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The annual announcement of the new members invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the latest batch of industry pros we get to blame for next year’s Oscar results — is a moment that always prompts as much satisfied head-nodding as bewildered head-scratching. The latter action isn’t always in response [...]
New AMPAS invitees include Sorkin, Hooper… and Beyoncé
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:17 pm · June 17th, 2011
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2/21 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Seidler’s Oscar virgin confessions, Bier on ‘Better World,’ the close races
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:58 am · February 21st, 2011
• David Seidler: Confessions of a 73-year-old Oscar virgin. [Los Angeles Times] • Ageism and the Oscar party Bollywood would throw. [The Huffington Post] • Anne Thompson talks to “In a Better World director Susanne Bier. [Thompson on Hollywood]
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Susanne Bier’s latest in foreign Oscar hunt
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:15 pm · September 24th, 2010
One week from the deadline and the Best Foreign Language Film submissions are coming in thick and fast — our updated list currently boasts 44 titles. The number of those titles I’ve actually seen is, regrettably, still in the single digits, but it does include one of today’s arrivals to the race, India’s “Peepli Live” [...]
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1/12 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:23 am · January 12th, 2010
• Steve Pond talks “In the Loop” with Armando Ianucci and Peter Capaldi. [The Odds] • Dave Karger makes his Golden Globe picks. [Entertainment Weekly] • Katey Rich runs down the pros and cons in a four-way race (but it’s actually a three-way race). [Cinema Blend]
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‘Brothers’ trailer
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:03 pm · July 3rd, 2009
As someone who was never particularly taken with Susanne Bier’s popular 2004 melodrama “Brothers” — I find Bier’s work too patly earnest to repay real emotional investment — I approach Jim Sheridan’s long-delayed remake with a measure of caution. Judging from this just-released trailer, it seems to hew very close to the original, with added [...]
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