NYTimes.com "Awards Season" Offers Extensive Coverage of the 2007 Oscar Race.Daily Commentary, Blogs, Oscar Night Live Coverage, Multimedia and Interactive Features Contribute to Site's Increased Focus on Hollywood's Premier Event NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Leading up to Oscar's big night when acting's royalty flocks to the red carpet for accolades and statuettes, The New York Times offers Web readers increased and nonstop coverage of the 2007 Academy Awards season at NYTimes.com/AwardsSeason. The "Awards Season" site focuses on every aspect of the Oscar race excitement including live coverage of the award winners on Oscar night, along with David Carr's Carpetbagger carpetbagger Epithet used during the Reconstruction period (1865–77) to describe a Northerner in the South seeking private gain. The word referred to an unwelcome outsider arriving with nothing more than his belongings packed in a satchel or carpetbag. blog posts from the Kodak Theatre The Kodak Theatre is a live theatre in the Hollywood and Highland retail, dining, and entertainment complex on Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. . The Awards Season offers a vantage point on everything from the stars, the films and the fashions to analysis through the site's daily postings, blogs, multimedia, current and archived articles and columns, and increased interactivity, such as informal voting on the Academy's most popular categories from Best Picture to Visual Effects. Also included on the Awards Season site is Jake Paltrow's original film, "The First Ones," a black and white short featuring seven actors from this year's Great Performances issue of the Sunday Times Magazine, discussing the first movies that affected their lives; The Carpetbagger blog and videos; slide shows and interviews with, among others, Edward Zwick, director of "Blood Diamond," Stephen Frears, director of "The Queen," and Kevin Macdonald, director of "The Last King of Scotland"; interactive features like "Anatomy of a Scene: Swimming With Penguins," where director George Miller George Miller may refer to:
As part of the interactivity of the Awards Season site, visitors can vote in 24 categories that mirror the Academy's ballots, including: Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress in a Leading Role and other popular categories that will take center stage at the Oscar ceremony on Feb. 25. The informal balloting tallies the votes as they are submitted online. The tally in each category includes overall total votes and the percentage of online visitors who voted for each nominee. Also posted on the Awards Season is And the Nominees Should BeO an ideal slate of Oscar candidates, as chosen by Manohla Dargis, Stephen Holden and A.O. Scott, critics for The New York Times. The Awards Season site will be online until late February. About The New York Times Company The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ), a leading media company with 2006 revenues of $3.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. , The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated television stations, two New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. radio stations and 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. This press release can be downloaded from www.nytco.com and www.nytco.com/community. |
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