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Finally Final Predictions
Click on over to the Oscar Prediction Charts if you'd like to laugh at my broken crystal ball in time for the morning announcement. If you'd like more agonized reasoning there's this post from...
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Oscar Nominations Announcement
[DRUM ROLL PLEASE] 8:03 The nomination announcement begins in half an hour. My synapses are firing wildly, the coffee is brewed, and in a failed attempt to feel like a sane normal person going about...
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I Did Surprisingly Well on My Predictions. And You?
Though I feared a complete and utter breakdown of my predictive skills this year, as it turns out I did about the same as usual which is quite wonderful given how difficult those fifth spots were this...
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10 Big Surprises of Nomination Morning: From Batman to Ben
Before you can ever delve deep into the nominated fields, you have do the requisite double takes to process the surprises. Herewith the most shocking turns of events this morning. If I haven't included...
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Fun Facts About This Year's Best Picture / Director Nominees
The Official Best Picture and Best Director pages have been posted. I'm brainstorming some way to make the charts less static this year so you can enjoy returning to them whenever the mood strikes you....
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Critics Choice Awards Live Blog
8:01 Auspicious Beginnings - the sound is already out of sync on the intro!8:02 Fixed. But Ooh the reaction shots are already rough. Anne Hathaway and Sally Field don't look so happy to be there....
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Thank God It's Link Day
In Contention talks to Oscar nominated sound designer Paul N.J. Ottoson on Zero Dark Thirty Film.com Joe Reid does the research we wanted done on most winningest acting lineups of all time -- but, yes,...
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We might take a few on the podcast. Feel free to call at 1 (917) 725 5162 and leave a message if you have a question for Nathaniel, Nick, Joe, & Katey. Naturally on the next session we'll be...
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The Twenty: Your Acting Royalty... Until Next Year
I sometimes like to think of each year's Official Oscar Nominees as pageant winners or an ambassadorial relay team representing the Arts. In my imagination they reign for exactly one year until they...
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Awards Leftovers: The Editors, The DPs, The Gays
The EditorsDo you have any thoughts you need to get off your chest about the ACE Eddies? They barely received any play coming as they did on the heels of the Oscar nominations but I wanted to mention...
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Emmanuelle Riva's Oscar Birthday And The 100 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees
Emmanuelle Riva at the NYFCC Awards earlier this weekGuess who has a birthday on Oscar night this year? Emmanuelle Riva! What fortuitous timing. The legendary French actress of Hiroshima Mon Amour...
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Golden Globe Predictions (+ Shirley Maclaine's Third Jack)
The Golden Globes are tomorrow night, so I'll surely be here tweeting or live-blogging. One wonders if any of the HFPA's oft wined and dined members were treated to Christmas carols from one Jack Black...
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Terms of EnLinkment
E! Online Jessica Chastain sings Happy Birthday to Marc Malkin and sounds damn fine doing it. Laughs about the now broken 'Chastain Curse'. Vanity Fair looks back at their photos of our new Oscar...
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Multiple Zeroes. Dark Thirty
With a post Oscar nominations wide expansion into movie theaters Zero Dark Thirty won a strong $24 million opening weekend. $24 million is chump change for superheroes and cartoons but it's a big deal...
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Non-Committal Golden Globe Live-Tape Delayed Blogging Arrivals. What?
6:00 The official HFPA Twitter account announced a short time ago that this 'this is what the stars will be eating' tonight. Stars they're just like us... Stars! They're just like us ...if us happens...
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Jodie is Single. And Singular.
Jodie Foster broke the internet. That’s what happens when you are globally famous, drunk, accompanied by a persona non grata (one Mel Gibson) and come out as a gay person… again… sort of. Jodie was...
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Best Celebrity Tweets on Globe Night
I ♥ celebrities. Always have. Always will. Even when I find them insufferable I have to stargaze. Having met so many of them now I'm fully aware that they are only people just like you and me that but...
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Curio: Marie Harnett's Pencil Drawings
Alexa here with your weekly art inspiration. Marie Harnett is an artist out of the UK whose focus is on film. She makes widescreen-format, small yet intricate pencil drawings of filmstills that...
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Yes No Maybe So: Trance
JA from MNPP here It's only been two years since Danny Boyle had James Franco sawing his own arm off (I just felt a collective shudder as we all remembered that nerve scene) for an oscar nomination...
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Steven Soderbergh @ 50
You guyz. I totes forgot to honor Steven Soderbergh on his 50th birthday on Monday but The Stubborn Jodieness of Jodie, who also just turned the half-century mark, was all I could process. And process....
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