The Contenders: Is Oprah The One To Beat In The Best Supporting Actress Oscar Race?
As we move from the summer movie season into Oscar season, speculation on just who and what will win Oscar next February is heating up. While I’m confident that Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba are in the race for their roles in Mud and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, respectively, one name that just got a major boost into the Oscar race is Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey plays the wife of White House butler played by Forest Whitaker in Lee Daniels’ upcoming movie The Butler. And Roger Friedman over at Showbiz411 reported that Sasha Stone’s May 2013 assumption that this could be Oprah’s year for Oscar was spot on. Friedman, writing after a SAG screening of the film, was basically handing Oprah the statue. We’ll know more in a couple weeks when Lee Daniels’ The Butler hits theaters. But given that Daniels almost directed Nicole...
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Full Line-Up For The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival Features Plenty Of Oscar Hopefuls
One of the most important fests in the lead-up to the Oscars is the Toronto International Film Festival. And this year, the opening spot at the fest goes to The Fifth Estate, the drama about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. In addition to that Oscar hopeful films like August: Osage County starring Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba, The Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey and Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color will all screen at the fest. In the last 23 years, 8 best picture winners have come out of Toronto. Will one of these films join that list? OPENING NIGHT The Fifth Estate Bill Condon, USA (World Premiere) CLOSING NIGHT Life of Crime Daniel Schecter USA (World Premiere) GALAS American Dreams in China Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong/China (North American Premiere) The Art of the Steal Jonathan Sobol, Canada...
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See Idris Elba In The Teaser Trailer for MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Mark it down. If this movie is even just moderately good, Idris Elba is your Best Actor winner at the Oscars come next February. Elba is one of the best actors working in cinema and television today. (Don’t believe me? Just watch Luther and The Wire.) Even Elba’s voiceover in the teaser trailer is brilliant. With The Weinstein Company on his side, his take on the iconic South African civil rights leader (who has been battling serious health problems as of late) should get him the Academy Award in, well, a walk. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is directed by Justin Chadwick, best known for directing the Masterpiece mini-series Bleak House and the feature film The Other Boleyn Girl. Check out the UK teaser for a dizzying glimpse of a movie you be hearing more about come Oscar time: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opens in...
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France’s Cannes Winner BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Won’t Be Headed For Oscar?
Oh, AMPAS. The stupidity of your Foreign Language Film Oscar rules knows no end. Now it looks like this year’s Palme D’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color won’t be France’s official entry in the Foreign Language Film race due to a technicality. According to Nancy Tartaglione over at Deadline, the film’s distributor plans a French national release in October, but any film contending for Oscar must be released in its home country before September 30. Really? Really?! It’s times like these that I wish we could fall back on simple accusations of homophobia in the Academy for Blue is the Warmest Color missing its chance at the Foreign Language Film Oscar. I’m used to that kind of stupid. But missing a rather arbitrary deadline? Hopefully the film’s French distributor changes the date to appease the Academy. Or instead, releases the...
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Last Minute Oscar Predictions
Well, it’s about two hours away from the show and I thought I’d finally post something about the Oscars. If I were a braver man, I’d go all in for Amour and have Alan Arkin winning his second Oscar while riding the Argo wave. After all, 2012 feels a lot like 2002, when Roman Polanski’s The Pianist won more awards than anyone was expecting. But being this being the most unpredictable Oscar year in my lifetime, it’s always good to remember William Goldman’s famous quote about the industry, “Nobody knows anything.” Category Predicted Winner Gut Feeling Actual Best Picture Argo Argo Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence Emmanuelle Riva Jennifer Lawrence Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis Best Supporting Actor Tommy Lee Jones Alan Arkin Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway Best Director Steven Spielberg Micheal Hanake Ang Lee Best Adapted Screenplay...
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QUOTABLES: Seth MacFarlane on AMOUR – “The last time Austria and Germany…”
“The last time Austria and Germany got together and co-produced something it was Hitler, but this is much better..” Seth MacFarlane on the nomination of Amour for Best Foreign Language...
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