Let’s keep the voting blather to a minimum and focus on what seem to be the most pivotal factors in this year’s top race.
This category is historically a haven for the quirk, verve, and humor that can’t quite crack the tougher races.
The directing race has boiled down to nine names, four of which you can pretty safely etch into stone.
It’s both unfair and too easy to shake out predictions for this category based on what is most likely to appeal to the Kindle Fire set.
The Artist seems likely to not only get nominated, but also win.
Since The Artist’s ubiquity is even growing tedious for those who kneel at its grayscale altar, let’s just stick to the facts.
The Academy rarely passes up the chance to gush over black-and-white lensing.
Going up against the queen—who’s dressed by Lisy Christl—will surely be Hugo’s Sandy Powell.
Seven finalists remain in the race for Best Makeup, the category that’s poised to prove just how strong a frontrunner The Artist actually is.
First take a look at the 15 feature films nominated by the Art Directors Guild.
The biggest hurdle for Malick’s answer to 2001 may be the demonstrable fact that this category favors movies with titles longer than your average James Joyce sentence.
Since Hoover ran the Bureau for fifty years, there is a lot that is left out, enough to make another film.
Steven Spielberg’s old-school insta-contender has its own inherent, frontrunner-battling virtues to get behind.
A Best Actress nomination for Mara doesn’t seem likely, either, even with the Golden Globe nod and handful of critics’ honors she’s got under her studded belt.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2011, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Where Allen is sure to perform well is in the Best Original Screenplay category, where he’s been nominated a total of 14 times.
This season presents two Oscar contenders, Hugo and The Artist, that both bask in the dreaminess of cinema’s early days.
Roland Emmerich’s film is an interesting case in that it may very well be its director’s best work; however, a better director is the one thing it surely needed.