• In case you missed this morning’s announcement, “Inglourious Basterds” and “Nine” led the field of BFCA nominees. [In Contention]
• Frank Rich op-eds a love letter to “Up in the Air.” [New York Times]
• Steve Pond painstakingly assembles a primer on how many votes a contender needs for an Oscar nomination per category. [The Odds]
• Total Film magazine votes “There Will Be Blood” the film of the decade. [The Independent]
• Bilge Ebiri goes behind the scenes at the Beantown critics vote. [Vulture]
• Anthony Breznican profiles Jeff Bridges’s legacy of diversity. [USA Today]
• Roger Ebert four-stars “Avatar.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
• Patrick Goldstein is (rightly) beside himself over the fact that the MPAA has slapped Nancy Meyers’s “It’s Complicated” with an R rating for some scenes of herbal tokage. [The Big Picture]
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2 responses to “12/14 Oscarweb Round-up”
If you want further commentary on the absurdity of the MPAA in relation to “It’s Complicated”, the A.V. Club has a nice sarcastic commentary on it:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-mpaa-helping-movies-become-psas,36216/
im excited about that top 10 thats coming together, still a few heaivyweights i gotta check out, but its cool to see so much love for movies no one ever saw coming, and inglourious basterds is a great comeback from cannes story