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/ 25 February 2007
Once an evening of backslapping and merrymaking within the narrow confines of Hollywood, the Academy Awards this year looks like a United Nations exercise in diversity. The 79th annual Oscars on Sunday feature their most ethnically varied line-up to date, with stars and stories that reflect the world’s growing multiculturalism.
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/ 21 November 2006
Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player, who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles hospital, his Sandcastle 5 production company said on Tuesday. He was 81.
A knot of police officers rush into a burning office building to evacuate survivors. They hear a hellish rumble above and dash for haven in an elevator vestibule as the structure collapses around them. So begins Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, the first 25 minutes of which was previewed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Crash pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture on Sunday over the front-runner Brokeback Mountain. Crash, featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past the cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain.
George Romero lurches among us again, doing what he does best: Creating a combustible microcosm of society, then besieging it with zombies who just can’t get enough of tasty human flesh. The director, whose 1968 chiller Night of the Living Dead established an entire horror subgenre, is back with George Romero’s Land of the Dead.
Movie-goers were easy prey for a double dose of space invaders. The sci-fi smackdown Alien vs Predator, featuring the creatures of the ”Alien” and ”Predator” franchises, debuted as the number one weekend movie in the United States with ,25-million, studio estimates showed on Sunday.
What do Shrek, Spider-Man, Michael Moore and Harry Potter have in common? They have all produced -million movie hits this summer. Moore’s condemnation of United States President George Bush’s actions regarding the September 11 attacks in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has earned ,35-million since opening in late June.
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/ 27 January 2004
Hobbits, wizards and elves are marching on the Academy Awards, with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King emerging as front-runner for Hollywood’s top honour. Voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never have crowned a fantasy film as best picture.