How long can Oscar pretend the foreign-language race is a cinematic Olympics?
The Long Shot: No country for gold men
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:27 pm · October 30th, 2013
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Michael Haneke's 'Amour' wins Best Foreign Language Film for Austria
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:54 pm · February 24th, 2013
Michael Haneke’s “Amour” has won Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th annual Academy Awards. It falls in line with films like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Life is Beautiful” which were nominated for Best Picture and won the award in this category.
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Oscar Guide 2013: Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · February 16th, 2013
‘Amour,’ ‘Django Unchained,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ square off.
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A Valentine's Day conversation with 'Amour' writer/director Michael Haneke
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:39 pm · February 14th, 2013
“Amour” has come to be considered one of Haneke’s most universal and accessible works, despite sporting the same rigor as his previous work. That might be because it concerns itself with the very universal concept of love. But nevertheless, to Haneke, “there’s not a difference between my films besides the subject matter.”
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Michael Haneke responds to 'his' Twitter handle
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:15 pm · February 14th, 2013
Have you been following @Michael_Haneke?
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Oscar Guide 2013: Best Director
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:37 pm · February 12th, 2013
Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, David O. Russell and Benh Zeitlin square off.
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Oscar Guide 2013: Best Foreign Language Film
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:00 am · February 6th, 2013
‘Amour,’ ‘War Witch,’ ‘No,’ ‘A Royal Affair’ and ‘Kon-Tiki’ square off.
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Off the Carpet: Why I want to see 'Argo' win Best Picture at the Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:51 am · January 14th, 2013
The last 100 hours or so in Hollywood has been intriguing, to say the least. The Oscar nominations on Thursday sent a series of shockwaves throughout the industry and were marvelously reflective of a tightly contended, stellar year of filmmaking. And of course, two names have been on everyone’s lips since the Thursday morning bombshell: Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow.
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Nine double-dipping Oscar nominees have multiple shots on goal this year
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:22 pm · January 11th, 2013
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 categories or, sometimes, twice in the same category. So who’s in the club this time around?
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Oscar brings surprises aplenty as frontrunners miss and fairytales come true
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:27 am · January 10th, 2013
The 85th annual nominations packed an intriguing punch this morning.
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'Lincoln' leads, 'Pi' and 'Silver Linings' surge as the Academy serves up a few surprises
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:22 am · January 10th, 2013
Three DGA nominees miss the cut for Best Director
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The winners and losers from today's BAFTA nominations
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:43 am · January 9th, 2013
Affleck is celebrating, Hooper and Spielberg not so much
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Roundup: Is the foreign-language category still broken?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:15 am · January 7th, 2013
Also: Haneke out of home awards, and an Oscar for the director of ‘Contraband?’
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'Amour' wins top honors from National Society of Film Critics
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:17 pm · January 5th, 2013
Michael Haneke’s film also takes Best Director and Actress.
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Off the Carpet: Academy members have numerous tight races to mull over this season
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:58 am · December 24th, 2012
As members of the Academy hurry through the last screeners they need to see before committing an opinion on the year’s best (for those who bother trying to get as deep into the stack as possible, that is), a number of races hang in the balance as extremely tight categories are sure to leave a few contenders feeling the sting of “also-ran” on Thursday, January 10.
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Dublin critics award Haneke, Phoenix, Riva and…'The Artist?'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:22 am · December 21st, 2012
If you thought we had escaped the year of “The Artist,” you were wrong. The Dublin Film Critics Circle has chosen Michel Hazanavicius’s Best Picture winner as the year’s best film, as it opened on those shores in 2012. It joins Michael Haneke, Joaquin Phoenix, Emmanuelle Riva and more for top honors this year.
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'Amour' and 'The Master' lead London Critics' Circle nominations
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:15 am · December 18th, 2012
‘Beasts,’ ‘Pi’ fend off ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in Film of the Year field
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Exclusive: 'Les Mis,' 'Django,' 'Beasts,' 'Amour' among 2012 scripts not eligible for WGA
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:05 pm · December 15th, 2012
Every year it’s worth noting that a number of the original and adapted screenplays in the hunt for Oscar consideration won’t get the extra bump of a nomination from the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Reasons for failing to qualify include the writer of the script not being a guild member or not retroactively handling the requisite process, among other things.
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