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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…
Silver Linings Playbook
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Spirits have a Silver Lining
David O Russell’s Oscar-hopeful Silver Linings Playbook has taken the top awards at the Independent Spirit Awards, in a marquee on the Santa Monica sea-front.
Cinema
Experience Golden Globes week in LA with UKscreen
Wednesday 9th January 2013: Arrived in LA in time to have dinner at a quaint Santa Monica Italian restaurant, Bruno’s, with UKscreen’s owner and LA correspondent, Sam Asi, one of the eighty…
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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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Amour and The Master dominate LA critics awards
In the latest celebrity get-together of the film awards season, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have handed their Best Film of 2012 prize to Amour, Michael Haneke’s peculiarly uplifting French-language drama about an…
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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…
Cinema
UKscreen’s Best and Worst of 2012
UKscreen's best of 2012 included Argo, Headhunters, The Hunt and Amour while literally bringing up the rear are One for the Money and A Few Best Men.
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Silver Linings Playbook surprise Satellite winner
David O Russell’s romantic comedy about two oddballs struggling with mental illness has surprised some industry observers by taking the top honours at the 2012 Satellite Awards, handed out by The International…
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Brits Shine at the Golden Globe Awards Nominations
British pictures and talent dominated the 70th Golden Globe Award nominations, which were announced this morning at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.