Director Seeks a Language of Hope

Shot in three countries over the course of nine months, "Babel" is arguably González Iñárritu's most sweeping and ambitious work so far.

Rallying 'Round 'Flags'

Appropriate to his sense of quiet gentlemanliness, Clint Eastood is not using "Flags of Our Fathers" as a pulpit for any political grandstanding.

Separate Visions, Shared Passion

Alfonso Cuaron ("Children of Men") and Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth") have been friends and advisers for 20 years.

Pedro Almodovar, Rounding Out Cruz's, Um, Career

Critics are saying Penelope Cruz's role in "Volver" is the best of her career. She's saying the director has changed her life.

Sundance's Leading Man

Among the lessons in "An Inconvenient Truth": Earth's glaciers are melting, the polar bears are screwed, each year sets new heat records. Al Gore sometimes flies coach.

Is It Payback Time?

Martin Scorsese has been nominated five times for a Best Directing Oscar and has never won. Is the sixth time a charm?

Elizabeth III

The trick to impersonating royalty, Helen Mirren says, "is you make everyone around you make you the king or queen."

This Role Was Brutal

Forest Whitaker tried to humanize tyrant Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."

It's No Dream, Girl

Thanks to a five-minute song, Jennifer Hudson's life is in the midst of exhilarating, unnerving change.

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Sunday Arts: Oscars Special

What makes a film Best Picture and more behind the scenes Oscar coverage.

• In the Spotlight


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Awards Tracker

Keep up with who's winning what in this overview of the season's top prizes.

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• In the Spotlight: Nominee Interviews


• Nominated Movie Showtimes... "Babel" "Blood Diamond" "The Departed" "Dreamgirls" "The Last King of Scotland" "Letters From Iwo Jima" "Little Children" "Notes on a Scandal" "The Queen"

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