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Nicole Kidman's still got it! Moulin Rouge!, the 2001 musical staring Nicole and Ewan McGregor has been named the best film of the decade! That's a huge honor!

150,000 movie fans voted on their favorite movie and Moulin Rouge! came out on top beating out popular films like The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Helen Cowley - editor of DVD rental service LOVEFILM, who carried out the survey - said: “‘Moulin Rouge!’ can’t claim to be on the same scale as some of its epic counterparts.

“But its place as the number one film of the decade goes to show that original cinematography, a solid love story and a creative soundtrack can truly stand the test of time.”

The Top 20 Films of the Decade according to LOVEFILM:

1. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001)
2. ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
3. ‘Shaun of the Dead’ (2004)
4. ‘The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001)
5. ‘Gladiator’ (2000)
6. ‘The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’ (2003)
7. ‘Pan's Labyrinth’ (2006)
8. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ (2003)
9. ‘Donnie Darko’ (2001)
10. ‘WALL-E’ (2008)
11. ‘Kill Bill Parts 1 and 2’ (2003 and 2004)
12. ‘Casino Royale’ (2006)
13. ‘Shrek’ (2001)
14. ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ (2007)
15. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (2009)
16. ‘Batman Begins’ (2005)
17. ‘Memento’ (2000)
18. ‘Amelie’ (2001)
19. ‘Sin City’ (2005)
20. ‘Finding Nemo’ (2003)
Definitely put Wall-E on your list of movies to see before the Oscars, because they’re in contention with all the big dogs at every award show this season. And on top of that, the film just won the coveted Golden Tomato award from RottenTomatos.com.

The website is dedicated to providing movie reviews for almost every movie out there. What they do is compile a list of reviews from newspapers, online, and magazines, and average them into a single score. This year is their 10th year of the Golden Tomato awards, with the categories being: Wide Release, Limited Release, Top UK, Top AU, and Moldy, given to the worst-reviewed movie of the year. Just a little different from your average award show!

Here are the big winners this year:

WALL-E won the Golden Tomato for wide-release with a Tomatometer score of 96 per cent.

Man on Wire, a film that recalls Philippe Petit's tightrope feat between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, scored 100 per cent and won the Golden Tomato for limited-release films. It also won the award for best UK.

The Black Balloon took home the prize for best in the AU category, with a score of 95%.

The Moldy Tomato was awarded to the horror film One Missed Call. That movie had the unfortunate distinction of not finding a single positive review, earning a goose egg on the Tomatometer.

Not too shabby for an animated film to beat out films like The Dark Knight and Iron Man! Click here for the full list of top ranked films on the Tomatometer.
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Wall-E is certainly in contention for Best Picture for this year’s Oscars. The Chicago Film Critics Association has just named the Disney Pixar animated movie their pick for Best Picture of 2008. Not only that, but Chicago picked WALL-E for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, and Score.

Not too bad for a Disney flick! We think what draws viewers especially to this movie is the storyline that’s not too far off from happening on our planet. If you’re unfamiliar with the trash-collecting robot’s story, click here to read about it.

Over in at the Las Vegas Film Critics Association, they picked Frost/Nixon for Best Picture, which is quickly gaining buzz as one of the movies to see before award season. They heavily favored Frost/Nixon, also picking Frank Langella for Best Actor, and Ron Howard for Best Director. Here are the lists for both Critics Associations. Weigh in on your favorites!



Chicago:

* Picture: WALL-E
* Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
* Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
* Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
* Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
* Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
* Original Screenplay: Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, WALL-E
* Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
* Foreign-Language Film: Let the Right One In
* Documentary: Man on Wire
* Animated Feature: WALL-E
* Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
* Original Score: Thomas Newman, WALL-E
* Most Promising Performer: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
* Most Promising Director: Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One I

Las Vegas:

* Picture: Frost/Nixon
* Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
* Actress: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road, The Reader
* Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
* Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
* Director: Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
* Screenplay (Original or Adapted): Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
* Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Editing: Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill, Frost/Nixon
* Score: James Newton Howard, Defiance
* Song: “Another Way to Die,” Quantum of Solace
* Family Film: The Spiderwick Chronicles
* Documentary: Man on Wire
* Animated Film:Wall-E
* Foreign Film: Mongol (Russia)
* Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Visual Effects: Iron Man
* Youth in Film: David Kross, The Reader
The more we hear about Slumdog Millionaire, the more we want to see it! It just snagged two wins for Best Picture from the Satellite Awards and the Boston Society of Film Critics. Not quite as cool as an Oscar, but still noteworthy.

The Danny Boyle Bollywood film won top honors for Satellite, but tied for first with Wall-E on the Boston critics list. This is the first time the group hasn't been able to decide on one definitive winner.

Here's the complete list of winners...

