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Venice Film Festival When the title of Yasmina Reza’s acclaimed 2006 play “God of Carnage” was given a haircut in its transition to the screen, it was hard to read what — if anything — the change implied about the film to come. On the one hand, “Carnage” sounds pithier and more aggressive, removing the [...]
REVIEW: “Carnage” (**1/2)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:50 am · September 1st, 2011
AMPAS welcomes 135 new members
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:12 pm · June 25th, 2010
Well, we already knew Jeremy Renner had got the nod. And no surprise that many of his fellow acting nominees from this year’s Oscar race — Christoph Waltz, Mo’Nique, Carey Mulligan, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick among them — have now been granted Academy membership. (Lest you think that the invitation automatically follows a nomination, [...]
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‘The Green Hornet’ trailer
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:11 pm · June 22nd, 2010
Hardly awards material here but hey, Christoph Waltz is having fun slumming. “The Green Hornet” hits screens in January and will probably be a fun distraction. The presence of Michel Gondry behind the camera would lead you to expect a certain artistic flair, but then again, nothing about this trailer — which debuted at Yahoo! [...]
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If YOU had a ballot
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:52 am · March 7th, 2010
Tonight’s the big night, and as we close in on the final hours of the 2009-2010 film awards season, I thought I’d offer up this list (another one!), which reflects how you, the readership, would like the night’s festivities to go. These are the results of the daily polls that accompanied our Oscar Guide series [...]
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Ranking the categories
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:51 am · March 7th, 2010
Ah, Oscar lists — the gift that keeps giving. I’m not going to ape Kris’s impressive ranking of all the nominated features: we’d have the same #1, for starters, and we’re agreeing on far too many things these days. So here’s something else to play with. I’ve had a number of emails asking me how [...]
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Guy’s final Oscar predictions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:23 pm · March 6th, 2010
And so it comes to this: more months than I care to count of watching, thinking, sweating, fretting, writing, deleting and occasionally not caring boil down to single predictions in 24 categories. There’s a lot to get through here, and I’m not going to delay things with an introduction. Well, except for this one caveat [...]
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Nut up or shut up: final predictions
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:36 am · March 6th, 2010
As I look over my final predictions for tomorrow night’s Oscar ceremony, I notice that I’ve made only one change — in the Best Live Action Short category — since taking my initial stab the day of the nominations. And I haven’t made a single change since I started the Oscar Guide series. Am I [...]
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BAFTA predictions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:35 pm · February 20th, 2010
Enjoying a curious position this year as the only televised awards ceremony between the Academy Award nominations announcement and Oscar night itself, the BAFTAs will no doubt be relishing their precursor status even more than usual. Since they made the move to precede the Oscars nine years ago, BAFTA hasn’t slavishly anticipated the bigger awards [...]
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OSCAR GUIDE: Best Supporting Actor
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:30 am · February 17th, 2010
In a slight rarity, the year’s Best Supporting Actor category reflected the Screen Actors Guild nominees 100% this season. Nominations for Alfred Molina and Alec Baldwin at the BAFTA Awards weren’t enough to generate enough cross-over support, while Christian McKay’s late surge couldn’t get him there, either. What we’re left with is a sleepwalking performance [...]
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February winner predictions
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:18 am · February 3rd, 2010
These appeared at Movie City News’s Gurus o’ Gold page this morning, so you probably already saw them. Here they are in any case, since, you know, I guess it’s about that time: Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker” Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, [...]
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My dream ballot: part two
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:21 pm · February 1st, 2010
Yesterday, I began my far-fetched wishlist of nominees for tomorrow’s announcement with a look at the technical categories. Today we move into the big races. And as much as I thought I had my favorites clearly mapped out in my head, a rundown of the eligible titles made for some very crowded races indeed. Once [...]
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THE LONG SHOT: The pre-nomination shuffle
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:53 pm · January 27th, 2010
This, ladies and gentlemen, will be the last Long Shot column I write before the 2009 Academy Award nominations are announced, and it’s not just because it’s the column’s 17th week that the well of subject matter is looking rather dry. I have followed longer awards seasons than this one (the awards used to take [...]
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January winner predictions
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:59 am · January 27th, 2010
It’s time for me to go to the well one more time before next week’s big announcement. That’s right, six days and the mystery of the 10 will finally be answered. But first, some blind (since there are no nominations yet) guesses. Just trying to find the right balance here: Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” [...]
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1/26 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:28 am · January 26th, 2010
• Donna Freydkin talks to man of the hour, Christoph Waltz. [USA Today] • Is 27 years without an Oscar too many to deny Meryl Streep in 2010? [Rope of Silicon] • We’re happy to be among the top 50 “best blogs for moviemakers.” [MovieMaker Magazine]
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INTERVIEW: Quentin Tarantino
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:09 pm · January 25th, 2010
Nearing the end of January on an awards season run for a film that bowed at Cannes is an odd time to be crossing paths with a filmmaker to talk about the goods, but that’s where I found myself with Quentin Tarantino this year. Making the publicity rounds in the wake of the DVD and [...]
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SAG wins for ‘Basterds,’ Bullock, Bridges
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:53 pm · January 23rd, 2010
Gotta love all those B’s, right? Overall, no real surprises — we knew Best Actress was going to be a close-fought contest between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock, and it’s entirely likely that Streep’s win last year tipped it towards Hollywood’s new golden girl. While the widely anticipated ensemble win for “Inglourious Basterds” makes no [...]
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Last-minute SAG predictions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:08 pm · January 23rd, 2010
Funny, I could have sworn the SAG Awards were taking place on Sunday. Goes to show how on top of things I am, I guess. Or, perhaps, the level of excitement I feel over at least three cut-and-dried acting races this year. Nevertheless, tonight’s ceremony will be helpful in addressing at least one of this [...]
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SAG on the way
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:57 pm · January 20th, 2010
Saturday night the Screen Actors Guild Awards will go down, televised on TNT, and I can’t really believe the race is THIS sewn up. Right down the line, most are calling it for Bridges, Streep, Waltz and Mo’Nique. There are some differences of opinion on the ensemble performance category, but for the most part, those [...]
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