Word: poignant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Blood Diamond EDDIE MURPHY, Dreamgirls MARK WAHLBERG, The Departed EDDIE MURPHY There's nothing like revitalized talent for Oscar bait. Murphy shows some of his early-career thunder in a serious role. JACKIE EARLE HALEY A kid actor who was out of the biz for a decade, he's poignant in the role of the child molester in Little Children. BRAD PITT O.K., he's still got Angelina. But Pitt's pro bono work as a grieving, angry husband in Babel merited an Oscar nod. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ADRIANA BARRAZA, Babel CATE BLANCHETT, Notes on a Scandal ABIGAIL BRESLIN, Little...
...remake - of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. (If you're wondering what the last famous film of its type was, and how many Oscars it received, the answers are Scarface and none.) Little Miss Sunshine? Feel-good, sure, but not of Best Picture stature. The Queen? Funny, poignant, pertinent, but at heart a TV movie...
...home in a gallery in subtropical Brisbane. Bento, for one, is smitten with the work of Japanese sculptor Teruya, who uses tweezers to fashion miniature trees from discarded paper shopping bags. "I love anything done with hands," she says. And contemporary art is all the richer for this poignant patchwork of the Pacific...
...series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year...
Griet’s poignant gaze captivates the 17th-century Dutch painter and Chevalier’s readers alike. Yet before there was a Griet to challenge the muse’s expected passivity, there was a spirited Huguenot peasant called Isabelle...