Bad reviews will hurt Pan, but they won’t sink it; Warner Bros.’s uninspired $150 million investment and ho-hum marketing will.
The ultimate takeaway here is that predicting this category is a total crapshoot—that, or we don’t know shit.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2013 Academy Awards.
It bears mentioning that one of the two times we’ve gotten this category wrong was when we disregarded the almost always reliable frilliest-always-wins rule.
Typically, there’s at least one Oscar-nominated score that stands out as unique, with memorable flourishes that push it ahead as the frontrunner.
Just as we’d expect from the Academy, there’s no shortage of lushness on display in this year’s nominees for best cinematography.
Every time I consider this category, the voice of The Chipmunk Adventure’s Miss Miller pops into my head, singing, “C’mon a my house, my house a c’mon.”
Compared to most of the season’s races, Best Actress has remained somewhat open.
Any major-race hopes that Focus Features may have had for the film were basically dashed this week.
How to sell a Keira Knightley period romance and still distinguish it from every other Keira Knightley period romance?
Does Looper have a prayer in the Visual Effects race, where tigers and hobbits and Avengers will be sprinting, neck-in-neck?
Conventional wisdom says this film would surely have the sound categories in the bag.
Time will tell if the Academy’s newest rule adjustment will throw off the mojo of latecomers like Les Misérables.
Student attempts to do for Crime and Punishment what Darezhan Omirbaev’s earlier Chouga did for Anna Karenina.
A number of films at this year’s festival hover in the realm of science fiction.
Russian Film Week, like the Eastern-European films it shows, runs at a devil-may-care pace.