The BAFTA Awards take place on Sunday, and offer the Brits the choice between rubber-stamping the Oscar favorite, “The Artist,” and siding with their own pet, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” We consider what will win this year — and what should.
Predicting Sunday's BAFTA Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:38 pm · February 10th, 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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Berlinale Diary: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ ‘The Delay’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:58 pm · February 9th, 2012
Just one full day into the 2012 Berlinale, I’m struck by how many faces I recognize as I traipse across the snow-dusted triangle of the festival center at Potsdamer Platz: crimson-blazered festival stewards who all seem to man exactly the same stations they did last year; international critics in the press room whom I identify instantly by their hair, glasses or oddly colored overcoat, but couldn’t possibly name; even the slickly sullen barista at the one decent coffee source over the road.
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Tech Support Interview: Howard Shore lends aural depth to the visual palette of ‘Hugo’
Posted by Roth Cornet · 4:23 pm · February 9th, 2012
The Oscar-nominated composer reflects on this uniquely intricate collaboration with Martin Scorsese.
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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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The Long Shot: Language barriers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:37 am · February 9th, 2012
This may come as a shock to readers accustomed to my usual tone of weary despair when it comes to the category, but I’m about to write in defense of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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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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From 'Jaws' to 'Star Wars,' 'Raiders' to 'Tintin': John Williams celebrates his 80th birthday
Posted by Roth Cornet · 7:16 pm · February 8th, 2012
In celebration of his 80th birthday, we look at some of composer John Williams’s most indelible and iconic cinematic scores, including, “Star Wars, “Jaws,” “Harry Potter” and “E.T.”
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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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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Sound Mixing
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · February 8th, 2012
This is one of the year’s hardest technical categories to predict, largely because the Academy’s sound branch agreed with the Cinema Audio Society on only two nominees. We size up who might win, and who should.
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Round-up: Does Weinstein's Streep ad toe the line… or cross it?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · February 8th, 2012
Also: Daniel Radcliffe on Oscar snobbery, and the case for Viola Davis
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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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