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20 Weeks To Go The Rules Of Ten The most often considered issue of this year s Oscar race is, How will having ten nominees change the game? And the definitive answer is, Ask me next April. Well, even that may be a little blurry. What I can tell you is what has happened so far, which is still ...

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MCN: 20 Weeks to Oscar: The Rules of Ten: What we don’t see so far is an earnest effort by the “big movies”.. http://bit.ly/2Pbvvv 22 days ago

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The Hot Blog — ... air for a title that is neither a sequel, animated or based on a major literary work… you know, what grandpa used to call “an original.” There are sixty-seven $500m worldwide grossers in history and only Ghost, The Day After Tomorrow, Forrest Gump, Armageddon, Night At The Museum, I Am Legend, Hancock, The Sixth Sense, Star Wars, ET, and Jurassic Park qualify in that rarified grouping. Five of the eleven were Best Picture nominated. Only one won. But still… The full column... The chart...

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Hollywood Elsewhere — How It Works In a recently posted riff called "The Rules of Ten," MCN's David Poland says two things about Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker . One, "among the fifteen or fewer serious contenders for [Best Picture] nomination, it will certainly be amongst the best five, by most standards of quality. And two, "in years past...a movie like The Hurt Locker would have a very hard road , no matter how good it is, because of its lackluster box office run." In other words, he seems to be saying that a standard Academy rule-of-thumb -- i.e., if a great or near-great film hasn't ...

11/2 Oscarweb Round-up
In Contention — ... • Related: how to write a love letter. [The Times] • Steve Pond surveys reaction to some of the year’s contenders as they screen for the Academy on the weekends. [The Odds] • Breaking down the odds on potential Oscar hosts. [E! Online] • The growing pains of Diablo Cody. [The Guardian] • David Poland cranks out some more thoughts on the 10. [Movie City News] • Andrew O’Hehir’s top 10 kids movies that ...