Also: Playing down the ‘Skyfall’ Oscar buzz, and a look at the doc feature race
Roundup: What great genre-film performances deserve some love this year?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:54 am · November 19th, 2012
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The Long Shot: Independent women
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:30 pm · November 7th, 2012
The Best Actress race is only as weak as voters choose to make it.
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Best Actress 2013: Potential nominees from Keira Knightley to Quvenzhané Wallis
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:12 am · October 10th, 2012
Surveying the year’s leading ladies as the season commences
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Roundup: The kids are more than all right
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:00 am · October 2nd, 2012
Also: The rise of Lionsgate, and India’s complex Oscar history.
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' ineligible for the SAG Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:50 pm · October 1st, 2012
Quvenzhané Wallis will have to get that Oscar nod without the Guild’s help.
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Tech Support: Ben Richardson on photographing 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:51 am · July 24th, 2012
Finding the film’s visual vocabulary with young Quvenzhané Wallis as his muse.
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Quvenzhané Wallis: One of Oscar's better stories waiting to happen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:29 am · June 16th, 2012
Every Oscar season needs a pulse of emotion that feels less put-on, that doesn’t have that whiff of campaign or construct. Something that organically pops from the fabric of the form can be galvanizing, and though nothing can exist so pure for too long, the recognition of a tempest in the calm before it strikes means something. Quvenzhané Wallis is that tempest for 2012.
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The Long Shot: Searching for sleepers in the Oscar guessing game
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:34 am · June 11th, 2012
As early Oscar charts hype up juggernauts like “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables,” what’s this year’s little engine that could?
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Review: 'No' and 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:38 pm · May 18th, 2012
Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain delivers the film of the fest so far, while a Sundance sensation hits the Croisette.
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