Tech Support: John Williams charges back to lead the field of Best Original Score hopefuls

Posted by · 8:07 am · November 24th, 2011

In this week’s installment of Tech Support, we turn our gaze toward Best Original Score. Those in the hunt include John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, Howard Shore and Alberto Iglesias.

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Oscarweb Round-up: THR and sexism

Posted by · 7:08 am · November 18th, 2011

In today’s round-up, Melissa Silverstein goes off on The Hollywood Reporter vis a vis sexism, Olivia Colman gets a nice profile and Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought a Zoo” will sneak early.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 66 — Gotham Awards, NYFCC's FIRST! move, 'Tintin,' London fest and more

Posted by · 8:00 am · October 21st, 2011

In this week’s Oscar Talk podcast Anne and Kris are joined by Guy Lodge from London, who is taking in the London Film Festival and saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” recently. We also dig in on the Gotham Award nominations announcement and the NYFCC’s recent surprising twist on the season.

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Listen to John Williams's 'Tintin' score

Posted by · 2:11 pm · October 17th, 2011

After yesterday’s positive London reception, things are looking good for Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin,” but will the Academy respond to it? We don’t know, but John Williams’s old-school score, at least, looks a solid bet.

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Review: Fun, frisky 'Tintin' pages Indiana Jones

Posted by · 2:55 pm · October 16th, 2011

You’d have been forgiven for thinking that Steven Spielberg had lost his fun gene after “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” — but “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” is a springy, souped-up entertainment that hews far closer to the original Indiana Jones template.

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