Academy Awards

...fare and crowd-befuddling experimentalism. Constantly he has confounded expectation. And so, just as he produced his Oscar-winning anti-corporate melodrama Erin Brockovich at the height of the get-rich-quick dotcot boom, now, when...

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Friday, 20 November 2009 Academy Award winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting, the Bourne movies) stars in The Informant! which comes from Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Thirteen). The film is based on the true...

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Damon puts on Oscar-worthy performance in 'The Informant!' "The Informant!" spins a bizarre, true story into a funny tale that is uncomfortably real. Director Steven Soderbergh takes a look into the world of white-collar crime through the...

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...news spectacle." Soderbergh also directs the play, and his involvement suggests the play could be noteworthy. He won the Oscar for directing "Traffic." His other credits include "Erin Brockovich," "Ocean's Eleven" and "The Informant!"

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...a question? Now's your chance. Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips will interview the Academy Award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, but what he grills the actor on is up to you. Phillips will sit down with...

In this article: Matt Damon, The Informant, Academy Award, and Toronto International Film Festival

...of his music from such Ridley Scott films as "American Gangster" and "Body of Lies." Three-time Oscar-winning U.S. composer and songwriter Marvin Hamlisch received a lifetime achievement award and was on hand at the awards gala, where...

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...as actor and director. In the last installment of our OscarWatch interview (check out Part 1 and Part 2 as well), Damon talks about how the Oscar-winning filmmaker guided him through the comedy's most pivotal scenes. Don't forget to follow...

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" The difference was only too clear to FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon as he settled into his seat at an Olathe movie theater the other day to watch "The Informant!", the new Matt Damon film directed by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh. This...

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...The Bourne Identity- had come out yet. And when Soderbergh called him about The Informant!, Damon, who'd won a screenwriting Oscar for Good Will Hunting, thought he was being hired to draft the script. "Nobody had offered me a job in nine...

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