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The complete list of winners for the 2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards held on Sunday (December 8).

The annual event was put on by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, commemorating its 50th anniversary this year, and reveals the association’s selections of the year’s best movie and performances.

This year, both Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg picked up awards for their movie A Real Pain, winning Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

The LA Film Critics Awards can coincide with the Oscars – six past winners have gone on to win the Oscar since 2009.

Keep reading to find out all of the winners…

Check out the full list of 2024 LA Film Critics Awards winners below!

Best picture

Winner: Anora

Runner-up: The Brutalist

Best director

Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best lead performance

Winners: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths, and Mikey Madison, Anora

Runners-up: Demi Moore,...

Anora was named best picture of 2024 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca), which handed out its annual achievement awards Sunday, marking its 50th anniversary of honoring Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.

The Brutalist was the runner-up.

Anora also scored two acting wins: Best lead performance went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora, while best supporting performance went to Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails also were among the ceremony’s winners, taking home best score for Challengers. Mohammad Rasoulof took home best director for The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

The association previously announced science fiction legend John Carpenter as this year’s career achievement award, citing his “ability to spin stylish, prescient, genre-bending features of otherworldly menace and powerful emotion,” as well as the fact...

Days after the New York Film Critics Circle announced its annual winners, film critics in Los Angeles weighed in on the year’s best movies and performances.

“Anora” won a leading three awards: Best Picture and two acting trophies. Its filmmaker, Sean Baker, was also the runner-up for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Acting winners included Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) and Mikey Madison (“Anora”) for best lead performances, while Yura Borisov (“Anora”) and Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”) won the best supporting performance category. The runners-up in each respective category were Demi Moore (“The Substance”) and Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), and Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”) and Adam Pearson (“A Different Man”). The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards acting honors in genderless categories.

Read below for the full list of Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners.

Founded in 1975, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association “is comprised of Los Angeles-based,...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Sean Baker’s “Anora” its Best Picture for 2024. The critics group also awarded stars Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov with the Best Leading Performance and Best Supporting Performance, respectively. This year, the Lafca decided to spread the wealth and awarded two performers in each category, which remain gender neutral.

The Lafca spread the wealth around, but Baker also received the runner-up prizes for both Best Director and Best Screenplay. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was named runner-up in the Best Picture category.

With New York kicking off awards season with the Gotham Awards and the NYFCC releasing their winners, the West coast finally jumped into the fray, with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announcing their winners for 2024 on Sunday, December 8.

Lafca previously unveiled that John Carpenter will be receiving the Career Achievement Award during its ceremony on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles,...

Andrew Haigh wins best screenplay for ’All Of Us Strangers’

A wide open awards season saw the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) award The Zone Of Interest best film and Jonathan Glazer best director, while Sandra Huller, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph dominated the gender-neutral acting categories.

The Lafca best film picks are a strong bellwether of Oscar best picture nominations, with only five winners since 2000 missing out on a nod. Last year’s winner for example, Everything Everywhere All At Once, went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.

Anatomy Of A Fall...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named The Zone of Interest as its choice for the best picture of the year.

Oppenheimer is the runner-up in the voting, which took place Sunday.

The critics association named Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star Sandra Hüller and Poor Things actress Emma Stone as the lead performances of the year. Rachel McAdams and Da’Vine Joy Randolph received the best supporting performances prizes for Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret and The Holdovers, respectively.

Last year, the organization voted on two films for its top award of the year: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár. The former went on to win best picture at the 95th Academy Awards in March. This year’s winners will be feted at the organization’s annual banquet on Jan. 13, 2024.

The association previously announced that Agnieszka Holland will be honored at the...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is announcing winners for the best films and performances of 2023.

After Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” won the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Awards for best film, all eyes are on the California journalists to see if they will opt for something else or continue the lovefest for one of cinema’s most adored auteurs.

Last year, the West Coast organization had two films tied for its top prize. Todd Field’s psychological drama “Tár” and the eventual best picture-winning dramedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” from the Daniels.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

Since 2000, only four of Lafca’s selections for best picture failed to garner an Oscar nod for best picture — “About Schmidt” (2002), “American Splendor” (2003), “Wall-e” (2008) and “Small Axe” (2020). In the same timeframe, five films have gone...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted Saturday on the best films and performances of 2021, with Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Japanese Oscar entry Drive My Car taking Best Picture and Best Screenplay, and earning Hamaguchi Runner-Up in the race for Best Director.

