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A few choice quotes from this New York Times profile remembering Ronni Chasen in this, what would have been the busiest week of the year for her. She was very smart…She would always get there early so her noncelebrity client would get on camera, before all the stars would arrive. There is not a day […]
Missing Ronni
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:21 pm · February 25th, 2011
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Charting Oscar’s ups and downs
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:38 am · February 25th, 2011
Some of you may have been following Movieline’s Oscar Index. It has been a nice way to visually track the Oscar race all season, and now, they’ve put all of them together with the following time lapse video, showing all of Oscar’s ups and downs along the way:
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How ‘Salt’ could surprise and win Best Sound Mixing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:21 am · February 25th, 2011
I stopped researching somewhere in the 1970s, but as far as I can tell going back that far, the Best Sound Mixing (formerly Best Sound) category has never included more than three Best Picture nominees. In a number of cases there were two, a great many years saw one and often enough, there were none. […]
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OSCAR GUIDE: Best Directing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:36 am · February 25th, 2011
Coming down to the wire, the race for Best Directing remains a very close one. Earlier in the year the prevailing wisdom was that a split could be in the cards, with the Oscar-bait frontrunner more likely to win Best Picture and the zeitgeisty competition likely to see its talented helmer finally noticed. Then things […]
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 54 — Final predictions and thoughts!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:03 am · February 25th, 2011
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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Rundown of awards presentations
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:28 am · February 25th, 2011
From Deadline (thanks to PaulH): 1. Art Direction (Tom Hanks) 2. Cinematography (ditto) 3. Supporting Actress (?) 4. Animated Feature (Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis) 5. Animated Short Film (ditto)
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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. […]
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INTERVIEW: Talking westerns and only westerns with ‘True Grit’ actor Jeff Bridges
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:26 pm · February 24th, 2011
Last year was the best opportunity to do the career retrospective thing with Jeff Bridges, right at the starting gun of an Oscar-winning steamroll through the film awards season. This time around, the actor is nominated for his sixth Academy Award, for his work in the Coen brothers’ “True Grit,” and it seemed a conversation […]
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‘Dragon,’ ‘King’s Speech,’ ‘TRON’ win with film music critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:25 pm · February 24th, 2011
Check out the full list of winners at The Circuit.
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Taking questions for Oscar Talk
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:05 am · February 24th, 2011
Alright, here’s the big push. You know the drill. PLEASE KEEP IT TO ONE QUESTION, and, as always, keep it fresh and please, don’t bore me.
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OSCAR GUIDE: Best Actress
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:46 am · February 24th, 2011
Early in the season the lead actress category appeared to be more competitive than ever. An easy list of 10 contenders could be drawn up, many of them admittedly sight unseen, and it was anyone’s guess as to which lady could insinuate herself as the odds-on favorite to win. Then the critics began narrowing things […]
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Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:29 am · February 24th, 2011
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2/24 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Hanks to present two off the bat, Elton John on Best Actress, Twitter Best Pic reviews
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:07 am · February 24th, 2011
• Pete Hammond reports that Tom Hanks will present Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography to start the show, so we’ll know very quickly if a sweep for “The King’s Speech” is afoot. [Deadline] • Glenn Kenny talks up the underrated “Shutter Island” a year after its release. [The Film Talk] • It’s been a […]
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“I’m not dancin’ with no damn wolves.”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:28 pm · February 23rd, 2011
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The top 10 shots of 2010: part two
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:49 am · February 23rd, 2011
In case you missed part one of this year’s top shots column, be sure to catch up before digging into the final five selections today. As I mentioned yesterday, it wasn’t exactly a banner year for singular images from films in 2010. And that’s certainly not a crime. But more to the point, what I […]
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Oscar the Grouch’s Oscar picks
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:25 am · February 23rd, 2011
(Courtesy: AOL)
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OSCAR GUIDE: Best Actor
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:52 am · February 23rd, 2011
The 2010 Best Actor race looks to end up exactly where it started, making it the most predictable category of the evening. In fact, as of late (save for the two Oscars Sean Penn won), this has consistently been one of the easier categories to call. Generally it seems that there is a clear favorite […]
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2/23 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Leo speaks again on Adgate, hosts speak out on show, Burwell on ‘Grit’ score
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:14 am · February 23rd, 2011
• Melissa Leo tells a different story on Adgate: She was doing what Parmount told her to do. [Daily Beast] • Telecast hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway in their first interview on the upcoming festivities. [Hollywood Reporter] • Meanwhile, Tom Sherak tells Susan Wloszczyna we’ll like the style of the show. [USA Today]
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