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Well, I guess the headline says it all, doesn’t it? But I’ll say it again.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary: Louie Psihoyos – The Cove

via: Steve Pond
For the TV awards and whatnot: Awards Daily

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Here are the key Sundance awards handed out Saturday night.

Grand Jury Prize, US Dramatic: Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik (director) Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan Yorkin (producers)
Grand Jury Prize, US Documentary: Restrepo – Sebastian Junger, Tim Heatherington (directors/producers)
Audience Award, US Dramatic: Happythankyoumoreplease – Josh Radnor
Audience Award, US Documentary: Waiting for Superman – Davis Guggenheim
Directing Award, US [...]

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The Directors Guild of America winners will be announced sometime tonight.
I was going to go with James Cameron over his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow – there’s a compelling argument to be made for the DGA not accepting screeners which kind of sets Hurt Locker back since no one saw it in theaters – but I want [...]

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Here’s a little promo piece for The Red Riding Trilogy that’s probably playing on IFC. It’s just some clips and interview snippets and hype, but if you’re not convinced to check it out when it begins hitting theaters on 2/5 (and IFC VOD on 2/3), you should have a look.
If you’re already on board, I’d [...]

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The Oscar nominations will be announced bright and early Tuesday morning (2/2/10) so that means it’s time for the annual LiC Pick the Nominees contest.
Last year, LiC reader Pierre de Plume won himself a fantastic movie t-shirt from the fine folks at Muze. If memory serves, he chose the “Oh, stewardess. I speak jive” shirt [...]

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New DVDs coming Tuesday, February 2
(Next week: A Serious Man, Couples Retreat and The Time Traveler’s Wife. Pre-order here.)
Amelia. Hillary Swank is Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and who later disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Richard Gere is her husband George [...]

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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures present
“The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2010″
In theatres February in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom
LONDON, UK, 29th January 2010 – Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures will once again bring the wildly popular Oscar® nominated short film programme (Live-Action and Animation) to theatres in the US, Canada [...]

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Sequels never sleep.
I’m going to need a lot more convincing on this one. The mobile phone sight gag was pretty good though.
Source: IMDB (via Cinematical)

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One of the ideas I had for the Rotating Picture of Movie Fun up there on the top right of the LiC screen was to do screen captures of movie titles. It turns out a Dutch web designer Christian Annyas has already stolen my thunder with titles and end cards from scores of movies from [...]

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