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Argo takes Best Picture as honours shared at Oscars
Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller cum Hollywood satire Argo has won the Best Picture award at the Oscars – the first film to do so without a Best Director nomination since Driving…
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Argo and Zero Dark Thirty win top WGA Awards
Political thriller Argo continues to sweeps top awards, winning the best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild of American awards this evening for Chris Terrio.
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Argo wows BAFTA, with two top awards
Ben Affleck – shunned for a Best Director nomination at the Oscars – has continued to pick up every other award in his path, being named the Best Director by BAFTA.
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DGA honours Affleck as Oscar confusion grows
The Directors Guild of America has given its top award — for directing a feature film – to Ben Affleck, for Argo, his telling of the CIA rescue of Americans from the US embassy in Tehran…
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Actors hint at Argo Oscar success as Downton scoops SAG TV award
In one of the strongest hints at Oscar success of the awards season so far, the Screen Actors Guild has picked Ben Affleck’s Argo as its Best Ensemble Cast.
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Ben Affleck talks politics: Argo, The Middle-East and Hollywood.(Video)
In this interview, I discuss with Ben Affleck his Golden Globe winning movie, Argo, which revolves around the rescue of 7 American, who took refuge at the Canadian Ambassador home,…
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Les Mis and Argo win big at the Globes
Working Title’s big screen adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Les Miserables won the most Golden Globes at what career achievement honouree Jodie Foster called “the most fun party of the year.” At…
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Affleck mocks Oscars as he wins Critics Choice
“I’d like to thank the Academy,” joked Ben Affleck as he collected his Critics Choice Award for Best Director for Argo, on the same day that he was unexpectedly snubbed for a nomination…
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Lincoln dominates Oscar list short on Brits
A day after the British Film Academy surprised the film world by putting Lincoln at the top of its list but snubbing the director Steven Spielberg himself, its American counterpart – the…
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Lincoln tops BAFTA’s nomination list
Steven Spielberg’s biopic of America’s much-loved president Abraham Lincoln has secured ten nominations for next month’s BAFTA awards, putting it one up on both Tom Hooper’s musical Les Miserables and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi.