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After being defeated last year ("Kung Fu Panda" topped "WALL-E"), Pixar returned to the throne of the Annie Awards this time around, with Pete Docter's "Up" taking best animated feature at the ceremony last night. The Annies did spread the wealth quite significantly for the landmark year in animated cinema, with "Coraline," "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "The Princess and the Frog" and "Monsters vs. Aliens" each taking home trophies as well. The ... 
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The one-week only roadshow presentation of the "Red Riding" trilogy at New York's IFC Center led all specialty films this weekend, according to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier this afternoon. Adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni from David Peace's series of novels, the trilogy consists of three separate films directed by Julian Jarrold ("Red Riding: 1974"), James Marsh ("Red Riding: 1980") and Anand Tucker ("Red Riding: 1983"). The 305 minute ... 
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THIS WEEK IN FILM: Sundance wrapped up another run on Sunday, followed by a number of acquisition deals and bidding wars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its annual list of Oscar nominees on Tuesday, while Wednesday saw South by Southwest unveiling its 2010 lineup. OSCARS: Reporters in Los Angeles woke up at the crack of dawn to hear the nominees for this year's 82nd Academy Awards. Though ... 
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Director Anocha Suwichakornpong ("Mundane History"), Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio ("Alamar") and Paz Fábrega ("Agua fria de mar") took the VPRO Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Friday evening in The Netherlands. Each will take home a prize of ?15,000 as well as the glory. Go to indiewire.com for the full winners lowdown. [Photo provided by IFFR] 
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The 39th annual International Film Festival Rotterdam announced the winners of its VPRO Tiger Awards competition this evening, with "Agua fría de mar" ("Cold Water of the Sea") by Paz Fábrega (Costa Rica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico), "Mundane History" ("Jao nok krajok") by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), and "Alamar" ("To the Sea") by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio (Mexico) taking the top Tiger. Each VPRO Tiger Award comes with a prize of ?15,000. IFFR's FIPRESCI ... 
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The inside story of a star football player who went to war in the wake of 9/11 and then died on the battlefield is coming to U.S. theaters after closing a deal with Harvey Weinstein following its debut last month at the Sundance Film Festival. In its second major acquisition of a Sundance film, The Weinstein Company bought Amir Bar-Lev's documentary, "The Tillman Story" from A&E IndieFilms. TWC acquired North American ... 
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Among the necessarily hit-and-miss movies here (242 features), one arrived like a Wagnerian bolt, a Rotterdammerung, if you'll pardon the indulgence. Fresh from its world premiere at Sundance, Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu's almost painfully seductive "The Temptation of St. Tony" brought to this purest of large film festivals an aesthetic and moral gravitas that many of us felt had died out with the Bergmans, the Dreyers, the Fellinis. The movie may ... 
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"As we well know, they don't make Susan Sontags anymore?hot, newsmaking ur-intellectuals whose essays were events to equal their subjects, who also wrote knockout fiction, and who was occasionally moved to make inquisitive, brainy, New Wavey films," writes Michael Atkinson in the Village Voice." "Of her four features, only 'Promised Lands' (1974) is a straight-on documentary: Fueled by her ambivalent reaction to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Sontag landed in Sinai and ... 
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"Smile like you did when you got your draft card." A freshly picked recruit is getting his photo taken at Fort Knox in the summer of 1970, and smile he does. At this point of Frederick Wiseman's 1971 film "Basic Training," laughter arose from the packed house at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Whether it be at a basic training camp or mental hospital, a high school or a ... 
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The Academy Award nominations have been announced, and indieWIRE has decided to make things easier for anyone seeking out the latest lists by compiling a summary of the announced awards that led up to them. Below are links to the many announcements, as well as a compilation of the winners in various categories, listed in order of how many kudos each have received. Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" leads the best ... 
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