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2/25 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Carter keeps the season interesting, Gervais’s suggestion, Portman overrated?

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:18 am · February 25th, 2011

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]

[Photo: The Weinstein Company]




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  • 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