79th Annual Academy Awards
Movies
'West Bank Story' Tells Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers()
February 26, 2007 West Bank Story, this year's Oscar winner for best live action short film, is a takeoff on West Side Story and features a star-crossed love affair between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian woman.
Arts & Life
Scorsese Takes Home Oscar()
February 26, 2007 Martin Scorsese won an Academy Award for best director Sunday night, after five nominations but no wins. His film, The Departed, also won best picture. Other winners included Jennifer Hudson, Alan Arkin, Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren.
Arts & Life
Why Oscar Loves a Biography()
February 26, 2007 Helen Mirren won an Oscar last night for playing Queen Elizabeth II, and Forest Whitaker won for portraying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. This decade has seen the most acting Oscars handed out for performers playing real people.
Movies
Scorsese, 'Departed' Grab Top Oscars()
February 26, 2007 After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.
Movies
Red Carpet Review: Oscar Fashion 2007()
February 25, 2007 Part of the thrill of watching the Academy Awards is realizing that we really do live in a different world from the people in Hollywood. Part couturier confab, part freak-show, the spectacle is always a fun fashion ride.
Music News
'Two Hands,' an Oscar Nominee with Heart()
February 25, 2007 Nathaniel Kahn's film Two Hands, a film about pianist Leon Fleisher's 30-year struggle to return to the concert stage, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Movies
Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Notes On a Scandal'()
February 25, 2007 NPR's movie-music expert Andy Trudeau does a roundup of this year's five Oscar-nominated scores and profiles one more composer: Philip Glass for Notes on a Scandal.
Arts & Life
Oscar Shorts Are Tall on Talent()
February 24, 2007 Some Oscar nominees don't get much attention on the red carpet. A quick look at the nominees for Best Short Documentary show subjects ranging from AIDS orphans to gifted high school artists.
Movies
Oscar Rules for Documentary Films to Change()
February 23, 2007 From blockbusters like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to smaller films like Deliver Us From Evil, documentaries are drawing large audiences. But some worry that the Academy's new rules could hamper that trend.
Movies
Glimpsing a Queen's Soul: 'The Stag Scene'()
February 23, 2007 There is a moment in the Oscar-nominated film The Queen that is known to some simply as "The Stag Scene." In the sequence, Helen Mirren, as Elizabeth II, sits on a hill in the lush Balmoral countryside, brought to tears. Then she sees the stag.
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