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Jake Gyllenhaal: Why Hollywood's Hardest-Working Guy Deserves an Oscar

09 Nov 2009 15:00:00 PST

Written by Leonard Jacobs
No young actor in Hollywood is putting together a more eclectic resume than Jake Gyllenhaal these days. With the news (per Variety and the Hollywood Reporter) that he's negotiating to star in 'Source Code,' a sci-fi thriller to be directed by 'Moon' ... Read more

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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Precious' shatters box office record; Taylor Swift soars on 'SNL'; still mad for 'Mad Men'

09 Nov 2009 09:34:44 PST

Written by tomoneil
Oscars rewind: 'Slumdog Millionaire' tied for most European Film Awards nominations Oscars predix for best pix from 16 experts Oscars predix: Who's ahead in the best actor derby? Oscars voter: Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' will be nominated for best picture

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Oscars rewind: 'Slumdog Millionaire' tied for most European Film Awards nominations

09 Nov 2009 08:53:18 PST

Written by tomoneil
For the full list of nominations, visit the European Film Academy website. Oscars predix for best pix from 16 experts Oscars predix: Who's ahead in the best actor derby? Oscars voter: Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' will be nominated for best picture

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Rourke determined to win Oscar

09 Nov 2009 08:38:09 PST

Mickey Rourke is not letting his Oscars disappointment get him down - he's determined to land a Best Actor award before he retires from Hollywood.

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a message from my bb alec

08 Nov 2009 15:45:21 PST

I have always enjoyed the ceremony where many of the film community's most talented and influential members come together to honor achievement in film. Among the greatest moments for me were presenting John Barry his Oscar for the score of DANCES WITH WOLVES, to present a clip from one of m...

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AFI FEST 2009: THE LAST STATION, AFTER.LIFE

06 Nov 2009 23:15:34 PST

Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station AFI FEST 2009, Sat., Nov. 7 at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. AFI FEST 2009 comes to a close with the following screenings: Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, which is set near the end of Leo Tolsto...

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Academy Award news and blogs - November 10, 2009

10 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Academy Award news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Haye eyes Klitschko bout in London -- by Kevin Mitchell from The Guardian World News
• Will Smith Buying Flowers for Algernon? -- by Neil Miller from Film School Rejects
• Free Flick of the Day: Buena Vista Social Club -- by Monika Bartyzel from Cinematical
• Marshall Fine: Interview: Hal Holbrook relishes rediscovery -- by Marshall Fine from Entertainment on HuffingtonPost.com
• Inaugural Chapman University │Pusan West │Filmmaker Showcase To Take Place November 20-22, 2009 -- by editor from Fest21.com blogs
• Diane Tucker: Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored By The National Film Registry. Why? -- by Diane Tucker from The Blog
• It's Looking Not at That Much Like Christmas for Carrey's Carol. -- by Richard Rushfield from Gawker: Defamer
• You review: Jennifer's Body -- by Ben Child from Film | guardian.co.uk
• Precious little joy for Disney's A Christmas Carol at US box office -- by Jeremy Kay from Film | guardian.co.uk
• Page 2 -- by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) from /Film

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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Precious' metal could be gold | 'From Here to Eternity' lives on | AFI Fest honors new filmmakers

06 Nov 2009 16:21:45 PST

Written by tomoneil
• Dave Karger thinks "Precious" has a shot at landing at least five Oscar nods -- best picture, director, actress, supporting actress and screenplay. And he thinks, "Once people get past the strange concept of [Mariah] Carey as an Oscar contender, they won’t be able to deny the power of her...

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Adam Shankman talks about the hosts for the 82nd annual Oscars

04 Nov 2009 11:15:25 PST

Director/choreographer Adam Shankman has only been the co-producer of the Oscars for three weeks. But Shankman and his co-producer Bill Mechanic, former head of Twentieth Century Fox, have managed to lock down the biggest part of the job, the host. We talked to Shankman about wrangling v...

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Will Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin be winning Oscars hosts?

04 Nov 2009 10:24:45 PST

Written by tomoneil
Flashback: Oscars hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin on 'SNL' Oscars predix for best pix from 16 experts Quiz: Can you spot the Oscars' nominee for best actor? Oscars quiz: Can you spot the only best actress nominee? Woody Allen: An Oscar for Adolf Hitler? Photo credit: NBC

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Steve Martin is the Oscars host with the most

04 Nov 2009 07:54:07 PST

Written by Xan Brooks
And so it's official: the 82nd Academy Awards will be hosted (or at least co-hosted) by Steve Martin. And while I still hold out hopes that the producers might one year take a punt on Jerry Seinfeld, I still think this qualifies as a welcome comeback. The organisers had presumably consigned M...

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Opinion: Why does Patrick Goldstein continue to bash Oscar bloggers?

04 Nov 2009 00:03:19 PST

Written by tomoneil
In 2001, Goldstein issued his earliest odds on the best-picture race, betting on "Ali" in August — long before he saw it and seven months before the Oscar ceremony took place — with 4-to-1 odds. "Ali" wasn't even nominated; "A Beautiful Mind" triumphed.

