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10 ANIMATED SHORTS MOVE AHEAD IN 2009 OSCAR RACE
Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the ...
Animation
Shorts
The List
Martin Short
by John Villeneuve
Letters to Father Jacob is a film I would have missed at The Vancouver Film Festival, had it not been submitted by Finland for consideration for the Best Foreign Language category. Directed by Klaus Härö, with economy, but extreme restraint, this Scandinavian film is ...
Other
It’s always illuminating to hear from various smart folks around the web and I feel grateful that they indulge my needling questions week after week; after all, it isn’t like any of the have any time to spare. I figure, the more intelligence we can bring to the table the better. ...
Comedy
Academy Awards
From one of the best films of the year featuring one of the best performances of the year – with commentary by Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal.
Action
The Hurt Locker
The thing about Michael Moore and the Academy – they have kind of been there, done that. When people say to me, “Of course it wasn’t nominated; it was bad,” that means nothing. They have their own particular tastes, especially their Doc branch, which is notorious ...
Horror
The Eye
A.J. Cook
They won’t matter because Twilight has a built-in audience. Trust me, every kid I know is going to see it and they haven’t read, nor do they care a lick, about what the critics or the bloggers think.
This is your Twilight open thread. Have at it. As for me, I’m stuck ...
Drama
Twilight
Posted by Julie at the Cleveland Leader , Clint Eastwood will join Barack Obama, Tom Brady, Chris Pine and the three stars of The Hangover (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) for the Men of the Year issue, which will split up covers and hit news stands in December. Eastwood says ...
Comedy
Clint Eastwood
The Hangover
Zach Galifianakis
Julie Andrews
Ed Helms
Owen G.’s A- review of Nic Cage in Bad Lieutenant says, for once, the mannerisms fit the role:
Except that Cage is now doing his operatic bug-eyed intensity thing because the role actually calls for it. As Terence McDonagh, a homicide cop who is always high on coke and heroin, Cage ...
Other
Nicolas Cage
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The category for Sound at the Oscars has
always been somewhat of a mystery. Everyone has their
own theory as to why certain films are recognized for Sound and others aren’t. Some say “the loudest movie always wins.” Others ...
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SoundWorks Will Listen Harder
Comments
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In Contention
found this 37 hours agofound this
Gad, how does Oprah keep it straight: lady’s face ripped off by a chimp, Sarah Palin, “two time Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis!”
Other
Daniel Day-Lewis
by John Villeneuve
With the films, A Prophet and The White Ribbon, can AMPAS continue to ignore the best that this art form called cinema can aspire to? Can they smugly rationalize to themselves that they may see the merits in such films, yet, for whatever feeble reason, toss them to the ...
Other
The White Ribbon
Breaking News Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA (November 18, 2009) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified ...
Horror
It’s coming any minute now, but in the meantime, our pal AJ Schnack over at All These Wonderful Things has taken a stab at films he thinks might make the cut. Food, Inc. is the current frontrunner, according to AJ (then that automatically means Oscar ignores it. Juuuuuust kidding). It ...
Horror
A.J. Cook
The Eye
Capitalism: a Love Story
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As Nikki Finke foretold : Beverly Hills, CA
(November 18, 2009) — Hamish Hamilton will direct the
82nd Academy Awards ® telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. It will be Hamilton’s first time directing the ...
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Hamish Hamilton is The Guy
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(click to enlarge) “My name is Jake, and
I was cloned under unusual circumstances… ” (via ComingSoon
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Avatar, French poster
Who doesn’t love or need a little revenge fantasy to get us through this life? We can’t do much about it when we read on the news some toddler’s been sold for prostitution and shoved in a trunk to die, or a young girl was snatched from a street corner and held prisoner to ...
Drama
Peter Jackson
The Lovely Bones
Exquisitely radiant as always. Let’s hope these clips stay online long enough for everybody to see. Part 2 after the cut.
Other
Penelope Cruz
Like them or not, the National Board of Review is first out of the gate with the top ten films of the year. Even though they have been criticized over the years for being “not real critics” and a “bought and paid for” critics groups — none of that has seemed to ...
Drama
The Ten
Tom Sherak
President, AMPAS
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(thanks to Noah R.)
