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Oscar ceremony to include a 50th anniversary tribute to James Bond

Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:56 am · January 4th, 2013

One way or another, the franchise will be acknowledged on the night.

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Oscar Talk: Ep. 101 — Mulling over the tight races in the home stretch

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:50 am · January 4th, 2013

In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne mull over Oscar’s tight races with nominations right around the corner.

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'Moonrise Kingdom' wins big with Central Ohio film critics

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:55 pm · January 3rd, 2013

Finally someone would like to shake things up a little bit again. The Central Ohio Film Critics Association has chosen Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” as the year’s best film, and not only that, but given it five awards, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Score and Best Ensemble. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for “Lincoln” while Jennifer Lawrence took Best Actress for “Silver Linings Playbook.”

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'Anna Karenina,' 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Skyfall' among Art Directors Guild nominees

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:56 pm · January 2nd, 2013

The Art Directors Guild has announced nominees for excellence in production design. A wide cross-section of work was selected, though high-profile exclusions include “The Master,” “Django Unchained” and “Moonrise Kingdom.”

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Previewing the WGA Award nominees

Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:15 pm · January 2nd, 2013

Don’t expect the Academy to mirror them too closely.

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'Skyfall' joins indies 'Beasts' and 'Moonrise' on list of PGA nominees

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:37 pm · January 2nd, 2013

The nominees for this year’s PGA Awards have been announced.

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2012: the year in superlatives

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:28 am · December 31st, 2012

Awarding the best in Oscar’s categories and ours.

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Utah critics award 'Zero Dark Thirty,' Wes Anderson

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:33 am · December 21st, 2012

The Utah Film Critics Association has announced its 2012 winners, and, big surprise, “Zero Dark Thirty” took top honors. But the group went in a couple of different directions elsewhere, tapping Dwight Henry for Best Supporting Actor, Wes Anderson for Best Director and “Indie Game: The Movie” for best doc.

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Tech Support: International lineup of Best Original Song contenders presents a great opportunity

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:55 am · December 20th, 2012

With the recent reveal of the Academy’s list of Best Original Song qualifiers — all 75 of them — the music branch has a wide swath of popular artists to choose from. Of course, the branch tends to focus on the work itself, not necessarily the talent involved, but it’s worth mentioning that Fiona Apple, Florence + the Machine, Karen O, Christina Aguilera, Adele, Keith Urban, Mumford and Sons, The Bootleggers & Emmylou Harris, Arcade Fire, Dolly Parton, Katy Perry, Paul Williams, Jordin Sparks and Norah Jones are all in the mix. That’s quite the role call.

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'Argo' wins big with Florida Film Critics Circle

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:50 am · December 18th, 2012

The Florida Film Critics Circle has joined a recent build for Ben Affleck’s “Argo” in the critics awards circuit, handing the film Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors. Daniel Day-Lewis and Jessica Chastain added to their lead actor and actress haul, while Philip Seymour Hoffman and Anne Hathaway were singled out in the supporting ranks.

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Off the Carpet: Ballots are out

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:00 am · December 17th, 2012

Normally this column would begin with something like, “Ballots have been mailed to Oscar voters today,” but that begs reminding that for the first time ever, the Academy has adopted an electronic voting system in addition to paper ballots (for those who request them). How will that change the course of the season? Is chatter about glitches and lack of understanding just a facile talking point blown out of proportion? Maybe. But what is tangible in all of this is the landscape as a result of the first major nominations announcements of the season.

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Roundup: Richard Gere joins the Palm Springs honoree list

Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:07 am · December 17th, 2012

Also: Composing ‘Skyfall,’ and should we know the Oscar voting tallies?

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Tech Support: 'Lincoln,' 'Life of Pi' and 'Anna Karenina' lead the race for Best Original Score

Posted by gerardkennedy · 11:58 am · December 13th, 2012

As always, international flavor abounds.

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Some SAG surprises indicate unexpected currents in the season

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:57 am · December 12th, 2012

The awards-obsessive corners of the web were all abuzz this morning with murmurs of a supposed “leak” of the 19th annual SAG nominees. Intrepid net hounds had apparently gone into the guild’s website and done some choice searching to turn out what ended up being, indeed, the full list of nominees. So what were they and what do they mean?

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Adele's 'Skyfall,' Florence + the Machine's 'Breath of Life' among 75 original songs up for Oscar

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:29 pm · December 11th, 2012

The Academy has announced that a whopping 75 tunes are in play for the Best Original Song Oscar this year, and among them were tracks by Adele, Florence + the Machine and The Arcade Fire.

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'Lincoln' leads nominations for the 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:40 am · December 11th, 2012

Not that this is something to be particularly proud of, but the Broadcast Film Critics Association has done its annual duty of distilling the Oscar race into what we think it is now.

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'Amour,' 'The Master' win big with Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:54 pm · December 9th, 2012

Over a week after their colleagues on the east coast went in big for Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Los Angeles Film Critics Association put the brakes on Kathryn Bigelow’s film, which has been dominating the circuit. It even won two Best Picture prizes today, but one of them was not LAFCA’s crown. Instead, the LA critics went with Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” and as a runner-up, a film clearly beloved by the group that won four other prizes, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

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