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| Affleck wins directors’ top award as ‘Argo’ hurtles toward Oscars Posted: 03 Feb 2013 12:53 AM PST  Ben Affleck at the DGA awards: "You are not entitled to win anything," he says of his Oscar snub. — Reuters pic The Hollywood directors' recognition for Affleck is an awkward result for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which did not nominate him for Best Director in what is considered one of the biggest snubs of this year's Oscars. Since 1948, there have been only six occasions when the Directors Guild of America (DGA) winner has not gone on to win the Oscar for Best Director. "I have nothing but respect for the Academy," Affleck said after collecting his first DGA award. The Hollywood star, a producer of "Argo", said he was thrilled the film was nominated for the Oscars' Best Picture award. "You are not entitled to win anything," he said. The DGA is often a good indicator of Oscar winners as DGA members are also members of the Academy. The Oscar for Best Picture also often goes to the winner of the DGA's award. The Oscars will be held on February 24. Affleck triumphed yesterday over four directors who have all won the top DGA honour and gone on to win the Best Director Oscar. Among those defeated yesterday was Steven Spielberg, whose Civil War-era drama "Lincoln" has lost to "Argo" in successive award ceremonies this season. The two-time DGA winner — for "Schindler's List" in 1994 and "Saving Private Ryan" in 1999 — collected his 11th nomination from his peers with "Lincoln". The other three unsuccessful nominees were Kathryn Bigelow for Osama bin Laden-manhunt thriller "Zero Dark Thirty", Ang Lee for his 3D adaptation of the bestselling novel "Life of Pi", and Tom Hooper, for his screen adaptation of the hit musical "Les Miserables". In "Argo", which is based on a real account, Affleck also plays the lead role of a CIA agent entrusted with extracting six Americans from revolutionary Iran after the US embassy is stormed. The agent, with help from Hollywood, creates a fake film and makes the Americans part of the crew. So far in the awards season, Affleck has won Best Director at the Golden Globes while "Argo" won Best Drama. The cast was also recognised with the top honour from the Screen Actors Guild. "There was a point in my life where I was really down and really confused ... didn't know what was going to happen and I thought 'I could be a director'," Affleck told the high-power Hollywood crowd yesterday. "I don't believe this makes me a real director, but I think I am on my way," he said. Another young director also collected a top award yesterday — Lena Dunham for Best Comedy Series for "Girls", the HBO show about four girls in Brooklyn and their travails over sex, work and making it in the big city. "This is surreal, which I know is an overused Los Angeles word," said Dunham, who often appears in the show she created wearing little or no clothes. — Reuters |
| Frank Ocean wants peace, no charges against Chris Brown Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:16 PM PST  On the day of the parking lot incident, Ocean had said on Twitter that he 'got jumped by chris and a couple guys'. – Reuters pic LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 – Rising R&B star Frank Ocean said yesterday he will not press charges against singer Chris Brown, who he said had "jumped" him last week in a parking lot fracas. The encounter between Ocean and Brown still could derail Brown's efforts to remain in compliance with his probation stemming from his 2009 assault against singer Rihanna, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, a legal expert said. Earlier in the week, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Ocean was "desirous of prosecution in this incident," which occurred on Jan 27 outside a recording studio in West Hollywood. Representatives for Brown could not be reached for comment on Saturday. Sheriff's deputies had cited witnesses as saying Grammy-winner Brown, 23, punched Ocean, 25, in the brief altercation. But Ocean yesterday posted a message on www.frankocean.com saying he wanted to move past the incident. "I'll choose sanity," he wrote. "No criminal charges. No civil lawsuit. Forgiveness, albeit difficult, is wisdom. Peace, albeit trite, is what I want in my short life. Peace." Brown and Ocean both are nominated in the best urban contemporary album category at the Grammys Awards, which will be announced February 10 in Los Angeles. On the day of the parking lot incident Ocean had said on Twitter that he "got jumped by chris and a couple guys." He also said he cut his finger and Brown was later photographed with a cast on his right hand. Brown, whose hit songs include "Look at Me Now" and "Run It!," was placed on probation for five years for the assault on Rihanna. He risks having his probation revoked if charges are filed against him. But if the judge overseeing his case suspects Brown broke the law, the judge could move to find him in violation of probation even without a criminal charge, said Steve Cron, a defense attorney not connected to the case and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. "Then, Brown would be entitled to have a hearing with witnesses and his lawyers questioning witnesses and so forth," Cron said. Cron said prosecutors still can file charges even if a suspected victim does not cooperate. If Brown is found to have violated his probation, a judge could send him to jail or order counseling, he said. Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said that if Ocean does not want to press charges, it would be difficult to proceed with the case. Brown's entourage and that of Canadian rapper Drake were involved in a June 2012 brawl in a New York nightclub. No arrests or charges were brought in that case. – Reuters |
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