, who co-starred in "Vera Drake"...

Back in Coen country

The darlings of art-house cinema return to familiar ground with their dark new comedy, Burn After Reading. That line of dialogue and the stage direction that follows could have been found in many of the 13 major movies...

Iranian 'Song of Sparrows' at Oscars

Iran has nominated Majid Majidi's award winning Song of Sparrows to participate in the foreign film section of the 81st Oscar Awards. Majidi's latest production competed with So Simple by Reza Mir Karimi, Night Bus by...

Spanish civil war film is Spain's entry for Oscars (AFP)

MADRID (AFP) - Spain has entered a film set in the aftermath of the country's civil war as its entry for the best foreign-language film Oscar, officials announced Friday. Director Jose Luis Cuerda's "Los Girasoles Ciegos"...

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