The 'Dark Knight Rises' Oscar talk begins

Posted by · 11:51 pm · July 12th, 2012

And here…we…go!

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Oscarweb Round-up: Looking to 2012

Posted by · 7:03 am · December 12th, 2011

In today’s round-up, we turn a slight eye toward 2012, Trent Reznor and Karen O talk about making Led Zeppelin more aggressive and Variety names the 10 directors to watch.

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Oscarweb Round-up: Sneaking 'Zoo'

Posted by · 7:03 am · November 28th, 2011

In today’s round-up, Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought a Zoo” screened for the public, Ralph Fiennes talks his directorial debut, “Coriolanus” and THR rounds up this year’s actress hopefuls.

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Zhang Yimou's 'Flowers of War' set for Oscar-qualifying run

Posted by · 8:50 pm · November 8th, 2011

Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou could finally land some major Oscar consideration for his film “The Flowers of War,” which netted North American distribution and plans for a qualifying run recently.

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China and South Africa bring a little English to the foreign Oscar conversation

Posted by · 3:00 pm · September 23rd, 2011

We talk about name appeal being a factor in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race, but no country this year can boast it to quite the same extent as China: not only is their submission, just announced today, directed by three-time Oscar nominee Zhang Yimou, but it stars reigning Best Supporting Actor champ Christian Bale.

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