‘Amour’ wins top honors from National Society of Film Critics
The last of the major US critics’ awards landed today, and the National Society of Film Critics sided with the Los Angeles crowd, handing their Best Picture award to Michael Haneke’s “Amour.” The...
View ArticleRoundup: Is the foreign-language category still broken?
The Best Foreign Language Film race so far has proceeded with a minimum of the usual controversy: most countries’ selections were met with approval, and the Academy’s eventual shortlist is a credible...
View ArticleWhose Oscar nomination dreams are on the bubble?
There are only a few days until the nominations are announced for the 85th Academy Awards and you can feel the tension in the air from the 405 to the 101. Potential nominees, Oscar consultants and...
View ArticleOff the Carpet: All bets are off
UPDATE (1/9 – 3:18am ET): Poor Matthew McConaughey looks so lonely over there now that there isn’t a prediction to go along with the photo. Alas, the BAFTA nominations tonight have steered me this way...
View ArticleWhat will BAFTA add to the conversation?
When the Academy announced it was shifting its nomination date forward, nowhere else was the ‘Simon says’ effect more blatantly evident than in BAFTA’s decision to move theirs up a week or so —...
View ArticleThe winners and losers from today’s BAFTA nominations
As usual, BAFTA delivered a few surprises this morning. While nothing in their nominee list is as far off the Oscar radar as, say, “Drive”‘s hefty haul last year, they’ve muddled up the hierarchy a...
View ArticleBAFTA Noms Prove British People Can Have Bad Taste Too
With our America-centric media industrial complex, it’s easy to forget that in addition to all the regular movie awards – the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the SAGs, the People’s Choice (the Rolls Royce...
View Article‘Lincoln’ wins with Iowa critics
“Lincoln” has picked up a third Best Picture critics prize, landing the Iowa Film Critics Association award for the year’s best film. Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones were also...
View Article11th hour thoughts on the eve of the nominations
Okay, so I went back and fiddled with some things this morning before getting on my flight to LA. It’s all reflected there and in this afternoon’s big gallery story presenting my final predictions...
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2013 Oscar Nominees: From ‘Amour’ to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
From “Amour” to “Zero Dark Thirty,” below you can find a full list of the 2013 Oscar nominees.
View Article‘Lincoln’ leads, ‘Pi’ and ‘Silver Linings’ surge as the Academy serves up a...
When the Academy announced it was moving up the announcement of its nominees to an unprecedently early date, we knew the ensuing precursor scramble could result in a few surprises. We just didn’t know...
View ArticleOscar brings surprises aplenty as frontrunners miss and fairytales come true
Well, then. That was a cold blast of water to the faces of Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow this morning. The directors of “Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty” respectively failed to be nominated for their...
View ArticleThe 2013 Oscar Nominees
The Oscar nominations are out, and you probably want to see them. You’re in luck, because here they are. (Will be updated with commentary shortly). Lincoln leads with 12 nominations. A Spielberg movie...
View ArticleThe critics choose embarrassment
I apologized to Broadcast Film Critics Association president Joey Berlin after this evening’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards for being frank about it, but I couldn’t tell a lie: this year’s show was an...
View ArticleRoundup: The thinking man’s Oscar crop?
The Oscarweb today is mainly awash with responses to yesterday’s Academy Award nominations, and little news besides, so let’s lead with the most articulate of them. A.O. Scott, for one, is pretty...
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 102 — Oscar nominations and the BFCA Critics’ Choice Movie...
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....
View ArticleNine double-dipping Oscar nominees have multiple shots on goal this year
Another year, another set of Oscar nominees. And while all are lucky to be in the mix, some are twice as lucky. There are always a few double dippers each year, individuals recognized in multiple...
View ArticleHaneke’s ‘Amour’ joins exclusive club of Palme d’Or winners turned Best...
As well as being gratifying in and of itself, Thursday’s Best Picture Oscar nomination for Michael Haneke’s “Amour” is immensely pleasing to Oscar stat geeks, who can count up the many ways in which it...
View Article10 things we learned from the 85th Academy Awards nominations
It’s been two days since the Academy Awards nominations were announced and Hollywood is still getting over the snubs and surprises. Like Nancy Kerrigan’s primal cry of “Why? Why? Why?” echoing through...
View ArticleBig moments for Bill Clinton, Jodie Foster and Ben Affleck at the 70th annual...
It was all smiles at the Warner Bros./In Style party Sunday night as team “Argo” had grabbed yet another one-two Best Picture/Best Director punch after the film’s director Ben Affleck was...
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