• Dave Germain digs into Oscar’s history of scene-stealers, joined this year by Viola Davis and Michael Shannon. [Associated Press]
• Erika Kinetz, meanwhile, keeps at the same old “Slumdog Millionaire” story that has grown stale over the last few weeks. [Associated Press]
• Ryan Adams eschews the usual “top 10 list” and instead cranks out a list of the 30 films that mattered to him the most in 2008. [Awards Daily]
• Sasha Stone, meanwhile, begins building her annual predictions chart from info scattered across the Oscarweb. [Awards Daily]
• Noah Forrest’s last minute consideration of “Slumdog Millionaire”‘s stranglehold on the season. [Movie City News]
• Nathaniel Rogers kicks off his annual Oscar Symposium, with Erik Lundegaard, Karina Longworth, Ed Gonzalez, Timothy Brayton and yours truly. [The Film Experience]
• David Carr isn’t impressed by this year’s John Singleton-directed Oscar trailer. [The Carpetbagger]
• Elizabeth Snead talks to legendary “Revolutionary Road” costumer Albert Wolsky. [The Envelope]
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1 2-18-2009 at 5:53 am
Alex said...
I’m surprised the studios haven’t released show reels of some of 2008’s scene-stealing performances on youtube.