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Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
OSCAR TALK: Ep. 41 — Governors Awards, animated and doc feature shortlists, circuit festivities and remembering Ronni Chasen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:20 am · November 19th, 2010
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AMPAS honors quartet at Governors Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:46 am · November 15th, 2010
This weekend the Academy toasted the careers of film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-Luc Godard and character actor Eli Wallach with a trio of Honorary Oscar statuettes and bestowed the Irving Thalberg Award on legendary helmer Francis Ford Coppola. I didn’t attend the ceremony, but there’s lots of coverage out there. Rather than pack […]
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Honorary Oscared and Thalberged
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:13 am · November 14th, 2010
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Getting the family back together
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:07 pm · November 13th, 2010
In case you weren’t aware, @TheAcademy is Tweeting the Governors Awards experience. Here’s an epic reunion:
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 40 — ‘The Fighter’ and ‘Black Swan’ hit AFI Fest, a riskless Hollywood and previewing the Governors Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:21 am · November 12th, 2010
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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Wallach finally gets his
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:21 pm · August 25th, 2010
One of the easiest Honorary Oscars to peg was probably Eli Wallach’s (the recipients were announced this morning). Many have in fact been waiting and waiting for some kind of AMPAS recognition for the esteemed character actor, and finally, it looks like he’ll get it. So in honor of that:
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Honorary Oscars for Coppola, Godard, Wallach and Brownlow
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:41 am · August 25th, 2010
So, you’d think that five competitive Oscars — three for writing, one apiece for producing and directing — would count as an elegant sufficiency of awardage for even the most revered talent in the industry. Not so, apparently, in the case of a certain Francis Ford Coppola. In their wisdom, AMPAS brass have decided that […]
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