Jonah Hill showers his “Wolf of Wall Street” director Martin Scorsese with mad love and talks about reuniting with Leonardo DiCaprio on an upcoming project.
Jonah Hill says he'd paint Martin Scorsese's house if he was asked
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 10:40 pm · February 10th, 2014
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Sony Classics brings 'Foxcatcher' into the Oscar season
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:01 pm · August 15th, 2013
Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell star in Bennett Miller’s latest.
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Where will Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' end up?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:20 pm · June 27th, 2013
With a full slate of films to campaign and market this fall, Sony Pictures may be moving Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” to art house shingle Sony Pictures Classics for distribution, or the film could be held for 2014 release.
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The Academy and 'Moneyball' director Bennett Miller to present Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' in NYC
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:08 pm · May 15th, 2012
The Academy has announced that “Moneyball” director Bennett Miller will be presenting Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” at a New York “Members Selects” event.
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Jonah Hill and Tom Hanks send up Oscar season on 'Saturday Night Live'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:29 pm · March 11th, 2012
Oh, you thought awards season was over? Well, it is, but there’s plenty of room to drag out its last throes on late night, like Jonah Hill did to kick of “Saturday Night Live” last night.
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The 2011-2012 Film Awards Circuit
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:46 am · February 28th, 2012
Charting the winners and losers of the year’s precursor circuit.
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My first time
Posted by Roth Cornet · 3:21 pm · February 27th, 2012
A writer’s first foray into the realm of the Oscar blogger has yielded varied results. I have a sharper set of skills with which to run the metaphorical pool table, but a deeper sense of bemusement in regards to the AMPAS and the awards circuit.
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Box office and Oscar, from 'Deathly Hallows' to 'Tree of Life'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:21 am · February 26th, 2012
It’s Oscar Sunday and by tonight, it’ll be all done but the cryin’, as they say. But as we gear up for today’s festivities, I thought I’d take a look at the box office of this year’s Oscar nominees for the first time this season.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Picture
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:43 am · February 25th, 2012
The 2011 Oscar Guide has finally reached its destination: the nine-film Best Picture category, which saw its biggest surprise in the very fact that it stretched to that many nominees. It became somewhat obvious down the stretch that five films were assured a spot, with another highly likely. The extraneous possibilities seemed to number no more than three or four, but two of them got in.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Actor
Posted by gerardkennedy · 8:28 am · February 24th, 2012
On Sunday, five of our leading men will don their tuxes and walk down the red carpet at the top of their profession. Earlier this awards season, it seemed as though this would be a battle between two A-list movie stars. Since then, however, a silent Frenchman has proven himself very adept at charming everyone in sight, and will be difficult to beat.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 83 — Final Oscar predictions in all categories!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:58 am · February 24th, 2012
In this week’s podcast, Anne and Kris prepare to put a bow on the season by giving their predictions for Sunday’s Oscarcast.
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Tech Support: Final predictions and analysis for 2011, from 'Hugo' to…'Hugo'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:25 am · February 23rd, 2012
Final guesses on this year’s crop of below-the-line contenders.
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The Lists: Top 10 Oscar upsets we'd like to see
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:04 am · February 21st, 2012
With ballots due in a matter of hours, we’re in the home stretch of Oscar season. But while some of the races are decided, that doesn’t mean we’re not crossing our fingers for this upset or that for deserving competitors watching the inevitability from the sidelines.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Film Editing
Posted by gerardkennedy · 9:25 am · February 20th, 2012
Of all the crafts categories, Best Film Editing always tends to parallel the Best Picture race the most, both in the nominations stage and again during the race for the win. This year’s final five fit squarely into that paradigm.
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'Midnight in Paris,' 'Descendants' take WGA Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:25 pm · February 19th, 2012
Woody Allen took his fifth Best Original Screenplay award from the WGA for “Midnight in Paris,” but with “The Artist” ineligible here, can he beat the Best Picture frontrunner at the Oscars? Meanwhile, “The Descendants” continues to lead the adapted screenplay race.
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'Hugo' sounds great to Cinema Audio Society
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:13 pm · February 18th, 2012
The Cinema Audio Society has made some interesting calls over the years. “True Grit” last season, in the face of blockbuster and eventual Oscar winner “Inception.” “No Country for Old Men” in 2007 rather than the skillfully layered “Transformers” (and, again, eventual Oscar winner “The Bourne Ultimatum”). “Road to Perdition” over musical heavyweight “Chicago” and feast for the ears “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.”
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'Descendants' wins the USC Scripter Award
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:53 pm · February 18th, 2012
The 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards were held this evening just south of downtown at the Doheny Library on the USC campus. For the first time in a while, I had to miss the show (which is always a classy affair and, as a former USC grad student, always a bit odd, ordering a vodka tonic at the counter where I used to check out books for thesis and term paper purposes).
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Why it should be 'Moneyball'
Posted by Roth Cornet · 8:02 pm · February 17th, 2012
“Moneyball,” a film that questions the way we measure value may, ironically, be dismissed in favor of films who offer more in the way of spectacle and showmanship.
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