Boston Critics' picks:

Best Picture:
(tie) Slumdog Millionaire
and WALL-E

Best Director:
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Paranoid Park

Best Actor:
(tie) Sean Penn, Milk , and Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress:
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger , The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress:
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Screenplay:
Milk

Best Cinematography:
Paranoid- Park

Best Documentary:
Man on Wire

Best Foreign-Language Film:
Let the Right One In

Best Animated Film:
WALL-E

Best Film Editing:
Slumdog Millionaire

Best New Filmmaker:
Martin McDonough, In Bruges

Best Ensemble Cast:
Tropic Thunder
The American Film Institute knows a thing or two about good movies. And they’ve just released their list for the top ten films of 2008. A 13-person jury deliberated over the weekend to decide on which films were the best of the year.

To qualify, the movie had to be a narrative fiction feature longer than 60 minutes "with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States."

According to Variety, AFI picked The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gran Torino, Iron Man, Milk, Wall-E, Wendy and Lucy, and The Wrestler as the top ten.

We think this is a good mix of light films, and ones with a more in –depth story line. Do you think they got the list right? And speaking of top ten, AFI also named their favorites for television shows as well. In the top ten are: Breaking Bad, In Treatment, John Adams, Life, Lost, Mad Men, The Office, Recount, The Shield and The Wire.
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Critics are curious… about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Milk, which led the 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards with 8 nominations each this morning as it aired live from MTV Studios in Times Square with Rosie Perez and “At the Movies” hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz as the bearers of good news.

Over 200 members of The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) vote for the Critics’ Choice Awards and this year they got a new category to weigh in on as ‘Best Action Film’ joined the list of notables.

Also raising eye brows… a whopping 10 films made the cut for Best Picture; including Wall-E which Neil Rosen, NY1 Movie Critic, “was surprised to see crop onto the best picture list and not just the best animated.”

The large scale Wall-E mingles with smaller productions on the coveted Best Pic list, which shows “A great film is a great film no matter how big the catering budget was on the set” according to Ben Lyons.

The Critics’ Choice Awards is the first show to kick off the award season and it has historically predicted who will make the Academy Award short list. Rosie Perez {dressed in Amanda Uprichard with a necklace by her fave jewelry designer Tuleste} says she wants “my girl Marisa Tomei to get the nod” for her role in The Wrestler and Ben Lyons could “barely contain himself” as he announced the 8 noms for his top pick for the year The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Are you curious to see who will win this year? Tune into VH1 on January 8th at 9pm (ET/PT) for the live airing of the Critics’ Choice Awards and keep checking out hollyscoop.com for more award season surprises.

Now drum roll please… here is the full list of nominees…

BEST PICTURE
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler

BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
James Franco - Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant -Milk
Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards set to air February 22, 2009.

The 14 submitted features are:

“Bolt”
“Delgo”
“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”
“Dragon Hunters”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Igor”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”
“$9.99”
“The Sky Crawlers”
“Sword of the Stranger”
“The Tale of Despereaux”
“WALL-E”
“Waltz with Bashir”

Under the rules for this category, a maximum of 3 films can be nominated in a year. The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Which film do you think deserves a nomination?

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2008 will be presented on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network.
The Dark Knight is still the reigning champ at the box office. Here is the box office estimate for the weekend of August 8-10:

The Dark Knight--$26 million
Pineapple Express--$22.4 million
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor--$16.1 million
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2--$10.7 million
Step Brothers--$8.9 million
Mamma Mia!--$8 million
Journey to the Center of the Earth--$4.8 million
Hancock--$3.3 million
Swing Vote--$3.1 million
Wall-E--$3 million
Surprise, surprise, 'The Dark Knight' ruled the box office again this weekend. It brought in over $43 million dollars this weekend alone, and has grossed over $394 million since opening weekend.

The rest of the top ten is as follows:

The Dark Knight-$43,800,000
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor-$42,450,000
Step Brothers-$16,300,000
Mamma Mia!-$13,121,000
Journey to the Center of the Earth-$6,875,000
Swing Vote-$6,300,000
Hancock-$5,200,000
WALL-E-$4,747,000
The X-Files: I Want to Believe-$3,425,000
Space Chimps-$2,840,000
Hellboy II: The Golden Army-$2,527,000 Wanted-$1,257,000
'The Dark Knight' is still the reigning champ at the box office, bringing in another $75.6 million over the weekend, which brings its overall gross to $314 million!

Here's this weekends box office recap:

1. 'The Dark Knight' --$75.6 million
2. 'Step Brothers'--$30 million
3. 'Mamma Mia!'--$17.9 million
4. 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'-- $10.2 million
5. 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'-- $9.41 million
6. 'Hancock' -- $8.2 million
7. 'Wall-E'--$6.35 million
8. 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' -- $4.93 million
9. 'Space Chimps'--$4.38 million
10. 'Wanted' --$2.73 million

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