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Oscar 2010: Animated Short Film Semi-Finalists

20 Nov 2009 15:26:27 PST

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in the category. They are: The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’...

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Opinion: Gold Derby nuggets: Sigourney Weaver praises James Cameron | Fighting words of snubbed 'Tyson' director | Will Sandra Bullock be blind-sided in awards game?

20 Nov 2009 14:58:49 PST

Written by tomoneil
• Pete Hammond points out an interesting change in the rules for Oscar nominations: "Beginning this year, anyone who has ever been nominated at any time for an Oscar in a category outside of their own area will now be allowed to also nominate in that race too." As per Pete, "This means multi-h...

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Uma Thurman to romance Robert Pattinson in 'Bel Ami'

20 Nov 2009 13:33:33 PST

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Uma Thurman will star opposite Pattinson in "Bel Ami." Based on the famous Guy de Maupassant short story, "Ami" follows young journalist George Duroy (Pattinson) who deviously jumped from the bed of one of Paris' most influential women to another to...

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Opinion: David Thomson on Frank Langella

19 Nov 2009 15:55:00 PST

Written by David Thomson
Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty – when he did Dracula (1979). But he wasn't rea...

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Oscars derby update: 'Nine' finally debuts | best picture upset by 'Inglourious Basterds'? | Alec Baldwin may be a truly winning host

19 Nov 2009 14:41:55 PST

Written by tomoneil
If "Nine" doesn't prove to be a strong best picture contender for Weinstein Co., then maybe "Inglourious Basterds" will emerge as a front-runner? Or maybe not. When Gold Derby heard how popular it is with Golden Globe voters and predicted it would win best picture at the Oscars, it triggere...

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Who Makes the Best Career Decisions in Hollywood? Actor Edition

19 Nov 2009 12:33:16 PST

Has Philip Seymour Hoffman ever picked a bad role? Ever since he came into the public eye, Hoffman has chosen A-list parts from the stage to the screen. (Although there's a 'Law & Order' episode with his name on it that we're dying to see.) His first major pic was a memorable minor part in 'B...

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Academy Award news and blogs - November 21, 2009

21 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.

• Royal flush: five of the best play Queen in new film -- by Tim Lusher from Film | guardian.co.uk
• This Week In Trailers: Jump, The Slammin’ Salmon, Kandahar, My Tehran For Sale, Bodyguards and Assassins -- by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) from /Film
• Oscar races heat up -- by James from Animated Views
• James Caan DIVORCE: Splitting From Wife #4, Again -- by The Huffington Post News Team from Latest News
• State Dinner Guest List: Bobby Jindal Will Attend; Bill Clinton Won't -- by The Huffington Post News Team from Latest News
• Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: Lord of the Gnats -- by Tallulah Morehead from The Blog
• VOTD: Jason Segel Performs Song with Once Musicans The Swell Season -- by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) from /Film
• Oscar Snubs? Extortion Plot? Do Tell! -- by Erik Davis from Cinematical
• Because it has been far too long since Clive Owen graced ONTD -- from Oh No They Didn't!
• Monsters, Inc. -- by Ben from Animated Views

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Oscars prediction: 'Inglourious Basterds' will win best picture

18 Nov 2009 10:23:18 PST

Written by tomoneil
Therefore, by process of elimination, it looks like Tarantino is the likely front-runner, which means "Inglourious Basterds" is probably ahead for the top Oscars too. DGA will have hiked influence over the Oscars this year since there's a major gap — five weeks — between the kudos this ye...

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Opinion: Gold Derby nuggets: Peter Jackson ups ending in 'Lovely Bones' | Dave Karger: Can 'Avatar' play on DVD? | Lady Gaga ineligible for new artist Grammy

18 Nov 2009 09:00:04 PST

Written by tomoneil
Golden Globes expand animation race to five nominees Quiz: What film ties the record for most Oscar nominations? Quiz: Who wrote the most best-picture winners at the Oscars? Inside track on the Oscars' best picture and best director races

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TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001

18 Nov 2009 08:46:13 PST

Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a n...

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"Crazy Heart" poster & Oscar buzz

16 Nov 2009 15:47:40 PST

Originally planned for a spring 2010 release from Fox Searchlight, the movie has been thrust into a Dec. 16th limited U.S. run and Crazy Heart is well and truly in the Oscar race after Amelia crashed and burned and isn’t the awards banker the studio had hoped.

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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Brothers' enters Oscars race | Sasha Stone on sci-fi odds at Oscars | Lighter side of 'Serious Man' Michael Stuhlbarg

13 Nov 2009 15:15:21 PST

Written by tomoneil
Inside track on the Oscars' best picture and best director races Taylor Swift sweeps CMAs and makes history Ooops — strike '2012' off your Oscars best-picture list Oscars rewind: 'Slumdog Millionaire' tied for most European Film Awards nominations

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Denzel Washington to Star in Broadway Revival of Fences

10 Nov 2009 12:17:15 PST

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington will star in the 2010 Broadway revival of late playwright August Wilson's Fences, according to the New York Times.

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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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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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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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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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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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Film Weekly podcast: David Fincher, director of the 13-Oscar-nominated Benjamin Button

29 Jan 2009 02:37:40 PST

Written by Jason Solomons, Catherine Shoard
Next, Jason gets together with Catherine Shoard to review the reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road (clue: it ain't Titanic), Jean-Claude van Damme's comeback film JCVD (not Charlie Kaufman) and the reissued Barry Lyndon ("extraordinarily prescient a...

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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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