Since it’s such a wide open Oscar race, since nothing like this has happened quite this way … ever … theories keep popping up everywhere. Moreover, there doesn’t appear to be a very strong consensus forming. The only thing pundits seem absolutely certain about is Argo winning Best Picture. The psychics know this and yet: In a survey of 50 Hollywood...
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Scott Feinberg went and hung out with a prickly director who gave him his honest picks in the various categories. You can tell 2012 is a very strong year because everyone’s “should wins” are all over the place. One thing I can say with a certainty is that I feel a groundswell not for Silver Linings for Best Picture but for Zero Dark Thirty and that will...
One thing we know about the industry now is that they prefer their women naked and on their backs. One they don’t like – women behind the camera. I would add to this consider filmmakers of color. Consider other narratives than those that serve middled aged white males. Unstick from the romanticized nostalgia of the past: Argo, The Artist, The King’s...
When Argo wins Best Picture it will be the weakest Best Picture winner since 1932′s Grand Hotel. Weak because: Lincoln-12 Life of Pi – 11 Les Mis, Silver Linings-8 Argo – 7 + no director With no director nomination and at that nominations rank Argo is on the level of Grand Hotel in terms of strength. Best Picture strength is measured by nominations rank and...
Hat tip, ROS The list, after the cut. Most are “pretty good” but what you notice about them is that they are, surprise surprise, actor driven. They are about people audiences care about and can relate to. How visionary they are, how memorable, how pivotal, how brilliant is the least important thing about them. Remember that if you ever want to win Best...
