moviecitynews.com - 10/2/2009
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BEST PICTURE Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Nomination 90% Locks (in alphabetical order) Dec 25 Nine TWC Marshall Day-Lewis Et al In a thin year, getting over the post-production fights, looking like the front-runner May Up Disney Docter Petersen - Could the first animated film to get ...
moviecitynews.com - 10/2/2009
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24 Weeks To Go Toronto Scores A Single,
But Not Much More That sound you heard coming...
out of the Toronto International Film Festival this year Near silence. The films that came in hot ( An Education& Precious ) stayed hot, the new film expected to ...
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MCN: 24 Weeks to Oscar
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24 Weeks To Oscar....
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... face up in Toronto was that with 10 Best Picture nominees and only five in each of the acting slots, it could get pretty weird. Nine and Precious are actress fests. Invictus, A Serious Man, A Single Man, and The Hurt Locker are actor parties. But at the same time, you have to assume an Oscar nomination for Daniel Day Lewis in Nine and for Julianne Moore in A Single Man. How many of the 8 star actresses can be nominated for Nine?
The full column...
The whole chart...
State of the Race: The Calm Before the Storm
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... I can’t really get down with his chart because he has films was at the top that haven’t been seen and then just two near the bottom that are “still too blurry.” ...
What exactly is the gay/Jewish ‘Precious?’
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... .) But there’s a pair of head-scratching (to me, at least) tags in his Best Picture chart that I feel like highlighting: ...
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