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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted tonight to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman, and cinematographer Gordon Willis. All four awards will be presented at the Academy?s inaugural Governors Awards event on Saturday, November 14, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.

The cast had never acted and scripts were impossible, but Chilean director Marco Bechis still managed to make his film about obscure Brazilian Indians. Tom Phillips finds out howTracking down the lead actor in Birdwatchers is no easy task, but then Ambrósio Vilhava is not your typical Brazilian movie star. Dozens of calls to his mobile phone are diverted straight to his answering machine. Dozens more go unanswered. One time a child's voice answers before the line goes dead. Then, finally, on the eighth day of trying, his heavily accented Portuguese crackles over the line.Vilhava is not a soap-opera heart-throb or a musclebound action hero. He is a Guaraní-Kaiowá Indian and grandfather of two who lives in a tiny village in Brazil's midwest and was catapulted on to the country's big screens with his performance in Italian director Marco Bechis's new film, Birdwatchers. 'It wasn't difficult to act, it was my dream,' says Vilhava, who plays Nadio, a troubled Kaiowá leader fig

Writer-director Andrew Bujalski follows up his well-received Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation with Beeswax, a subtle, amusing film filled with charm and spontaneity that displays the filmmaker's gift for creating an acute sense of life being lived before our very eyes.

Before R.J. Cutler started on The September Issue - his brilliant behind-the-scenes look at Vogue and its mighty monarch of an editor, Anna Wintour - the documentary filmmaker would have been hard-pressed to tell you much of anything about the world of couture.

Scottish ITV franchise holder opted out of programmes including Marple, Lewis and KingdomSTV, the ITV franchise-holder in Scotland, has defended its controversial decision to opt out of showing some of the ITV1 network's biggest drama commissions.STV faced renewed criticism this week after Scottish viewers missed out on seeing Agatha Christie's Marple on Sunday, because it chose to screen a repeat of the surfing movie Blue Crush instead.The decision backfired, with a mere 112,000 viewers, just 5.9% of the Scottish audience, tuning in to Blue Crush, making it the least watched programme on the five terrestrial channels in Scotland at that time.Across the UK on ITV1, 21% of the audience watched Marple. The Scottish Sun asked: 'Have STV lost their Marples?'Bobby Hain, STV's director of broadcast services and regulatory affairs, defended the company's money-saving strategy of opting out of some of the ITV1 network's most high-profile programming and filling the schedules with films, repeat

Asin?s father Joseph Thottukmal is being the supportive father by filling in for daughter Asin?s absence from meetings with her London Dreams co-star Salman Khan and director Vipul Shah. Reason? The once warm relationship between Joseph ...

Lauren Bacall, producer-executive John Calley, producer-director Roger Corman and Gordon Willis will all be honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' inaugural Governors Awards event on Nov. 14 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.

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