Will the Hollywood connection pay off this time?
Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins prop up China’s Oscar hopes in ‘Back to 1942’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:40 am · October 7th, 2013
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'War Horse,' 'Super 8' win with MPSE
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:09 pm · February 19th, 2012
The Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) 59th annual Golden Reel Awards were held this evening, celebrating excellence in sound editing. “Super 8,” you’ll recall, led the way with nominees (as well as with the Cinema Audio Society), yet failed to score an Oscar nod in either sound category.
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Round-up: Looking to break Hollywood's stranglehold
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · January 3rd, 2012
Also: See the Best Picture ballot, and Mazursky on Streep
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Berlinale jury includes Gyllenhaal and Farhadi, first Competition titles announced
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:48 am · December 23rd, 2011
With a heavyweight jury including Mike Leigh, Jake Gyllenhaal and ‘A Separation’ director Asghar Farhadi, February’s Berlin Film Festival will be hoping for a world-class Competition lineup. First on the list: Filipino provocateur Brillante Mendoza’s “Captured,” starring Isabelle Huppert.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Looking to 2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:03 am · December 12th, 2011
In today’s round-up, we turn a slight eye toward 2012, Trent Reznor and Karen O talk about making Led Zeppelin more aggressive and Variety names the 10 directors to watch.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 69 — Ratner, Murphy, Grazer, Crystal, Freeman, 'Hugo,' BUSY WEEK!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:58 am · November 11th, 2011
In this week’s podcast, Anne and Kris discuss the busiest Oscar week of the season as the producer and host of the telecast were replaced, talk about the just-wrapped AFI Fest and some more on Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” among many other things.
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Zhang Yimou's 'Flowers of War' set for Oscar-qualifying run
Posted by Roth Cornet · 8:50 pm · November 8th, 2011
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou could finally land some major Oscar consideration for his film “The Flowers of War,” which netted North American distribution and plans for a qualifying run recently.
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China and South Africa bring a little English to the foreign Oscar conversation
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:00 pm · September 23rd, 2011
We talk about name appeal being a factor in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race, but no country this year can boast it to quite the same extent as China: not only is their submission, just announced today, directed by three-time Oscar nominee Zhang Yimou, but it stars reigning Best Supporting Actor champ Christian Bale.
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