HitFix’s awards editorial staff surveys the field of this year’s Best Supporting Actress category. From suffering, wives to supportive mothers, the season’s crop is varied and accomplished.
Best Supporting Actress 2014: Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:30 pm · October 22nd, 2013
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Best Supporting Actor 2014: Oscar contenders include George Clooney, Michael Fassbender and Tom Hanks
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:45 am · October 15th, 2013
HitFix’s awards team surveys the 2014 Best Supporting Actor category, from George Clooney as an astronaut to Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and all points in between.
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Introducing HitFix Oscar Picks!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:10 am · October 9th, 2013
We’ve been teasing a new feature here at In Contention for a few months now and I’m happy that we can finally lift the veil on HitFix Oscar Picks!
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Best Actor 2014: Oscar contenders include Christian Bale, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew McConaughey
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:17 pm · October 1st, 2013
HitFix profiles a hugely competitive Best Actor category. Names include Christian Bale, Joaquin Phoenix, Matthew McConaughey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Forest Whitaker.
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TCM to premiere new documentary 'Oscar' in February
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:15 am · September 30th, 2013
Every year Turner Classic Movies gets home audiences in an Oscar state of mind with its annual “31 Days of Oscar” showcase. Held every February, it’s a month-long celebration of Oscar-winning films leading up to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, and this year, the showcase will kick off with the premiere of a brand new documentary about the awards’ 85 years of history. It’s called, what else… “Oscar.”
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Oscar in August: 10 predictions for the 2013-2014 awards season
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 9:44 am · August 27th, 2013
Our annual look at some of the surefire Oscar nominees and trends a little over six months from the 86th Academy Awards.
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Oscars goes cute and safe with Ellen DeGeneres as host
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 9:50 am · August 2nd, 2013
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made one of the safest hires possible by bringing in Ellen DeGeneres to host the 85th Academy Awards. It will be the talk show host and comedienne’s second go around as Oscar host.
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs makes history as Academy's new president
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 11:14 pm · July 30th, 2013
Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the first woman.
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Jason Bateman, Lena Dunham and Prince among 276 invited to join the Academy
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:27 am · June 28th, 2013
The Academy has announced its annual list of invitees to its esteemed membership, including 276 names from actors Jason Bateman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jennifer Lopez and Milla Jovovich to directors Steve McQueen, Todd Phillips and last year’s wunderkind Benh Zeitlin.
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For Your Consideration: 15 deserving Oscar nominees from 2013 so far
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:48 am · June 27th, 2013
HitFix’s Gregory Ellwood, Guy Lodge and Kristopher Tapley spotlight 15 films, performances and accomplishments from the first half of 2013 that deserve recognition by year’s end.
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Cyndi Lauper inches one step closer to an EGOT at the 2013 Tony Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:46 pm · June 9th, 2013
With her Tony win in the Best Original Score category tonight for her work on the Broadway smash “Kinky Boots,” musician Cyndi Lauper has inched a step closer to some elite industry awards company.
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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron back for more at the 2014 Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:32 pm · April 16th, 2013
So I guess no one at the Academy got the memo that no one really liked the way the Oscars were put on back in February (I was mostly fine with them, mind you), and so they’re bringing Craig Zadan and Neil Meron back for more.
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Peggy Siegal on Oscar's build: Hathaway's Valentino snub, Clooney's Dujardin revenge
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:35 am · April 1st, 2013
I read Peggy Siegel’s Oscar weekend diary at The Huffington Post with the expected mixture of fascination and disgust. You find yourself smiling at the gluttony of Hollywood during awards season until you don’t, as the cup of excess runneth over. And Siegel’s diary is a perfect record of all that superficiality.
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The Academy unveils vision for motion picture museum
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:51 am · October 18th, 2012
The Academy has taken another big step toward establishing its long-in-the-making motion picture museum right in the heart of Los Angeles. The organization announced today that it has reached its initial goal of $100 million toward a $250 capital campaign to fund the project, which will be housed within the former Wilshire May Company building on the southwest corner of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s campus on Wilshire Blvd.
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The Academy goes on the hunt for its own history
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:14 pm · September 27th, 2012
A 1928 Best Picture nominee by Ernst Lubitsch is still at large.
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'Alps' does the (limited) Stateside rounds
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:30 am · July 17th, 2012
Catch Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant follow-up to ‘Dogtooth’ if you can.
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Oscars set key 2013 dates, setting up a longer-than-usual phase two
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:40 am · March 14th, 2012
Prospective nominees, prepare to be on the circuit a while.
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