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Those Pesky Sound Categories
21 Feb 2012
When it comes to choosing the awards won for Sound, it is never easy. Will one movie win both? Will they split? For me, I have a hard time deciding but I find it easier, slightly, to look at them as individual categories rather than a unit. It’s never fun …
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If There Were Two More Weeks instead of One More Day…
20 Feb 2012
The Artist, like the King’s Speech last year, has the majority consensus vote right now. Anyone not inclined to pick The Artist will split up between The Descendants, Hugo and The Help. A case could be made for any of them. The Descendants won the Eddie, the WGA and the …
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Oscars 2012 – Best Picture: The Sounds of Silence
17 Feb 2012
“Hello darkness my old friend.” The year started off 9 months ago with The Artist taking the early lead in Cannes. It had the early advantage in Cannes of being one of the few wholly uplifting films to screen there. A tiny tasty bonbon that melts on our tongue in …
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The State of the Race: In Gods we Trust (and Giveaway)
16 Feb 2012
[details at the bottom of the post] “They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare. Now, suddenly, they trumpeted a call to arms. ‘O …
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Taking on Shots of the Year
15 Feb 2012
Kris Tapley posted Part 2 of his Top Ten Shots of the Year. It’s a great read, so check it out. My only beef with him is the number one shot of the year but the less I say about that the better. My other beef that, of all of …
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Oscars 2012: Original Screenplay
15 Feb 2012
This year, the expected Best Picture winner is again an original screenplay. While adapted screenplays seem to almost always have all of the Best picture heat, in recent years, the original script has taken over. It is one of the weirdest ironies that when the Coen brothers, writers/directors/editors that they …
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The State of the Race: Go Back to Five or Go Back to Ten
13 Feb 2012
The trick is not minding. When it was announced that the Academy was just going to toy with its fans by shaking the fuck out of the Best Picture race it was met with equal amounts of excitement and dread. Dread, because what fresh hell is this? And excitement because …
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The State of the Race: Out of the Past
12 Feb 2012
“They say the day you die, your name is written on a cloud.” “Who says?” “They.” “Never heard of them.” “Nothing in that one but rain.” “Think we ought to go home?” “Yes.” “Do you want to?” “No.” “Every time I look at the sky, I think of all the …
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Oscars 2012: The Adapted Screenplays
9 Feb 2012
Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited on NPR to talk about the adapted screenplay race. It surprised host Rachel Martin that the screenplay race, it turned out, wasn’t so much about the individual screenplays as it was about the Best Picture category. This is probably the hardest thing …
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Oscars 2012: Best Director – the Newbie Faces the Master Class
8 Feb 2012
Art and entertainment hover conspicuously like twins at a barn dance: which one do you pick? Can you even tell the difference between them? Do you pick the prettier of the two, or the one that’s more interesting to talk to? As films become more and more about the target …
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Those Pesky Sound Categories
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