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| The Lawsuit Over Producer Credit for 'Crash' Gets Personal |
(Wed, 08 Mar 2006)
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| A top executive of the movie academy described one of the producing team behind the best-picture winner, "Crash," as throwing a tantrum in suing over credit for the film. |
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| News Analysis: Los Angeles Retains Custody of Oscar |
(Mon, 06 Mar 2006)
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| Los Angeles, a place where race is discussed rarely, saw itself in "Crash," a film where encounter and understanding are just a random fender-bender away. |
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| 'Crash' Walks Away With the Top Prize at the Oscars |
(Sun, 05 Mar 2006)
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| In a stunning twist, the motion picture academy turned its back on "Brokeback Mountain," awarding the Oscar for best picture to "Crash." |
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| Fashion Diary: For Designers, an Image-Making Bonanza That Is Priceless |
(Sun, 05 Mar 2006)
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| That everything is borrowed and everyone is shilling may be the most charming characteristic of the Academy Awards show. |
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| The TV Watch: The Dresses, Low Cut, but the Tones Were Lofty |
(Sun, 05 Mar 2006)
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| The message of the Academy Awards show was a self-congratulatory one from Hollywood to itself: we care, we dare. |
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| The Long March to the Red Carpet, Slow and Painful |
(Sun, 05 Mar 2006)
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| An Oscar nominee, Bobby Moresco, co-screenwriter of "Crash," prepares himself in the days leading up to the awards. |
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| Hollywood's Crowd Control Problem |
(Sat, 04 Mar 2006)
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| An expected 41 million Americans will tune into the 78th annual Academy Awards to watch a spectacle largely honoring films they have not seen and may never get around to watching. |
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| One Last Best Shot at Calling the Oscars |
(Thu, 02 Mar 2006)
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| The problem with choosing this year's Oscar winners is that the possibilities seem as endless and impenetrable as the 64-team grid that ends in the N.C.A.A. championship. |
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| After an Oscar Nomination, Everybody Loves You (at Least for a While) |
(Thu, 02 Mar 2006)
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| Whether an Oscar nominee's newfound recognition in Hollywood will pay off in future, lasting and top-billed work is a crapshoot. |
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| Critic's Notebook: Hype-Week Patter as the Oscars Near |
(Thu, 02 Mar 2006)
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| Hollywood's magical ball is Sunday night, and all week television personalities have been fretting and squealing about it, expecting us to watch in supportive awe, like Cinderella. |
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| 'Crash' Producers Clash Loudly Over Credit and Payment |
(Wed, 01 Mar 2006)
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| A bare-knuckled fight has broken out among the producers of one of the leading Oscar-nominated movies, "Crash," over two of the things Hollywood cares about most: money and credit. |
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| Critic's Notebook: Brokeback Spoofs: Tough Guys Unmasked |
(Wed, 01 Mar 2006)
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| Online parodies of "Brokeback Mountain" are proliferating faster than curatorial Web sites can keep up with them. |
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| If You've Got It, Do You Flaunt It? |
(Wed, 01 Mar 2006)
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| What you do with your Oscar, and where it goes in your house, seems to depend largely on where you are in your life. |
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| The Tease: For Your Consideration: Sappy Hallmark Moments |
(Wed, 01 Mar 2006)
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| The annual Oscar trailer is completely at odds with the idea that Jon Stewart and a crop of untraditional movies might lead to a newer, fresher Oscar show. |
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| On Education: School Drama Coach Owns a Little Bit of Oscar Night |
(Tue, 28 Feb 2006)
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| John Fredricksen taught the director of "Capote," Bennett Miller, and the film's screenwriter, Dan Futterman, in Mamaroneck, N.Y., in 1984. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: Jon Stewart and the Night Visitor |
(Mon, 27 Feb 2006)
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| It is 3 a.m. and Jon Stewart is anxious. He mutters somthing that sounds like "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid." Than he takes a long swig from a bottle of Stoli. |
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| David Carr: The Big Man Still Reigns in Hollywood |
(Sun, 26 Feb 2006)
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| If you drill down into this year's best picture nominees, you will find that they are guerrilla insurgencies backed by superpowers. |
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| Advertising: Huge Audience or Not, Oscars Stand Apart |
(Sun, 26 Feb 2006)
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| This year's crop of nominations has some advertisers worried about the Oscar-night audience. |
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| Tribal Customs of Oscar |
