Director Martin Scorsese is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes. It will be presented to Scorsese at the 67th annual Globes on Jan. 17.

Scorsese turns 67 next week and is an Academy Award winner for directing "The Departed" and a two-time Golden Globe winner for that film and "Gangs of New York." Past winners of the DeMille award include Steven Spielberg, Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Douglas.

Nominations come out Dec. 15 for the Globes. (Associated Press)

A record 20 films have been submitted for best animated feature at the Academy Awards. As long as at least 16 films qualify, there will be five nominees in the feature-length animation category.

The category has had only three nominees most years, but 2009 has been a prolific year for animation. The only previous year when there were five nominees came in 2002, when 17 animated films were submitted.

Submissions include a wide variety of styles, including the computer animation of such hits as "Up," "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" and "Monsters vs. Aliens"; the stop-motion animation of "Coraline," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Mary and Max"; and the hand-drawn animation of "The Princess and the Frog" and "Ponyo."

Other films submitted: "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," "Astro Boy," "Battle for Terra," "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," "Disney's A Christmas Carol," "The Dolphin -- Story of a Dreamer," "The Missing Lynx," "9," "Planet 51," "The Secret of Kells," "Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure" and "A Town Called Panic."

Some films have yet to complete a weeklong theatrical run in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. Academy rules also state that a "significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture's running time." (AP)

It will (almost) be all "New Moon" all the time at roughly 12:01 a.m. next Friday at the AMC-Loews at the Waterfront. Seventeen of the theater's 22 auditoriums will show the second "Twilight" film just after midnight.

A few hundred seats remain for the midnight shows and some tickets are still available for the single auditorium where both "Twilight" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" will screen.

AMC-Loews at the Waterfront is just one of hundreds of places in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere where the vampire romance will pack them in next weekend. Anecdotal evidence and Fandango stats confirm that.

"Ever since we started selling advance tickets to New Moon on Aug. 31, the demand has been unstoppable, as the fan base just keeps growing every day," says Rick Butler, Fandango chief operating officer. " 'New Moon' is tracking to be Fandango's No. 1 top advance ticket-seller of all time."

The top five advance ticket-sellers on Fandango as of yesterday (in order): "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "The Dark Knight," "New Moon" and "Twilight." (Barbara Vancheri, PG movie editor)

"My Tale of Two Cities," Carl Kurlander's movie exploring questions about reinventing yourself and your hometown, just got selected for the Santa Fe Film Festival and will be shown tonight as a library fundraiser.

It will play at 7 tonight at Quaker Valley Middle School to benefit nearby Sewickley Public Library.

Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for students, $10 for adults or $25 for a family of four. They also can be purchased in advance at the library's circulation desk.

Go to www.mytaleoftwocities.com for more details. (Vancheri)

The Grand Theatre in Elizabeth will host its annual Stoogefest today and tomorrow at 7 p.m. Admission is $5.

Shorts will be shown and Richard Sanner, author of "Memories of a Stoogeboomer," will talk both nights. Go to www.elizabethgrand.com for more information or call 412-384-0504 for reservations. (Vancheri)

"Precious" is scheduled to open in Pittsburgh next Friday. ... Michael Jackson's "This Is It" has reached $200 million worldwide ($61 million domestically). ... Halle Berry will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment breakfast on Dec. 4. ... The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie "The Fourth Kind."

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