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Michael Douglas was robbed. The already Oscar-christened actor gave a career-best performance in 2000 in Curtis Hanson’s “Wonder Boys,” but he got no love from the Academy. Worse, his performance was easily among the five best of the year and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor prize. That having been said, I […]
The Great Performances: 2000
Posted by John Foote · 7:14 pm · November 13th, 2009
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BAFTA predictions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:00 pm · January 14th, 2009
The BAFTA nominations drop tomorrow, and while I hardly covered myself in glory with my foreign film Oscar forecast yesterday, I’m going to wade into the murky waters of prediction once more. On the one hand, it’s a fool’s errand trying to predict the BAFTA nods, as they can frequently be the most perverse and contrarian awards […]
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Sigh
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:41 pm · November 26th, 2008
Screen Daily delivers the bewildering news: Day one sales of “Mamma Mia! – The Movie” have beaten “Titanic”‘s record, to become the fastest selling DVD of all time in the UK. Sales reached 1.669 million units, following its launch on November 24. The previous record for day one DVD sales was held for 10 years […]
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Will BAFTA stick by their own?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:15 am · November 16th, 2008
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the BAFTA Awards. On the one hand, they can be far more daring and playful in their choices than the American Academy — this is an organisation, after all, that has handed their Best Film award to such enduring works as “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” […]
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