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Oscar won't be tacking a happy ending onto Capitalism: A Love Story.

Michael Moore's latest diatribe against the powers that be, this one directed at Wall Street and the government that let it run amok, did not make the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' short list of films that still have a shot at winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Instead, the eye-opening Food, Inc. is the top muckracker of the bunch, joining Facing Ali (but not Tyson) and Valentino: The Last Emperor (but not The September Issue) in the in-between stage of Oscar consideration.

Of 89 feature-length docs submitted, 15 made the list, most of them focusing on international politics and global issues, such as illegal immigration (Which Way Home) and cultural oppression in Zimbabwe (Mugabe and the White African).

Moore's Bowling for Columbine, his stab at U.S. gun-control policy, was named Best Documentary in 2003, and Sicko, about the state of health care in the U.S., scored a nomination last year. But the Academy stayed far, far away from his 2004 blockbuster, Fahrenheit 9/11, perhaps not wanting to encourage another "Shame on you, Mr. Bush" speech so soon after the first one.

Check out which 15 documentaries are in the running for Hollywood's highest honor after the jump:

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When it comes to the Emmys, NBC is definitely not ready to play ball.

Due to a scheduling conflict with its Sunday Night Football franchise, the Peacock has decided to push up next year's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards to Aug. 29 from its usual September berth.

We're guessing NBC isn't too worried about the switcheroo. The last time the statuettes were doled out in the dog days of summer was Aug. 27, 2006—which happened to pull in bigger ratings than any Emmycast since.

Nominations will be unveiled July 8. 

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Didn't the gang look lovely together at the New Moon premiere last night?

Too bad they weren't all there. Rachelle Lefevre was MIA.

But the actress, who plays Victoria in both Twilight and New Moon but was famously dismissed for Eclipse, wasn't a no-show just because of sour grapes. It turns out last night was sour for her for completely separate reasons.

"2 fans at the premiere: w/ Honey in hospital & being fired from Eclipse tonight was just 2 emotional 4 me & I couldn't manage it. So sorry," she twittered last night.

Honey is a dog she adopted from an animal rescue agency—and who recently inspired her to become the spokeswoman for Best Friends' Puppies Aren't Products campaign.

Honey's health—and Rachelle's ability to attend the premiere—wasn't looking promising earlier yesterday, when she tweeted, "Honey is in the hospital and I don't know what's going to happen. I wonder if you can die from a broken heart..."

We wish the honey and her Honey the very best.

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See some other stars and their fine furry friends in our Very Important Pets gallery!

Everything else was just a warm-up. The mall tour, the magazines, the gossip—all of it just the opening act for this: the world premiere of New Moon in Los Angeles.

The entire Twilight gang—Robert Pattinson! Kristen Stewart! Taylor Lautner! Some other kids!—stormed Westwood Village tonight, where fans had been camping all day.

Our own Marc Malkin and Ted Casablanca covered live on Twitter, so keep following them for cast interviews and more.

Wish you'd been there? Then watch Live From the Red Carpet: New Moon on E!, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.—and in the meantime check out exclusive video clips, on-the-scene reports and our gorgeous photo gallery of the New Moon premiere below...

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Something tells us you already know all too well that the New Moon premiere is tonight. That's not news.

But what you don't know is how its stars are spending their days preparing for the big event.

They're on Twitter, of course!

"Many people wonder what celebs do the morning of their movie premiere," Peter Facinelli writes. "I would like know 2, seeing how I'm at the DMV renewing my license."

Once he was ready to drive, he cruised by the scene of the big red carpet event.

"Drove past the Westwood theatre on my motorcycle to wave hi to the fans on the way home from DMV. You guys are awesome," he gushes.

Anna Kendrick and Jackson Rathbone are playing a bit more coy with their anticipation, and Rachelle Lefevre sounds like she may have other plans....

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There's nothing like an Oscar to kick off the holiday season.

Iconic actress Lauren Bacall, B-movie maven Roger Corman and Godfather cinematographer Gordon Willis all picked up golden guys Saturday night at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards.

The Academy broke the tradition of its March on-camera distribution of honorary awards, and instead held an off-camera, black-tie banquet for the trio at the Grand Ballroom above the Kodak Theatre. 

Producer John Calley, famed for The Da Vinci Code and Catch-22 among other films, was also honored with the Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award.

The recipients were cheered on by a megawatt crowd that included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Kirk Douglas, Ron Howard, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges, Quentin Tarantino, Anjelica Huston and Alec Baldwin, who will cohost the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony with Steve Martin on March 7.

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Sure, the ceremony is still a couple of months away, but get up to speed on the 2010 Oscar race right here.

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Jennie Garth is almost as excited as you are for the New Moon premiere on Monday, but not because she's dying to see if Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart arrive arm in arm.

"I'm just excited to be there and support my husband," the 90210 star tells E! News exclusively of her spouse, Peter Facinelli. "He's like the perfect Dr. Carlisle [Cullen]. I'm such a fan of the book and of the movie that I really can't picture anyone else playing Dr. Carlisle, so I'm very happy to be there on his arm. It's not about me—I'll just be arm candy that night.

"That red carpet last year was pretty intense. I'm sure it's going to be even worse this year," she says. "Maybe I'll just stay back and let him do it. I'll wait in the car."

As for how she keeps her gorgeous family, including Peter and their three daughters, balanced, let's just say Garth has some tricks up her sleeve...

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For all the love Taylor Swift receives from the music industry and elsewhere, she has a rather vocal handful of detractors.

Kanye West's giant diss was the talk of the CMA Awards Wednesday night, but he wasn't the only person who questioned the starlet's success.

"It's too much too soon," Wynonna Judd told USA Today of Swift's numerous nominations, especially the one for Entertainer of the Year (which she won, along with three other gongs). "Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. It’s just too much of a good thing too soon."

But comparisons of the hip-hopper and country star's comments end there.

Judd didn't blog an all-caps opus of a disingenuous apology, delete it and try again. And we're guessing she won't be appearing on a talk show crying and announcing a break from the spotlight.

Instead, she wrote a short and sweet note on her website.

"I understand that my comment about Taylor Swift's Entertainer of the Year nomination came across as a negative statement," she says. "My intent was not to take anything away from her talent and contributions to the country music industry...all of which are truly unprecedented for an artist of ANY age. Taylor is a beautiful, hard working young woman that deserves the success she has had and I support her as an artist and as a woman in the business."

Yeezy, are you paying attention?

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See what else went down Wednesday night in our 2009 CMA Awards gallery!