The Oscars Endgame: Decoding the Final Ad Blitz
With a wide-open race going down to the wire, studios are spending lavishly and searching desperately for messages that resonate
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BAFTA Awards: ’12 Years a Slave’ Pulls Out Shocking Win (Complete Winners List)
Drama wins the Best Film award after being shut out almost all night; Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jennifer Lawrence and Barkhad Abdi win acting awards
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15 Best Quotes from the Oscar Luncheon: Matthew McConaughey Charms, Jared Leto Teases
Actors Sandra Bullock and Jonah Hill discuss the directors who got them their nominations
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’12 Years a Slave’ Tops Satellite Award Nominations
International Press Academy’s honors find room for nearly every one of the year’s awards contenders
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’12 Years a Slave’ to Open San Diego Film Fest; ‘August: Osage County’ to Close
Fest honorees to include Judd Apatow, Mariel Hemingway
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#ICYMI on TheWrap: 10 of the Week’s Top Showbiz Stories (Video)
In case you missed it: Bill Maher and Julie Bowen are getting grilled by TheWrap, Bryan Cranston booked a big movie role, and 2014 will be the year without Pixar
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5 Reasons ’12 Years a Slave’ Is No Oscar Lock: Backlash, the Unseen and McQueen
The brutal drama has been anointed a sure winner in some circles — but the Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint
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Toronto: Winners and Losers From a Very Good Year
“12 Years a Slave” and “Gravity” deliver, Matthew Weiner will always have TV, and a crowded Oscar race looms
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’12 Years a Slave’ Takes Toronto Audience Award
TIFF’s People’s Choice Award has gone to Oscar Best Picture winner twice in the last six years; “Prisoners,” “Philomena” named runners-up
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Harvey Weinstein on Rise of African-American Film: ‘It’s the Obama Effect’ (Exclusive)
The studio chief said there’s a cultural shift — but that’s not why he’s releasing three stories with black protagonists this year
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Toronto Themes: True Stories, Bad Behavior and Women Who Make Awful Decisions
When the closest thing to a good guy also happens to be a convicted murderer, it’s easy to figure out that this year’s Toronto Film Festival isn’t for the virtuous
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Director Steve McQueen on His Brutal ’12 Years A Slave': It’s a Film About Love
The director of the violent, true story about a slave delves into why he made it at Toronto press conference
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Toronto: ’12 Years a Slave’ Leaves Another Festival Audience Shaken
Following its triumphant bow in Telluride, Steve McQueen’s brutal drama about slavery is another sign that Toronto doesn’t really get going until Friday night
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‘Touchy Feely’ Review: This Masseuse Doesn’t Go Deep Enough
Rosemarie DeWitt’s massage therapist is the central — and least interesting — character in a disappointing ensemble piece
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Toronto: Julian Assange, Roger Ebert Share Spotlight at Festival Opening
Bill Condon’s impeccably cast, well-paced WikiLeaks drama “The Fifth Estate” is preceded by a tribute to the late critic
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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Director Benh Zeitlin Divulges Details of His Next Film
The protagonist is a young girl. Calling Quvenzhane Wallis …
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Benedict Cumberbatch Honored by BAFTA LA
The “Sherlock” and “Star Trek into Darkness” star will receive British Artist of the Year award at the Britannia Awards on Nov. 9
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‘Star Wars’ Rumors Don’t Keep Benedict Cumberbatch From Replacing Brad Pitt in ‘Lost City of Z’
Brad Pitt is producing the long-gestating adaptation of David Grann’s book, which will be directed by James Gray
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20 Questions About 20 Big Toronto Movies
Is “Gravity” as awesome as they say? Can Matthew Weiner’s movie be as good as his TV series? TIFF audiences may find a few of these answers
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Toronto Film Fest: The Film Biz Braces for the Big One
The behemoth of the fall festivals has arrived, with a lineup too vast to comprehend and a six-year Oscar winning streak on the line
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’12 Years a Slave’ Director Steve McQueen Wants Viewers to Experience Injustice (Video)
The film’s director, cast members and historians discuss the real-life struggles of Solomon Northup — a free man abducted into slavery
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’12 Years a Slave’ Stuns Telluride: Do We Have an Oscar Front-Runner?
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o leap to front of awards conversation after first screening of Steve McQueen's brutal historical drama
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Cannes Winner ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Accepts NC-17 Rating
With making extensive cuts to the Palme d'Or winner out of the question, Sundance Selects makes it only the fourth film in five years to go out under the restrictive rating
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Eli Roth’s ‘Green Inferno’ Heading to Toronto Film Fest’s Midnight Madness Section
Nine horror and genre films are announced for 25th anniversary of TIFF section
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‘August: Osage County,’ ‘Gravity,’ ‘Rush’ Headed to Toronto Film Fest
Festival will open with Bill Condon's WikiLeaks movie "The Fifth Estate," and close with Daniel Schecter's "Life of Crime"
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Chiwetel Ejiofor Sold Into Slavery in First ’12 Years a Slave’ Trailer (Video)
Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt co-star in Fox Searchlight's December release
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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Star Michael K. Williams May Play ‘Freeway’ Rick Ross in Jeremy Renner Movie (Exclusive)
"Kill the Messenger" stars Renner as journalist Gary Webb, who became a target of the CIA
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Jennifer Lopez, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Among 276 Invited to Join Academy
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara, "Mud" writer/director Jeff Nichols, "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and horror producer Jason Blum also among invitees
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TheWrap’s Inaugural Innovators List: 12 Who Are Changing Hollywood
We present our first list of the movers and shakers that are changing the industry as we know it
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TheWrap’s Inaugural List of 12 Innovators Changing Hollywood (Photos)
TheWrap presents its first annual list of innovators changing Hollywood.
