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Golden Globe nominations seldom lead to the big box-office bounce that Oscar contenders can enjoy, but positive media attention can help limited releases mount successful expansions.

George Clooney movie Up In The Air has received the most Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama and Best Dramatic Actor for the star.

The 67th annual Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actor in a motion picture have been announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

"Well, I used to have them out but now I have put them away. Those awards are quite serious but I have had so many funny ones over the years.

Dame Helen Mirren has collected a lifetime achievement award for her "outstanding and lasting" contribution to film and TV.

Leo Tolstoy is one of history's most renowned novelists and intellectuals, and his lasting effect on Russian culture cannot be ignored.

The trailer for this starry drama about the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life does a good job of flogging the film.

Fact and fiction converge in this talent-driven drama based on Jay Parini's novel about Leo Tolstoy.

In "The Last Station," Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man - Leo Tolstoy in his eighties, imposing, stentorian, and almost alarmingly active.

Directed by Michael Hoffman. Produced by Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling and Jens Meurer.

The Last Station begins in 1910, when the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is in his waning days but still greatly celebrated, as a novelist and the touchstone of a community of "Tolstoyans," passive resisters living virtuous lives based on his ideals.

MALVERN Theatresa spring 2010 film special season opens with the last film Heath Ledger made before his shocking death of an accidental overdose, aged just 28, last year.

Limited Release: Dec 23, 2009; Rated: R ; Length: 100 Minutes; Genre: Drama ; With: Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer Image credit: Stephan Rabold DOWN FOR THE COUNTESS Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, and Paul Giamatti each mourn in their own way in The Last Station The challenge and the hoot of playing formidable ladies with iron wills suit ...

'Up In The Air' For two-thirds of the journey, George Clooney's traveling-man comedy flies even straighter and truer than director Jason Reitman's teen-pregnancy hit "Juno," delivering snappy screwball dialogue with deep touches of pathos.

Leo and Sofya Tolstoy had one of the great literary marriages - a passionate half-century love affair that resulted in the birth of 13 children, a deep and abiding partnership that inspired and helped to produce some of the most significant works in all of world literature, and a scornful, destructive relationship that drove each of them to the ...

So, everyone is asking me about "The Last Station," and by everyone I mean all the members of my book group, because we love Helen Mirren.

The urban drama "Precious" and the Leo Tolstoy period piece "The Last Station" each have earned a leading five nominations for the Spirit Awards that honour independent film.

A wife fights to maintain control of her husband's intellectual property rights.

Oh Tolstoy! Plummer and Mirren. Stephan Rabold The Last Station Running time 112 minutes Written and directed by Michael Hoffman Starring James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Helen Mirren L et the drums roll.

"Brothers" - Jim Sheridan's remake of the acclaimed 2004 Danish film "Brodre," has aspirations for "Deer Hunter" territory - a minor-key examination of the cost blue-collar families pay for war.