• Jeffrey Wells does his part to re-inject Tilda Swinton’s performance in “I Am Love” back into the Oscar conversation. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• The Academy is ready for its close-up — on Twitter! [Twitter]
• Celebrating 15 years of Fox Searchlight Pictures. [/Film]
• Running down Asia’s list of contenders for the foreign film Oscar. [The Independent]
• Rob Brunner profiles “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” star Noomi Rapace. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Sasha Stone on the year’s outside shots. [Awards Daily]
• Scott Feinberg chats with “Winter’s Bone” star Jennifer Lawrence. [ScottFeinberg.com]
• Steve Pond reports that the International Documentary Association will begin online screening of films for consideration. [The Odds]
• Pete Hammond reports on Monday’s Hollywood Film Awards. [Deadline]
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2 responses to “10/27 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Sticking up for Swinton, AMPAS joins Twitter, 15 years of Fox Searchlight”
I saw I Am Love yesterday, and it’s an absolutely glorious performance by Swinton, as usual. She also gave a great performance last year in Julia and was completely ignored. Is there a sentiment among the Academy that, “oh, well she already has an Oscar, that’s enough”?.
‘I Am Love’ has me feeling awkward. You know that horrible feeling when an actor you love gives a performance you’re kind of lukewarm on but the rest of the world seems to love? That’s me on Swinton in ‘I Am Love.’
I mean, she cannot fail, the woman is a goddess. But, like that New Yorker reviewer commented, the performance kind of feels like a compound of some of her much stronger prior performances. To me it looks weaker by comparison. I don’t know. I just wasn’t really feeling it.
If I ruled the Oscars, Tilda would already have god knows how many nominations, and three Oscars: 1 for Edward II, 1 for Michael Clayton, and 1 for Julia.