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The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards & The American Film Institute Like The Social Network

Director David Fincher’s take on the creation of Facebook had a banner day today, as The Social Network was named the Best Film of the year by the L.A Film Critics Association and one of the top ten movies of the year by the AFI. Fincher also tied for Best Director, and writer Aaron Sorkin won for Best Screenplay, courtesy of the L.A. Critics. The full list of winners for both groups after the break.

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards & The American Film Institute Like The Social Network

Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Commence Steel-Cage Death Match

Welcome back to Movieline’s Oscar Index, your weekly, foolproof guide to the competition in the Academy Awards’ six major categories. Er, maybe not “foolproof”; this is Oscar season we’re talking about, when fools reign and underdogs crouch behind virtually every corner. Let us once again browse their ranks, yes?

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Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Commence Steel-Cage Death Match

Oscar Index: Does True Grit Have the Horses For Awards Season?

Another week, another prowl through the sweltering maze of hyperbole and hypothesis that is Oscar season. Put on Take off your thinking cap — it’s time to speculate with the best of them (informedly so, sort of, but still)! On to the Index!

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Geoffrey Rush Talks King’s Speech, the MPAA and Completing his EGOT

Geoffrey Rush is well aware that he is one letter (the “G”) away from winning an EGOT — the acronym popularized on the television show 30 Rock meaning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Of course, this awards season, a Grammy win for Rush seems about as unlikely a bet as it would be to bet against his nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in The King’s Speech — which is about as close to a sure thing as there can be. Not bad for a performance that that was inspired indirectly, of all things, by Crocodile Dundee .

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Leonardo DiCaprio Was on the Delta Flight that Made Emergency Landing at JFK

Stars, they’re just like us: They even survive near miss aviation disasters. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was a passenger on the Delta flight bound for Moscow that was forced to make an emergency landing last night at JFK airport in New York after one of the engines failed. Said DiCaprio’s representative in a statement , “[Leonardo] wishes to commend the actions of the pilot and flight crew in bringing the plane to a safe landing.” And how! Us Weekly reports that DiCaprio signed autographs for the rescue crew upon the plane’s safe landing. [ Us via Gothamist ]

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Leonardo DiCaprio Was on the Delta Flight that Made Emergency Landing at JFK

Tom Hooper on Directing The King’s Speech, Oscar Buzz and Working with Right Said Fred

Tom Hooper isn’t ready to talk about his Oscar chances just yet. As he points out, The King’s Speech , already a critical darling, has yet to make a dollar at the box-office. But that hasn’t stopped the prognosticators from predicting at least some Oscar gold for The King’s Speech — not a bad situation at all for a guy who got his start directing a Right Said Fred Sega commercial (yes, that Right Said Fred).

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The Trailer for Oscar Frontrunner The King’s Speech Doesn’t Stutter

The last two films to win the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival were Precious and Slumdog Millionaire , so do your best to feign surprise when 2010 winner The King’s Speech winds up on the list of Best Picture nominees next year. If recent history still has you unconvinced of The King’s Speech Oscar bona fides, however, the first trailer for the film will do its best to change your mind.

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The Trailer for Oscar Frontrunner The King’s Speech Doesn’t Stutter