The Last King of Scotland

...guild winners often go on to win Oscars, including three from 2006: lead performers Helen Mirren for The Queen and Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland were the guild and Oscar winners, as was supporting-actress Jennifer Hudson for...

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...ceremony. "The Queen" also scooped best film ahead of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," "The Departed," directed by Martin Scorsese, "The Last King of Scotland" and low-budget beauty pageant comedy "Little Miss Sunshine." KINGS AND...

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...gears to play a paranoid African dictator. Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls"), Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") and Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland") were all first-time Oscar nominees on Tuesday in a field of fresh...

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 -- Helen Mirren of "The Queen" and Forest Whitaker of "The Last King of Scotland" won Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday as best lead players, their latest prizes on the road to the Feb. 25 Academy Awards. The...

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...SAG Awards LOS ANGELES -- Helen Mirren of "The Queen" and Forest Whitaker of "The Last King of Scotland" won Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday as best lead players, their latest prizes on the road to the Academy Awards. The road-trip...

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...both for the quirky road film "Little Miss Sunshine." Fox Searchlight also distributed the film "The Last King of Scotland," for which Forest Whitaker won the award for best actor. Disney won two awards, including best-actress honors for...

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...out "Babel," which leads the Globe contenders with seven nominations. Forest Whitaker's performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" has topped the U.S. critics' lists this year, making him the front-runner for...

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...multi-stranded saga "Babel," Martin Scorsese's cops-and-crooks saga "The Departed," the quirky road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Last King of Scotland" for the best film prize. No film dominated the awards, popularly known as...

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...other likely Oscar favorites and nominees dominated the guild choices, including Forest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" and Peter O'Toole as an aging actor whose lecherous ways are revived by a young...

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