âNo Countryâ and âThere Will Be Bloodâ Lead Oscars
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Hollywood is in a bleak mood this year, and the Oscar nominees announced Tuesday reflected that state of mind.
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There&#39;s no official  starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for  the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn&#39;t until February 24. But a  number of races already have begun -- some quietly, some not so  quietly.
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When the Academy Award nominations are announced next month, no one should be surprised if the Oscar race is led by two middle-age guys on a wine-tasting bender and Howard Hughes.
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âFalling Slowly,â a song from âOnce,â is ruled eligible for this yearâs Oscar for best song.
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Early predictions about the 2005 Academy Awards.
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âThere Will Be Bloodâ may be the title of a film opening the day after Christmas, but it could be the slogan for this entire holiday season.
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Can a film that humanizes Adolf Hitler win an Oscar? Oliver Hirschbiegel hopes so.
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Gold may be the color of the coveted Oscar award but silver gowns dazzled the red carpet at the world's leading film awards, while those featuring intricate bodices, beading and master detail proved that exquisite workmanship always merits a second glance.
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Optimism was in the air among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men," a gory meditation on moral decline, and "There Will Be Blood," a gritty drama about a pioneering California oilman, led the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards on Tuesday, organizers said.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Oscar hopefuls have  begun to march out to a steady drumbeat.
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'There Will Be Blood,' a story about the rise and fall of a robber baron, isn't the year's best film. But it's certainly the strangest â and compelling, at that.
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LOS ANGELES  - If the opinions of the nation's critics are anything to go by, Daniel Day-Lewis can pretty much pick up his best actor Oscar right now.
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LONDON  - "There Will Be Blood," a tale of U.S. oil prospectors in a frontier town, picked up three major nominations, including film of the year, from London's Critics' Circle.
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KAMPALA , Uganda -- She was 11 time zones away from Hollywood, but movie buff Marion E. Busingye could not wait to see whether "The Last King of Scotland" -- a rare and terrifying look at Uganda's bloody political history -- would win an Oscar.
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There just might be  blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter  mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a  competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and  Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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Rang De Basanti (RDB), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's take on modern-day patriotism and one of Bollywood's biggest blockbusters of the year, will be India's entry in the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film category.