Academy Awards - The Oscars

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• Oscar Returned to U.S. Army (About.com)
8 Sep 2008 at 12:43pm
Did you know that the United States Army once earned an Academy Award? Yep. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded an Oscar to the Army...

• Anita Page, 97; actress starred in early Oscar-winning movie (Los Angeles Times)
8 Sep 2008 at 2:00am
Anita Page, who co-starred in "The Broadway Melody," the 1929 film that was the first talking movie to win the best-picture Academy Award, died Saturday at her home in Van Nuys, according to Randal Malone, an actor and longtime friend. She was 98.

• Long-lost Oscar rejoins its comrades-in-arms (Miami Herald)
7 Sep 2008 at 3:18am
The U.S. Army, with a hand from Hollywood, has received a long-lost Academy Award back into its ranks. The little statue took a long, and largely unknown path before being passed from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis to an Army general during a ceremony and screening last week.

• Army receives long-lost Capra Oscar (Honolulu Advertiser)
8 Sep 2008 at 6:15am
The little statue took a long, and largely unknown path before being passed from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis to an Army general during a Wednesday night ceremony and screening.

• Hathaway earning early Oscar buzz (Jam! Showbiz)
8 Sep 2008 at 12:37pm
TORONTO - Ever since Anne Hathaway started receiving early Oscar buzz for her performance as a former addict in Jonathan Demme's harrowing family drama "Rachel Getting Married," she's fielded the same question from reporters.

• An Oscar for the Army (New York Times)
5 Sep 2008 at 12:21am
The Academy Award the director Frank Capra received for his film ?Prelude to War? has been given to the Army, The Associated Press reported.

• Oscar Buzz For Jordan (ContactMusic)
5 Sep 2008 at 7:58pm
Jordan is to enter the Oscar race for the first time in Academy Awards history. The Middle Eastern kingdom's film experts have selected director Amin Matalqa's Captain ...

• Oz epic eyes awards (Herald Sun)
7 Sep 2008 at 9:00am
A MARKETING team is on its way to the US to lay the groundwork for an Academy Award campaign for Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia .

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences returns Oscar to army for Capra's...
4 Sep 2008 at 10:23am
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The Army, with a hand from Hollywood, has received a long-lost Oscar back into its ranks.

• Oscar gets his first sip of 'Milk' (Los Angeles Times)
4 Sep 2008 at 10:45am
"Milk" may be more to the (usually liberal) academy's taste because it's fiercely political and stars macho str8 past Oscar champ Sean Penn.

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