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Familiar names line up for Golden Globe noms
A familiar lineup of Hollywood awards contenders are expected among Golden Globe nominations, whose prospects include past Oscar winners Daniel ...
Column: Only 1 athlete of the year in 2012, Messi
'Tis the season for making merry and for choosing our top sports men and women of the year, two distinctly separate annual rituals that in fact ...
'Lincoln,' 'Les Mis,' 'Playbook' lead SAG awards
The Civil War saga "Lincoln," the musical "Les Miserables" and the comic drama "Silver Linings Playbook" boosted their Academy Awards prospects ...
'Lincoln' leads Critics' Choice Awards nominees
Film critics love "Lincoln." The historical drama earned a record-breaking 13 nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The Broadcast Film ...
'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Lincoln' make AFI top-10 list
Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale "The ...
'Amour' takes top prize from LA film critics
The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a ...
New search engine connects literary dots
Author Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She's curious about his most famous book, the novel "Infinite Jest," ...
Additional copies of 'Lincoln' headed to theaters
"Lincoln" is marching to more movie theaters. Disney, which distributed the DreamWorks film, is making additional prints of director Steven ...
Katzenberg, Spielberg attend Governors Awards
Tom Hanks. Quincy Jones. Kristen Stewart. Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino. George Lucas. Steven Spielberg. Kirk Douglas. Amy Adams. Richard Gere.
'Cuckoo's Nest' filmmaker Forman earns DGA prize
Two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman is receiving the lifetime-achievement award from his peers at the Directors Guild of America. The filmmaker ...
'Twilight,' Bond, 'Lincoln' lead record weekend
Bella Swan, James Bond and Abe Lincoln have combined to lift Hollywood to record Thanksgiving revenue at the box office. Kristen Stewart's finale as ...
'Lincoln' director Spielberg speaks in Gettysburg
Two-time Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg expressed a sense of humility Monday as he delivered the keynote address during ceremonies ...
'Twilight' finale dawns with $141.3M weekend
The sun has set on the "Twilight" franchise with one last blockbuster opening for the supernatural romance. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part ...
Day-Lewis heeded inner ear to find Lincoln's voice
A towering figure such as Abraham Lincoln, who stood 6 feet 4 and was one of history's master orators, must have had a booming voice to match, right? ...
Bond soars with record $87.8M 'Skyfall' debut
James Bond's "Skyfall" has extended its worldwide box-office rule to North America, hauling in a franchise-record $87.8 million in its first weekend ...
The Hollywood Reporter's best of the week
The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week: HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ELECTION WIN IMPACTS HOLLYWOOD (ANALYSIS) What the president's ...
ELECTION WATCH: A Lincoln interlude; AP analysis
Around the country on Election Day 2012 with AP reporters bringing the latest developments to you: ___ A LINCOLN INTERLUDE On election night, when it ...
Review: Day-Lewis is tremendous in safe 'Lincoln'
For anyone who cringed just a little while watching the trailer for "Lincoln" and worried that it might be a near-parody of a Steven Spielberg film, ...
Foster earns lifetime-achievement honor at Globes
Jodie Foster is adding a new trophy to her collection — a lifetime-achievement honor at the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association ...
Spielberg, Day-Lewis unite for epic 'Lincoln' tale
The task of encapsulating the essence of Abraham Lincoln in a single film took Steven Spielberg roughly three times as long as it took the 16th ...
E.T. immortalized in wax around the world
E.T. the extra-terrestrial is making appearances around the world. Madame Tussauds is unveiling wax likenesses of the otherworldly star of Steven ...
DreamWorks Animation SKG founders donate $90M
The founders of the studio behind "Shrek," ''Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda" are donating $90 million to a Hollywood charity that offers support to ...
Henry Thomas picks his 5 favorite family films
Henry Thomas was just 10 years old when the role of Elliott in "E.T. — the Extra-Terrestrial" made him a star. With the Steven Spielberg classic ...
Phoning home again: 'E.T.' 30 years later
How old is too old to sob like a little girl at "E.T. — the Extra-Terrestrial"? Not 40, apparently. The Steven Spielberg film that would become a ...
Mel Brooks to receive AFI life achievement honor
It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award. The writer and ...