The Power of the Dog‘s Jane Campion prevailed in the latter category, with Red Rocket‘s Simon Rex taking Best Actor and Parallel Mothers‘ Penélope Cruz claiming Best Actress. The award for Best Documentary went to Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul, with the prize for Best Animation going to Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated Neon pic, Flee, and that for Best Film Not in the English Language going to Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is a group made up of L.A. area print and digital journalists, which today deliberated on winners and runners-up in a total of 14 categories. Last year,...

Members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. met today to vote on the year’s best cinema accomplishments. Recent winners of the group’s top prize include “Roma,” “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” “Boyhood,” “Her”/”Gravity” and “Amour.”

List of winners below.

Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Atlantics”

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Career Achievement Award:

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award:

New Generation Prize:

Special Citation:...

Inclusion was the big winner at the L.A. Film Critics Association Awards, which was held Saturday night at the InterContinental in Century City.

“This year’s winners are the most diverse in Lafca’s 43-year history,” announced its president, Claudia Puig, adding that 14 out of their 18 awards were won by women and people of color. Ironically, however, the organization itself is comprised of “mostly old white men,” one member admitted to Variety. But Lafca is doing its part to change that for the future of film criticism: The first honoree of the night was a formerly homeless student from Los Angeles City College — and a current Wme intern — who called out the obvious “gender disparity” in the industry.

Unlike, say, at the Golden Globes where no female directors were even nominated, Lafca gave best director honors to self-described “social-realist filmmaker” Debra Granik, who helmed the independent movie “Leave No Trace.

“Call Me by Your Name” was honored with Best Picture during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards voting on Dec. 3. Meanwhile, the Best Director honors ended in a tie between Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”) and Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me by Your Name”). Best Actor went to Timothée Chalamet for “Call Me by Your Name,” and Best Actress to Sally Hawkins for “The Shape of Water.”

Lafca was founded in 1975 and includes both print and digital critics (including IndieWire’s own Michael Nordine). Last year’s big winner was “Moonlight,” which was awarded Best Picture and Best Director for Barry Jenkins. Top acting categories went to Adam Driver for Best Actor in “Paterson,” and Isabelle Huppert for Best Actress in both “Elle” and “Things to Come.”

Earlier this week, the New York Film Critics Circle voted on and announced their awards, giving top honors to “Lady Bird...

CBS Evening News is playing another game of musical (anchor) chairs.

Jeff Glor, already an Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent, has been named the program’s new anchor. Announced Wednesday, CBS Evening News With Jeff Glor is expected to launch by the end of 2017. In addition to his responsibilities for the nightly broadcast, Glor will also continue to appear on Cbsn, the network’s 24/7 streaming news service.

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Here's the list of the winners and runners-up of the Los Angeles Film Critics:

New Generation

Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild, Krisha

Best Foreign-Language Film

Winner: The Handmaiden

Runner-Up: Toni Erdmann

Best Picture

Winner: Moonlight

Runner-Up: La La Land

Best Director

Winner: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Runner-Up: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actress

Winner: Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come

Runner-Up: Rebecca Hall, Christine

Best Actor

Winner: Adam Driver, Paterson

Runner-Up: Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea

Best Animated Film

Winner: Your Name

Runner-Up: The Red Turtle

Best Screenplay

Winner: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster

Runner-Up: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea

The Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Prize

Winner: The Illinois Parables

Documentary/Non-Fiction

Winner: I Am Not Your Negro

Runner-up: Oj: Made In America

Supporting Actress

Winner: Lily Gladstone, Certain Women

Runner-up: Michelle Williams, Manchester By The Sea

Editing

Winner: Bret Granato, Maya Mumma,...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association added their endorsement on Sunday to A24’s critical and awards darling with four prizes as Manchester By The Sea ended the day empty-handed.

The group named Moonlight its best film of the year, as Gothams voters did recently, and selected Barry Jenkins for best director, Mahershala Ali for best supporting actor, and James Laxton for best cinematographer.

