Academy Awards

...- and as bearers of the worst news, the two soldiers form a cathartic bond. The film opened Nov. 13, and Harrelson's performance is already generating Oscar talk. (Read Bob Mondello's review.) Harrelson joined Fresh Air contributor Dave...

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...came to me," Harrelson said. It took a two-hour dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan on Oscar night in 2008 for Harrelson to make his case to Moverman - while picking food off the director's plate. "He wanted to play a soldier,...

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...warrior and continue to loathe the war." Who'd have thought Woody Harrelson would be primed to snag an Oscar nomination just one month after mowing down hordes of flesh-munchers in Zombieland? For playing an American hero, no less. The...

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...many instantly recognizable movies in the lineup. The organizers have programmed one piece of Oscar bait, the closing night feature The Messenger, starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson. But the big guns that have been screening at other...

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Best Original Screenplay, Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon: With most of the big Oscar guns in the adapted-screenplay race, Moverman and Camon's understated script could find itself in the running alongside Up and A Serious Man. Long...

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...agenda and no politics. It's just about laying it on the line." The little film, opening Friday, is generating major Oscar buzz when it comes to the best actor category. Foster plays a soldier back from Iraq who is sent to work at a new...

In this article: Ben Foster, The Messenger, Woody Harrelson, Oscar, X-Men: The Last Stand, 3:10 To Yuma, Iowa, and Iraq

...Officer" - Harrelson gives us layers of hurt under a callous yet needy crust. It may be the best performance of his career and certainly deserves Oscar consideration. </p><p>Oren Moverman's film tells this CNO story from the point of view of a...

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...nostalgia in our offices. But that's not the half of it. Woody Harrelson has a hit movie (Zombieland) and a serious role in a potential Oscar contender (The Messenger); Kelsey Grammer has another new sitcom (Hank); George Wendt has written a...

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...several films that Harrelson will be in before the end of this year. The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor's new releases include 2012, Defendor and The Messenger. Harrelson says he couldn't be happier. And, he says with a chuckle,...

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