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'Doubt' tops SAG Award nominations

The intense dramatic face-offs in Miramax Films' "Doubt" dominated the nominations for the 15th annual SAG Awards, announced Thursday morning. More

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The high cost of Oscar
If Hollywood studios will fork over $70 million to market a movie, should it come as a surprise that the majors will shell out upwards of $15 million in the all-consuming quest for major awards?Ever since Harvey Weinstein, back in...

Fave five films
With apologies to whatever cell phone company uses this tagline, we're embarking on a series of Fave Fives as a capper to a year spent in many darkened movie theaters and screening rooms in and around L.A. (Is the ArcLight...

Blase about Oscar
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott has the movie equivalent of brussels sprouts littered all over his desk, while his colleague and much-afeared movie killer Manohla Dargis doesn't give a fig about what the Hollywood studios are pushing for...

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It's tough on border patrol

Pity the foreign-language committee of the Academy. No group works as hard watching so many difficult films. And yet no group takes as much grief for its choices. More

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2009 Academy Awards calendar

2008
Dec. 26	Nomination ballots mailed
2009
Jan. 12	Nomination polls close 5 p.m. PT
Jan. 22	Nominations announced, 5:30 a.m. PT
Jan. 28	Final ballots mailed
Feb. 2	Nominees luncheon
Feb. 7	Scientific and Technical Awards
Feb. 17	Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
Feb. 22	81st Academy Awards

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Oscar Roundtable: The Actors

Six top actors talk about their work on some of this year's most acclaimed performances.More

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"Award Nominees & Winners

L.A. Film Critics 2008 Award Winners
Best Picture	"Wall-E"
Best Director	Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best Actress	Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Best Actor	Sean Penn, "Milk"
Screenplay	Mike Leigh, "Happ-Go-Lucky"
Supporting Actress	Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Elegy"
Supporting Actor	Heath Ledger, "Dark Knight"
Animation	"Waltz with Bashir"

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