After submitting nominees last week, the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association has picked “The Artist” as this year’s Best Picture winner. Michel Hazanavicius won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the film, while Rooney Mara was singled out for her performance in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”
'The Artist' wins five from St. Louis critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:04 am · December 19th, 2011
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Off the Carpet: Against the grain of dystopic claims
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:33 am · December 13th, 2011
There is a film I can talk about, a film I can’t talk about and a bunch of precursor awards that have faded into an indistinguishable blur. Let’s try to make some sense out of the week’s shenanigans.
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'Hugo' leaps into the Best Picture race with National Board of Review win
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:17 am · December 1st, 2011
Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” has been tapped as the best film of the year by the National Board of Review. George Clooney took Best Actor honors for “The Descendants” and Tilda Swinton walked away with Best Actress for “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 67 — 'Shame' and NC-17, documentary feature discussion and the weekend's releases
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:58 am · October 28th, 2011
In this weekend’s podcast, Anne and Kris discuss the NC-17 rating leveled toward Steve McQueen’s “Shame,” the documentary feature category in the wake of a pair of documentary organizations’ nominations announcements and this weekend’s releases, from “Anonymous” to “The Rum Diary.”
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Off the Carpet: Streep and Davis head up a tight but lacking pack of Best Actress contenders
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:09 pm · October 10th, 2011
Moving on to the lead actress contenders today, we dig in on who’s looking good, who’s lacking and who could spoil.
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David Fincher: Lisbeth Salander is 'refuse'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:27 pm · September 30th, 2011
Those hoping that David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” will give us a more well-rounded Lisbeth Salander than we saw in the original Swedish films will be encouraged by his intriguing description of the character to Empire magazine.
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Sony drops new, extended trailer for David Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:41 pm · September 21st, 2011
Sony Pictures has debuted a brand new, extended trailer for David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” It comes on the heels of a six-minute trailer/sizzle reel that played for press last week.
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