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Denzel Washington, Judi Dench Honored by AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
Originally posted 01/31/2013 10:15AM
They only get better with age.
Denzel Washington and Judi Dench have been honored with the top acting prizes by this year's Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP, celebrating actors over 50 and films made for older audiences.
Dench, 78, was celebrated for her work on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, also starring Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Tom Wilkinson, which was also named best picture.
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Academy Award Nominations: Lincoln Leads the Pack
Originally posted 01/10/2013 08:15AM
This year's Oscars may not take place until Feb. 24, but the ceremony's host, Seth MacFarlane, already started earning his salary Thursday morning – by joining Emma Stone to announce the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' headquarters in Beverly Hills.
And the name that kept coming up: Lincoln, which reaped the lion's share number of nominations, 12, including those for Best Picture, Best Director Steven Spielberg, Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Supporting Actress Sally Field.
Other highly recognized films were Life of Pi, with 11 nominations; Les Misérables, with nine; and Argo, with seven, though, surprisingly, not one for its director Ben Affleck.
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Joaquin Phoenix Is Remarkable in The Master: Review
Originally posted 09/15/2012 09:30AM
Sexually rapacious and a blistering drunk, Freddie is a lost sheep in need of a flock. As it happens, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymor Hoffman) is a shepherd. Personable and generous to Freddie when the young man stows away on his boat, Lancaster seems every bit Freddie's opposite.
Lancaster is also the founder of the Cause, a religious movement with clear parallels to Scientology. But this is not a movie about Scientology. Director Paul Thomas Anderson is far more interested in the dynamic between the men than he is in investigating religion. Fortunately, Hoffman and Phoenix know just how to make that dynamic riveting.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast in Catching Fire
Originally posted 07/09/2012 02:35PM
Looks like Catching Fire is heating up: Philip Seymour Hoffman has just been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins's bestselling novel.
Heavensbee, who replaces Seneca Crane as the new Head Gamemaker in the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, is a pretty complicated guy. After all, you never really know whether he's friend or foe until the very end of the book.
But complex roles are nothing new for the Oscar winner, 44, as shown by The Ides of March, Moneyball and Capote (for which he was named Best Actor).
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Buys a (Toy) Motorcycle
Originally posted 06/17/2011 06:00AM
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Britney Takes Her Boys Shopping in L.A.
Originally posted 06/17/2011 06:00AM
• Her tour is coming up – but Britney Spears is still spending plenty of family time. The pop star took sons Preston and Jayden to visit the Tommy Hilfiger Prep World Pop Up House store at The Grove in West Hollywood for a day of shopping. Joining them: Spears's dad, Jamie, and her assistant. Britney spent more than an hour browsing and trying out clothes (including a blue seersucker blazer and high-heeled navy boat shoes) while her boys sat in chairs, laughing and playing games.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 06/17/2011 06:00AM
• Her tour is coming up – but Britney Spears is still spending plenty of family time. The pop star took sons Preston and Jayden to visit the Tommy Hilfiger Prep World Pop Up House store at The Grove in West Hollywood for a day of shopping. Joining them: Spears's dad, Jamie, and her assistant. Britney spent more than an hour browsing and trying out clothes (including a blue seersucker blazer and high-heeled navy boat shoes) while her boys sat in chairs, laughing and playing games.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Calls Fatherhood a 'Revelation'
Originally posted 11/20/2007 05:30PM
Philip Seymour Hoffman is enjoying fatherhood all over again with his 1-year-old daughter Talluhlah, he tells PEOPLE.
"She's now smiling, standing up," the Capote Oscar-winner said at the New York afterparty for the premiere of his film Savages Monday.
Hoffman, who already has a 4-year-old son, Cooper, with girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell, says it's difficult to balance his career and fatherhood, but he wouldn't have it any other way.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Student Film
Originally posted 03/25/2006 06:00AM
He just won an Oscar for Capote, but that doesn’t mean that Philip Seymour Hoffman is too big to play small roles.
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Felicity, Matt Win Indie Honors
Originally posted 03/05/2006 01:00PM
Felicity Huffman walked away a winner at the Independent Spirit Awards, the art-house world's equivalent to the Oscars, which took place Saturday in Santa Monica.
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