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Oscar derby update: 'Invictus,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead best-picture race
Oscar derby update: 'Invictus,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead best-picture race
Adding to the Oscar best-picture predictions we received this week from 14 leading pundits, Gold Derby just got two more batches — one from New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick, the other from Robert Osborne, star of Turner Classic Movies, host of the Oscars' red carpet and author of the ...
The Gurus of Gold: November 4, 2009
moviecitynews.com — . .......................................... x Up in the Air - 1 4 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 6 1 2 4 1 14 122 8.71 Precious ... (more) The Gurus of Gold: November 4, 2009
For Your Consideration: Assessing The Major Oscar Categories
For Your Consideration: Assessing The Major Oscar Categories
indiewire.com — What’s been a slow awards season build since Toronto and Venice kicked things off two months ago is about to become an accelerated horserace. With Fox Searchlight’s announcement yesterday that they were bumping up awards bait-y “Crazy Heart” for 2009 ... (more) For Your Consideration: Assessing The Major Oscar Categories
Oscars 2010: What We Think We Know
Oscars 2010: What We Think We Know
getthebigpicture.net — The Academy Award nominations aren't due for another 90 days or so, and most of the movies that figure to be prominent nominees this year still haven't been released. Still, a few movies seem to be solidifying their claims and others are falling or have fallen by the wayside. So let's ... (more) Oscars 2010: What We Think We Know
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Reading the Tea Leaves
Awards Daily — ... TCM’s Robert Osborne gets into the prediction game with the latest assemblage by Tom O’Neil over at The Envelope. You can click over to see the full list, but this is, more or less, how it shook down: ...

Oscar Poll Reboot
Hollywood Elsewhere — Oscar Poll Reboot L.A.Times/Gold Derby columnist Tom O'Neil has recalculated his Best Picture Oscar prediction poll with input from 16 pundits. Only The Hurt Locker and Invictus are supported by the whole crew. Precious and Up in the Air got 15 votes, two blew off Up and three blew off Nine . Ten voted for An Education and Avatar . And four have now joined me in supporting A Serious Man -- O'Neil, Robert Osborne, Steve Pond and Peter Travers .

Calling the Best Picture wild cards
In Contention — ... Tom O’Neil has pooled the thoughts of 16 awards-watchers on which 10 films will make the Best Picture cut, and the results make for ominously predictable reading. ...

Early Best Picture Predictions: Invictus & Hurt Locker Lead
FirstShowing.net — ... I know we've still got a good two months left in the year and most of the heavy-hitting films haven't even been seen by anyone yet, but it's never too early to talk about the Oscars. Over the past week, Tom O'Neil of the LA Times' Gold Derby blog polled some 16 Oscar pundits and film critics to get an early pulse on what they think are top contenders right now for Best Picture. Those polled include well-known film critics like Erik Davis, Pete Hammond, Peter Travers, Jeff Wells, and Susan Wloszczyna. And the list of their top picks might not ...

Oscar Update: Movement In the Predictions, but the Front-runners Remain
RopeofSilicon.com — ... " last week, eight films showed up on at least 12 of the 14 lists. Only 11 movies were deemed serious competitors for the 10 slots. And a different poll (the Envelope) with slightly different participants resulted in the same top nine, and only one difference in the top 12. ...

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filmonic.com 24 days ago — Another day, another trailer for a Matt Damon movie. However this film will focus more on Morgan Freeman who plays the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. What’s that you hear? Oscars? I thought I heard that too. Invictus tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan ...
Invictus Trailer
joblo.com 24 days ago — If it wasn't already assumed that a film directed by Clint Eastwood will make the Oscars watchlist, this one surely will seal the deal - Matt Damon alongside Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela; Everybody else should just be happy to be nominated at ...
Invictus Trailer Promises a Real Best Picture Contender. Today in Film Bloggery 10/28/09SpoutBlog
With ten spots available this year for potential Best Picture nominees, it’s been easy to consider every other new movie a candidate for the top Oscar. But for every pundit who believes something like Up or The Hurt Locker or, now, This Is It , is a shoo-in for a nomination there ...
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Clint Eastwood is coming. Hide your Oscars! I suppose you've already checked out the trailer for Invictus in beautiful Quicktime. Soon it will be embedded everywhere in crappier looking formats. The movie, based on this true story , is about Nelson Mandela's efforts to unite a divided South ...