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'Eighth Grade,' 'Beale Street' up for top Independent Spirit Award

Movies // 5 years ago

'Eighth Grade,' 'Beale Street' up for top Independent Spirit Award

"Eighth Grade," "First Reformed," "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Leave No Trace" and "You Were Never Really Here" are nominated for the top Spirit Award.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

'Juno' scribe wins screenplay Oscar

"Juno" scribe Diablo Cody won the Oscar for best original screenplay at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

'Juno' wins big at Spirit Awards

The quirky big-screen comedy "Juno" won the prize for best feature at the 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Stars planning to attend Oscars lunch

Oscar nominees George Clooney, Viggo Mortensen, Julie Christie, Laura Linney and Ellen Page are set to attend an upcoming Hollywood luncheon in their honor.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

WGA, West spikes its awards show

The Hollywood writers' strike has claimed another casualty, with the Writers Guild of America, West saying it will spike its awards show if the strike persists.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

'Blood' takes national critics prize

The National Society of Film Critics Saturday named "There Will Be Blood" best picture of 2007 in ceremonies in New York.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

LA critics: 'Blood' is best picture of '07

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named "There Will Be Blood" best picture of 2007, the organization announced Sunday.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

'Savages' to get Chicago premiere

Actress Laura Linney and writer-director Tamara Jenkins are expected to attend the Chicago premiere of their film, "The Savages."

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Philip Seymour Hoffman joins 'Savages'

"Capote" Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed on to star opposite Laura Linney in Fox Searchlight's comedy/drama, "The Savages."

Tamara Jenkins (born May 2, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, actress and director. She is best known for her two feature films, Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and The Savages (2007).

Tamara Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After her parents divorced, her father, a car salesman and former nightclub owner, took custody of her and her three brothers. She lived in Beverly Hills with her father and brothers and attended Beverly Hills High for a year and a half.

A stage actor and a performance artist in New York's East Village during the 1980s, she enrolled in the Graduate Filmmaking program at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in the '90s. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, Jenkins also attended the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Filmmakers Lab.

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