France awards Legion of Honour to Spielberg
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Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg picked up another feather for his cap Sunday: France&#39;s Legion of Honour medal. French President Jacques Chirac bestowed the prestigious award on Spielberg
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Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio receive France's highest cultural honours.
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French ambassador to Iran, Francois Nicollaud, in a ceremony held at his residence Wednesday awarded the French Literature and Art Cavalier Badge to Iranian theater director, Pari Saberi.
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Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg said on Tuesday he is withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing due to the Chinese government's policy over Sudan and conflict in Darfur.
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Director Clint Eastwood is to be awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion of Honour.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set towards the end of the communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set toward the end of the Communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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It took a whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's 30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French film, Claude ...
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PARIS  - French fashion designer Emmanuel Ungaro, British actress Kristin Scott-Thomas and French politician Nicholas Sarkozy have won entry into France's Legion of Honour.
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A lifetime achievement award that was to have been presented to Steven Spielberg is postponed, reports say.
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President Jacques Chirac made U.S. film director Steven Spielberg a knight in the French Legion of Honor on Sunday, hailing him as a great filmmaker committed to fighting hatred and intolerance.
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French President Jacques Chirac inducted American actor-director Clint Eastwood into the Legion of Honor on Saturday, saying he represents "the best of Hollywood."
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French Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose, wins the most Baftas including best actress for Marion  Cotillard while Atonement gets just two gongs
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Actor Jude Law is awarded one of France's top cultural honours at a ceremony in London.
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LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON  - Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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PARIS - A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored yesterday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.
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France's second-most prestigious literary award, the Renaudot prize, has been awarded to a Jewish writer who died at a Nazi death camp &#151; the first time the prize honored a writer for posthumous work.