Keira Knightley, we salute you. In this edition of The Snap, we tell you who will (and who shouldn’t) win oscars.
The Snap Oscars Edition: Who Will (and Should) Win
Posted by Louis Virtel · 2:46 pm · February 20th, 2015
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'Bad Grandpa's' Irving on the Oscars, Helen Mirren and finding tail
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 10:03 pm · February 11th, 2014
Yep, Irving himself (cough, Johnny Knoxville) sat down with HitFix to talk about his never ending quest for tail, his adoration of Helen Mirren and whether he’ll be at the Academy Awards or not.
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Guess who Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper missed at the Oscars luncheon?
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 12:33 pm · February 11th, 2014
Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper wonder why a former co-star and peer isn’t at the Oscars nominees luncheon, discuss their red carpet decisions and reflect on living the dream.
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Sandra Bullock says she never thought she'd work with 'Gravity' director in a million years
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 12:27 am · February 11th, 2014
Sandra Bullock discusses how she 1000% trusted director Alfonso Cuaron on the set of “Gravity,” the wonderfully kind crew in the United Kingdom, watching the film for the first time at the Venice Film Festival and how and why it touches moviegoers.
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Jonah Hill says he'd paint Martin Scorsese's house if he was asked
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 10:40 pm · February 10th, 2014
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.
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett share their joy at Oscars luncheon
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 3:11 pm · February 10th, 2014
The annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon is a chance to get all of the year’s Academy Award nominees in a room for food and spirits, yes, but it’s also a huge press opportunity, where contenders can subtly communicate their final pitches in hopes that a stray Academy member will read it or hear about it on TV.
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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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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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'Captain Phillips' and 'American Hustle' win industry editing honors
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:20 pm · February 7th, 2014
Friday night “Captain Phillips” routed fellow Best Picture nominees “Gravity,” “Her” and “12 Years a Slave” to win the ACE Eddie Award for dramatic feature film editing. “American Hustle,” meanwhile, bested “Nebraska” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” to claim the comedy/musical prize.
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Film editor Christopher Rouse on Paul Greengrass, Oscar nominations and 'Captain Phillips'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:19 pm · February 7th, 2014
Christopher Rouse recently earned his third Oscar nomination for Paul Greengrass’ “Captain Phillips” and Friday night, he picked up his second ACE Eddie Award to date. HitFix recently spoke to him about the on-going collaboration with Greengrass, the Academy Awards and the journey of his latest.
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Woody Allen speaks out and it appears he's had enough
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 6:59 pm · February 7th, 2014
Woody Allen responds to Dylan Farrow’s NYT OP-ED with one of his own and this twenty one-year-old controversy doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon.
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Exclusive: Matthew McConaughey breaks down key 'Dallas Buyers' scene
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 3:14 pm · February 6th, 2014
Matthew McConaughey talks about the balance between sincerity and being overly sentimental in “Dallas Buyers Club.”
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Philippe Le Sourd on shooting 'The Grandmaster' and the historic final roll of Fujifilm
Posted by gerardkennedy · 11:13 am · February 5th, 2014
Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is just the latest stylish entry in the filmography of a revered auteur. Yet remarkably, none of his films had been nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography until two weeks ago when his latest broke that unusual streak with a nomination for Philippe Le Sourd.
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TCM's 'And the Oscar Goes To' documentary skips a stone across the Academy's 85 years
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:04 pm · February 2nd, 2014
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a peek behind the veil of the Academy Awards quite like Turner Classic Movies’ “And the Oscar Goes To” documentary, which premiered Saturday night and aired again this evening directly after the Super Bowl.
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Academy issues a statement about Best Original Song executive decision
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:46 am · February 1st, 2014
The Academy has released a statement concerning the decision to rescind the Best Original Song Oscar nomination for “Alone Yet Not Alone.”
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11-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins talks 'Prisoners' and the upcoming 'Unbroken'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:16 pm · January 31st, 2014
“Prisoners” cinematographer Roger Deakins picked up his eleventh Oscar nomination to date for the film. He talks to HitFix about the overall approach to that movie’s look and what we can expect of the upcoming “Unbroken.”
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'Gravity' sound team could make noise at the Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:58 am · January 31st, 2014
Oscar nominees Skip Lievsay (Best Sound Mixing), Glenn Freemantle (Best Sound Editing) and Steven Price (Best Original Score) talk to HitFix about sculpting a realistic soundtrack for Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity.”
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