Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" and its director took top honors at the Critics' Choice Awards, while Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and James Cameron's "Avatar" won the most awards. Director-producer Kathryn Bigelow was named best director at Friday's ceremony for "Locker," winner of ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For just a moment, stop obsessing about which 10 movies the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who are now in the middle of marking their ballots, will nominate for best picture. Amid the year-end rush of new releases and blizzard of screeners, we've all been on a movie binge, so ...

Meryl Streep saw her role as US cooking idol Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" as a tribute to her mother, a woman "with the same joie de vivre," the veteran actress said Thursday. "What I was trying to do with Julia was do homage to my mother," she told a news conference at the Rome film festival, where the ...

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 2. "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 3. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn) 4. "Alex Cross's Trial" by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown) 5. "South of Broad" by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese) 6. "Spartan Gold" by Clive Cussler ...