Isabelle Huppert is the bicoastal empress as she repeated her recent New York Film Critics Circle win in the best actress category for Elle and Things To Come and is starting to surge towards the top in this category.

Certain Women’s Lily Gladstone won for supporting actress, beating her cast mate Michelle Williams for Manchester By The Sea.

Manchester By The Sea was named best film of the year by the National Board of Review last week but had to settle for two runner-up awards here. Oscar frontrunner...

“Moonlight” was named Best Film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which unveiled its pick for best movies and performances of 2016 on Sunday.

The Barry Jenkins drama was the critics’ big winner, scoring nods in four categories overall, including Best Director (for Jenkins) and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. Best Actor went to Adam Driver for his performance in “Paterson,” while Isabelle Huppert was named Best Actress for her role in “Elle” and “Things to Come.”

Shirley MacLaine was honored with the org’s Career Achievement award this year. The prize will be given at the annual awards dinner to be held Saturday, Jan. 14, at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.

Read More: New York Film Critics Circle Names ‘La La Land’ Best Film Of 2016, ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Manchester By the Sea’ Earn Three Awards

“Moonlight” is one of a handful of features have already received...

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It's becoming the year of "Boyhood!" The Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" as the movie of the year. The film won three other awards including Best Director for Linklater, Best Actress for Patricia Arquette, and Best Editing.

Here's the full list of winners:

Best Picture, Boyhood

Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Foreign-language Film: Ida

New Generation: Ava DuVernay, Selma

Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson

Best Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film: Citizenfour

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Best Supporting Actress: Agata Kulesza, Ida

Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award: Walter Reuben, The David Whiting Story

Best Music Score, Winners (tie): Jonny Greenwood, Inherent Vice and Mica Levi, Under The Skin

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Production Design: Adam Stockhausen, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Editing: Sandra Adair, Boyhood

Best Animation: The Tale Of Princess...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has spoken this season with a list of winners quite original in response to their New York counterparts, who announced last week. "Boyhood," again, won Best Picture, as well as Best Director. But Tom Hardy ("Locke") and Agata Kulesza ("Ida") made for interesting additions to their separate conversations. "Selma" got some love as well in the form of a New Generation Award for director Ava DuVernay. Check out the full list of winners with running commentary below, and as always, follow along with the season at The Circuit. Best Editing: Sandra Adair, "Boyhood" (Runner-up: "The Grand Budapest Hotel") That's two in one day for Adair, and congrats to her. Again, lots of footage to dig through, smoothly calibrated and structured. Just a great piece of work. Bravo. Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash" (Runner-up: Edward Norton, "Birdman") It's pretty much these two all the way to the end.

Awards: Boyhood wins best feature, director, actress and editing.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association lavished most of its awards on Boyhood, which earned best feature and three other prizes, and The Grand Budapest Hotel, which took best screenplay for Wes Anderson and best production design for Adam Stockhausen.

Richard Linklater — in London to collect Boyhood’s best international independent award at the BIFAs — prevailed in the directing category, while Patricia Arquette was named best actress and Sanda Adair picked up best editing honours.

Ida was named best foreign-language film, Citizenfour best documentary/nonfiction film and The Lego Movie best animation.

The 40th annual awards ceremony will take place on January 10. As previously announced, Gena Rowlands will collect the 2014 Career Achievement Award.

Full list of winners:

Best Picture

Boyhood

Runner-up: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actor

Tom Hardy, Locke

Runner-up Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Director

Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Runner-up: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest...

Awards: Tom Hardy named best actor for Locke.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is announcing its 2014 winners live via Twitter on December 7.

Best Picture Coming Up Next

Best Actor

Tom Hardy, Locke

Runner-up Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Director

Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Runner-up: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Foreign-language Film

Ida

Runner-up: Winter Sleep

Best Screenplay

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Runner-up: Alejandra Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo, Birdman

Best Actress

Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Runner-up: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film

Citizenfour

Runner-up: Life Itself

Best Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman

Runner-up: Dick Pope, Mr. Turner

Best Supporting Actress

Agata Kulesza, Ida

Runner-up: Rene Russo, Nightcrawler

Best Animation

The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya

Runner-up: The Lego Movie

Best Supporting Actor

Jk Simmons, Whiplash

Runner-up: Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Editing

Sandra Adair, Boyhood

Runner-up: Barney Pilling, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Production Design

Adam Stockhausen, The Grand Budapest...

