The Women Film Critics Circle has announced its annual…unique…slate of award winners. “Zero Dark Thirty” won three awards while “Lincoln” won two. And they have a bone to pick with “Killer Joe” and “Think Like a Man.”
'Zero Dark Thirty' fares well with Women Film Critics Circle
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:14 pm · December 22nd, 2012
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Predicting the foreign-language Oscar shortlist
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:42 pm · January 17th, 2012
Tomorrow, the Academy announces a shortlist of nine contenders for the Best Foreign Language Oscar — we take a look at what they might be.
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Handicapping the foreign-language Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:18 pm · October 31st, 2011
We rank the films likeliest to show up in the ever-unpredictable Best Foreign Language Film race.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 66 — Gotham Awards, NYFCC's FIRST! move, 'Tintin,' London fest and more
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:00 am · October 21st, 2011
In this week’s Oscar Talk podcast Anne and Kris are joined by Guy Lodge from London, who is taking in the London Film Festival and saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” recently. We also dig in on the Gotham Award nominations announcement and the NYFCC’s recent surprising twist on the season.
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Review: Toronto winner 'Where Do We Go Now?' needs directions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:40 pm · October 18th, 2011
The Lebanese feminist anti-sectarian musical comedy is an underpopulated niche in world cinema. However, after Nadine Labaki’s surprise Toronto champ “Where Do We Go Now?,” it’s probably safe to consider the door on that sub-genre closed.
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59 films vying for foreign-language Oscar
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:40 pm · October 5th, 2011
With the deadline having passed two days ago, our list of submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is complete — and at 59 films, it’s down considerably from the last couple of years, when as many as 67 titles were put forward for consideration. Turkey’s entry, Cannes prizewinner “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” heads the list of late entries.
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Does Sony have bigger Oscar plans for 'A Separation' and 'In Darkness'?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:28 pm · October 3rd, 2011
Best Foreign Language Film contenders are frequently content to wait until after the nominations to open in US theaters; however, Sony Pictures Classics has scheduled heavyweight contenders ‘A Separation’ and ‘In Darkness’ for December openings, suggesting they may have other Oscar categories in mind.
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Spanish selectors ignore Almodóvar, as Sony picks up Lebanese Oscar hopeful
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:40 pm · September 28th, 2011
We’ll lead this foreign-language Oscar update with a promising bit of news on a previously announced submission. Lebanon’s entry, Nadine Labaki’s feminist comedy “Where Do We Go Now?” has just been picked up for US distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
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'The Artist' takes Audience Award at San Sebastian fest
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:20 pm · September 25th, 2011
“The Artist” takes the audience award at the 2011 San Sebastian Film Festival this year as “A Separation,” “Albert Nobbs,” and “Where Do We Go Now?” is among other prize winners.
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The Long Shot: Where DO we go now?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:47 am · September 21st, 2011
You’ve got to feel for Nadine Labaki. For months ahead of the Toronto Film Festival, industry pundits have been eyeing up the fest’s lone mentionable prize—the Audience Award—as some kind of mystical key with the power to unlock the opaque maze of this year’s Best Picture Oscar race; a maze, thus far, with no appreciable entry or exit points.
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