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Latest Article Posted 9:00 AM EST 07/03/06

Haggis 'dumbfounded' by Crash Oscar win

Paul Haggis poses backstage with his Oscars for  Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for the film  Crash  at  the 78th Annual Academy Awards  in Los Angeles on Sunday. Vince Bucci/Getty Images

Canadian-born writer, director, producer says he thought Brokeback Mountain had award in the bag


Academy Awards

Oscar blog

Leah McLaren, Tralee Pearce and Liam Lacey blogged on the Oscars. Read the transcripts


After the Oscars, Canadian winner paints the town red

From the the Governor's Ball, to the Vanity Fair party, to the Chateau Marmont to Paul Thomas Anderson's house


Clooney rules the podium

A year of hard-edged movies didn't produce political or controversial Oscar speeches


Altman honoured by Oscars

The iconoclastic director who has long chafed at the conventions of Hollywood finally got his first Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards.

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Transcript

Academy Awards

Film critic Liam Lacey took your questions

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Your picks?

Vote in the big categories and see how you did against others

Reviews

Crash: The fast and the furious

A star cast -- Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle -- rides to a collision of blistering drama and arch sentimentality

Cinderella Man: It coulda been a contender

Hustle & Flow: Pimpin' in Memphis

The Constant Gardener: This Gardener needs weeding

Too many tangled plots mar The Constant Gardener, but John le Carré's dialogue allows the actors to bloom

A History of Violence: Dissecting the monster within

Junebug: Southern Chekhov

North Country: Charlize digs deep, very deep


Reviews

Good Night, and Good Luck: Clash acts

Pride & Prejudice: Pride and ampersand

This remake shows promise by shaking off much off the story's Victorian starch, before it slides into melodrama

Walk the Line: Man in black, no shades of grey

Syriana: Big Oil's dirty well

A complex tale of the tangled evils of global oil politics proves credible and intelligent

Brokeback Mountain: Love on the range

Mrs. Henderson Presents: All undressed and nowhere to go

Transamerica: A truce between the sexes

Munich: Spielberg's strengths missing in action


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Oscar, can we talk?

Liam Lacey and Johanna Schneller dish the Oscar goods

Derring-do's and don'ts at the Oscars

Clooney is the man to watch on the red carpet Sunday night. He's our Clark Gable

Mel Gibson to speak Maya at Oscars

The ancient language spoken in his new film, ‘Apocalypto'

Hollywood North is back

Film crews in Vancouver, Toronto busy again as industry rebounds from slump

Oscar Speech 101: Keep it short, leave the list

To make Oscar night memorable — and keep the speeches snappy — the higher-ups at the Academy have quietly put together an instructional video for would-be winners

Movie watchdog group says Crash is cursed

Film takes first prize for the most curse words in a best picture nominee

On the Oscar set for TV's biggest night

The Kodak Theatre is abuzz with some 1,500 workers, most of them toiling with a fan-like fervour

They're mad about C.R.A.Z.Y.

Director Jean-Marc Vallée was ready to peddle his project stateside until a Quebec actor gave him a sermon on the importance of making the film, in French, at home. It's a good thing for Canada he listened

Victims' families want documentary's Oscar nod revoked

Families of suicide bombers' victims start petition to revoke “Paradise Now” Oscar nomination

The long shadow of 9/11

Violence has always found a place in movies, but never quite so systematically as in this year's best picture nominees

 

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