The San Diego Film Critics Society has chosen “The Artist” as Best Picture for 2011 and Nicolas Winding Refn as Best Director for “Drive,” among other honors.
San Diego critics pick 'Artist,' Refn
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:04 pm · December 14th, 2011
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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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Toronto critics tap 'Tree of Life,' Terrence Malick
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:22 pm · December 13th, 2011
One more before you shut out the lights. The Toronto Film Critics Association has named “The Tree of Life” the best film of the year. The film’s director, Terrence Malick, was also awarded.
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Oscarweb Round-up: The year's best performances
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:13 am · December 13th, 2011
In today’s round-up, consideration of the year’s best performances, Christopher Nolan opens up a bit on “The Dark Knight Rises” and in honor of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the top five badass female roles.
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'The Descendants,' Terrence Malick win with LA film critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:13 pm · December 11th, 2011
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has tapped Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” for its Best Picture prize, a bit of an anti-climactic conclusion to what had until then been a fresh and exciting vote.
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'The Artist' wins Best Pic from NY online critics, 'Bridesmaids' clearly a favorite
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:09 pm · December 11th, 2011
The New York Film Critics Online have gone the way of the rest and awarded “The Artist” the prize for Best Picture of 2011. Michael Shannon and Meryl Streep were also singled out.
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Interview: Michael Barker talks 'Midnight in Paris,' 'Take Shelter' and 20 years of Sony Classics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:28 am · December 6th, 2011
Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker has seen a lot in his 20 years at that post. This year his company has a typically heavy slate of awards hopefuls, two of them — “Midnight in Paris” and “Take Shelter” — beginning to light up the awards circuit. He recently discussed as much with In Contention.
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Michael Shannon praises Woody Harrelson's performance in 'Rampart'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:35 pm · November 23rd, 2011
As part of Variety’s annual series of actors-on-actors, “Take Shelter” star has penned a great appreciation for Woody Harrelson in “Rampart.”
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Oscarweb Round-up: Campaigning Clint for Razzie
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:03 am · November 4th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Dan Kois stumps for Clint Eastwood — for a Razzie that is, Fox announces Andy Serkis for a “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” sequel and an Oscar campaign for his performance-capture work and James Mangold looks back on “Copland.”
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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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Oscarweb Round-up: Rosebud 70 years later
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:51 am · September 30th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Kenneth Turan writes up the gorgeous new “Citizen Kane” anniversary DVD/Blu-ray, Hitfix’s own Drew McWeeny chats with “50/50” writer Will Reiser and we get a little more out of this weekend’s test screening of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
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Oscarweb Round-up: Gurus stake their claim
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:18 am · September 28th, 2011
In today’s round-up, the Gurus o’ Gold plant flags post-fests, Jeff Nichols signs Michael Shannon up for a third collaboration and Cirque du Soleil sends up the Oscars on their own stage.
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Interview: Michael Shannon on 'Take Shelter,' director Jeff Nichols and 'it' girl Jessica Chastain
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:54 pm · September 27th, 2011
We sit down with “Take Shelter” star Michael Shannon, who delivers one of the year’s powerhouse performances in the film. He discusses his developing creative bond with director Jeff Nichols and how impressed he was with co-star Jessica Chastain.
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Michael Shannon on going from the small scale 'Take Shelter' to the blockbuster 'Man of Steel'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:42 pm · September 26th, 2011
Michael Shannon is in a different world when he’s on the set of a big effects movie like “Man of Steel.” In advance of my interview with him tomorrow, I’m putting up his fish-out-of-water thoughts on the process that goes into filming something this computer-driven.
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Off the Carpet: Clooney and Pitt lead Best Actor talk, but the real action is elsewhere
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:09 am · September 26th, 2011
This year’s Best Actor race is an odd bird indeed. There are so many wonderful performances out there, but so few seem to fit into the (unfortunate) Oscar paradigm. Hopefully that will mean studios will recognize some opportunity and/or Academy members will venture outside of their comfort zones.
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