latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/10/2008
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The big surprise of the L.A. Film Critics Assn. awards, which were announced today, was that the critics group gave its best picture award, along with the best picture runner-up, to two of the biggest-grossing movies of the year, "Wall-E"...
bfca.org - 12/9/2008
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bfca.org —
Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards
will be given on 8 January 2009 to honor...
the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking . ** Click here to read the offical Press Release from BFCA and VH1 ** BEST PICTURE Nominees: • Changeling • ...
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The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2008
variety.com - 12/9/2008
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variety.com —
The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. has named
Disney/Pixar's "Wall-E" the best picture of the year, marking...
the first time in its history that it has given its top prize to an animated film. Danny Boyle took the directing award for Fox Searchlight's ...
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L.A. critics wired for 'Wall-E' - Entertainment News, ...
aintitcool.com - 12/6/2008
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aintitcool.com —
Merrick here... Tis one pretty much speaks for
itself. Big thanks to LoquaciousMus for taking the time...
to send along her thoughts... Went to the Dark Knight Blu Ray release event with Chris Nolan last night. It was a great time and thought I'd send ...
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Nolan Talks DARK KNIGHT Blu-Ray, A 100,000 Person ...
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Backstage Bickering
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Backstage Bickering According to Patrick Goldstein 's inside-the-LAFCA-awards-debate reporting , Slumdog Millionaire "sparked the most divisions of any film. Its partisans praised its filmmaking energy and social consciousness . But its scrum of detractors said they wouldn't vote for it under any circumstances , with some critics claiming it was too derivative, coming off like an amped-up Satyajit Ray film . "The only slam dunks in the voting were Penelope Cruz , who won best supporting actress for Vicki Cristina Barcelona and Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight . ...
LAFCA Moves Away from Oscar Again
Awards Daily —
... Patrick Goldstein, dropping yet another bombshell, reports on the voting practices of the LA Film critics. This is a good time to remember that the LAFCA, unlike, say, the HFPA or the BFCA, really are critics - they aren’t crossover blogger/critics, they aren’t TV personalities who cover entertainment and write reviews - they are seasoned representatives of a, sad to say, dying breed. ...
Annals Of Journalism, 12/10/08
The Hot Blog —
... Finally... Patrick Goldstein continues to devolve into a braying jackass of self-indulgence, by writing a 542 word deconstruction of the LAFCA voting event yesterday, but still pretending to be above it... ...
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