Oscarweb Round-up: Altair and Ezio find a home at Sony

Posted by · 7:07 am · October 21st, 2011

In today’s round-up, the film rights for “Assassin’s Creed” land at Sony, the “Martha Marcy May Marlene” crew makes the press rounds and Jude Law sticks up for investigative journalists — despite playing the worst of their kind in “Contagion.”

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'Descendants,' 'Martha Marcy' lead the way for Gotham Award nominees

Posted by · 9:44 am · October 20th, 2011

The nominations for the 21st annual Gotham Awards are in, and Fox Searchlight led the way with eight nominations for its films “The Tree of Life,” “The Descendants,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Another Earth.”

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Interview: Elizabeth Olsen and John Hawkes talk 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'

Posted by · 10:04 am · October 19th, 2011

With “Martha Marcy May Marlene” in limited release this Friday, we sit down with two of the film’s stars, the weathered and veteran character actor John Hawkes and the breakout young actress Elizabeth Olsen.

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The Lists: Top 10 debut performances of all time

Posted by · 11:14 am · October 18th, 2011

Hunter McCracken and Elizabeth Olsen give amazing performances in “The Tree of Life” and “Martha Marcy May Marlene” respectively this year. And in each case, it was their first at-bat. We use the occasion to look at the best debut performances, including work from Tatum O’Neal, Edward Norton and Natalie Portman.

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Go behind the scenes of Sean Durkin's 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'

Posted by · 9:19 am · October 17th, 2011

With “Martha Marcy May Marlene” set for limited release this Friday, we bring you an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the film.

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Oscarweb Round-up: 'Martha Marcy' media blitz

Posted by · 7:03 am · October 14th, 2011

In today’s round-up, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” star Elizabeth Olsen continues making the rounds, Variety honors Pixar honcho John Lasseter and that lawsuit against “The Hurt Locker” is finally thrown out.

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Oscarweb Round-up: Will Czech entry 'Alois Nebel' qualify as animated and boost the field?

Posted by · 7:08 am · October 13th, 2011

In today’s round-up, Czech foreign film entry “Alois Nebel” declares intentions to submit for animated feature consideration, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” star Elizabeth Olsen is ready for her close-up and Alexander Payne sets out to cast the HELL out of his latest film, “Nebraska.”

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Off the Carpet: Streep and Davis head up a tight but lacking pack of Best Actress contenders

Posted by · 12:09 pm · October 10th, 2011

Moving on to the lead actress contenders today, we dig in on who’s looking good, who’s lacking and who could spoil.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 64 — Digging into the lead categories

Posted by · 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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Meet 'Martha Marcy' star Elizabeth Olsen

Posted by · 5:26 pm · October 4th, 2011

Elizabeth Olsen’s performance in “Martha Marcy May Marlene” will be dropped on audiences in a few weeks when the film releases. In the meantime, Fox Searchlight has rolled out a new interview featurette that gives you a glimpse of Olsen’s thought process behind the film.

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Oscarweb Round-up: Will mo-cap projects like 'Tintin' and 'Happy Feet 2' qualify for Oscar's animated feature race?

Posted by · 6:23 am · September 29th, 2011

In today’s round-up, the Academy’s feature animation branch debates the eligibility of motion capture films, Melissa McCarthy teams up with the director of “The Help” and “The Ides of March” premieres in Los Angeles.

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