Last year’s tie in this category allowed us the unique opportunity to call it either 50 percent right or 50 percent wrong.
Farhadi utilizes living quarters as an area of adversity rather than comfort.
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.
Though it boasts the strongest pedigree of all 2012 awards contenders, Lincoln doesn’t play like obvious Oscar bait while you’re watching it.
The film emerged from Toronto as virtually every pundit’s Best Picture frontrunner.
Michel Hazanavicius is attempting to make a silent film that will play to a talkies audience, not just silent film history buffs.
Sometimes it’s hard to separate a movie from the hype.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2012 Academy Awards.
That the Best Picture category’s “Will it be six or will it be seven?” question was settled as close to 10 as possible without actually being 10 isn’t merely a mark of how much of a mess this year’s Oscars are.
When it comes to film editing, marveling at how rhythmically one shot feeds another is hardly sufficient in predicting an Oscar winner.
So it is that the one year we didn’t stick to our frilliest-always-wins guns here, we came up short.
If some of those prophets who called the nomination for Demián Bichir still see something we don’t, then the whispering buzz that the actor is poised to pull the ultimate upset could indeed be true.
Less a race than a ping-pong match, this year’s battle for Best Director has shifted favor from an obvious lock to a popular spoiler and back again.
After a few initial disappointments in Berlinale’s main competition, things gradually began to pick up.
It’s unavoidable to look at Octavia Spencer’s sunny Oscar odds though the filter of co-star Viola Davis’s ascendance in the Best Actress category.
Even though Lubezki is backed, for the first time ever, by a Best Picture nominee, he’s also almost entirely surrounded by nominees that can boast the same.
At the risk of milking a joke whose teets have been sore for weeks, The Artist’s musical score will do just fine without Kim Novak’s vote.
Is it just us or can the Academy’s infatuation with The Artist be felt even in categories where the film isn’t nominated?
The boy wizard’s last hurrah still, however, has a better shot in this category than Midnight in Paris.
Bridesmaids is just glad to be invited, no? A “memorable” quote from the film according to IMDb: “You’re like the maid of dishonor.”