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Movie Blog: Biggest Oscar Controversies Ever
This weekend, the Academy Awards held their honorary awards. Among those honored was French New Wave titan Jean-Luc Godard. That his career merits the attention is without question. Yet, controversy...
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Movie Blog: Minnesota Short An Oscar Finalist
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The filmmakers behind the Minneapolis-filmed short Ana’s Playground are no doubt used to accolades by this point. The movie has won prizes at more than a dozen film festivals...
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Movie Blog: ‘King’s Speech’ Leads Oscar Nods
Up until now, most of the conversation when it comes to Oscars has been centered around The Social Network, the movie that everyone and their mother “knows” is “The Best Movie Of The Year.” So far as...
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Movie Blog: Cleaning Up The Oscar Slate
By Eric Henderson, CBS Minnesota Am I the only one who thinks it’s nuts that Hailee Steinfeld was nominated for best supporting actress? Not in the slightest. Almost everyone realizes that she’s a lead...
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Movie Blog: Ranking Oscar’s Shorts
By Eric Henderson, CBS Minnesota Every Oscar year, I’m usually most excited to see the movies that are nominated in the three short film categories. That’s in part because I’ll have usually seen most...
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The Grannies Take On The Oscars
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Awards season is in full swing and before the Academy Awards gets to choose the winners, we let our own expert panel make its predictions — the grannies. Frank Vascellaro’s mother...
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Movie Blog: Oscar Pool Cheat Sheet
By Eric Henderson, CBS Minnesota Still haven’t knocked down all 10 of Oscar’s best picture nominees? Never fear. There’s still plenty of time to get them all in before the the Oscars are handed out on...
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Oscar Fashions Make Biggest News
Dave Lee has been talking with everyone about Oscar night fashion trends. Natalie Portman won the best actress honors, and received wide acclaim for her violet gown. CBS offers a look at Oscar night...
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2012 Academy Award Nominations
The nominees for the Oscar award were announced Tuesday morning in Hollywood. The Academy Awards go to the top films, actors, producers and writers in the motion picture industry. Actress and Academy...
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2 Best Picture Nominees With MN Connections
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two movies with high-profile Minnesota connections were among the best picture Oscar nominees as announced Tuesday morning. “The Descendants” is nominated for five Oscars in total,...
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Movie Blog: Oscar Shorts At The Lagoon
(credit: Magnolia Pictures) Pssst! Want to win your Oscar pool? Well, it often seems to come down to picking the right candidates in the short film categories. Most people pick those winners blindly,...
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Movie Blog: Your Oscar Ballot Cheat Sheet
(credit: The Weinstein Company) The ballots are in and the votes are being tabulated. The Oscars will be handed out this Sunday evening and it’s looking to be a big night for The Artist and Hugo, which...
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Complete 2012 Oscars Coverage
Keep up with the Oscars, from the nominees to the red carpet to the podium. And the Oscar goes to...
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Entertainment Tonight Host Nancy O’Dell Previews Academy Awards
Nancy O’Dell of Entertainment Tonight shared some inside information on the Academy Awards Show with Dave Lee Friday morning. O’Dell will be wearing this seasons’ hot color, yellow, and will do...
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Interview: Local Man Who Produced ‘The Descendants’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A lot of local fingers will be crossed Sunday for The Descendants to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Edina native Jim Burke is a producer of that film, which stars George...
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Oscar Fashion: Hits & Misses
Gallery: Red Carpet Gallery: The Show The Academy Awards bring out the big stars in Hollywood every year. Natalie Kane and Sara Rogers, trend specialist at Mall of America, share their choices for the...
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Dave Lee Shares Monday Entertainment Report
Radio Dave has a fast-moving music and entertainment report for Monday, February 27. Download: radiodaves-music-report-monday-feb-27.mp3
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Movie Blog: 2012 Oscar Nominations
(credit: 20th Century Fox) Here are the nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards. Lincoln leads the pack with 12 nominations, with Life of Pi somewhat surprisingly just behind it with 11. A few stray...
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Movie Blog: Ranking The Oscar-Nominated Shorts
If you want to really take names in your Oscar pool, you really have to know your way around the short film categories. Most people simply choose blindly in those three races, often favoring the most...
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Movie Blog: Your 2013 Oscar Pool Cheat Sheet
In Wait Until Dark, the villainous psycho played by Alan Arkin (who is nominated for best supporting actor this year for his irascible but chummy performance in Argo) jokes about two con men who...
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