(Sat, 25 Feb 2006)
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| Unlike typical cocktail soirees, Oscar weekend parties have rules of behavior that fly in the face of conventional manners. |
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| Careful, These Cartoons Pack a Punch |
(Sat, 25 Feb 2006)
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| In what some animators have complained is less than a vintage year for the Oscars animated short films category, John Canemaker's "Moon and the Son" stands out for its ambition. |
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| Directions: What She'd Really Like to Do Is Sing |
(Sat, 25 Feb 2006)
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| Kathleen York, an actor-singer-songwriter, gets her close-up at the Academy Awards, where she will perform a song from "Crash." |
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| Movie Review | 'The 2005 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films': Good Things in Small Packages |
(Thu, 23 Feb 2006)
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| Oscar hoopla focuses on feature-length films, but some excellent, largely unseen work is also in competition in the short form. |
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| The Tease: The Murderous Seductress Is Back |
(Tue, 21 Feb 2006)
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| Maybe the "Basic Instinct 2" trailer is trying to be serious and campy at once, but it only succeeds in being frustrating. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: Penguins Gone Wild |
(Mon, 20 Feb 2006)
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| What happens when Inspector Jacques Clouseau travels to the frozen Antarctic to observe the long, noble march of the Penguins? |
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| A First-Time Oscar Host in Search of That Fine Line |
(Sun, 19 Feb 2006)
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| Jon Stewart has, at least for one night, signed on to transform himself from Hollywood outsider to A-list insider. |
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| Robert Altman's Long Goodbye |
(Sat, 18 Feb 2006)
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| Hollywood has never known quite what to make of Robert Altman, but he's finally getting an Oscar anyway. |
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| Critic's Notebook: Five Oscar Nominees: Foreign, Not Alien |
(Thu, 16 Feb 2006)
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| In this year of politically themed best-picture contenders like "Munich" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," the foreign films have a similar urgency. |
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| Celebrity Freebies: A Force Irresistible? |
(Tue, 14 Feb 2006)
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| In this Hollywood awards season, the piles of free stuff being handed to celebrities nominees, award presenters, performers and members of their entourages is escalating. |
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| The Tease: From Russia, With All Kinds of Weird Stuff |
(Tue, 14 Feb 2006)
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| There are two visually striking, complementary ways of previewing the Russian-language vampire-and-apocalypse movie "Night Watch." |
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| I'd Really Like to Thank My Pal at the Auction House |
(Sat, 11 Feb 2006)
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| The trade in vintage Oscars through publicized auctions and an underground market has become a parallel universe as competitive and bitter as the annual acting derby itself. |
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| The Tease: The Tin Men of Hollywood |
(Thu, 09 Feb 2006)
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| "Freedomland" spots are all over television now, and they're far more effective than the two-and-a-half-minute trailer that is online and in theaters. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: 'Tis Pity He's a Pimp |
(Mon, 06 Feb 2006)
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| For those who disdain hip-hop, here's a tale of pimps and ho's dating back to the time of Shakespeare and suitable for the most discerning viewer. |
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| Questions for . . . : Manohla Dargis |
(Mon, 06 Feb 2006)
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| Manohla Dargis, a chief film critic for The Times, answered readers' questions about the Academy Awards. |
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| The Tease: Films From All Over |
(Thu, 02 Feb 2006)
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| Based on their trailers, the nominees for Best Foreign Film seem to share the political awareness that also characterizes the major Oscar films this awards season. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: Looking for Comedy in the New World |
(Tue, 31 Jan 2006)
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| King James I has sent Albert Brooks-Whining to the New World to find out what makes the Indians laugh, but mostly to get him out of England. |
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| Small Films With Potent Themes Lead Oscar Nominations |
(Tue, 31 Jan 2006)
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| With size counting less than serious intent, Oscar nominations went to small films with deep political and social themes. |
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| News Analysis: Nominations Highlight the Sticky Issue of Credit |
(Tue, 31 Jan 2006)
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| The ad-hoc nature of moviemaking on the margins can lead to some hurt feelings when Oscar nominations are announced. |
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| And the Documentary Nominees Aren't . . . |
(Sat, 28 Jan 2006)
