"I want to thank everyone who was willing to look stupid and put even just a sliver of themselves on the line to legitimize all these new filmmakers here tonight," Russell said at the awards ceremony ...

With $50 million to deploy and a first slate of projects set to be unveiled in March, Cook says the smart money should already be looking south.

Dances With Wolves, Stagecoach, and The Searchers are all among the absolute greatest Western movie masterpieces ever made.