HitFix’s Kristopher Tapley analyzes the morning’s Oscar nominations announcement, which featured the usual assortment of quirky Academy choices and surprises.
'Selma,' Laura Dern, 'Lego': the Academy, as ever, has its own ideas about the Oscar race
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:57 am · January 15th, 2015
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2015 Academy Awards Nominations – complete list
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:45 am · January 15th, 2015
Thursday morning the nominations for the 87th annual Academy Awards were announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.
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Tech Support: Final predictions in Oscar's crafts categories
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:39 pm · January 14th, 2015
In Contention’s Gerard Kennedy offers up final predictions for the crafts categories in advance of this year’s Oscar nominations announcement.
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Jessica Chastain charms and Rene Russo holds court at pre-Globes gatherings
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:34 pm · January 10th, 2015
With the Golden Globe Awards on the horizon, much of the year’s awards season talent were on hand at the annual Spirit Awards brunch and BAFTA Tea gathering.
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'Star Wars' director JJ Abrams will help announce nominees for all 24 Oscar categories
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:12 am · January 9th, 2015
The Academy announced Friday that next week’s Oscar nominations announcement will be a “two-part presentation” and that for the first time ever, nominees all 24 Oscar categories will be announced live on television.
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Roundup: Oprah among stars attending the BAFTAs
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:46 am · February 12th, 2014
In today’s roundup of notable online news and views, Oprah Winfrey is among the long list of stars confirmed to attend to BAFTAs on Sunday. Also: Oscar-nominated screenwriters’ conference, and PGA nails a date.
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Vampire Weekend frontman joins Karen O as Oscar campaign for 'Her' song ramps up
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:57 pm · February 11th, 2014
Three versions of the Oscar-nominated “The Moon Song” were released today, including a new duet betyween Karen O and Ezra Koenig.
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GKIDS eye another Oscar nod with Irish animated feature 'Song of the Sea'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:26 pm · February 11th, 2014
Five years after launching their giant-slaying reputation with an Oscar nod for Tomm Moore’s “The Secret of Kells,” the animation distributors have acquired rights to Moore’s follow-up.
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Idina Menzel to heat up Oscar show with 'Frozen' performance
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:50 am · February 11th, 2014
Following Pharrell Williams’ confirmation as a performer at the awards, the Tony-winning diva will perform Best Original Song favorite ‘Let It Go’ on stage.
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Roundup: Mark Harris on a soured Oscar season
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:21 am · February 11th, 2014
In today’s roundup of notable online news and views, Mark Harris discusses how this year’s Oscar race has soured, but why that’s not all bad. Also: Revisiting the 1993 race, and James Toback on losing at the Oscars
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Review: Aaron Paul and Pierce Brosnan fall 'A Long Way Down' in dismal comedy
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:55 pm · February 10th, 2014
Toni Collette and Imogen Poots are also among the casualties in this laugh-free suicide farce, which premiered in Berlin this evening.
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Wylie Stateman explains the first-person sound experience of Oscar nominee 'Lone Survivor'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:24 pm · February 10th, 2014
“Lone Survivor” sound editor Wylie Stateman picked up his seventh Oscar nomination to date last month, though despite wonderful work in films like “Cliffhanger,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained,” he’s yet to win an Academy Award. He sat down with HitFix to discuss his approach to what you hear in Peter Berg’s war film.
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Off the Carpet: Frontrunners try to maintain buzz while others aim to capitalize in phase two
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:18 pm · February 10th, 2014
The Oscar nominees are gathering for lunch this afternoon as the Winter Olympics forge ahead in Sochi, gobbling up two weeks and extending the phase two timeline of this year’s film awards season. The question is, how will that extension affect the race, if at all?
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Roundup: Saturday night's all right for Cannes prizes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:06 am · February 10th, 2014
In a rare change of routine, the Cannes Film Festival awards will be presented a day earlier this year. Also: The politics of movie walkouts, and how to define designing ‘Gravity’
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Review: Young Lincoln portrait 'The Better Angels' amounts to more than its Malickisms
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:43 pm · February 9th, 2014
The debut feature from regular Terrence Malick collaborator A.J. Edwards bears a lot of the master’s influence in its depiction ofg Abraham Lincoln’s childhood years, but impresses on its own terms too.
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Tell us what you thought of 'The Monuments Men'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:47 pm · February 9th, 2014
George Clooney’s latest has got a critical drubbing, but is it that bad? Share your thoughts here, and vote in our poll.
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Solomon Northup wins his first award of the year for '12 Years a Slave' at USC Scripter Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:52 pm · February 8th, 2014
Plenty of prizes have come “12 Years a Slave’s” way this season but Saturday night’s USC Scripter prize was the first to be shared by Solomon Northup himself.
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'Gravity,' 'Her,' 'The Great Gatsby' win Art Directors Guild Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:40 pm · February 8th, 2014
The films respectively won the Fantasy, Contemporary and Period categories from the ADG, but that’s no guarantee any of them will win the Oscar.
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