Tag Archives: 85th Academy Awards
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...
The performers have been named to help us celebrate the musicals from the past decade: Jennifer Hudson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe (!), Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmaybe, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks and Helena Bonham Carter. Earlier this month, the producers announced a planned tribute recognizing the resurgence of musicals over the...
The Oscar blogging scene has become as vanilla and uniform as the race itself. No more Stu Van Airsdale, no Mark Harris this year. But lo! Mark Lisanti over at Grantland reminds us just how awful this shit can really be. What do you all think is number 1? I have to go with either Crash winning BP, Social Network losing BP or Do the Right Thing not getting nominated. ...
The AMPAS just announced that Mark Wahlberg and Ted will present: “We are happy to make it possible for Mark and Ted to make their debut appearance on the Oscar stage,” said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. “And we won’t deny that Ted used his pull with our host to get himself the booking.” Wahlberg and Ted starred in the hit summer comedy “Ted,”...