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30 Cards in this Set
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The story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women.
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Aviator
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Johnny Depp stars in the story of J.M. Barrie's relationship with four boys & their mother, which inspired him to write "Peter Pan."
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Finding Neverland
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Clint Eastwood directs and stars as a hard-luck trainer who agrees to teach a headstrong young female boxer, played by Hilary Swank.
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Million Dollar Baby
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A divorced middle school teacher and failed novelist and his altar-bound friend Jack take a wine-tasting trip in California, pondering questions about their directions in life.
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Sideways
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Unbeknownst to family and friends, Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) visits women and helps them to induce miscarriages for their unwanted pregnancies, a practice that is illegal in 1950s England
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Vera Drake (director Mike Leigh)
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In the face of unspeakable atrocities, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.
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Hotel Rwanda (director Don Cheadle)
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Set in contemporary London, this is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals.
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Closer
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Annette Bening stars as an aging actress who plots to get back at her former lover and the starlet he left her for.
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Being Julia
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This is the harrowing story of a (not quite) typical mule: Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno), an intelligent and fiercely independent 17-year-old girl from Colombia who agrees to smuggle a half-kilo of heroin into the United States.
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Maria Full of Grace
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Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together, Joel (Jim Carrey) agrees to undergo a procedure that will erase his memories of Clementine (Kate Winslet). Once the process starts, however, Joel realizes he doesn't really want to forget Clementine, so he starts smuggling her away into parts of his memory where she doesn't belong...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Nine years after he first met and hung out with her for a single night (in the film "Before Sunrise"), American author Jesse (Ethan Hawke) once again meets up with Celine (Julie Delpy) in Paris while there on a book tour.
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Before Sunset
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Springtime in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia. A family of nomadic shepherds assists the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white colt. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, refusing it her milk and her motherly love. When any hope for the little one seems to have vanished, the nomads send their two young boys on a journey through the desert, to a a backwater town in search of a musician who is their only hope for saving the colt's life.
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Story of the Weeping Camel
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Yesterday, a young woman suffering from AIDS, travels on foot with her daughter to a clinic hoping to receive medical treatment. When she is initially turned away at the understaffed facility, Yesterday persists in her efforts and is soon befriended by a local schoolteacher.
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Yesterday
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Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by playwright Doug Wright over several years, I Am My Own Wife tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who survived both the onslaught of the Nazis and the repressive Communist regime that followed after World War II. Jefferson Mays portrays dozens of characters in this one-man play, including the controversial Mahlsdorf herself and the American dramatist who becomes intrigued by her.
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I Am My Own Wife
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This new musical is set on a street in New York City where people and puppets live as neighbors and deal with some of life’s most thorny issues: romance, sex, money, career, paying the rent—and other matters unmentionable. The show tells the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There’s Brian, the out-of-work comedian, and his therapist fiancée, Christmas Eve; Nicky, the good-hearted slacker, and his roommate Rod, a Republican investment banker with a secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate Monster; and the building’s superintendent, Gary Coleman (yes, that Gary Coleman). Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.
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Avenue Q
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Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.
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Wicked
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Set in the small Russian village of Anatevka on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Fiddler on the Roof tells the bittersweet story of the dairyman Tevye. He is trying to maintain the simplicities of traditional life while his five daughters are growing up all too quickly, and outside events threaten the precarious balancing act that is their lives.
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Fiddler on the Roof
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With a score by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by John Weidman, Assassins gives new meaning to the phrase “killer musical” by exploring the history of presidential assassination in America. The show looks at the lives, loves and lunacy of nine American assassins and near-assassins, including John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley, Lee Harvey Oswald and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
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Assassins
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With Hugh Jackman as its star, The Boy from Oz tells the funny and ultimately heart-breaking story of the great entertainer Peter Allen, from his humble beginnings growing up in the Australian outback through a meteoric rise to fame as an international star who would sell out week-long engagements at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Allen began singing in country pubs at age 11, surviving family tragedy to become a local television star by the time he was 16. While performing in Hong Kong, he was discovered by Judy Garland, who took him under her wing. Allen later married Liza Minnelli, Garland’s eldest daughter. Worldwide fame followed as he went on to become a pop superstar and an Oscar-winning songwriter.
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Boy from Oz
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Title of the Work Clocks
Artist Performing Work Coldplay |
Best Record
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Title of the Work Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Artist Performing Work OutKast |
Best Album
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Title of the Work Dance With My Father
Artist Performing Work Luther Vandross |
Song of the Year
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Title of the Work Best New Artist
Artist Performing Work Evanescence |
Best New Artist
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Title of the Work Beautiful
Artist Performing Work Christina Aguilera |
Female Vocal
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Title of the Work Cry Me A River
Artist Performing Work Justin Timberlake |
Male Vocal
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itle of the Work Underneath It All
Artist Performing Work No Doubt |
Best Duo Vocal
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Curb Your Enthusiasm • Larry David as Himself
8 Simple Rules • John Ritter as Paul Hennessy *Frasier • Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane Friends • Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani Monk • Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk |
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*The Practice • James Spader as Alan Shore
The Sopranos • James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano 24 • Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer The West Wing • Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet Without A Trace • Anthony LaPaglia as Jack Malone |
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Everybody Loves Raymond • Patricia Heaton as Debra Barone
Friends • Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Karen Green Life With Bonnie • Bonnie Hunt as Bonnie Malloy Malcolm In The Middle • Jane Kaczmarek as Lois *Sex And The City • Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw |
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Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Alias • Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow Joan Of Arcadia • Amber Tamblyn as Joan Girardi Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson The Sopranos • Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano The West Wing • Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg |
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