The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself.
All right, all right, all right. We should’ve known.
Blergh. Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway were manifest.
Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category.
We’re sensing that, once again, Best Picture will fall just shy of 10 nominees.
The surefire frontrunners are Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, and Steven Spielberg.
It certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master.
Boasting enough fine performances to at least fill a 10-wide field, supporting actress is this year’s most riches-packed race.
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year’s likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze.
The one certainty of this year’s Original Screenplay field is a bit of 2010 déjà vu.
American Animal’s poster, like the film, finds common ground between the high- and lowbrow, the artful and the infantile.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2012, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Can we all stop thinking about L. Ron and Tom Cruise and just watch the damned movie?
Biopics may have the strongest track record in currying Academy favor, but tales of overcoming physical obstacles aren’t far behind.
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.
You thought Dolph Lundgren, Meryl Streep, and Darth Sidious couldn’t co-habitate. You were wrong, Padawan.
Will the Academy really go for a star-free, Sendak-esque allegory, whose rugged charms are tied to its loose lack of answers?
This is a father-son love story, and it’s caustic, complex, and utterly compelling.
Poster designer Dustin Stanton has a history with Paul Thomas Anderson.