Oscar Talk: Ep. 97 — 'Les Misérables' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' enter the season

Posted by · 8:00 am · November 30th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne speak up on two of the season’s most anticipated entries, “Les Miserables” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” mull over the implications of the Gothams and Spirits and chew on the Best Documentary Feature category.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 96 — Thanksgiving on the way, 'Anna Karenina' and 'Silver Linings' open

Posted by · 8:00 am · November 16th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and films looking to capitalize, revisit this weekend’s openers — “Anna Karenina” and “Silver Linings Playbook” — and dig in on Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 95 — Everyone's predicting, 'Lincoln' and 'Skyfall' land

Posted by · 2:03 pm · November 9th, 2012

On this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne survey the field of predictions to assess the consensus, revisit “Lincoln” and “Skyfall” — both of which are opening this weekend — and dig into Best Cinematography.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 94 — Disney buys Lucasfilm as 'Hitchcock' opens AFI Fest

Posted by · 2:29 pm · November 2nd, 2012

In this week’s podcast Kris and Anne discuss the implications of Disney’s big purchase of Lucasfilm, Sacha Gervasi’s “Hitchcock,” which opened AFI Fest yesterday and Sam Mendes’ Bond stab “Skyfall.”

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 93 — 'Cloud Atlas' opens as the Wachowskis make the rare press rounds

Posted by · 7:00 am · October 26th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the weekend’s big opener, “Cloud Atlas,” the International Documentary Association nominees and the screenplay categories.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 92 — Gotham nods, 'Flight,' 'Lincoln' and Best Supporting Actress

Posted by · 8:00 am · October 19th, 2012

In this week’s podcast Kris and Anne discuss the freshly announced Gotham nominations, dig in to Robert Zemeckis’s “Flight” and Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and survey the Best Supporting Actress field.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 91 — 'Not Fade Away' drops on NYFF and surveying Best Supporting Actor

Posted by · 8:00 am · October 12th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the New York Film Festival Centerpiece selection, “Not Fade Away,” take a look at small films looking to get a foothold this season and survey the Best Supporting Actor field.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 90 — The Academy settles on an Oscar host

Posted by · 9:30 am · October 5th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the choice of Seth MacFarlane to host the Oscars this year, survey the Best Actress field and ponder over early-year indies looking to get back into the conversation.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 89 — 'Life of Pi' opens NYFF but is it a player?

Posted by · 12:00 pm · September 28th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the NYFF opener “Life of Pi,” have some choice words in dispute on “Silver Linings Playbook” and take a deeper look at the Best Actor field.

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Taking questions for 9/28 Oscar Talk

Posted by · 7:16 am · September 27th, 2012

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 88 — Academy changes dates while Searchlight adds a new contender

Posted by · 9:16 am · September 21st, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the weekend’s openers — “Trouble with the Curve,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “End of Watch” — as well as Oscar’s big date change shake-up and the foreign language film race. Oh yeah, and Searchlight’s latest addition to the season: “Hitchcock.”

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Taking questions for 9/21 Oscar Talk

Posted by · 7:49 pm · September 18th, 2012

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 87 — Fall fests, 'The Master,' 'Silver Linings,' 'Argo' kick off the season

Posted by · 10:46 am · September 15th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the movies that have launched the season at the beginning of the fall festival circuit as a new season of Oscar Talk kicks off.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 86 — 'The Dark Knight Rises' is here, but is it a player? (SPOILERS)

Posted by · 1:00 pm · July 20th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne address the Oscar prospects of “The Dark Knight Rises,” take a look at the year’s best half-way through and take a look ahead at the upcoming fall festival circuit.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 85 — Special Edition! — Cannes 2012 dispatch

Posted by · 5:05 pm · May 25th, 2012

In this week’s special edition podcast Kris and Anne are joined by Guy Lodge for a lengthy discussion of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 84 — Special Edition! — 2011 Oscars postmortem, Meryl Streep's upset, Billy Crystal, 'The Artist''s big night

Posted by · 3:37 pm · February 27th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne are joined by Guy Lodge as they discuss last night’s big cherry on the top of the 2011-2012 film awards season: The Oscars.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 83 — Final Oscar predictions in all categories!

Posted by · 7:58 am · February 24th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Anne and Kris prepare to put a bow on the season by giving their predictions for Sunday’s Oscarcast.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 82 — BAFTA winners, live action and documentary shorts

Posted by · 7:57 am · February 17th, 2012

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne reflect on last weekend’s BAFTA Awards and analyze the live action and documentary short nominees, among others.

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