awardsdaily.com - 2/12/2009
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Resolution, justification, redemption and an impulse to play it safe define this year’s Best Picture nominees. All five of them are safe choices, which could mean progress in certain areas - a Bollywood-esque movie, a film where two men openly kiss in the first few scenes and no one ...
variety.com - 2/8/2009
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variety.com —
Dustin Lance Black's "Milk" has won the WGA's
original screenplay award while Simon Beaufoy took the adapted...
screenplay trophy for "Slumdog Millionaire." The winners, based on voting by the 12,000 WGA members, were announced Saturday night at ...
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'Milk,' 'Slumdog' top WGA Awards - Entertainment News, ...
oscar-watch.ew.com - 2/10/2009
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oscar-watch.ew.com —
Thereader_l I first saw The Reader in the
middle of November and thought it was, well, fine....
I certainly liked and respected the film, but I felt that it was something of a flatline, without any sufficiently gut-punching moments (for the viewer, not ...
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Revisiting 'The Reader' | Academy Awards | OscarWatch
weblogs.variety.com - 2/8/2009
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Milk scripter Dustin Lance Black, 34, tearfully accepted
the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay for...
Milk Saturday night by calling up the ghost of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the man who inspired Black when he moved to ...
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WGA Awards Go to Slumdog, Milk
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It's Not Getting Hot in Here
Carpetbagger —
... Bagger’s fourth season at Kudo Camp and he has never seen such a lack of oxygen. The lack of a best-picture throwdown, combined with a class of nominees that don’t have huge traction at the box office, means that we are spending a fair amount of time talking to ourselves. While doing man on the street interviews in Times Square earlier this week, the Bagger discovered that many people thought they might have already taken place. Sasha Stone, a bit of den mother in the Ninny Kingdom, lavishes praise on all five films this year, but then finishes with this: “The five ...
"C'mon, People..."
Hollywood Elsewhere —
... such a lack of oxygen. The lack of a best-picture throwdown, combined with a class of nominees that don't have huge traction at the box office, means that we are spending a fair amount of time talking to ourselves . While doing man on the street interviews in Times Square earlier this week, the Bagger discovered that many people thought they might have already taken place. " Sasha Stone , a bit of den mother in the Ninny Kingdom, lavishes praise on all five films this year, but then finishes with this : 'The five Best Pictures this year, admittedly, are nothing to ...
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