44 Stories on Movie Dramas
Don't let the generic name fool you: this film seethes with deranged energy
In "Street Kings," Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does.
Oscar said yes to "No Country for Old Men" and to European actors on Sunday night.
The 80th annual Academy Awards proved to be nothing if not international – honoring performers from Spain, England and France on Hollywood's big night Sunday.
Who won and who walked away empty-handed? The following are the nominees and the winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Oscar night offers comforting awards and few surprises, as No Country for Old Men takes the top honor
It was a "Country" made for Oscar.
Juno takes the top award, as Hollywood's annual pre-Oscar tribute to independent films has a beach party
The Oscars will be a showdown between a coldblooded killer and a coldblooded tycoon.
George Clooney is already practicing his "it's an honor just to be nominated" speech, telling Time magazine in a new interview that he doesn't have a shot at beating out Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor at Sunday's Academy Awards.
Don't let the generic name fool you: this film seethes with deranged energy
In "Street Kings," Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does.
Oscar said yes to "No Country for Old Men" and to European actors on Sunday night.
The 80th annual Academy Awards proved to be nothing if not international – honoring performers from Spain, England and France on Hollywood's big night Sunday.
Who won and who walked away empty-handed? The following are the nominees and the winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Oscar night offers comforting awards and few surprises, as No Country for Old Men takes the top honor
It was a "Country" made for Oscar.
Juno takes the top award, as Hollywood's annual pre-Oscar tribute to independent films has a beach party
The Oscars will be a showdown between a coldblooded killer and a coldblooded tycoon.
George Clooney is already practicing his "it's an honor just to be nominated" speech, telling Time magazine in a new interview that he doesn't have a shot at beating out Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor at Sunday's Academy Awards.
Daniel Day-Lewis did more than scoop up yet another award for best actor
on Sunday night: he earned a little street cred from his kids.
Unbowed by the writers' strike, the season's first big movie awards show puts Hollywood glamour on display
A coldblooded killer and a coldblooded tycoon led the Oscar nominations Tuesday, with a lawyer suffering from an ethical crisis also earning a strong showing.
If Viggo Mortensen's mother saw his movie Eastern Promises, she saw her son onscreen completely naked and fighting off knives. But will she be able to see him at the Oscars?
George Clooney and 20-year-old Juno star Ellen Page woke up to great news on Tuesday – they are among the top nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards, announced at dawn in Beverly Hills.
Indies rule the day at the Academy Award nominations. Richard Corliss ruminates on a big year for little pictures
The nominees for the 80th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills. Here's a complete list:
Who'll win and who will lose? The following are the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Winners will be announced February 24.
For the first several years of its existence, the Golden Globes -- like many other Hollywood awards -- were an insular affair. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which began presenting the awards in 1944, was content to rent a ballroom at a local hotel, hand out trophies to stars or their representatives and generally sponsor a good time.
George Clooney breezes through the "Ocean" movies with such unflappable insouciance, he must have figured we'd like to see him suffer. So here he is as "Michael Clayton," a prized asset in one of the best law firms in the country.
Following is a complete list of the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards:
David Benioff was sitting on a plane, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with an elderly passenger about his job as a screenwriter, when he mentioned that he was working on an adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
The British romance and war epic Atonement led the list of nominees announced on Wednesday for the Orange British Academy Film Awards, the U.K.'s answer to the Oscars.
Tim Burton's macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won big at the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards, announced during a live press conference from Hollywood on Sunday, while the film's star, Johnny Depp, picked up best actor in movie comedy or musical.
There may be no Golden Globes show, but that didn't stop the L.A. Film Critics from handing out awards Saturday – and drawing stars.
Ellen Page's 16-year-old mom-to-be Juno and George Clooney's sleazy Michael Clayton are among the films named as The Writers Guild of America's best of 2007.
As the Golden Globes became the first awards-show casualty in the Hollywood writers strike, the Critics' Choice Awards fared better Monday – and with no picket lines in sight, that meant an all-star showing, from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to George Clooney and Katie Holmes.
The year in film was a mixed bag, though one that holds great promise for the future.
Mike Nichols' undercover history of the liberation of Afghanistan, "Charlie Wilson's War," is so witty and light on its feet, it's a pity it pulls its punches.
Hollywood's earnest antiwar films bombed at the box office. But Richard Corliss says this is 2007's funniest smart movie
Cate Blanchett was recognized for leading- and supporting-actress performances, and Into the Wild earned four top nods as the nominations for the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Thursday.
American Film Institute's year-end honors have a surprise topping their annual list: Judd Apatow's Knocked Up.
If anyone's going to be the last man on Earth, then Will Smith seems like an ideal candidate.
"Atonement," the drama based on the Ian McEwan novel about a shattered love affair, led all films with seven nominations at Thursday's announcement for the 65th annual Golden Globes.
I Am Legend paints an appropriately gloomy picture of postapocalyptic New York, says Richard Corliss -- but it's an odd locale for one of Hollywood's most winning actors
Trophy season kicked into high gear Thursday morning, with an impressive roster of seven movies nominated for best dramatic picture in the Golden Globes race.
The critics hailed films no one will see. Now the Hollywood Foreign Press tries to balance prestige and popularity
Nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California:
As No Country for Old Men gets the best-picture nod from the New York Film Critics, Richard Corliss wonders if his colleagues are actually talking to the audience
George Clooney and Casey Affleck took top male honors from the National Board of Review, which prides itself on being the oldest movie organization in the country (it's 98 years old) and the first to announce its prizes each year.
Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
The Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel is spare, wintry, gripping
Liberal message movies tend to follow the Mary Poppins principle: Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The sugar is suspense, mystery, romance -- the sweeteners Hollywood sprinkles over Important Issues like corporate duplicity or blood diamonds to render them palatable.
George Clooney thanked Jack Abramoff. Steve Carell thanked his wife -- several times.
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