But she’s more concerned with getting attention for the movie than winning an Oscar.
Linda Cardellini launches her own Best Actress campaign for 'Return'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:39 pm · November 19th, 2012
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Bryan Cranston, Stephen King, Kristen Wiig among Academy invitees this year
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:12 pm · June 29th, 2012
The Academy has announced its annual list of new members, always a fun thing to browse through and say, “Damn, it’s about time,” or, “Jesus, really?”
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Actor
Posted by gerardkennedy · 8:28 am · February 24th, 2012
On Sunday, five of our leading men will don their tuxes and walk down the red carpet at the top of their profession. Earlier this awards season, it seemed as though this would be a battle between two A-list movie stars. Since then, however, a silent Frenchman has proven himself very adept at charming everyone in sight, and will be difficult to beat.
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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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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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Stuck in the middle with you: thoughts on the Oscar nominations
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:28 pm · January 24th, 2012
If it’s hard to settle on one emotional response to this year’s Academy Award nominations, that could be the result of the Academy’s own split instincts.
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Pre-Globes party weekend: Weinstein, AFI, Paramount, Film Independent and BAFTA do it up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:45 pm · January 14th, 2012
Leading into tomorrow’s Golden Globes ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Hollywood has been all abuzz with events aimed at making the most of having talent in town for the big awards show weekend.
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Santa Barbara fest taps Bichir, Mara, McCarthy, Oswalt, Serkis and Woodley for Virtuosos Award
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:24 am · January 5th, 2012
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced, along with its film schedule, the recipients of this year’s Virtuosos Award. And they cast the widest net yet, honoring Demián Bichir, Rooney Mara, Melissa McCarthy, Patton Oswalt, Andy Serkis and Shailene Woodley.
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'The Help' leads SAG nominations, Demián Bichir surprises in Best Actor
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:51 am · December 14th, 2011
The SAG Awards tend to hew closely to Oscar prognosticators’ lists, but they handed us a few wild cards this morning — not just in terms of who they nominated, but who they left out.
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