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Interview: Lupita Nyong'o on 12 Years, Non-Stop and Her Future
On Lupita Nyong'o's Instagram account she captioned this one: Yes, a chocolate BAFTA will do quite nicely, thank you! A golden BAFTA woulda been better but what can you do? Recently it came to me in a...
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Acceptance Speech Nerdgasm & Oscar Party Tiebreakers
who will be in a group photo THIS year? And will they look as much like the top of a wedding cake as this quartet did?What will Matthew McConaughey say first after he wins the Oscar? I mean after "all...
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Interlinker
The New Republic Mark Harris interviewed on the politics of movies and Oscar racesGuardian Meryl Streep joins the period drama Suffragette as feminist icon Emmeline Pankhurst. The film stars Carey...
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10 Days Til Oscar. Sigh and Think of Paul Newman.
Today's magic number is 10. I know you were hoping for a look back ten years to that long awaited 2003 Supporting Actress Smackdown but the lists of reasons that has been delayed multiple times are too...
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Celebrating Black History Month: A brief tour of African-American animation
Tim here. With Black History Month still in full swing, I thought it would be worth spending some time diving into the history of African-American animation and reporting back to everyone with what I...
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Red Carpet Lineup: All of Meryl Streep's Oscar Looks
a better photo of the Silkwood Oscar dressThis is the last Streep-centric post for this Oscar season (unless she does something crazy at the Oscars), promise! I used to always make a point of saying...
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9 Days Til Oscar. Should 9 Times Nominated "12 Years" Worry?
Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, once the Oscar frontrunner and perhaps still, has nine nominations. As we move into the final days of voting (ballots are due on Tuesday the 25th), how many of its...
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Your Daily Linkage
Huffington Post a live-blogged review of critical punching bag PompeiiPajiba on Lupita Nyong'o on Ellen. We already knew Ellen was a perfect talk show host but Lupita is a natural at talk show guesting...
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Obligatory Superhero Update: "Fantastic Four" & "Doctor Strange"
I didn't think I was going to have anything to say about the recently announced Fantastic Four reboot cast that I hadn't already said in previous posts. But then they forced my hand with the Jamie Bell...
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8 Days Til Oscar. Peter O'Toole, The Actor Who Would Be... Nominated?
Here's new contributor Diana Drumm to talk about a man who will surely win pride of place in Oscar's In Memoriam a week from Sunday. Crazy eights, ice-skating tricks, the infinity symbol standing...
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Best Pictures for Home Viewing
all links in this article go to my favorite post about the movie in question For those of you who live too far from major markets to see everything before the Oscars, or who love watching a movie over...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "What a bunch of A-holes"
Oscar season has crushed my will for timely YNMS entries since everything 2014 is a "No, No, Maybe No" until March 3rd, you know? But let's catch up very briefly so that we don't start at a deficit...
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So long, linkwell, au wiedersehen, adieu
Policy Mic Olivia Wilde humorously condemns Hollywood's sexism with a gender reversal anecdoteChicago Tribune really strong piece on the camerawork and cutting (or lack of it) in the three films...
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7 Days Til Oscar. Dallas Buyers Club & AIDS Pictures
Unless I've missed a random nomination somewhere -- and you may correct me gently in the comments if I have -- it occurs to me that Dallas Buyers Club is the seventh non-documentary motion picture...
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Review: "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me"
This review originally appeared in my column at Towleroad I saw Elaine Stritch’s famous one woman Broadway show “At Liberty” in the last days of 2001 a couple of years after moving to New York. I’m not...
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Box Office: Can a Plane Stop The LEGO Movie?
Amir with the weekend’s box office report. The LEGO Movie managed to fend off meek competition and remain in the number one spot. Three weeks at the top and the amount of money it has cashed in so far...
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Podcast: Should Win / Will Win
It's the final podcast before the Oscars! Join Nathaniel R, Katey Rich, Nick Davis, and Joe Reid as we reveal both our predictions and our preferences, one category at a time. 00:00 Directors, BAFTA,...
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A Well Preserved Beauty
This week's New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt "Ready for His Closeup" Who cares if Oscar has had work done? He's still a beauty. I love the cover but Blitt's take, not so much (no surprise but I loathe...
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6 Days Til Oscar. Cuarón and His Gifts
Our countdown continues with new contributor Adam Armstrong on six-time nominee Alfonso Cuarón Y tu mama tambíen There comes a point in everybody’s lives when the awareness of their own mortality...
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Ranking the Oscar Presenter Lineup
Which categories will they present?The full list of presenters has been announced. If we know Oscar, this means Best Picture is being presented by either a) Sidney Poitier b) Harrison Ford or c) Bobby...
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