Monthly Archives: December 2012

Picture: Argo Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Director: Ben Affleck, Argo Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Looper Cinematography: Roger Deakins, Skyfall Visual Effects: Life Of Pi Art...

Thanks to @cinemalogue: Best Film: Lincoln Top ten Argo Zero Dark Thirty Life of Pi Les Miserables Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Skyfall The Master Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Runners-up: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master, John Hawkes, The Sessions, Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables, Denzel Washington, Flight Best Actress: Jessica...

“And so shines a good deed in a weary world.” When I first heard that the Weinstein Co were planning a premiere for Django Unchained I wondered who would be the first to pronounce that film the definitive cause for gun violence in this country. It would be too easy because, after all, Django is a bloodbath. Guns fire again and again, bullets are pumped into...

The Producers Guild of America (PGA), announced today that critically acclaimed documentary feature BULLY will be honored with the 2013 Stanley Kramer Award at the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony.  Director Lee Hirsch and producer Cynthia Lowen will accept the award on Saturday, January 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. ...

In a town where there are more screenwriters than there are people you’d expect that more original screenplays would get produced. It hardly ever happens and when it does, it only sometimes turns out well for all involved. Not every great director can write, and even fewer great writers can direct. Some can do both. Most can’t. This year’s best original...

From history professors to civil rights leaders, Spielberg’s Lincoln has become a bit of a hot-button issue, not quite on the level of hysteria Zero Dark Thirty has stirred up, but enough of a “whisper campaign” to be a threat.  This is the way it is in Oscar land, we accept that. It’s a dirty game but someone has to play it.  The complaints about...

Best Film: “Argo “ (runners-up: “Life of Pi” and “Lincoln”) Best Director: Ben Affleck (“Argo”) (runner-up): Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”) and Benh Zeitlin (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”) (runner-up): John Hawkes (“The Sessions”) Best...