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Oscars Shakes Up Best Picture Nominee Rules, Will Now Allow Between 5 And 10 Films

Mo’Nique and Academy president Tom Sherak announce the nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on January 25, 2011

June 15, 2011

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Putting an emphasis on quality rather than quantity, the Academy Awards shook up the best picture category again.

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Casting Call: ‘Glee’ Star Dianna Agron — A Perfect ‘Four’

Dianna Agron arrives at FOX’s ‘Glee’ spring premiere soiree held at Bar Marmont, Los Angeles, April 12, 2010

April 30, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Dianna Agron is stepping out of the “Glee” club and heading for the big screen.

Agron, who plays preggers Cheerio-turned-“Glee” clubber Quinn Fabray on the hit FOX show, has been cast in the teen sci-fi film “I Am Number Four.”

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Access Week In Geek, 3/12/10: Superman Soars Again!

‘Dark Knight’ director Christopher Nolan

March 13, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

“Superman” rises again with help from “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan… “Captain America’s” casting call carousel… & more!

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‘The Hurt Locker,’ Kathryn Bigelow Top Oscar Winners

Director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and producer Greg Shapiro, and (rear L-R) actors Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie accept Best Picture award for ‘The Hurt Locker’ onstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards

March 08, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

The Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.

Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood’s top prize for filmmakers.

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MovieMantz: Oscar Predictions 2010 — ‘It’s Complicated? Hardly!’

MovieMantz Oscar Predictions

March 07, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Boy, I sure hope that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin put on a good show when they co-host the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7.

Not to put any more pressure on them than they must already be feeling, since the Oscars are seen by tens of millions of people around the world. But since it’s a foregone conclusion as to who’s going to win in each of the major categories, it will fall to Martin and Baldwin – last seen together in the comedy hit “It’s Complicated” – to keep the proceedings lively and exciting.

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‘Hurt Locker’ Tops BAFTA Awards With Best Picture, Director

Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Niolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro celebrate their Best Film win for ‘The Hurt Locker’ at the BAFTA Awards in London, England on February 21, 2010

February 21, 2010

LONDON, U.K.

Britain’s love of the underdog triumphed Sunday as intimate war drama “The Hurt Locker” beat 3D spectacular “Avatar” to take six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.

Kathryn Bigelow won the best-director battle with “Avatar’’‘s James Cameron, her ex-husband, for her intense depiction of a bomb-disposal squad in Iraq.

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