The goodie bag for the Oscar contenders this year is impressive. Hell, it’s worth getting an Oscar nomination just to get one: This year’s goody bags include a $12,000 trip to Australia, condoms, a $600 acupuncture appointment and a package of 10 personal training sessions valued at $850. Circus lessons for the nominee’s children worth $400 are also...
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Oscar Podcast episode 20 with Craig Kennedy and Ryan Adams — we talk about our Oscar predictions, such as they are. Vulture offers up Four Oscar tactics that work: Oscar Tactic No. 3: Act humble — even if you’re not. (Especially if you’re not.) Humility — even false humility, given the outsize egos of so many male Academy members — is essential. Says our...
–>Nate Silver takes a crack at Oscar predictions by offering up the general consensus. He admits that in many categories there is just no way of knowing for sure. The only thing he doesn’t factor in in his stats is Academy history itself and relies completely, as so many now do, on precursors. This year’s Oscars will pit precursor strength against...
Many films delved into history this year but only film actually changed it. After seeing Lincoln, Mississippi finally got around to ratifying the 13th amendment. “I think there’s a 110 percent chance Daniel Day-Lewis will win. I think ‘Argo’ will definitely win Best Picture. I think Ben Affleck not being nominated for Best Director has now turned...
Globes ratings best in six years [EW] **** [HE] Torture is too important an issue to allow a film such as “Zero Dark Thirty” to be the final arbiter. The facts need to play that role. I call on the Senate Intelligence Committee to release its report as soon as possible in order to end U.S.-sponsored torture forever. Rev. Richard L. Killmer, a Presbyterian minister,...
“On the first movie I met this girl [via Make-a-Wish], and I can’t tell this story without crying. [...] She had scars all over her body—burns—and she was telling me she was always so ashamed of the way she looked and she was so embarrassed, and now she has the nickname the Girl on Fire, but she loves it and wears it proudly. It gives her confidence. That...
Three senators protest the “misleading” content in Zero Dark Thirty Zero Dark Thirty boasts impressive opening day numbers, according to boxoffice.com. It has a must-see-it, no doubt, “$124,848 from only 5 locations on its first day of release. A final number is due later today.” Kris Tapley talks to Jessica Chastain about being a woman in a man’s...
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