• 10 great things Helena Bonham Carter has done or said to spice up this year’s Oscar race. [Vulture]
• Ricky Gervais humbly suggests an opening monologue for Oscar hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. [RickyGervais.com]
• TCM’s Robert Osborne (my sole company on predicting “Letters from Iwo Jima” four years ago) on Oscar campaigns. [Wall Street Journal]
• Andrew O’Hehir and Matt Zoller Seitz debate whether Natalie Portman is overrated and miscast in “Black Swan.” [Salon]
• Todd Gilchrist assembles a dream team of also-rans who should have won Oscars. [Cinematical]
• “The King’s Speech,” still chugging at the box office, lands big in smaller markets. [The Envelope]
• AMPAS renews the Oscars on ABC for the next decade. Not that it matters after 12/21/12, anyway. [Deadline]
• A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis Oscar Q&A with the Gray Lady readership. [New York Times]
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2 responses so far
1 2-25-2011 at 8:42 am
bostonbean said...
Too early to call HBC a national treasure (of the Brits of course)?
2 2-25-2011 at 1:23 pm
Afrika said...
Helena BC is one sassy broad. I’m always in stitches when I watch her interview. I had me rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off with her BAFTA acceptance speech. What a gal.
I hope she pulls an upset on Sunday.
LONG LIVE THE KING’S SPEECH