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Gary Oldman gave a subdued but memorable performance in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." He may not have gotten love from the Golden Globe folks nor the Screen Actors Guild, but he's being honored at the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival

Brad Pitt, who received a SAG Award nomination for Best Actor today, will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award for Acting at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. This is for his performance in "Moneyball" and "The Tree of Life."

The billion-dollar Alvin and the Chipmunks film franchise, which turns three this Christmas with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, is not coy about its M.O., which as far as I can tell is providing a delivery system for highly choreographed chipmunk karaoke.

Patricio Guzmán's "Nostalgia for the Light" was the big winner at the 2011 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards receiving the Best Feature trophy. Here's the full list of winners:

The International Press Academy has announced the nominees of the 16th Annual Satellite Awards. "Drive" by Nicholas Winding Refn and Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" led the pack with eight nominations each including Best Picture.

I am very intrigued by "The Artist." It's a silent film after all (which is pretty cool!), but it's generating enough Oscar buzz that I cannot simply ignore it! But the road to the Oscars is still quite long and tumultuous even though the preeminent Academy Awards vote-getter

The Palm Springs International ShortFest, billed as the largest short film festival in North America, has announced its Festival award winners! 331 short films were screened, but in the end, only 18 categories were awarded.

Pixar continues to be the king at the box-office! "Cars 2" becomes the 12th film of the animation studio to debut at No. 1. The animated adventure, featuring the voices of Larry the Cable Guy as Mater and Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, landed at the top with $68 million.

There's a new promo poster for "The Avengers" and it looks mighty cool!

Sure, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" opened big, very big, and was even a record-holder internationally with $256.3 million beating 2009's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" which earned $236 million.