Roundup: What great genre-film performances deserve some love this year?

Posted by · 5:54 am · November 19th, 2012

Also: Playing down the ‘Skyfall’ Oscar buzz, and a look at the doc feature race

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The Long Shot: Independent women

Posted by · 5:30 pm · November 7th, 2012

The Best Actress race is only as weak as voters choose to make it.

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Best Actress 2013: Potential nominees from Keira Knightley to Quvenzhané Wallis

Posted by · 6:12 am · October 10th, 2012

Surveying the year’s leading ladies as the season commences

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Roundup: The kids are more than all right

Posted by · 5:00 am · October 2nd, 2012

Also: The rise of Lionsgate, and India’s complex Oscar history.

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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' ineligible for the SAG Awards

Posted by · 3:50 pm · October 1st, 2012

Quvenzhané Wallis will have to get that Oscar nod without the Guild’s help.

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Tech Support: Ben Richardson on photographing 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

Posted by · 9:51 am · July 24th, 2012

Finding the film’s visual vocabulary with young Quvenzhané Wallis as his muse.

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Quvenzhané Wallis: One of Oscar's better stories waiting to happen

Posted by · 12:29 am · June 16th, 2012

Every Oscar season needs a pulse of emotion that feels less put-on, that doesn’t have that whiff of campaign or construct. Something that organically pops from the fabric of the form can be galvanizing, and though nothing can exist so pure for too long, the recognition of a tempest in the calm before it strikes means something. Quvenzhané Wallis is that tempest for 2012.

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The Long Shot: Searching for sleepers in the Oscar guessing game

Posted by · 9:34 am · June 11th, 2012

As early Oscar charts hype up juggernauts like “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables,” what’s this year’s little engine that could?

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Review: 'No' and 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

Posted by · 6:38 pm · May 18th, 2012

Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain delivers the film of the fest so far, while a Sundance sensation hits the Croisette.

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