State of the Race: The Calm Before the Storm
awardsdaily.com 10/3/2009 — It’s a funny season. It’s a quiet season. There are a lot of gun-shy studios it feels like to me. There are a lot of people playing it safe, hedging their bets, not trying to plunge in so soon. Is that because everyone is afraid of ...

Post Film Festival Season: Re-Taking The Oscar Temperature
theplaylist.blogspot.com 10/23/2009 — The Oscar temperature rises and falls like autumn caught between an Indian summer and November ( errr , or something), but now that the Fall Film Festival season is completely over (except maybe for the AFI fest, but they have nothing new), the ...

Virtual Oscars Roundtable: The Directors
awardsdaily.com 10/19/2009 — For our second round, we have a few different voices. The participants are: Edward Douglas, Coming Soon Scott Feinberg, And The Winner Is Pete Hammond, The Envelope Pete Howell, The Toronto Star Tom O’Neil, The Envelope Kris ...

Exclusive: Anthony Mackie Talks ‘Hurt Locker,’ the Oscars and Upcoming Projects
filmschoolrejects.com 10/21/2009 — If there’s one thing I hate about reading, writing, and conducting interviews, it’s when the subject gives canned responses that seem like they’ve been sped through a publicist-run car wash to make sure nothing controversial, close-to-controversial, or interesting gets ...

First stab at winner predictions, part 2: Yours and mine
incontention.com 15 days ago — Seeing as Kris was (delete as appropriate) brave/stupid/psychic/smart enough to predict who will win the Oscars four months ahead of the ceremony (and three weeks earlier than he did last year), I figured I’d follow up, as I did last year , ...

Nominees announced for 19th annual Gotham Awards
incontention.com 10/19/2009 — And here…we…go! I’m on my way out the door and so I can’t fully comment on the just announced list of Gotham Award nominees (which, along with the trickling-in list of Hollywood Film Fest winners, really is making this seem ...

The Hurt Locker
anhkhoi.blogspot.com 8/7/2009 — Shot with a budget of $11 million, The Hurt Locker is not your usual war film and it's going to be considered as a classic in the upcoming years. In terms of action, it's not Saving Private Ryan (not that the action scenes in this film suck). As for the script, don't expect to see ...

Sunday Discussion: Early Oscar Predictions
filmschoolrejects.com 10/25/2009 — Have you seen anything this year worthy of next year’s Oscars? If so, what? What do you think should get nominated? I’ve been thinking about Cristoph Waltz. He was fantastic in Inglourious Basterds . Scary, disgusting, evil, genteel. I’m sure he’ll get a nod for ...

One More 'Up in the Air' Trailer
getthebigpicture.net 15 days ago — We're a third of the way through the Winter of Clooney ; George's Men Who Stare at Goats opened last weekend, and considering it's not getting rave reviews, the film is actually doing pretty well. It will make its money back, which is always a positive start. Fantastic Mr. Fox is next, but I ...

'Up in the Air' Songs Pulled from Oscar Race
cinematical.com 16 days ago — Well, it's November, which means the awards contenders are steadily coming out of the woodwork, and just as we have the Academy Awards to look forward to, we also have their fine print to tolerate. The first of this year's disqualifications naturally ...