Counting down to the Oscar night on 29
February, HBO will be featuring Hollywood movies that have won or
have been nominated for Academy Awards under the tag line -The
Greatest To The Latest.
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Starting 3 February till the Oscar Award ceremony, the channel
will air an Academy Award winning movie every night, Monday to Thursday,
at 9 pm followed immediately by an Academy Award nominee in the
HBO Movie Marathon.
Saturday Night Blockbusters on HBO include the blockbuster
movie, Training Day on 7 February, starring Denzel Washington.
The movie bagged the Oscar in the Best Actor category. On Valentine's
day the channel will air a suspense-thriller Valentine starring
Denise Richards on 14 February.
Action packed no-brainer The Scorpion King starring WWE
muscleman The Rock is scheduled to air on 21 February.
On 28 February, the channel will air Pay It Forward starring
Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt.
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On 14 February, HBO has special plans to celebrate Valentine’s
Day. The channel has lined up six romantic movies back to back.
Starting 8:15 am, the channel will air Brendan Fraser and Alicia
Silverstone starrer Blast From The Past , Head Over Heels,
Sweet November, Three To Tango starring Neve Campbell
and Matthew Perry, Mannequin On The Move and Notting Hill
starring Julia Roberts and Huge Grant .
The channel will air Hollow Man on 1 February, The Muse
starring Sharon Stone and Andie MacDowell on 8 February as a
part of the HBO Superstar Sundays specials. On 15 February, the
channel will air Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt starrer The Devil’s
Own followed by action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger The 6th
Day on 22 February. Last in the line is in Dangerous Liasions
starring Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman on 29 February.
Besides the on-air special, the channel will be celebrating the
selection of HBO original movie - The Laramie Project. as
the movie for opening night premiere at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi and Laura Linney, the movie
recreates the efforts of a New York theatre troupe to shed light
on a western town's loss of innocence following a hate crime perpetrated
on a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student.
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