Sometimes the key to an actor’s successful Oscar campaign is to let the performance speak entirely for itself.
The big story here is Adam Shankman’s apparently Board of Directors-blessed mission to make over the Oscarcast.
Eric says over email, “Among the not-irritating hipster entries, The Door has a shot of eight little bald kids. Is that not enough?”
How do you solve a problem like Avatar? How do you hold a fluorescent, floating anemone in your hand?
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.
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.