The Evening Standard Film Awards, a juried critics’ award ceremony devoted the British film and talent, share many favorites with recent UK precursors, but their nominee list features some unique mentions too.
'Shame' and 'Tyrannosaur' top nominees for Evening Standard Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:30 am · February 1st, 2012
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Round-up: 'Introducing' VF's Class of 2012
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:45 am · February 1st, 2012
Also: A detractor defends ‘The Artist,’ and Bond is unshaven, not stirred
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Breaking Oscar's biopic addiction
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:15 pm · January 31st, 2012
If the results of Sunday’s SAG Awards are repeated at the Oscars, it’ll be the first time since 1997 that all four acting awards go to actors playing fictitious characters. Are voters slowly getting more resistant to biopics?
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Round-up: Madge's vote for Malick
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · January 31st, 2012
Also: In praise of Viola Davis, and J.Lo and Uggie added to Oscar bill
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Remembering Eiko Ishioka
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:02 pm · January 30th, 2012
Though she won an Oscar for the threads of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” the Japanese artist Eiko Ishioka, who recently passed away aged 73, was much more than a costume designer.
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Round-up: Sundance tames the 'Beasts'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:20 am · January 30th, 2012
Also: Jean Dujardin sings, and the ‘post-macho world’ of ‘The Descendants’
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Michel Hazanavicius takes DGA award
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:43 pm · January 28th, 2012
“The Artist” and director Michel Hazanavicius further solidified their Oscar chances by winning the Directors’ Guild of America Award — a prize that has gone to the eventual Best Picture winner for the last 10 years running.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Supporting Actress
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:00 am · January 27th, 2012
Four first-timers, Bérénice Bejo, Jessica Chastain, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, join previous nominee Janet McTeer in the Best Supporting Actress Oscar race. We weigh up their chances, and decide who deserves to win.
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Round-up: Playing off the Academy's music branch
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · January 27th, 2012
Also: Ebert on Farhadi, and the geography of Oscar
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'The Artist' isn't top dog in César Award noms
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:25 am · January 27th, 2012
It may be the first French frontrunner in the history of the Academy Awards, but on home turf, “The Artist” had to settle for third place in the César Award nominations. Another Cannes prizewinner, law-enforcement drama “Polisse,” leads with 13 nods.
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Predicting Sunday's SAG Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:29 pm · January 26th, 2012
We handicap the five film categories in the upcoming Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, which should in turn anticipate the Oscar race.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Cinematography
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:53 pm · January 26th, 2012
The cinematographers’ branch didn’t search far and wide for contenders in this category, settling on four Best Picture nominees, as well as four previously nominated DPs — in keeping with this year’s unofficial theme of sticking with the familiar.
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Round-up: Cracking the code of 'Tinker, Tailor'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:00 am · January 26th, 2012
Also: Mary J. Blige’s Oscar sulk, and a gold watch for Uggie
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The Long Shot: Fade away and radiate
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:50 pm · January 25th, 2012
This year’s Oscar nominations were not only kind to Hollywood’s old guard, but a number of films with their eye on the rear-view mirror.
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Round-up: The incredible comeback of 'Extremely Loud'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:11 am · January 25th, 2012
Also: R.I.P. Theo Angelopoulos, and Oscar nomination post-mortem
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Stuck in the middle with you: thoughts on the Oscar nominations
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:28 pm · January 24th, 2012
If it’s hard to settle on one emotional response to this year’s Academy Award nominations, that could be the result of the Academy’s own split instincts.
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'A Separation' leads International Cinephile Society nods
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:02 pm · January 23rd, 2012
The International Conephile Society is made up of over 80 international journalists and film professionals, and that diversity is reflected in the nominations — “A Separation” tops the list with 10 nominations.
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Round-up: 'Twas the night before Oscar noms
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:51 am · January 23rd, 2012
Also: Spike Lee’s Sundance protest, and the craftwork of ‘Drive’
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