We’ve yet to crown our Homecoming Queen and King yet, but this is how many of us will remember the Oscar year that was. Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner The first news of the Oscar year is usually who is going to host. After the disastrous combination of Anne Hathaway (who was pretty good, actually) and James Franco (whoa, dude, is that a camera?) no one knew exactly...
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Thanks to Cinemascopian for the telecast rundown, as follows: Here is the the 84th Oscar telecast line-up. All times are PST: 5:30pm: Show starts, Billy Crystal’s opening number. 5:40: 1st award – Cinematography. 5:43: Art Direction. 5:52: Costume Design. 5:54: Makeup. 6:03: Foreign Language Film. 6:07: Supporting Actress. 6:20: Editing. 6:23: Sound Editing 6:26:...
ENTER OUR CONTEST Before we announce the prize for this year’s Oscar predictions contest, the winner of the Restored Godfather DVD or Blu-Ray is Brady, who runs http://screenday.wordpress.com/. But we’d like to give away one more, and we’ll give that one to Scott Nelson. Please send an email to awardsdaily@gmail.com to claim your prize. And if you...
It has all come down to this, my friends. It has been a wonderful season here in the Grizzly Maze. Our work is done. Nothing left but the last of the desperately hungry bears and you know, the end of the season. You can’t come here and do what I do. You will die up here. Either which way, and however things worked out, our unsinkable ship set sail in May when it...
“We’re thrilled to have him and he’ll be on the red carpet dressed as The Dictator…” says Brian Grazer. “I used her, she used me, but neither one cared… We were getting our share…” says Bob Seger, (Oscar) Night Moves The Academy seems to have recognized that it’s better off with Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscars...
Our Twitter pal @loquaciousmuse, founding fangirl of The Fangirl Academy, has announced the winners of the 3rd Annual Fangirl Awards. Though these honors encompass TV, video games, graphic novels and other exotic realms, I’ll only import the film awards. Check out AllThingsFangirl for complete details of the ceremony (where the winners are highlighted in fancy fonts...
Living in Cinema‘s Jackson Truax talks to Sean McManus & Josh Welsh, co-presidents of Film Independent. For the 26th year in a row, this Saturday, aka “Oscar Eve” will bring Film Independent’s Independent Spirit Awards, the afternoon picnic on the beach in Santa Monica that recognizes the best in independent film. This year’s ceremony, hosted by Seth...
by Brian Whisenant (AwardsWiz.com) The early road to this year’s Academy Awards wasn’t the most exciting for me, I have to admit. As the projected winners began to fall into place in the past couple of months, I wasn’t as excited as usual. And even after the nominations were announced, and “Hugo” and “Moneyball” which had landed first and second place in...
Beverly Hills, CA – Oscar® fans in New York City will be the first to see the actual Oscars that will be presented to the Best Actor and Best Actress winners at the 84th Academy Awards® on Oscar Sunday, February 26. The statuettes will be part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Meet the Oscars, Grand Central” exhibition...