The engravings on Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Best Picture Oscars for “Argo” are still fresh and already the gears are spinning across the net on what to expect in the film awards season next year. Of course we were going to pile on.
Oscars 2014: 25 films to watch for
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:06 am · February 28th, 2013
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Tech Support: Visual Effects Society issues a 'call to action'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:18 pm · February 27th, 2013
Visual Effects Society Executive Director Eric Roth has issued an open letter and a “call to action,” imploring government and, certainly, industry attention be paid to the on-going plight in the world of visual effects.
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Sony sets 'Annie' with Quvenzhané Wallis for Christmas 2014
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:39 pm · February 27th, 2013
You didn’t think you had heard the last of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” star Quvenzhané Wallis, I hope. The youngest Best Actress nominee of all time was shrewdly announced on Oscar Sunday as the lead in the Will Smith-produced, Will Gluck-directed adaptation of the musical “Annie,” and today a release date has been announced: Christmas 2014.
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Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid chase a dream 'At Any Price' in the film's first poster
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:20 pm · February 27th, 2013
Collider has premiered the first poster for the Sony Pictures Classics release, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last September.
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With 'Stoker' on the way, 10 great English-language debuts by foreign directors
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:49 am · February 27th, 2013
From F.W. Murnau to Alfonso Cuarón, these directors didn’t get lost in translation.
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The 2012-2013 Film Awards Circuit
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:25 am · February 27th, 2013
Charting the winners and losers of this year’s Oscar season.
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Off the Carpet: A roller coaster season comes to an end
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:13 pm · February 25th, 2013
What can one really say at the end of a season this contentious, this exciting, this tight every step of the way other than: “Gee, that was fun.”
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 108 — Special Edition! — Wrapping up the 85th annual Academy Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:30 pm · February 25th, 2013
In today’s podcast, Kris and Anne dig in on last night’s Oscar telecast, the sights and sounds, the winners and losers.
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Everybody's fine: closing thoughts on an Oscar season of multiple narratives
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:00 pm · February 25th, 2013
With eight of nine Best Picture nominees rewarded, it wasn’t all about ‘Argo.’
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Oscar-winning director Sean Fine shows some RG3 support at the Academy Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:08 am · February 25th, 2013
Here’s a nice story that totally blind-sided me today. Did you know that Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Fine (“Inocente”) is a huge Redskins fan? It goes deeper than that, actually, and a blog post from Stephen Czarda lays out the story, which led to Fine sporting some nifty burgundy and gold socks on the red carpet last night.
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Tech Support: 'Life of Pi' has a strong crafts showing at the Oscars
Posted by gerardkennedy · 9:35 am · February 25th, 2013
I’m writing this column, the last Tech Support entry for this 2012-2013 Oscar season, with a strange combination of ambivalence and a touch of the bittersweet. Despite the fun of awards season, and this one in particular, it is somewhat relieving to see it come to an end.
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Who is HitFix's top pundit in a tricky year for Oscar predictions?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:08 am · February 25th, 2013
Okay, so not anyone’s best showing this year.
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Ben Affleck's 'Argo' named Best Picture of the year at the 85th annual Academy Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:59 pm · February 24th, 2013
Crowning off an industry awards running of the table, from the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards the night director Ben Affleck was passed over for a Best Director Oscar nomination through a guild circuit that brought high profile recognition from the likes of producers, directors, actors and writers, Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Argo” has been named Best Picture of 2012 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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'Lincoln' star Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor Oscar
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:51 pm · February 24th, 2013
Daniel Day-Lewis has broken an Oscar record this evening. The “Lincoln” star picked up the Best Actor trophy for his performance in the Steven Spielberg film, making him the first actor to win three lead actor prizes.
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Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress at the Oscars for 'Silver Linings Playbook'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:43 pm · February 24th, 2013
Jennifer Lawrence, the 22-year-old star of “Silver Linings Playbook,” has won the Oscar for Best Actress at the 85th annual Academy Awards.
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Ang Lee wins Best Director Oscar for 'Life of Pi'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:38 pm · February 24th, 2013
In a race lacking the frontrunner for Best Picture (“Argo” director Ben Affleck was left off the list by his fellow filmmakers in the Academy), Best Director boiled down to the visionary, watercolor vision of “Life of Pi” helmer Ang Lee.
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'Argo' and 'Django Unchained' win screenplay Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:29 pm · February 24th, 2013
Quentin Tarantino and Chris Terrio will be the lucky writers walking out of the Dolby Theatre tonight with Oscars in hand. The two men won their prizes for “Django Unchained” (Best Original Screenplay) and “Argo” (Best Adapted Screenplay) respectively.
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Adele wins the Best Original Song Oscar for 'Skyfall' at the Academy Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:17 pm · February 24th, 2013
Pop music sensation can add an Oscar to the countless American Music Awards, Billboard Awards and Grammys she’s amassed to date. The “Rolling in the Deep” vocalist won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards this evening for her title track to the James Bond film “Skyfall.”
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