• Larry Rohter talks “Outside the Law” with director Rachid Bouchareb, who calls the film “a historical continuation” of 2007’s “Days of Glory” and mentions a third part is in the cards. [The Carpetbagger]
• The biggest lies of this year’s Oscar contenders. [The Race]
• As “The King’s Speech” dusts off its mantle, this taxing conversation keeps getting play. [Entertainment Weekly]
A few years back the sound branch did away with the bake-off process of determining its nominees for Best Sound Editing and the field was expanded to five. The visual effects branch followed suit this year and, maybe some day, the makeup branch will do the same.
The sound branch is unique in that it nominates in two discipline-specific fields. Often there is a considerable cross-over between Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing as a result. The unfortunate thing is that the Academy at large doesn’t understand what quality editorial and mixing is when it comes to these aural areas. Typically they just pick their favorite film and move on to the next category.
The nominees are:
“Inception” (Richard King)
“Toy Story 3” (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
“TRON Legacy” (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
“True Grit” (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
“Unstoppable” (Mark P. Stoeckinger)