Abortion movie sweeps awards
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Mike Leigh's abortion film Vera Drake wins six prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.
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VENICE, Italy A film about a 1950s London housewife who secretly performs abortions has won the best picture award as the Venice Film Festival wrapped up.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.
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Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake,&quot; a film about a housewife in 1950s England who secretly performs abortions, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the end of the Venice Film Festival.
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Birth: Drama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. (R. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.
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"Million Dollar Baby," the story of a woman trying to rise above her hard-knock life by training as a boxer, was voted best film and earned awards for actress Hilary Swank and actor-director Clint Eastwood at the National Society of Film Critics awards Saturday.
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Mike Leigh's moving portrayal of a  back-street abortionist in 1950s London swept the British  Independent Film Awards late Tuesday, taking six awards,  including Best Film and Best Director.
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Mike Leigh's "Vera Drake," a film about an underground abortionist in 1950s England, won the Golden Lion for best picture Saturday at the close of the 11-day Venice Film Festival.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - Two hit films that have been  snubbed this awards season in Hollywood snared top People's  Choice honors on Sunday as anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit  9/11" was named best film and "The Passion of The Christ" best  film drama.
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Modest wine country comedy  "Sideways" staged a surprise knockout over favorites "Million  Dollar Baby" and "The Aviator" by winning the top prize for  best ensemble acting at the Screen Actors Guild awards on  Saturday, an important pre-Oscar test.
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âFrozen River,â a first feature about a struggling single mother in upstate New York who joins a Mohawk widow in smuggling Chinese migrants from Canada into the United States, won the grand jury prize for best American drama on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, The Associated Press reported. Quentin Tarantino, one of the jurors, described the film, starring Melissa Leo, above right, and Misty Upham, above left, as âa wonderful depiction of poverty in America.â Trade papers reported that Sony Pictures Classics had bought the film, adapted by Courtney Hunt from her 2004 short of the same title, for under $1 million. âTrouble in the Water,â a film by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about a New Orleans coupleâs survival through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, won the grand jury award in the American documentary category. The audience award for favorite American drama was won by âThe Wackness,â starring Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana.
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A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
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A quirky teen-pregnancy yarn and a love  story involving a life-sized sex doll have won over critics at  the Toronto International Film Festival, stealing the spotlight  from darker films on war and politics.
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Forget controversial films like &quot;The Passion of Christ&quot; and &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11.&quot; When it comes to nominating the best of the year, Golden Globes voters are far more
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British film Atonement wins four out of six categories in the newly named Richard Attenborough Film Awards.
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Reactions to the announcement of this year's Oscar nominees:
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TORONTO  - The Toronto Film Critics Association on Tuesday chose "The Queen" as the best picture of 2006, while Helen Mirren won the actress award for her title role.