This is the big one, well, second to the big one, which will happen about a month from now. Let’s talk upsets. Please list only three or less. And make them really out there, not alternates. Mickey Rourke being nominated for Best Actor is not a No Guts pick, neither is Richard Jenkins, for that matter. Robert Downey, Jr. for Iron Man IS. Here are mine: The Dark Knight...
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Confirming Sasha’s post this morning about the possibility of a lone director being nominated tomorrow while his movie is not — results from our Awards Daily Poll are showing Darren Aronofsky edging out Ron Howard by a few dozen votes for the 5th position. What’s even more interesting to me is how you guys came so close the same conclusions on November...
As therapy for my OCD (Oscar Compulsive Disorder), I’ve been keeping track of the IMDb Top 250 fluctuations since just after Christmas. The final week of 2008, the last couple of Oscar contenders made their expected appearance on the chart. Click above to check out the full-size graph tracking the only nine films (so far) that stirred up enough fan base excitement...
Nominated for an Annie this year in the Best Short category, Sebastian’s Voodoo might serve as animated allegory for how many of us feel in these last remaining hours before the the final pins are poked into some of our favorite films this year. This is also an segue into asking what other animated shorts any reader has seen this year that might be Oscar-nommed...
Yeah, it’s Sundance and all but does anyone think it’s mighty strange that most of the self-proclaimed Oscar bloggers are being quiet right about now? Perhaps they feel there is nothing worth talking about?¬† Movie City News, nothing. Hollywood-Elsewhere, nothing. In Contention, Film Experience, Gold Derby, Rope of Silicon, Indiewire and of course, Dave...
Fandango has commissioned a poll of 7000 moviegoers to come up with these results, a whopping 70% said they would be more inclined to watch if The Dark Knight was nominated — then again, can anyone really trust internet polls? The results don’t reflect the television viewing public so much as the cloistered world of web users – there is a difference....
Steve Mason at Big Hollywood has pointed out some sound reasoning why there will be one miss-match between director and picture. He’s predicting that Darren Aronofsky will take Ron Howard’s place in the lineup based on the fact that every year for the last ten there has been a director nominated without having their picture also nominated except for one, in...