Dave Karger has found a potential showdown between Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Co. and Miramax in two very tight races. Viola Davis versus Penelope Cruz and Meryl Streep versus Kate Winslet. I don’t know why I never thought of this before. As you all know, Harvey and Bob Weinstein were forced to give up their baby Miramax (named after their parents even)....
Monthly Archives: February 2009
It happens every year. The defacto choice in a category becomes mirage-like, shimmering in the distance and we wonder, briefly, if it is really as solid as we think it is. Even the most secure winner can look like a mirage at times, which is sort of how this revelation from Kris Tapley at InContention comes off; I appreciate that he saw Man on Wire first and the other...
Resolution, justification, redemption and an impulse to play it safe define this year’s Best Picture nominees. All five of them are safe choices, which could mean progress in certain areas – a Bollywood-esque movie, a film where two men openly kiss in the first few scenes and no one really freaked out about it? Not only did they not freak out about it but...
by Daniel Smith Rowsey Welcome to the mother of all polls, the one you’ve been waiting for all your life. Which forty living actors deserve to become official Acting Academy Award Nominees? Not for this year’s films, but because of past snubs? You decide! There’s nothing wrong with winning an Oscar. But as Judi Dench said, “it’s the nomination...
