• President Obama met with children featured in the film “Waiting for Superman” yesterday. [Associated Press]
• Handicapping this year’s documentary feature Oscar race. [Vulture]
• Dave Karger explains his Gurus choices, calls “Love & Other Drugs” (one of his predicted Best Picture nominees) one of the sexiest films he’s seen in years. [Oscar Watch]
• Patrick McDonald sits down with “Conviction” director Tony Goldwyn and star Juliette Lewis. [Hollywood Chicago]
• Jim Emerson digs up this month’s American Cinematographer cover story, which reveals the originally proposed fluid master opening of “The Social Network.” [Scanners]
• Nikki Finke reports that “The Debt” will be postponed until 2011 due to a lagging Miramax deal. [Deadline]
• Steve Pond takes aim at bursting a few Oscar trial balloons already set forth this season but hedges his bet considerably when it comes to talk of a best Picture nomination for “The Town.” [The Odds]
• Scott Feinberg says it’s a “grievous mistake” not to keep Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Actress discussion. Did she leave it, though? [ScottFeinberg.com]
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2 responses to “10/12 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Obama with the ‘Superman’ kids, handicapping the docs, ‘Debt’ delayed”
I had Tom Wilkinson included in my supporting actor list of the Debt, guess I can scratch that one off! I was looking forward to this one, that’s a shame.
I also was really looking forward to The Debt, this is disappointing, I’m a huge John Madden fan!