The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
We regret to inform you that Slant Magazine officially supports Avatar’s smurferific visual effects in this category.
In the last few years, AMPAS has accorded spots in this category to quite a number of films fixated on death.
After AMPAS finally threw a first-ever nomination at Werner Herzog two years ago, we thought they might similarly give props to Agnès Varda this year.
If you haven’t already, set 10 minutes aside to savor Pictures at a Revolution author Mark Harris’s latest unfailingly insightful demythologizing of the Oscar game.
Even the weakest of the bunch, James Horner’s predictable but atmospheric score for Avatar, doesn’t stir our bile beyond a simmer.
I atone and once again predict the movie that most liberally cakes it on to win.
These are the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards.
In short, not so much the People’s Choice Awards, just more of the same.
The director category is starting to feel like an anniversary party we’re not sure we want to go to anymore.
We lamely present you with a carbon copy of the SAG’s own nominees for Best Actor.
We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again.
Mo’Nique might want to pull it waaaaayyy back before she loses the Oscar, but she’s at least a lock for a nomination.
Stanley Tucci’s two high-profile performances should have equaled one easy nomination.
And now, a retelling of a recent conversation between two teenage girls and an older, wiser relative who gets owned.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2009 Academy Awards.
Because it pushes that button. Because it makes them feel like sitting on trains. Because you know Sharon Stone texted Dev Patel: U R A Q T.
As the presence of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which was snubbed in the other sound category) would attest, Sound Mixing is the category that far more obviously favors best picture players.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t know Oscar or their Prada from their Pucci.
When trying to figure out what will win the sound awards this year, it’s probably best to ignore or at least downplay the two p’s.
Writing about what Eric calls the “most boringest” Oscar categories has become more boringer given the inevitability of a Slumdog Millionaire sweep on Sunday