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by Brian Whisenant for Awards Daily I stumbled upon a picture the other day from 2 years ago around this time. It was my second year at The Hamptons Film Festival where I was, for the first time, attempting to cover the event for Awards Daily and simultaneously run their box office. I was sitting on a couch...

Official Competition titles: After Lucia EVERYDAY End of Watch Fill the Void Ginger and Rosa It Was the Son In the House Lore Midnight’s Children Rust and Bone (winner) No Seven Psychopaths First Feature Competition Beasts of the Southern Wild (winner) Clip The Comedian Eat Sleep Die My Brother The Devil Neighbouring Sounds The Samurai That Night Shell Ship of...

Director, producer and Academy Award-winning actor ROBERT DE NIRO has chosen to receive The Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s seventh annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film in Santa Barbara on Saturday, December 8, 2012. De Niro is being honored both for his great work this year in Silver Linings Playbook, as well as for the exceptional...

How you view the reactions to the NYFF is probably one of those “glass if half full” type of moments. My stream on Twitter, for instance,...

It looks like The Silver Linings Playbook just got a nice boost, and The Promised Land too, as The Independent Filmmaker Project just announced they will be the recipients of career tributes at the 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Monday, November 26, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. In the meantime, the Rise of the Guardians will receive the Rome Film...

On the latest edition of Oscar Poker, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil was our special guest. His long-running Oscar site, which has been around as long as mine (formerly Oscarwatch.com) — roughly 13 years – has launched its 2012/2013 Oscar Predictions. Tom and I are old pals and he’s one of my favorite people to talk to about anything, but especially...

According to Steve Pond over at The Wrap, David O. Russell would like his movie to be thought of as an underdog. But that’s not going to happen. According to Anne Thompson, Dave Karger has now joined the list of those calling it a major contender and Steve Pond opens his column this way: David O. Russell may not want to have this announced publicly, but Saturday’s...