Cates tapped to produce Oscars telecast
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Gil Cates will produce next year's Academy Awards, marking the 14th time he'll have done so &#151; adding to his growing record. He passed the previous most-prolific producer, Howard W. Koch, with eight shows, in 1998.
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Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger is to present an Academy Award at this year's ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - With the threat of picketing writers having passed, Oscar organizers on Thursday unveiled presenters and performers for their upcoming telecast.
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Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, who has portrayed Queen Elizabeth and Katharine Hepburn, will add another legend to her resume: Bob Dylan.
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The Golden Globes ran in diminished form this year and the Oscars broadcast is still in question, making the Screen Actors Guild presentation at the Shrine Auditorium the first and perhaps only chance this year for Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanc...
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After weeks of relentless Oscar  campaign ads, talk-show interviews and red-carpet events,  members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have  made up their minds. The next step is to count their votes.
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Gil Cates has signed on to produce next year's Academy Awards broadcast, his 12th time overseeing Hollywood's biggest bash.
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The Grammys got underway with a classic feel, and Kanye West and Amy Winehouse â two of the nightâs most compelling storylines â were among the early leaders at Sunday nightâs ceremony.
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US comedy star and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will host next year's Academy Awards, it is announced.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its final stretch.
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Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the negotiating table to end a writers' strike that threatens to disrupt the climax of Hollywood's awards season.
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Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar  ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the  negotiating table to end a writers' strike that threatens to  disrupt the climax of Hollywood's awards season.
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LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in talks to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code. Hanks, who won back-to-back Oscars in 1994 and 1995, is the first choice of director
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on Stewart will return as host of the Oscars in 2008. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences announced Wednesday that Stewart will host the 80th awards show Feb. 24
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With the threat  of picketing writers having passed, Oscar organizers on  Thursday unveiled presenters and performers for their upcoming  telecast.
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LONDON  - Cate Blanchett has two more honours to add to her Oscar nomination.
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After they run the red carpet gauntlet and collect their trophies, Oscar winners do the media scene behind the scenes