And often, the Academy gets it right…
As much as I rant about some of the bizarre choices made by the Academy, let’s be fair…there are times when they are right on the money. The AMPAS allowed for an embracing of the New American cinema...
View Article12/8 Oscarweb Round-up
• Lou Lumenick runs down his 10-best list… [Lumenick on Film] • …and calls “Mamma Mia!” the guilty pleasure of the year. [Lumenick on Film] • Peter Sciretta gets a juicy tid-bit on the “Forrest Gump”...
View ArticleCould Woody Allen be a surprise Best Director nominee?
In 1994, Woody Allen’s masterful “Bullets Over Broadway” was not really on anyone’s charts as a potential Oscar nominee. A very funny film about a playwright who enlists a gangster to help him bring...
View Article1/2 Oscarweb Round-up
• David Poland looks at the race nine weeks out from the angle of release marketing and strategy. [Movie City News] • Nathaniel Rogers is knee deep in his annual (extensive) year in review features....
View ArticleSeparated at birth
Thanks to Hollywood Elsewhere for pointing out this amusing video, which … well, it speaks for itself, really:
View ArticleGumption
If you’re an awards geek and you haven’t yet discovered Nathaniel Rogers and friends’ series of “Best Pictures from the Outside In” discussions, you have a treat in store. The premise is both eccentric...
View ArticleQuote unquote
In one of yesterday’s comment threads, a bit of a discussion built up concerning the quotability (or otherwise) of “Avatar,” and how this factored into its potential pop-culture significance. It’s a...
View ArticleLIFE WITHOUT OSCAR: 1993 and 1994
Catch up with the idea behind this series here. 1993 was the year I first became interested in making movies and tracking box office. There are two words responsible for both and they rhyme with...
View ArticleTHE LONG SHOT: A toast to the douchebags
(Not-quite-final predictions here.) 176 days from the unofficial opening of my Oscar season — a breakfast-hour press screening of “Black Swan” on the first day of the Venice Film Festival — it’s fair...
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