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Opinion: Gold Derby nuggets: Mo'Nique makes 'Precious' friends | Oscar hopes for 'Amelia' in a tailspin | 'Avatar' trailer kicks off during NFL game

29 Oct 2009 10:49:55 PDT

Written by tomoneil
• Jeff Wells embeds the new trailer for "Green Zone" and wonders why Universal bumped this new pic by Oscar nominee Paul Greengrass ("United 93") to March. Theorizes Jeff, "They figured the Academy would never nominate two Iraq War movies for best picture, and that 'The Hurt Locker' was to...

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Opinion: Top Oscar bloggers respond to backlash against 'Precious'

21 Oct 2009 19:35:22 PDT

Written by tomoneil
The shocking omission of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" from the list of Gotham Awards nominees has triggered an uproar. Does this mean that there's a backlash against the likely Oscars contender since it swept top awards at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals? Wi...

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Will Billy Crystal return as Oscar host?

19 Oct 2009 12:58:08 PDT

If it's the middle of October and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn't announced either a show producer or host for the upcoming ceremony people are going to start whispering. In fact, a very small group of people -- some of them Academy members -- are going to get a wee bit ne...

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Producer Ted Hope Honored At Woodstock FF

01 Oct 2009 18:50:07 PDT

Written by FilmNewYork
Award-winning producer Ted Hope, one of the most respected independent producers in the film industry, will be honored with the honorary Trailblazer Award at the 10th Anniversary edition of the Woodstock Film Festival, which opened today. Hope is a true indie pioneer who has shepherd...

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Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jennifer's Body

16 Sep 2009 03:28:31 PDT

Written by Marshall Fine
Jennifer pops up in Needy's kitchen later that night, covered with blood and spewing black vomit. The next day in class, however, Jennifer seems none the worse for wear. When male classmates start turning up brutally disemboweled, Needy eventually figures out that Jennifer is responsib...

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Podcast: Film Weekly meets Moon man Duncan Jones and reviews Harry Potter

15 Jul 2009 17:51:30 PDT

Written by Xan Brooks, Jason Solomons, Andrew Pulver
And finally, Jason meets Courtney Hunt, whose feature directorial debut Frozen River scored two nominations at this year's Oscars: best screenplay for her and best actress for Melissa Leo's gutsy portrayal of a woman forced into people-smuggling to make ends meet. Hunt shares why she c...

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Opinion: Marshall Fine: Interview: Director, star of Oscar-winner Departures

28 May 2009 05:13:40 PDT

Written by Marshall Fine
When Departures won the Oscar in February as best foreign-language film, no one was more surprised than director Yojiro Takita. But then, Departures was a... When Departures won the Oscar in February as best foreign-language film, no one was more surprised than director Yojiro Takita.

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How To: Angelina Jolie Cat Eye Look (from the Oscars)

27 Feb 2009 17:52:38 PST

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Podcast: Beyond Oscar, Heath Ledger's Legacy Grew Out of Intense Devotion to Craft

20 Feb 2009 15:57:00 PST

Written by Hugh Hart
Despite the Academy's longstanding bias against popcorn flicks, Ledger is expected to win the Best Supporting Actor trophy Sunday. (The Academy also managed to toss six technical category nominations in the direction of Christopher Nolan's Batman epic.)

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Podcast: Question time

18 Feb 2009 16:01:00 PST

Written by Hannah Pool
Are you going to the Oscars? Yes. I'm looking forward to it. It's my first time at the Oscars. It was my first time at the Baftas, the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, my first English film, my first everything. It couldn't have been a better first.

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Opinion: Will BAFTA Awards predict who'll win the Oscars?

08 Feb 2009 18:32:16 PST

Written by tomoneil
By winning best picture at the BAFTA Awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" just became the second film, after "American Beauty," to sweep the top prizes from all of these awards: Golden Globes, National Board of Review, Critics Choice and the four guilds — producers, directors, writers and ac...

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Podcast: How BAFTA Awards voting works and differs from the Oscars

08 Feb 2009 14:42:44 PST

Written by tomoneil
Considering how restrictive the Oscars are about membership, let's guess that no more than half of that BAFTA gang also belongs to the Oscar academy. My guess is that means that there's probably an overlap of 1,000 voters between the two voting groups, which both have between 5,000 and 6,0...

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Podcast: Interview: 'Taxi to the Dark Side' Director Alex Gibney

12 Jan 2008 06:32:00 PST

Written by James Rocchi
Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room won acclaim for its inventive, expressive but journalistic and rigorous expose of the facts and finances behind a story that came to represent turn-of-the-millennium capitalism gone mad. Now, with Taxi to the Dark Side, which opens tod...

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Podcast: The Rocchi Review -- With Special Guest Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere

02 Nov 2007 13:02:00 PDT

Written by James Rocchi
What movies are going to be snubbed by Oscar because they don't speak Hollywood's language? Does Into the Wild play better for Baby Boomers than younger audiences? Can Once get a second chance? And do movie journalists have a responsibility to reflect the Oscar race, or to try and influen...

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