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...George Clooney and Geoffrey Rush on their rare carpet forays. "Slow down for the still photographers and the television cameras. And you shout back an answer. These days it's sheer quantitative numbers. Certain red carpets just go on forever." (See everything you need to know about the 10 Best Picture nominees...
...from five to 10, hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years were when the big prizes went to the megahits Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The scheme worked: half of the Best Picture nominees have grossed more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Here's the full roster, with each movie's domestic and worldwide gross...
Note that The Hurt Locker, the predictors' favorite to cop Best Picture and Best Director, has the second lowest total gross of the 10. But those awards are announced at the end of the show; Avatar should have piled up enough little-people statuettes in the intervening three hours to keep the masses satisfied. The big threat to big ratings, as of mid-afternoon Sunday, is that the show may not be seen by millions of viewers in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester county and on Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut...
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...green groups are desperate for Cameron to name himself King of the Environment. Days before the Academy Awards on Mar. 7 - Avatar is up for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director - a coalition of environmental groups launched a campaign to highlight the movie's not-so-hidden green subtext, and to prevail upon the director to use the awards-show platform to send the world an environmental message. (See pictures of James Cameron's best special effects...