Final 2010 Oscar nomination predictions w/ screenplay guesses
And so D-Day arrives. That of course makes March 7, V-O Day (Victory in Oscarland), but tomorrow is where the fun begins. At 8:30 8:38 a.m. ET tomorrow, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. It will be the first time in over 65 years that 10 movies will compete for the Best Picture statue. At this point, its damn near impossible to pick all 10. We know The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Precious, Up in the Air, and Inglourious Basterds are locks. But who else? One thing you can always count on is for the Academy to be uncool. Guessing The Hangover or Star Trek, no matter how well they did in the precursors, seems unlikely. Can Up and District 9 even make the list. I’m putting them out...
Read MoreGelling – The 2010 Oscar Race
Prior to this weekend, the race for Best Picture was down to four films. After the Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, it may only be down to two. Avatar took home both Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Globes tonight. On Friday, The Hurt Locker took Picture and Director. Sure, we say these are just critics groups. They don’t vote for Oscar. But the two awards shows have given Avatar and The Hurt Locker the momentum, very public momentum, that’s necessary to win. The Director’s Guild of America announces its pick on Jan. 30. That group has a startlingly accurate track record when it comes to predicting the Best Picture winner, especially in the last decade. (Their love for Ang Lee, times two, being the only exceptions.) If the DGA award goes to Avatar...
Read MoreBFCA 2010 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards winners – AVATAR takes 6, Picture & Director for HURT LOCKER
There was only one instance in the past 10 years when the BFCA’s Critics’ Choice Awards Best Picture winner didn’t go home with the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars. That was in 2004 when Sideways beat the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby. Now that The Hurt Locker has won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Picture, do we finally have a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar? Or is this another critics’ darling that won the award during a foggy season? We’re all pretty certain that Kathryn Bigelow is going to walk away with the Best Director Oscar already. Best Picture may not be that far out of reach. Full list of winners after the jump… BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia...
Read MoreDirectors Guild announces 2010 DGA Award nominees
From the DGA, the 2010 Director’s Guild of America Award nominees: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Yeah… thanks for clearing things up,...
Read MoreNational Society of Film Critics picks THE HURT LOCKER
Other than Paul Schneider popping up in the Supporting Actor category, no real surprises from the National Society of Film Critics this year. The Hurt Locker took the picture, director and actor awards, leaving scraps for all the other films released this year. Variety does point out that this is the first time the since L.A. Confidential that a film has swept top honors from Los Angeles, New York, and national critics. Oddly enough, that was also the year Avatar-director James Cameron saw his film Titanic go on the win big on Oscar night. I’m not saying that’s going to be the case again this year, but it’s something to think about this morning. Full list of 2009 NSFC winners (via Variety): Picture: The Hurt Locker Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker Actress:...
Read MoreYear in Review – Best Films of 2009
I saw fewer new movies this year than in any other since I started putting together my top ten lists. That’s not bad news. I just cut out a lot of… well… crap. No, I didn’t see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and no, I didn’t see Sherlock Holmes. I love movies, but what’s the point in watching all the bad when there’s so much good out there. (That doesn’t explain how I ended up seeing Nine, though. Ugh.) The good, in fact, was so good that I could have chosen any one of the 11 pictures on my top 10 list to be the best movie of the year. That’s a testament to the quality of all the pictures listed below. All the films on my list, from Tarantino, Reitman, the Coen brothers, Bigelow and more, may very...
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