The BAFTA Awards take place on Sunday, and offer the Brits the choice between rubber-stamping the Oscar favorite, “The Artist,” and siding with their own pet, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” We consider what will win this year — and what should.
Predicting Sunday's BAFTA Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:38 pm · February 10th, 2012
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Round-up: Does Weinstein's Streep ad toe the line… or cross it?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · February 8th, 2012
Also: Daniel Radcliffe on Oscar snobbery, and the case for Viola Davis
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Off the Carpet: Harvey's victory lap
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:37 am · February 6th, 2012
A trip down memory lane as ‘The Artist’ sets its sights on The Weinstein Company’s second-straight Best Picture Oscar.
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Tech Support Interview: Hair and makeup designers Marese Langan and Mark Coulier on turning Meryl Streep into 'The Iron Lady'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:48 am · February 2nd, 2012
Transforming a well-known actor into a well-known political figure on the screen is tricky business. The visual familiarity with both can be a huge challenge, leaving viewers scrutinizing the work more than they might otherwise. In the case if “The Iron Lady,” one of the most recognizable actresses in the world, Meryl Streep, had to undergo such a transformation as prosthetics designer Mark Coulier and hair designer Marese Langan were tasked with turning her into former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Breaking Oscar's biopic addiction
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:15 pm · January 31st, 2012
If the results of Sunday’s SAG Awards are repeated at the Oscars, it’ll be the first time since 1997 that all four acting awards go to actors playing fictitious characters. Are voters slowly getting more resistant to biopics?
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Everything old is new again, and again
Posted by Roth Cornet · 11:23 am · January 25th, 2012
Where is the line between manipulative and evocative, referential and derivative, or tributary and outright plagiaristic in the use of borrowed scores and imagery in cinema?
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Tech Support: 'The Artist,' 'Hugo,' 'Dragon Tattoo' and 'War Horse' feature heavily in Oscar's crafts categories
Posted by gerardkennedy · 1:12 pm · January 24th, 2012
This morning, many crafts artists in Hollywood (and elsewhere in the world) found out that they are heading to the Kodak Theatre for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The thrill they are experiencing must be difficult to describe.
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Tech Support: Wrapping up guesses throughout the Academy's craft categories
Posted by gerardkennedy · 1:31 pm · January 19th, 2012
Rounding out my picks in the Academy’s crafts branches, from Best Music to Best Visual Effects.
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'The Artist,' 'A Separation' and Anna Paquin/Meryl Streep win big with London film critics
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:36 pm · January 19th, 2012
The London Film Critics Circle (of which I’m a member) handed out its year-end kudos this evening, and “The Artist” was the big winner, taking awards for Film of the Year, Director of the Year and Actor of the Year.
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Tech Support: Guessing the nominees throughout the Academy's craft categories
Posted by gerardkennedy · 7:49 am · January 19th, 2012
In five days, the nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards will be announced. It seems extraordinary that another season has nearly passed. And with a silent film and a somewhat fantastical (not-so-) children’s film poised to dominate the major categories, one realizes how quickly trends can change in Hollywood. But now it’s time to make our final picks across the crafts categories.
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Round-up: The missing makeup nominee from 'The Iron Lady'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:47 am · January 19th, 2012
Also: Designing ‘Potter’ and exhausting Uggie
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'Weekend' triumphs with Gay and Lesbian Critics Association
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:35 pm · January 18th, 2012
Andrew Haigh’s shimmery boy-meets-boy romance “Weekend” not only won the LGBT-themed category at the awards, but beat “The Artist” and “The Descendants” to the Film of the Year prize too.
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'The Artist,' 'The Descendants' win big with Golden Globes (plus live blog)
Posted by Roth Cornet · 12:27 pm · January 15th, 2012
Join us as we note the hits, misses and surprises of tonight’s Golden Globes ceremony.
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Round-up: Revisiting Oscar's worst decisions
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:00 am · January 13th, 2012
Also: ‘Harry Potter’ for Best Picture, and a Globes seating shortage
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'Albert Nobbs,' 'Beginners' and 'Weekend' feature in Gay & Lesbian critics nominations
Posted by Roth Cornet · 7:03 pm · January 10th, 2012
The Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association has announced its list of nominees this year, and out front with two mentions apiece were “Albert Nobbs,” “Beginners” and “Weekend.”
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'Artist,' 'Harry Potter' and 'Hugo' among Academy's makeup finalists
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:13 pm · January 9th, 2012
The Academy has announced seven advancing finalists in the race for Best Makeup, and among the chosen are the Meryl Streep-starrer “The Iron Lady,” which transformed the beloved actress into former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Round-up: Oscar's doc rule change favors theatrical visibility
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:50 am · January 9th, 2012
Also: ‘The Iron Lady”s composer switch and the craftsmen of ‘War Horse’
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Round-up: Looking to break Hollywood's stranglehold
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · January 3rd, 2012
Also: See the Best Picture ballot, and Mazursky on Streep
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