FYC Ad Out Front - Academy Awards , A Serious Man, Comedy

Seriously, Indeed
:: The Playlist :: — ... Seriously. We endorse this message and for your consideration ad from the folks at Focus Features regarding the Coen Brothers ' " A Serious Man ." There's not a ton of Oscar buzz on this one, but it's a silent, but deadly quality contender. Trust us, especially with 10 Best Picture nominees this year, when the Oscars finally announce their best pic noms , "A Serious Man," — which is really yet another classic Coens work, no matter how wonderfully inscrutable it is — will be part of the list. Also, those that do not consider the film's lead, Michael Stuhlbarg , a ...

Indeed
Hollywood Elsewhere — ... This of course is seen as a demerit by the pulse-taskers because Best Picture contenders are required to provide a semblance of positive assurance. A Serious Man is very, very comforting to me because it's so ruthlessly well shaped, perfectly performed, richly comedic and unstinting in its world view, which at the very least proves that vision lives in this industry. Vision and exactitude and making films that play just so without sanding the edges. (Thanks to Sasha Stone for posting the above trade ad on Sunday.)

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WTF: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime
Movies — ... can nail the role. Clancy Brown is certainly the latter. Of course, this is all hearsay for now, but if true? Awesome. Did you know that Wil Wheaton did uncredited voice work as Romulans in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie? Abrams first revealed it in the DVD commentary, but now Wheaton has come out and blogged about how that came about. • Here's the very early For Your Consideration ad for A Serious Man. Nice and to the point. Via Awards Daily. • We've written extensively (here, here and ...

For Your Consideration: Assessing The Major Oscar Categories
indieWIRE Recent — ... that the final piece of this year’s candidate roster is complete. And while there’s still a few major question marks remaining - namely Rob Marshall’s “Nine,” Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones” and Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” - beginning with tomorrow’s release of “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” every weekend from now to the next decade will offer us another piece of the puzzle. Focus Features has already jump started the For Your Consideration campaign mania with an ad for the Coens’ “A Serious Man” , and the folks at the Academy have made what one can ...