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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...
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Buchanan in as New Carpetbagger, Wloszczyna in at Gold Derby, Poland Out at MCN
Big changes are happening in terms of how the Oscar race is covered. If you've been around as long as...
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Oscars 2017 – Oscar Pundits Are Often Wrong But We Rarely Admit It – AMA
As we begin another Oscar season it's business as usual. We pundits call ourselves "experts" as though speculation and opinions...
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Devin Faraci Steps Down as Editor of Birth Movies Death
Birth.Movies.Death's Devin Faraci has resigned from his position as its editor-in-chief. Here is the background story by Dana Harris at Indiewire....
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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...
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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...
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Things are Changing Fast – And Other Things I Learned at a Night at the Movies
"Die, white boy," said a loud voice behind me when one of the white characters, a good guy, was finally...
Read moreNSFW–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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pile On — Condemning Lynne Ramsay
Kathryn Bigelow is a torture apologist, Leni Reifenstahl and according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter, not the one...
Read moreDeadline 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...
Read moreCritics 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...
Read moreOscar 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...
Read moreOscar: 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...
Read moreTom 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...
Read moreInContention 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...
Read moreHottest 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...
Read moreRave 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...
Read moreSo 2-3 more to add to the season, I guess? The End We Start From (expected out of TIFF) Freud's…
We shouldn't forget that predictions last year were heavily influenced by the CODA debacle and the greatest frontrunner fatigue I…
This makes no sense -- especially at the expense of more necessary TV supporting categories. And it will not bring…
What I find moderately funny is that they could probably nominate 5 decent movies each year, but it's gonna be…
I've always felt that the separate categories for drama and comedy at the Globes gave an inaccurate temperature of what…
