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Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning....  read more

The Reader

Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader is a somber, desolate and profound film...  read more

Oscar bait The Reader gets Dec. 12 release date

Studio mogul Harvey Weinstein's decision to release his company's World War II prestige drama The Reader  on Dec. 12 could spell trouble for Kate Winslet's Oscar hopes. The British actress, long hailed as one of the best of her generation (if not the best), has been an Oscar bridesmaid on five separate occasions. With The Reader arriving this calendar year, she will be competing against her other prestigious literary adaptation, Revolutionary Road, due out a mere two weeks later on Dec. 26....  read more