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The State of the Race: What Does Oscar Buzz Even Mean Now?
Way back before the Stone Age, Oscar buzz used to mean, well, Oscar buzz. We all know that so much...
Buchanan in as New Carpetbagger, Wloszczyna in at Gold Derby, Poland Out at MCN
Oscars 2017 – Oscar Pundits Are Often Wrong But We Rarely Admit It – AMA
Devin Faraci Steps Down as Editor of Birth Movies Death
A Jeff Wells Distortion
I wasn't going to address this because it has nothing to do with awards season and is so inside baseball...
Shifting Perspectives – How Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan are Changing the Game
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - Shakespeare and...
Things are Changing Fast – And Other Things I Learned at a Night at the Movies
NSFW–Oscar Bloggers and Other Web-Famous Lampooned by the Notorious LexG
If you don't know who LexG is you probably don't read Hollywood-Elsewhere or Movie City News. The jokes are pretty...
Oscar Blogging in 2013: Navigating the Murky Waters of Test Screenings
After I exited a theater showing of Gravity, a nice man handed me a flyer for a movie, a test...
On Nate Silver and Oscar Predicting
Yesterday I spoke with Daniel D'Addario over at Salon about Nate Silver covering the Oscars. What he said was spot-on...
Trouble Hits One of Our Own – Fundraiser for Ed Douglas
A day or so ago there was a sudden photo of Coming Soon's Ed Douglas in the hospital. He'd been...
Pile On — Condemning Lynne Ramsay
Deadline Gets Ready to Launch Site with Oxymoron, “Awards Intelligence”
Every time one of these erupts God punches a kitten in the face. I suspect it will be similar to...
Critics Then, Critics Now – Dargis and Scott on Pauline Kael and Film Criticism
In an ongoing dialogue between the two major critics at the Times, Manohla Dargis and AO Scott on film criticism...
Oscar Poker, Plus New Gold Derby – Social Network for Oscar Watchers
Yesterday, Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elsewhere.com and I met up with Tom O'Neil at the historic Sunset Tower hotel in Hollywood...
Oscar: Can't Live With Him, Can't Kill Him
It's that time of year again for the critics who are lucky enough to still have jobs writing about movies...
Tom O'Neil Bids the LA Times Goodbye, Offers up Patrick Goldstein
Tom O'Neil has officially left the LA Times and explains his reasons why -- Goldstein, who used to write about...
InContention Moves to Hitfix
Kris Tapley's InContention, it was announced this morning, will move to Hitfix.com as early as Monday. This is a shakeup...
Hottest TV spot for Rise of the Planet of the Apes
ZOMG! Sasha's quote from her review of Rise of Planet of the Apes is featured in national TV spots. Taji...
Rave tweets from Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Tweeps are going apeshit over some VIP screening tonight. @slashfilm (Peter Sciretta) Rise of the Planet of the Apes vindicates...
