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...with goggles for eyes. cked by Tim Burton, digital animator Shane Acker has expanded his Oscar-nominated 11-minute CGI short into a full-length feature of grim splendour which starts with the making of a doll. This is 9 (voiced by Elijah...

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...of rewrites away from being a cult classic. Co-produced by Tim Burton, and expanded from an Oscar-nominated short film made by its director, Shane Acker, the cartoon often looks breathtaking. It's set in a dust-choked, rubble-strewn,...

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...Day-Lewis and Nicole Kidman, will open here on January 21. From here you can use the Social Web links to save Festival raises hope of Oscar to a social bookmarking site. Information provided on this page will not be used for any other...

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...and television episodes to a close, here's a complete list of every terror title (or ones with frightening elements) to receive an Oscar nomination, starting with 1932's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and ending with Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd...

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...fantasy "9." Short films are sometimes perfect as they are, and Shane Acker's "9," an 11-minute computer-animated 2005 masterpiece that got an Oscar nomination (and is now available on YouTube), is one of them. In the intervening...

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...in true mad-scientist mode. Acker holed up and spent nearly five years making his 11-minute animated short, which snagged him a 2005 Oscar nomination and attracted the backing of fantasy auteur Tim Burton. Burton, who signed on as one of...

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...of the same name. Acker's short which served as his 2004 UCLA student thesis and starred only 9, 5, and a relentless machine floated around the film-festival circuit in 2005, rightfully scooping up an Oscar nomination. It also acquired...

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...to star in Restless Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is in final negotiations to star in Oscar-winning director Gus Van Sant's upcoming Restless, according to entertainment trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. Wasikowska, who appears...

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...in "Yume no Mani Mani" But art direction can have a large, memorable impact on a film, one famous example being Anton Furst's nightmarish Gotham cityscape in Tim Burton's "Batman" (1989), which won him an Oscar. ("You revel in this scary...

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