Italy Picks Sorrentino’s “Beauty” As Its Oscar Contender
ROME — Paolo Sorrentino’s "The Great Beauty," a tribute to Rome’s decadence and magnificence amid Italy’s current paralysis, is Italy’s candidate for the foreign-language Academy Award race…
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Lesbian Drama ‘Soongava’ Is Nepal’s Oscar Contender
HONG KONG – "Soongava – Dance of the Orchids," a lesbian romance, has been selected to represent Nepal in the foreign-language Academy Award race. The film's selection was unveiled Sunday by…
Debra Messing, John Patrick Shanley Add Broadway Play Contender
With new plays thin on the ground for the 2013-14 Broadway season, Manhattan Theater Club has lined up one to watch, reteaming scribe John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Pulitzer winner "Doubt," with the…
De Montreuil a contender to helm ‘Zorro Reborn’
Peruvian helmer Ricardo de Montreuil, who came on Hollywood's radar with his short film "The Raven," has emerged as a contender to direct "Zorro Reborn" for 20th Century Fox.
Contender: ‘Young Adult’
The "Juno" tag team of Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman reunite for "Young Adult," and the duo's reteaming automatically demands attention.
Contender: ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’
Though the awards buzz around this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's post-9/11 urban odyssey has been extremely loud, Warner Bros. is playing its cards incredibly close: Media will likely see it…
Contender: ‘J. Edgar’
As head of the FBI for nearly four decades, J. Edgar Hoover knew the secrets of some of the country's most powerful men, but fiercely guarded his own.
Contender: ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Arguably one of the most worshipful biopics about an actor to date, "My Week With Marilyn" recalls the period in Marilyn Monroe's career when she filmed "The Prince and the Showgirl" at Pinewood…
Contender: ‘Super 8’
If this year's newly elastic best-picture race allows a summer blockbuster to slip in, Paramount's alien-invasion thriller "Super 8" could well be the prime beneficiary.
Contender: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
The name's Smiley, George Smiley -- and he's the opposite of 007 in nearly every way.
Contender: ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’
It's thirty years since Steven Spielberg's Saturday-matinee throwback "Raiders of the Lost Ark" landed eight Oscar nominations, including mentions for Best Picture and Director.
