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...programs. The negotations, which had been vigorous, became frantic. Finally, "we found something that was in line with what we pay other programmers," says Charles Schueler, Cablevision EVP. Minutes after the show started, Bob Iger reportedly gave his OK from the red carpet, just in time for Penélope Cruz to glide onto the screens of Cablevision customers in the New York City area to present the award for Best Supporting Actor. Reports of the agreed-upon price between ABC and Cablevision varied widely but were not above 60 cents. In other words, the whole dispute was about...
Often, before a movie scene is filmed, the director and cinematographer will bring in the leading actors' stand-ins to light and frame the shot. The opening image of Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces shows this process with a stand-in for Penélope Cruz. Then the star actress enters the frame. She looks so somber, as if she's about to read a death sentence...
...jury that made room for Mendoza managed to ignore two men who are surely among the most daring, original and accomplished filmmakers in the competition, or anywhere else: Spain's Pedro Almodóvar, with his Penélope Cruz romantic drama Broken Embraces, and Palestine's Elia Suleiman, whose endearing, deadpan The Time That Remains tells, in sour or poignant vignettes, the history of his family and his sundered country. Resnais, whose Wild Grass shows the legendary 86-year-old director at the top of his puckishly anarchic form, won a Life Achievement Award - which is Palme-speak...
...arguably - actually, since we're writing this, unquestionably - the world's most delight-giving director. In his crazy early days he was ignored by Cannes, but his last four films (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education and Volver) have been festival highlights. Oscar-winner Penélope Cruz makes her fourth appearance in an Almodóvar film with Broken Embraces, a time-spanning tale of a film director (Lluís Homar) who goes blind and loses the love of his life (Cruz). (Watch a TIME video with Almodóvar and Cruz...
...Boyle) and Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy). In addition, three of the four acting prizes went to foreigners. For England's Kate Winslet, her sixth Oscar nomination was the charm after being named Best Actress for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader. Spanish enchantress Penélope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her fiery painter in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, making her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. And in the ceremony's most emotionally honest moment, the mother, father and sister of the late Australian star Heath Ledger accepted...