They’re both pretty unconventional flicks, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded their Best Film honors to “Her” and “Gravity.”

Over the weekend, the Lafca announced the winners of this year’s trophies, and “Gravity” also snagged the top spot for Best Director (Alfonso Cuaron), Best Editing (Cuaron and Mark Sanger) and Best Cinematography.

Meanwhile, “Her” nabbed Best Production Design and Cate Blanchett tied for Best Actress (“Blue Jasmine”) with Adele Exarchopoulos (“Blue is the Warmest Color”).

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards went to:

Best Picture (tie): Gravity and Her

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress (tie): Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; and Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color

Best Supporting Actor (tie): James Franco, Spring Breakers, and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

Runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Director: Winner: Alfonso Cuaron,...

Sunday was a busy day for film critics on both coasts. Boston, New York, and Los Angeles Film Critics announced their annual awards, adding fuel to the Oscar-prediction fire with a strong showing for 12 Years a Slave in the Best Picture arena.

Other repeat honorees include Blue Jasmine’s Cate Blanchett for Best Actress, 12 Years a Slave’s Chiwetel Ejiofor for Best Actor, Dallas Buyers Club’s Jared Leto for Best Supporting Actor, and 12 Years a Slave’s Lupita Nyong’o for Best Supporting Actress. Cinematography awards mostly went to Emmanuel Lubezki for his work on Gravity, and Inside Llewyn Davis...

It was a big win for Warner Bros. at the 2013 La Film Critics awards announcement. Both of the studio's films, Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" and Spike Jonze's "Her," tied for the Best Picture award! But wait there's more! Cate Blanchett for "Blue Jasmine" and Adele Exarchopoulos also tied for Best Actress while James Franco ("Spring Breakers") and Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club") shared the Best Supporting Actor award.

Here's the full list of winners of the 2013 La Film Critics:

Best Picture: Her and Gravity (tie)

Best Director:Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity (Runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her)

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska (Runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave)

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine and Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color (Tie)

Best Supporting Actor: James Franco, Spring Breakers and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (Tie)

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong.o, 12 Years a Slave (Runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska)

Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater,...

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards winners 2013 (photo: Sandra Bullock in ‘Gravity’) The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca), which has been around since the early ’70s, announced earlier today, December 8, 2013, their list of 2013 winners and runners-up. Although there were a handful of offbeat choices, what’s most surprising is how mainstream were most of the Los Angeles Film Critics’ picks this year — Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity was the top film, with a total of four wins — and that there were no less than three ties, including one for Best Picture: Gravity and Spike Jonze’s Her. See below. (See also: Full list of Boston Society of Film Critics 2013 winners.) Best Picture (tie): Gravity and Her. Best Foreign-Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Runner-up: The Great Beauty, directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Best Documentary: Stories We Tell, directed by Sarah Polley Runner-up: The Act of Killing,...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named ties in three major categories, Sunday. Gravity tied with Her for Best Picture. James Franco and Jared Leto tied for Best Supporting Actor award for their performances in Spring Breakers and Dallas Buyers Club, and Cate Blanchett and Adèle Exarchopoulos tied for Best Actress for their work in Blue Jasmine and Blue is the Warmest Color.

The Lafca did choose distinct winners in the other major acting categories. Bruce Dern was named Best Actor for his portrayal of Woody Grant in Nebraska, and Lupita Nyong’o picked up a supporting actress win for...

The unctuous Fox-produced movie about Google is a giant free advertisement for its corporate mentor, and a disturbing trend

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Much of the action takes place and some of it was shot at the hallowed Googleplex in Santa Clara. To accommodate other sequences, Google's creative team assisted with the design of a set and verified its accessories down to the most minute detail. Over two years, they lent props, advised on internal slang,...

On this Check This... is Stanley Kubrick's first film the short documentary 'Day of the Fight.'

Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James.

This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout.

After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for.

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He left in 2005, and after writing about his experiences on his blog, Xooglers, he decided...

