guardian.co.uk - 2/1/2009
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Immediately after the nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced, the usual guessing games began - not only the one about who will win, but the even more fruitless enterprise of sifting the list for What It All Means. Trying to analyse the Oscar nominations in the hope that ...
weblogs.variety.com - 1/30/2009
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While reports of the inevitable Slumdog Millionaire backlash
may be overstated--the hugely popular movie is still charging
forward to some Oscar wins on February 22--here's a new Oscar slant: Slumdog and its main rival, The Curious Case of Benjamin ...
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Oscar Watch: Is Milk Coming Up on the Outside?
deadlinehollywooddaily.com - 1/27/2009
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deadlinehollywooddaily.com —
Studio scorecard: Paramount 28 (Paramount 14 + Paramount
Vantage 6 + DreamWorks 6 + Marvel 2), Warner
Bros 21 , Universal 20 (Universal 6 + Imagine 5 + Focus 9), Disney 14 (Walt Disney 8 + Miramax 6), Fox 13 (20th Century Fox 1 + Fox Searchlight ...
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Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » ...
variety.com - 2/8/2009
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variety.com —
Dustin Lance Black's "Milk" has won the WGA's
original screenplay award while Simon Beaufoy took the adapted
screenplay trophy for "Slumdog Millionaire." The winners, based on voting by the 12,000 WGA members, were announced Saturday night at ...
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'Milk,' 'Slumdog' top WGA Awards - Entertainment News, ...
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Thompson On Hollywood —
... , while Mark Harris explains at The Observer that the Academy is not, contrary to popular belief, a monolith. Film Experience examines the fates of the ...
Understand This
Hollywood Elsewhere —
... the Academy is, much like its home country, a hydra-headed agglomeration of different constituencies, often in fierce conflict , and the electoral decisions it makes can in different years reflect fearfulness, defensiveness and retreat, or a kind of split decision that denotes a compromise between the past and the future, or, on certain delightful occasions, an unexpected surge of thoughtfulness, good taste and high aspiration." -- from Mark Harris 's impressively well-written assessment of the '098 Oscar race that appeared in Sunday's Observer . ...
Everything Old is New Again
Awards Daily —
... HE points us to this interesting, well-written piece on Oscars 2008. It’s a must-read:
Pity the film scholar who tries to discern something about our times from surveying this list of best picture nominees 10, or 30, or 50 years from now. The substance of popular movies is almost never coincident with the events on the front page, and it would be a huge mistake to try to sew these films together into an argument that they somehow represent an Obama-era paradigm shift. For one thing, the presence of the fifth (and most surprising) best picture ...
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guardian.co.uk 2/11/2009 — The Globes are over and the Baftas been and gone . We have, almost imperceptibly, swung into the final stretch of this year's awards season – rattling towards the crowning Academy Awards a week on Sunday. The trophies have been polished; the seating ...
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carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 2/23/2009 — It looks like they might bring this one in at under three hours, so I'll curb my complaining. And I'll close by noting that this seemed not only like a relatively brief Oscar ceremony, but a small one. Maybe this is a harbinger of things to come.
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