With the Vancouver Olympics near an end on Sunday, Hollywood began charting its own path to glory at the Oscars.
Disney's Pixar Animation Studios head into the next week's Oscars with the only movie ever nominated for both best film and best animated film, "Up," about an old man and boy on an adventure in a faraway land.
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There ain't nothing like a dame, and Helen Mirren's best actress Oscar nomination Tuesday for her role in "The Last Station" proved that once again.
Lined up in sweatclothes and leotards, hundreds of sinewy dancers wait with paper numbers pinned to their chests and a singular hope within. Under gray, rainy skies, in dance shoes and bare feet, they've come to an open audition at a place called Center Staging with one dream: dancing on the Academy Awards program.