BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

In this week’s podcast Kris and Anne discuss the freshly announced Gotham nominations, dig in to Robert Zemeckis’s “Flight” and Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and survey the Best Supporting Actress field.

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'Bernie,' 'Beasts' and 'Moonrise' get a boost from 2012 Gotham nominations

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:16 am · October 18th, 2012

The awards season is “officially” under way today as the first awards show of the season has announced its list of nominees.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 91 — 'Not Fade Away' drops on NYFF and surveying Best Supporting Actor

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:00 am · October 12th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the New York Film Festival Centerpiece selection, “Not Fade Away,” take a look at small films looking to get a foothold this season and survey the Best Supporting Actor field.

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Tech Support: 'Life of Pi,' 'Lincoln' and 'The Master' lead the race for Best Cinematography

Posted by gerardkennedy · 8:14 am · October 11th, 2012

This week’s edition of Tech Support surveys the field of Best Cinematography contenders, from westerns to war, bayous to Bond.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 90 — The Academy settles on an Oscar host

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:30 am · October 5th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the choice of Seth MacFarlane to host the Oscars this year, survey the Best Actress field and ponder over early-year indies looking to get back into the conversation.

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Tech Support: Kicking off 2012's crafts coverage

Posted by gerardkennedy · 7:45 am · October 4th, 2012

Today marks the beginning of the seventh year of Tech Support here at In Contention.

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Roundup: Are the Academy's new doc rules really democratic?

Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:12 am · October 4th, 2012

Also: A kinky year at the movies, and Ramsay to send ‘Moby Dick’ into space.

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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' ineligible for the SAG Awards

Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:50 pm · October 1st, 2012

Quvenzhané Wallis will have to get that Oscar nod without the Guild’s help.

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Tom Holland, 16-year-old star of 'The Impossible,' joins the Best Actor race

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:13 pm · August 27th, 2012

We’ve seen it time and again. Young performers like Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”), Mary Badham (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) and Tatum O’Neal (“Paper Moon”), though largely considered leads in their films, are campaigned in the supporting ranks. But in the case of young Tom Holland in Juan Antonio Bayona’s “The Impossible”: not so fast.

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Off the Carpet: Getting out the vote

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:20 am · August 27th, 2012

That’s what’s so great about movies, books, paintings, songs, etc. They are as much a direct reflection of the times as they are a nebulous Rorschach for them. Involuntary extrapolation can be as significant as clear-eyed reaction to a straight-forward treatise. And in an environment as heated, tense and divided as this, the art that escapes the cauldron is bound to be, if not willfully profound, then a fascinating looking glass, at the very least.

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Tech Support: Ben Richardson on photographing 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:51 am · July 24th, 2012

Finding the film’s visual vocabulary with young Quvenzhané Wallis as his muse.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 86 — 'The Dark Knight Rises' is here, but is it a player? (SPOILERS)

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:00 pm · July 20th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne address the Oscar prospects of “The Dark Knight Rises,” take a look at the year’s best half-way through and take a look ahead at the upcoming fall festival circuit.

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