If this year’s Best Actor race is all about which nominee brandishes the most compelling story, then Christian Bale faces some mighty long odds.
In a year replete with great trash, American Hustle is the crown princess of the bunch.
Without question, Bale remains one of Hollywood’s most versatile and risk-taking leading men.
What remains in the air is just how many plays the David O. Russell film can pull off.
Time will tell if the Academy’s newest rule adjustment will throw off the mojo of latecomers like Les Misérables.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2011 Academy Awards.
The ascendance of the stuttering king and Oscar’s perceived instantaneous regression into the mottled pastures of White Elephant Cinema has rendered some of our most reliable barometers speechless.
Six. That’s the number of times the DGA winner has failed to win the Oscar. Advantage: Tom Hooper. Two thousand and three.
And so it is that Oscar bloggers, seeking to itch the scratch Leo’s blatant assertion that campaigning, not prognosticating, is what wins Oscars, have collectively shifted the balance of power back to the plucky 14-year-old girl who tore through every scene (every. scene.)
We’ve been forced to play things a little more conservatively than we would like.
Oscar loves a saint, but in the supporting categories at least, they love losers even more.
Rule number one for prognosticating the Best Original Screenplay category: Rule out Mike Leigh at your own peril.
The writers manage to make the film more compelling as it goes along, always a potential problem in boxing pictures.
It’s difficult not to be cynical about a contest that’s so easily manipulated by hype and publicity.
Now, to be clear, Inception, which makes the juggled alternate realities of Back to the Future Part II seem complicated in comparison.
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This year’s slate of contenders indicates voters are ready to see the men behind the monsters.
I hate hotshots.