Don’t miss Andy Trudeau’s annual look at the Best Score category. He picks John Powell’s score for How to Train Your Dragon, which of course means the Academy won’t pick it. Listen now! (thanks to Marshall for the link). All of the scores are so beautiful, aren’t they? Nat Rogers has created his Oscar Map of the World – check it out....
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The critical and commercial success of The King’s Speech, has been an affirmation of Tom Hooper’s instincts as a director. Speaking with the Director’s Guild recipient on the phone from New York in January, he discussed how the project was introduced to him, “I only came to know about the film because I was half Australian and half English...
The way I try to predict the Oscars right is not a lot different from how I predict them wrong. So since it’s clear I don’t really understand how either game works, I’ll just quote Sasha’s instructions from last year: There will be a prize for the Oscar Watcher who can get a perfect score of ZERO on this new tradition here at Awards Daily. That...
Best Picture: Black Swan Best Director: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Actor: James Franco, 127 Hours Best Supporting Actress: Dale Dickey, Winters Bone Best Supporting Male: John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone Best Screenplay: The Kids Are All Right Best Cinematography: Matthew Libatique, Black Swan Best Documentary: Exit Through...
Ebert posted this video on Twitter. An Idiot with an Iphone made it with his iphone, proving “what one man can do another can do.” But what I love about it is that is pays homage to two of 2010′s best films, The Social Network and Inception. This is the second viral video to use this cut from the Reznor/Ross Network soundtrack – and it marks...
Rob has finished tabulating the results of the Awards Daily Simulated Oscar Ballot. We’ll have the numbers posted early Saturday morning, along with his detailed charts showing the internal breakdown of votes in each category. Here’s one set of numbers Rob ran for us that might be interesting as an overnight appeteaser. The question has been raised many times...