Topic: Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Is "Avatar" truly the underdog? That's the way Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman saw the best picture race last month in an interview with the New York Times -- and that was before "Avatar" lost to "The Hurt Locker" at the producers and directors guild awards in recent weeks. The reality, though, is more complicated. Typically, the ...
POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - The Babelsberg film studio was bursting with pride Wednesday after American director Quentin Tarantino's anti-Nazi farce "Inglourious Basterds" filmed here last year got eight Oscar nominations. Carl Woebcken, CEO of the world's oldest large-scale studio complex, said the record haul should give the 98-year-old film site an important shot in the arm as an international ...
