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'Dark Knight' gets some respect from Directors Guild
"The Dark Knight" continues to soar this award season. Christopher Nolan, the director of the critical and commercial success, was nominated Thursday for the 61st annual Directors Guild of America award. It's the first time the guild has nominated a...Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, Gus van Sant, Ron Howard
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The DGA nominations also tap the directors of 'Benjamin Button,' 'Frost/Nixon,' 'Milk' and 'Slumdog Millionaire.' The guild's winner has gone on to capture the Oscar 54 times out of 60.
"The Dark Knight" continues to soar this award season. Christopher Nolan, the director of the critical and commercial success, was nominated Thursday for the 61st annual Directors Guild of America award. It's the first time a director of a superhero...Tags: Ethan Coen, Vehicles, Film Festivals, Culture, Batman
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'Dark Knight' swoops into DGA nominations
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"The Dark Knight" continues to soar this award season. Christopher Nolan, the director of the critical and commercial success, was nominated Thursday for the 61st annual Directors Guild of America award. It's the first time a director of a superhero...Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, Gus van Sant, Ron Howard
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Batman director Nolan nabs DGA nomination for 'Dark Knight'; lineup includes Ron Howard
AP Movie WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Dark Knight" has landed a Directors Guild of America nomination for filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The guild's best-director nominees Thursday also included Danny Boyle for the rags-to-riches tale "Slumdog Millionaire,"...Tags: Academy Awards, Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Milk (movie), Danny Boyle, Cinema Industry
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Taraji Henson Hot After 'Benjamin Button'
Orlando Sentinel"They said, 'You'd play Brad Pitt's mama.' And I was like, 'What?'" Taraji P. Henson laughs. A vivacious African American actress as the mom to Hollywood's blond screen god? It's an odd "out there" thought. But Henson, the scene-stealing leading lady...Tags: Morris Chestnut, Celebrity, Brad Pitt, F Scott Fitzgerald, Celebrity Mothers
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Here's to the casting directors
When casting director John Papsidera commenced work on Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" in 2006, he knew that filling the role of the Joker would be among his biggest challenges. After all, no less an actor than Jack Nicholson had played the part...Tags: Milk (movie), Tim Burton, Cinema Industry, Celebrity, Film Festivals
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Who will win a Golden Globe? We have our picks
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWith Seth Rogen, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Sacha Baron Cohen and others on board as presenters, Sunday's Golden Globe awards ceremony is clearly hoping not to be a repeat of last year's disastrous telecast. That show amounted to little more than...Tags: Ethan Coen, Penelope Cruz, Film Festivals, Wall-E (movie), Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Fitzgerald's long and uneven onscreen history
Tribune newspapersHOLLYWOOD—F. Scott Fitzgerald's magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author's more down-to-earth flapper stories. "Benjamin...Tags: Baz Luhrmann, Edmund Wilson, World War II, Jason Robards, Film Festivals
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Going to abandon your resolutions
READ 'The Seven Deadly Sins' New York Public Library & Oxford University Press Seven authors tackle seven sins in seven slim volumes. If Wendy Wasserstein (Sloth) and Simon Blackburn (Lust) had stuck to their resolutions, what could they have written... -
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++++++++++++++++++++ || || Bedtime Stories PG, 1:35 Family || ** || A hotel handyman ( Adam Sandler) baby-sits his niece and nephew for a week, regaling them with tall tales that start bleeding into his daily life. Adequate time-filler, though the tone...Tags: Milk (movie), Adolf Hitler, Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh, Frank Langella
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Brad Pitt: Older and wiser
Tribune NewspapersHOLLYWOOD—The days might be numbered for the old Brad Pitt—the Hollywood heartbreaker, the absurdly handsome leading man who couldn't seem to keep his shirt on in a movie for more than five minutes, the prankster who once ran amok through...Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading (movie), Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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'Benjamin Button'
The film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt as a man aging backward (how curious!), was released to much fanfare last month. But it could have been a very different movie. Over the past decade, it had...Tags: Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brad Pitt, John Travolta
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