So, the AMPAS is evolving and they now have a Facebook page where they announce various news. The latest news is this: BIG NEWS OSCAR FANS! We will be live streaming the Nominees Luncheon on Mon. Feb. 15th and YOU could be a part of it. We’ll be taking questions from our fans to ask some of the nominees in the interview room. Send a reply with @ followed by the name...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The American Cinema Editor (ACE) will hand out their awards this weekend. The ACE Eddie is the right up there with the SAG ensemble for being kind of a barometer of overall Academy taste.¬† What I’ve found in looking over ACE vs. Oscar history is that the nominees for editing matter more than what film wins editing. A Best Picture winner almost always has an...
Kris Tapley watched them all and gives a sound rundown of the choices Рhe thinks The Door is the one to beat: With that, “The Door” is probably on course to win the prize this year. The film begins with a man breaking into an apartment to steal a door. It’s purpose, the viewer doesn’t know. The rest of the narrative unfolds purposefully from...
The ADG, At Directors Guild, will be handing out their awards on Saturday night. I have bolded those I think have the best shot, but I must add that I am not the person who knows anything about how the art directors guild judges great works of art direction. It’s strange that only two of these are nominated for the Oscar in this category, Avatar and Sherlock Holmes....
It really is a story in itself this year. It is the most dramatic Best Picture race I have seen in ten years, no doubt about it. The opposing forces of The Hurt Locker versus Avatar may, in fact, become a broader statement about the future of filmmaking itself. That puts the Oscar in a pivotal position of being a force of history for the first time in many years, the...