The leading-supporting divide is blurrier than ever in this year’s Oscar race
The Long Shot: Categorically speaking
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:22 pm · December 12th, 2012
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'Argo' takes top honors from San Diego Film Critics, 'Perks' gets some love
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:20 pm · December 11th, 2012
Critics go their own way with awards for Michelle Williams and Emma Watson.
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'Amour,' 'The Master' win big with Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:54 pm · December 9th, 2012
Over a week after their colleagues on the east coast went in big for Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Los Angeles Film Critics Association put the brakes on Kathryn Bigelow’s film, which has been dominating the circuit. It even won two Best Picture prizes today, but one of them was not LAFCA’s crown. Instead, the LA critics went with Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” and as a runner-up, a film clearly beloved by the group that won four other prizes, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
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'Zero Dark Thirty' wins Best Picture and Best Director from the Boston Society of Film Critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:06 pm · December 9th, 2012
The Boston Society of Film Critics has joined the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review in crowning “Zero Dark Thirty” the year’s best film. Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director while Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”) and Emmanuelle Riva (“Amour”) won top acting honors.
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Off the Carpet: Four score, er, more to go
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:40 am · November 19th, 2012
Four big entries remain — “Django Unchained,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Les Misérables” and “Zero Dark Thirty” — each of them having been watched like a hawk as they race toward completion.
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Christoph Waltz elevated to the Best Actor race for 'Django Unchained'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:30 am · November 8th, 2012
He’ll compete with co-star Jamie Foxx for a spot in a crowded race.
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Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' trailer promises an assured romp with lush production values
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:30 pm · June 6th, 2012
The Weinstein Company is bursting at the seems with possibilities for this year’s awards season, as I’ll detail further when I write up the year’s first Off the Carpet column next week. One of those films is Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated “Django Unchained,” which gets a nice, shiny trailer today on the heels of some footage that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
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Official synopsis for Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' revealed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:50 pm · April 13th, 2012
The Weinstein Company has released the official synopsis for “Django Unchained,” so if you didn’t get your hands on the highly circulated screenplay that made the rounds last year, here’s your chance to know what to expect, if you so desire.
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Cannes regains its Oscar foresight
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:43 pm · February 20th, 2012
With “The Tree of Life” the first Cannes Palme d’Or winner in nine years to receive a Best Picture nomination, and “The Artist” set to join the short list of top Oscar champs that debuted on the Croisette, was the French festival last year’s most important Oscar hunting ground?
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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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2011: the year in superlatives
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:11 am · December 16th, 2011
Who am I to complain about the amount of year-end kudos announcements when I had this post coming all along? I know. I’m so hypocritical.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Stumping for Serkis
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:03 am · December 2nd, 2011
In today’s round-up, the buzz on Andy Serkis’s Oscar campaign makes its way overseas, “Shame” is all over the blogosphere and parents of the victims in the Memphis Three case protest Oscar consideration of “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.”
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 68 — 'J. Edgar' and 'Young Adult' finally come out to play
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:03 am · November 4th, 2011
In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the AFI Fest premiere of Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar,” the pop-up screening strategy of “Young Adult” and “War Horse” and the British Independent Film Award nominations, among other things.
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Sony Classics aims for lead with Knightley in 'Method,' supporting for 'Carnage' cast
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:53 pm · October 29th, 2011
Sony Pictures Classics has been holding off on a definitive category choice for both the actors of “Carnage” and Keira Knightley in “A Dangerous Method.” Now it seems they’ve finally settled on a course of action.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 64 — Digging into the lead categories
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:54 am · October 7th, 2011
In today’s podcast, we dig in on the lead actor and lead actress categories, discuss Roman Polanski’s NYFF opener “Carnage” and the critical reception of “The Ides of March,” opening today.
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Polanski's aptly titled 'Carnage' makes for dicey translation to the screen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:36 pm · September 30th, 2011
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the play that has made it from Paris to London to New York to Los Angeles comes up considerably short.
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