Hollywood films, including Dreamwork's animation film "Shrek" and "Moulin Rouge, " lost out on the awards' front.

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Baz Luhrman's 2001 musical "Moulin Rouge, " a tragic romance told with song and dance, borrows heavily from Bollywood.

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The movie takes the musical baton from Moulin Rouge and runs with it.

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The Great Gatsby was scripted by Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce, who worked together eight-time Oscar nominated film, Moulin Rouge!

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November 16 -- Kidman's rib cancans 'Moulin Rouge' for a bit ...

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Now Luhrmann feels La Boheme marks the final chapter in his "red curtain work" which included Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom.

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For all of its glittery fragmentation, "Moulin Rouge!"

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Sticking with sexual matters (this book seems full of them), I turn to Mr. Robertson's entry for Striptease, in which he claims that the first striptease took place at the Moulin Rouge in Paris in 1893.

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My wife and I were getting the opportunity not just to try the Gatsby cocktail but also to stay at the newly opened Fitzgerald Suite and decorated by Catherine Martin, "The Great Gatsby's" Academy Award winning production designer ("Moulin Rouge"), and Mr. Luhrmann's wife.

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