83rd Annual Academy Award Winners – Full List
Best Picture The King’s Speech Directing The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper Actress in a Leading Role Natalie Portman, Black Swan Actress in a Supporting Role Melissa Leo, The Fighter Actor in a Leading Role Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Actor in a Supporting Role Christian Bale, The Fighter Animated Feature Toy Story 3 Art Direction Alice in Wonderland Cinematography Inception Costume Design Alice in Wonderland Documentary Feature Inside Job Documentary Short Subject Strangers No More Film Editing The Social Network Foreign Language Film In a Better World Makeup The Wolfman Original Score The Social Network Original Song “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3 Animated Short The Lost Thing Live Action Short God of Love Sound Editing Inception Sound Mixing Inception Visual Effects Inception Adapted Screenplay The Social Network Original Screenplay The King’s Speech...
Read MoreFinal Oscar Predictions
Best Picture It’s been a long few months for Academy Award watchers. I don’t a remember an Oscar race that has been as heavily covered as this one. Part of the reason, of course, is that the critics came out early and aggressively for The Social Network. After the New York Film Festival’s Scott Foundas reacted to the film in August, a month before its premiere, the film and its zeitgeisty goodness became the fascination of many cinephiles. At that point, many people made the mistake that a film so lauded couldn’t possibly lose the Oscar race. (Forgetting, maybe the Brokeback Mountain v. Crash race.) On the day of the Oscars, however, the Best Picture trophy is The King’s Speech‘s to lose. And The King’s Speech could lose, just not to The Social Network. Instead, The Fighter is a...
Read MoreTHE KING’S SPEECH, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, THE FIGHTER… and the Oscar delusion
I haven’t written much about the Oscar race this year. That’s in no small part due to The Social Network’s critics award sweep early on in the race. Yes, I’ve had a chip on my should since David Fincher’s Facebook thriller, dark comedy, social satire, Shakespearean morality tale… whatever it is… won the National Board of Review’s Best Picture award in December and flattened the competition in every major critics poll after that. The Social Network reigned until Oscar nomination day, when The King’s Speech scored 12 nominations, more than any other picture. The King’s Speech has since won the PGA prize. And the SAG ensemble acting award. And the DGA prize for Tom Hooper’s direction, which is the most consistent Best Picture bellwether. Hooper’s victory and the sudden surge in popularity for The King’s Speech isn’t really surprising. Sony/Columbia can’t campaign for...
Read MoreYear in Review – Best Films of 2010
I was fully prepared to start out this post calling 2010 the worst year for film in my moviegoing lifetime. Part of that stems from the fact that many Hollywood movies were really bad in 2010. Terrible even. But there’s also this: I’ve had to sit through an Oscar season where good but not great films like The Social Network, True Grit, and The Fighter are being heralded as masterpieces, along with high art torture porn like Black Swan. By time I got around to even thinking about this post, I was exhausted and frustrated. Then I looked at my running list of 2010 movies screened. Going through all the great films I’ve seen this year, I realized that it wasn’t a bad year for everyone… just American narrative film (docs excluded). That sounds really pretentious, I know, but my...
Read MoreCritics’ Choice Award nominees 2010-2011
Black Swan leads with 12 nominations. From the BCFA: BEST PICTURE 127 Hours Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network The Town Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges – “True Grit” Robert Duvall – “Get Low” Jesse Eisenberg – “The Social Network” Colin Firth – “The King’s Speech” James Franco – “127 Hours” Ryan Gosling – “Blue Valentine” BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening – “The Kids Are All Right” Nicole Kidman – “Rabbit Hole” Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone” Natalie Portman – “Black Swan” Noomi Rapace – “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Michelle Williams – “Blue Valentine” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale – “The Fighter” Andrew Garfield – “The Social Network” Jeremy Renner – “The Town” Sam Rockwell – “Conviction” Mark Ruffalo – “The Kids Are All Right” Geoffrey Rush...
Read MoreTHE FLASH & GREEN LANTERN 2 scripts, SOCIAL NETWORK is No. 1 again, Pacino as Spector, more – News Links
Scripts for DC Comics adaptations The Flash and Green Lantern 2 are expected at Warner Bros. by Christmas. (Deadline) David Fincher’s The Social Network held on to the top spot at the box office, taking in another $15.5 million this past weekend. (erc BoxOffice) After winning an Emmy for his portrayl of Jack Kevorkian in HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack, Al Pacino is ready for another HBO biopic. This time he’ll star as record producer Phil Spector in a telefilm penned by David Mamet. (THR) The King’s Speech took home the Audience Award for narrative feature at the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival. (indieWire)...
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