Somewhat lost or at the very least under-considered this year when it comes to the Best Animated Feature Film category is the success of indie distributor GKIDS in the field.
GKIDS makes a statement this season with two animated feature nominees
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:27 am · February 11th, 2012
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That time 'The Matrix' ate 'The Phantom Menace' and George Lucas' lunch at the Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:34 am · February 10th, 2012
At the 1999 Oscars, George Lucas’ hotly anticipated “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” went head-to-head with “The Matrix” in three categories.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Sound Editing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:37 am · February 10th, 2012
The sound categories really were interesting and all over the place this year. In the sound editing field, we have just two of the nine Best Picture nominees represented, one surprise (for some) show for a Cannes hit that was expected to show up elsewhere, a franchise entry that deserves more love than it’ll get and a tip of the hat to a Best Picture snubee that actually showed up in both sound fields.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 81 — Lunch with the nominees, breaking down animated shorts, BAFTA preview
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:58 am · February 10th, 2012
In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss Monday’s Nominees Luncheon, break down the animated short category and take a quick look ahead at this weekend’s BAFTA Awards, among other things.
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John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Chemical Brothers nominated by film music critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:37 am · February 10th, 2012
This year’s list of International Film Music Critics Association nominees was predictably dominated by John Williams, who landed seven nominations across the various categories for his two Oscar-nominated scores: “The Adventures of Tintin” and “War Horse.” Not too far back with five nods was “The Artist” composer Ludovic Bource.
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Round-up: Did you hear 'The Descendants' is an underdog all of a sudden?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:17 am · February 10th, 2012
In today’s round-up, Fox Searchlight plays the “underdog” card for “The Descendants,” the Academy promises a “hard look” at the Best Original Song process and a number of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters podcast it up.
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Jean Dujardin auditions for every available Hollywood villain role at Funny or Die
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:17 pm · February 9th, 2012
Funny or Die sends up the cynical logic that has Jean Dujardin stuck in European villain roles after this Oscar season.
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Kubrick marketing maven Mike Kaplan on 'A Clockwork Orange' at 40
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:38 am · February 9th, 2012
“A Clockwork Orange” was released in the US 40 years ago this week. Naturally, then, it’s been getting plenty of coverage in the press, but I’ve been relishing Mike Kaplan’s pieces at Moviefone.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Documentary Short
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:47 am · February 9th, 2012
For the second year in a row the documentary short nominees will be included in Shorts International/Magnolia Pictures’ theatrical program of Oscar-nominated shorts. The films release as a package in 200 theaters nationwide on Friday, February 10.
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Round-up: Enough about Max von Sydow's burst of applause, already!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:34 am · February 9th, 2012
In today’s round-up, yet another journalist gloms onto the amount of applause for Max von Sydow at Monday’s Nominees Luncheon as an indicator of something, Todd McCarthy critiques the year in movie music and some are declaring David Gordon Green “back” with that “Halftime in America” Super Bowl spot.
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Taking questions for 2/10 Oscar Talk
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:51 pm · February 8th, 2012
Offer up your burning queries.
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Pulling for you, Gary
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:27 am · February 8th, 2012
Gary Oldman is back in town and hitting the press rounds hard on behalf of his first-ever Oscar nomination for “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” And though I’m fairly resigned to Jean Dujardin turning the trick with Oscar as he did with SAG, I can’t help but wonder — or perhaps merely hope — if things are in such a state of flux within the Best Actor category that a guy like Oldman has a decent shot.
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'Rango,' 'Apes' and 'Transformers' dominate the 10th annual Visual Effects Society Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:53 pm · February 7th, 2012
It was a good night for Industrial Light & Magic at the 10th annual Visual Effects Society Awards, which went down this evening. The company’s work in films like “Rango” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” dominated the proceedings, the former surprisingly sweeping the animated categories.
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Why it should be 'Tree of Life'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:03 am · February 7th, 2012
When the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced two weeks ago, there was one Best Picture nominee that yielded a great sigh of relief from me. It was less that I felt it was deserving (it unquestionably is, but to quote “Unforgiven,” deserve’s got nothing to do with it when it comes to the Oscars) than the fact that I was actually going to have something to passionately champion.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Supporting Actor
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:29 am · February 6th, 2012
This year’s Best Supporting Actor race seemed to settle in rather early on. The eventual five nominees were all considered formidable as far back as September and nothing really came along to significantly alter the landscape. The one “surprise” came in the form of a contender popping up who had been expected to fall the way of his film. Well, ultimately he did.
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Off the Carpet: Harvey's victory lap
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:37 am · February 6th, 2012
A trip down memory lane as ‘The Artist’ sets its sights on The Weinstein Company’s second-straight Best Picture Oscar.
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'Hugo,' 'Harry Potter' and 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' take Art Directors Guild honors
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:43 pm · February 4th, 2012
Dante Ferretti wins his first prize ever from the group
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'Rango' wins big at the 39th Annie Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:39 pm · February 4th, 2012
The 39th annual Annie Awards were held this evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall in West Los Angeles and it was Gore Verbinski’s “Rango” that came out on top.
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