In the absence of a de facto Best Picture frontrunner, the Oscar here usually goes to the slickest contender.
Swordfish is multifariously condescending, but it’s so inherently clueless that there’s no use in getting offended.
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The shaggy-dog element in the fourth story in To Rome with Love is its very casual surrealism.
When it comes to film editing, marveling at how rhythmically one shot feeds another is hardly sufficient in predicting an Oscar winner.
Conventional wisdom suggested that adaptations of the biggest bestsellers would make up much of this year’s shortlist.
A lot of pundits think Hugo’s love train through the tech categories will stall out before reaching the sound duo toward the bottom of the ballot, and that War Horse will gallop past it to win by a nose.
For the record, sound mixing is the sort of umbrella sound category, whereas sound editing represents the “special effects” angle of movie sonics.
At this point, being a Meryl Streep diehard who also cares about Oscar hoopla is a kind of brutal self-flagellation.
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.
Witches, wives, and even Whoopi made this list of women who sport only the darkest uniforms.
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.
If you want a good cross-section of Oscar habits, look no further than this year’s top five candidates for Best Actress.
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.
Thanks to Hollywood’s juiciest female role, she’s been fiercely groomed for superstardom and hurled into the popular conversation.
The poster knows its movie’s milieu, its genre, and its character’s superficial appetite for, well, everything.
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.