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Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over the exclusion of films like these and charges of cronyism within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' selection committee led to rules changes in 2001. So this year's list will be a lot sharper...
...Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, 46, trades corsets and curls for padding and a monobrow in her new film about an ugly but magical child minder, Nanny McPhee. Over tea, the Briton tells TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan why Mary Poppins got it wrong, why becoming a parent at age 40 requires a bit of extra effort and why she stores her Oscars...
FELICITY HUFFMAN seems in line to snare an Oscar nomination for her role as a male-to-female transsexual who discovers she fathered a son in Transamerica. Plus Desperate Housewives' plain-Jane mom finally got to smear on the rouge...
Almost a year after your Oscar, are you handling the situation? Oh, yeah. We're definitely handling the situation. We parlayed the Oscar into the music. There's a few things where I have been tested and I could have gone the Terrell Owens route. But we decided to handle things internally and be as humble...
...awards season that revs up next Monday with the Golden Globes and peaks on March 5, Oscar night, some of the actors celebrated here will hear their names called; some won't. We're not giving out statuettes, just thank-you notes to seven people who wrote their artistry on the screen...