Best Adapted Screenplay: Will 'Whiplash' upset the applecart?

Posted by · 9:42 am · February 16th, 2015

HitFix breaks down the Best Adapted Screenplay category with the 87th annual Oscars looming on the horizon.

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'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges finally got an Oscar nod for a PTA film

Posted by · 1:45 pm · January 22nd, 2015

Oscar-nominated costume designer Mark Bridges talks to HitFix about “Inherent Vice” and finally getting a nomination for a Paul Thomas Anderson film.

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'Gone Girl,' 'Inherent Vice' among USC Scripter Awards finalists

Posted by · 8:26 am · January 8th, 2015

The USC Scripter Awards have announced finalists for the 27th annual celebration of adapted screenplays and their source materials.

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Hear directors breakdown scenes from 'Interstellar,' 'Birdman' and 'Inherent Vice'

Posted by · 9:34 am · January 2nd, 2015

Just because DVD commentaries are going the way of dinosaurs doesn’t mean the art of insight is extinct. Check out these mini-commentaries for the Oscar season’s biggest movies.

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'American Sniper,' 'Nightcrawler' join Oscar players with ACE editing nominations

Posted by · 5:00 am · January 2nd, 2015

Nominees were announced Friday for the 65th annual ACE Eddie Awards for excellence in film editing. Nominees on the movies side included “American Sniper,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Boyhood” and “Nightcrawler.”

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2014: the year in movie superlatives

Posted by · 10:30 am · December 31st, 2014

Wrapping up the year, a look at the best of the best across a wide spectrum of film categories, those recognized by the Academy and otherwise.

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The top 10 shots of 2014: part two

Posted by · 1:25 pm · December 30th, 2014

In Contention wraps up its eighth annual look at the best film images from the year with a top five featuring films like “Interstellar,” “Inherent Vice” and “Birdman.”

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Off the Carpet: 'Unbroken,' 'Selma,' 'Sniper' in the headlines as Oscar voting begins

Posted by · 8:00 am · December 29th, 2014

Oscar voting begins on Monday, just as “Unbroken” is lighting up the box office and “Selma” is getting ridiculed in op-eds.

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Paul Thomas Anderson thought that 'There Will Be Blood' Oscar DQ was B.S., too

Posted by · 10:51 pm · December 28th, 2014

In a recent interview, Paul Thomas Anderson let his feelings on Jonny Greenwood’s 7-year-old Oscar disqualification for “There Will Be Blood” known.

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Characters and Conflicts: 10 best movies of 2014

Posted by · 11:31 am · December 18th, 2014

Gregory Ellwood reflects down his top films of 2014 including “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Birdman,” “Top Five,” “Selma,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Snowpiercer,” “Gone Girl” as well as 10 others that almost made the cut.

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Guess what? Toronto critics love 'Boyhood' too…

Posted by · 9:39 am · December 16th, 2014

Though “The Grand Budapest” and “Inherent Vice” came close, the Toronto Film Critics Association ultimately went with “Boyhood,” a film they see as a “singular achievement.”

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25 most anticipated prestige films of 2014: 'Inherent Vice,' 'Nymphomaniac,' 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

Posted by · 9:01 am · January 4th, 2014

Guy Lodge, Kris Tapley and Gregory Ellwood count down the auteur, art house and festival films they’re most excited to see this year, including “Inherent Vice,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Unbroken.”

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Reese Witherspoon jumps aboard Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice'

Posted by · 4:26 pm · May 15th, 2013

Nothing turns a rough couple of weeks around like booking a gig on a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Reese Witherspoon has done just that, landing a role in the director’s upcoming “Inherent Vice,” adapted from the Thomas Pynchon novel set in 60s/70s Los Angeles.

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