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| Some great documentaries are ineligible for Oscars. Why? It's all in the fine print. |
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| The Tease: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again |
(Wed, 25 Jan 2006)
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| All you can think watching the trailer for "Firewall" is that Harrison Ford should probably give up the ghost of his Tom Clancy roles. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: Cliché (Guilty White Bourgeoisie in Denial) |
(Mon, 23 Jan 2006)
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| The Underfinanced Production Company's first foreign film has audiences all over downtown scratching their heads in puzzlement. |
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| Directions: Diplomacy on The Globes' Stage |
(Sat, 21 Jan 2006)
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| In a surprise move, the Golden Globes credited the best foreign language film to Palestine. A representative explains the decision to an editor. |
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| The Underfinanced Production Company: TransSylvania |
(Tue, 17 Jan 2006)
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| So definitively is this the year of gender malcontent in the cinema that one of its biggest stars has decided to come out of the coffin. |
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| News Analysis: In Movies, Big Issues, for Now |
(Tue, 17 Jan 2006)
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| With the year's string of weighty contenders at the Golden Globes, the industry seems to be suffering from a persistent bout of heavy thought. |
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| At the Globes, 'Brokeback Mountain' Takes Top Awards |
(Mon, 16 Jan 2006)
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| "Brokeback Mountain," a groundbreaking film about a love affair between two cowboys, took top awards at the 63rd Golden Globes. |
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| The TV Watch: Where the Mood Is Spontaneous, and a Little Serious |
(Mon, 16 Jan 2006)
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| The Golden Globes are a pass-fail version of the Oscars a Hollywood awards ceremony that vaguely indicates merit, without any real risk of humiliation. |
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| Fashion: The Temperature, Wind and Red Carpet Vagaries |
(Mon, 16 Jan 2006)
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| There were probably some last-minute agonies as actresses got ready for the red-carpet gauntlet at the Golden Globes. But for the most part, the women looked elegant. |
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| The Unforgettable Moment: Dark Truths of a Killing Love |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| In "A History of Violence" David Cronenberg has brilliantly complicated the divide between sex and violence, presenting these two seemingly separate realms as locked in hungry embrace. |
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| The Unforgettable Moment: How to Succeed in Business |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" is a movie full of quiet, enigmatic performances, but none is more intriguingly underplayed than Jeffrey Wright's. |
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| The Unforgettable Moment: Nine Short Scenes of Women in Crisis |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| One brief scene in "Nine Lives" conveys more about its characters' inner lives than is revealed in most feature-length movies. |
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| Pervert, Vampire, Lout. Perfectly Nice Guy, Though. |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| Watching Philip Seymour Hoffman embody Truman Capote in "Capote," you want to throw every acting award there is at him and maybe a couple of Olympic medals, too. |
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| Claire Danes Gets Her So-Called Shot |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| "Shopgirl" may put Claire Danes's intriguing face front and center at the Oscars. It's a role she was raised to play. |
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| Why Stop at 43 Nominations? |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| John Williams is already the most widely admired musician in Hollywood. He may soon be the most celebrated. |
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| Cartoons Have Their John Henry Moment |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| Hollywood executives keep insisting that Americans want to watch only computer animation. But the likely candidates for the Oscar for best animated feature defy this assumption. |
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| When the Smartest in the Class Isn't Most Likely to Succeed |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| It has been a cerebral season at the movies, but when it comes to Oscars, hearts almost always trump minds. |
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| Stranger Than Fiction; No Stranger to Awards |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| Eighteeen movies inspired by true stories may vie this year for Oscar nominations 19, if you're a Red Sox fan and want to count "Fever Pitch." |
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| For Those Who've Tired of Glory and Riches |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| It was a surprisingly busy year for actors-turned-screenwriters. |
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| Cruising on the Road to the Oscars. Or Missing the Exit. |
(Sat, 14 Jan 2006)
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| Some movies come out and steer right onto the fast track to the Academy Awards. Others take a wrong turn. |
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