The Academy Announces Big News – Best Picture Goes Back to Ten and Why That’s a Good Thing
The Academy, under the new Board of Governors, announced what they hope will be sweeping changes to address problems of ...
Tag: Oscar’s Big Ten
And Then There Were Ten–Oscar Podcast Preview for 2009
2009 was probably the most interesting Oscar year I've ever blogged about. It was David and Goliath, ex-husband vs. ex-wife, ...
The State of the Race: Will Best Picture Ever Be More or Less Than Nine?
As we head into another Oscar year we are once again faced with nine Best Picture nominees. We all know ...
The State of the Race: Well, Maybe We Don't Wanna Pick TEN
The AMPAS rocked the Oscar blogging world ...cough cough, sputter sputter. Let's start that again. The mildly interesting news announced ...
Premature Adulation – On the Hunt for Best Pic in June
Peter over at AwardsCorner has done a fairly exhaustive rundown of Best Picture contenders and all I want to do ...
Oscar Flashback: Another Look at the Split Years
For some reason, it is always fun to take a dip into the psyche of the Academy of old to ...
Spitballing Oscar’s Ten Best Picture Nominees
Since we don't yet know how many of our wish list films are going to play out, it might be ...
The State of the Race: Inception Lands
Our culture has been soaked in alternate realities lately. ABC's Lost and Fox's 24, are a few recent influences that ...
Wide Open Best Picture Race
As I was glancing over the films that are slated for this year, it occurs to me that, despite our ...
Little Gold Men Peers into the Psyche of AMPAS
On the Little Gold Men site on Vanityfair.com, they have a sideline chart of their predictions for the win. They ...
Steve Pond, Take it Away
I've been waiting for Steve Pond's write-up on the whole Oscar's math paradigm. To me, it's gobbledegook. Anyway, so here ...
Steve Pond Number Crunches For Reals
Thanks to Kris Tapley for tipping us off to this really awesome math experiment undertaken by The Wrap's Steve Pond. ...
Oscar’s Best Picture – 10? No? Well Can I Get Two?
Pete Hammond is floating an idea that Academy members can't come up with ten movies to put on their ballots. ...
The State of the Race: 82nd Oscars May Be Ratings Bonanza
The 82nd Oscars telecast is brewing as the perfect storm to attract its biggest audience in years.   The combination of ...
Karger’s Precursor Tally – Hurt Locker Leads
Dave Karger has worked it out, and posted the tally to EW: 6: The Hurt Locker (NBR, AFI, BFCA, GG, ...
Precious Kills at the Box Office
EW's Dave Karger takes a look at Precious' opening numbers and comes up with the possibility, I think for the ...
The State of the Race: Fiddle Dee Dee Ten Nominees?
Things aren't anywhere near as quiet as they should be right about now. There hasn't been a No Country for ...
Bruce Davis Talks Best Picture 10
Steve Pond talks to Bruce Davis about the Academy's crisis point, about the Best Picture ten, about the success of ...
Oscar’s Ten Best Picture Nominees Has Many Naysayers
It is still surprising to me that so many see the ten best picture nominees change as a negative. In ...
Will The Ten Best Picture Nominees Impact Women?
Women & Hollywood took the question to the several female voices in the business: Gale Anne Hurd, producer of The ...
In terms of in particular Ferrera, I'm in particular doubtful about her chances since I'm not yet fully convinced that…
Who even are contending in that category beyond Randolph? I guess people are just waiting for The Color Purple and…
maybe a way to let hands free to award other films, because HFPA may fear Oppenheimer is winning Drama and…
Saw it last Monday at SSIFF. The tone is more sarcastic than it seems and some viewers could be puzzled…
But I am not counting out Bening just yet.