We interview Douglas Edwards, Google's brand manager from 1999 to 2005, about his new book and discuss the challenge of humanizing information technology, Sergey Brin's anatomically correct cow costume, and how Google+ might succeed where orkut, Google's first social network, failed.

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Edwards's new book on his Google years, which hits bookstores today, is called I'm Feeling Lucky: The...

"The Hurt Locker" took the top honor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association with director Kathryn Bigelow winning the directing award.

Jeff Bridges won the best actor award for his role as a washed-up country singer in "Crazy Heart." T Bone Burnett's music from the film also won the best score.

Belgian actress Yolande Moreau won the Best Actress prize for her role as artist Seraphine de Senlis in "Seraphine."

Mo'Nique won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Precious" while Christoph Waltz took home the Best Supporting Actor prize for "Inglourious Basterds."

And the winners of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards are:

Picture: "The Hurt Locker"

Runner-up: "Up in the Air"

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"

Runner-up: Michael Haneke, "The White Ribbon"

Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"

Runner-up: Colin Firth, "A Single Man"

Actress: Yolande Moreau, "S�raphine"

Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz,...

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Uclick has announced three more webcomics coming to their mobile store via Apple’s iTunes app store. We the Robots by Christ Harding, Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer, and Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney were all signed by Universal press Syndicate.

We the Robots has been a part of Ups’ Go Comics site since 2007 with Pibgorn being added this year.

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People who enjoy customization, will be delighted to know that Uclick has launched a gadget for iGoogle.  Over 350 comic strips can be selected to appear on your homepage.  According to a release, the gadget, which was launched Thursday, will also contain comments, tagds, and posts from people who visit the GoComics.com site.

"Our new GoComics gadget for iGoogle is part of our strategy to expand the cartooning medium to readers old and new through digital media," said Uclick CEO Douglas Edwards in a statement. "We deliver daily entertainment features wherever our readers want their comics."

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Idw has announced signing tour dates for the creators behind the two eagerly anticipated bio-comics featuring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Additionally, both comics will be made available for download to mobile phones.

The application is accessible to most cell phones in America through http://m.gocomics.com, while iPhone users can order the comics through Apple. This may be the first time comic books will have the same in store and download date.

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• Quick Links  Letters From Iwo Jima  The Queen  Children of Men The Los Angeles Critics Association picked their winners for 2006, and like the previously announced picks by the National Board of Review, it appears that this yearâ€.s clear fav is Letters From Iwo Jima. Also amongst the populist vote was The Queen â€. it picked up a no brainer best actress win for Helen Mirren, but also gave best supporting actor to Michael Sheen who did a great job at playing Tony Blair and a best screenplay for Peter Morgan â€. who manages to captivate the audiencesâ€. attention from first act to last fade out. Some other worthy mentions that may not be the consensus with other associations are the nods to the production value for the upcoming Children of Men and a big cred goes to L.A Critics for having the balls to pick Sacha Baron Cohen

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CBS News veteran Philip Scheffler is stepping down after 23 years as Don Hewitt's No. 2 at 60 Minutes, the network has announced. Scheffler, who will continue to consult for the news division, will be replaced as the newsmagazine's executive editor by longtime producer Josh Howard. Scheffler, who has spent his entire 52-year career at CBS News, was often overshadowed by Hewitt, the charismatic 60 Minutes creator who will step down as executive producer after the 2003-04 television season. Hewitt will be replaced by Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes II. But Scheffler has overseen the production and editing of every 60 Minutes report since 1980. While Hewitt has always supervised the show's overall content and look, Scheffler solved day-to-day problems and was a vital sounding board for the correspondents and producers. Scheffler also earned a footnote in broadcast news history by creating what CBS News calls the first crude TelePrompTer. He used a typewriter with extra-large type and wide adding machine paper to scroll news copy off-camera for anchor Douglas Edwards, whose first-ever network newscast debuted in 1948. "Everybody should be as lucky as I've been to have had Phil Scheffler at my side," Hewitt said in a statement. "He's as good an editor as I've ever worked with, and I can't think of anyone better to uphold the high standards he set for us than Josh Howard." Howard joined 60 Minutes in 1989 after working as a segment producer on CBS Evening News.