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14 Weeks To Go: The Fate Of The Frontrunner Along with, May you live in interesting times, a new curse has developed into undeniable undesirability May your film run at the front of the Oscar pack! Dreamgirls , Flags of Our Fathers , Cold Mountain , 21 Grams , Charlie Wilson s War , Sweeney ...
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20 Weeks : The Fate Of The Frontrunner
The Hot Blog —
... The two other sides of this are, first, highly anticipated films that turned out to be epic disasters, including Rent, The Producers, Breaking & Entering, The Shipping News, Lions For Lambs, Rendition, and others. Second are the films that started as frontrunners and still got in with a nomination, but seemed dead to the possibility of a win, like Atonement, Ray, Seabiscuit, Gangs of New York, The Cider House Rules amongst them.
This year’s victims?
The rest...
Pushback Motives
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Pushback Motives David Poland says "some strong pushback" has been manifesting against Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt and Revolutionary Road in the Best Picture talking wars. But for pushback to happen a film it has to have made generated big expectations to begin with, no? In this sense Australia was absolutely never in the game. You could feel this weeks before it opened. And then it was shown and a fair number of people lost their minds. The Button pushback is real. It was instantly detectable starting with those closely-watched-and-reported-on L.A. and N.Y. screenings. It's a Best Picture nominee, for sure, but ...
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