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For Your Consideration: 25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s
With the first wave of awards season precursors less than two weeks away, I figured I would use the very last addition of this column before an onslaught of commentary on critics awards and Spirit and Globe nominations beckons to provide some optimism in the wake of last week's list of the "most des...
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Academy Names 15 to Documentary Shortlist; Moore Snubbed
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have named 15 films that made the short-list in the Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Academy Awards, whittling the number down from a record 89 that had originally qualified (92 qualified last year, which was a record). Notable omissions incl...
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PGA To Honor "Precious"
The Producers Guild of America have announced that "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" will be honored with the 2010 Stanley Kramer Award. The film's producers will be honored with the award at the 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium.
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Hamilton to Direct Oscars
Hamish Hamilton will direct the 82nd Academy Awards telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced Wednesday. This will be his first time directing the telecast, though he has directed live television events such as the MTV Video Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards in ad...
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Scorsese Set For Globes Honor
Martin Scorsese will be honored at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 17, 2010 with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field." The award, voted by the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was announced by Vera Farmi...
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For Your Consideration: The 50 Most Despicable Oscar Snubs of the 2000s
Before any of you get all optimistic about this year's awards race, I decided to utilize this week's column to remind you of how horribly wrong things can turn out. As the end of this decade approaches, and you start considering your favorite films and performances, you may or may not b...
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20 Films To Contend For Animated Feature Oscar
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has released a list of the twenty films that have submitted themselves for consideration for this year's Best Animated Feature Oscar. The unusually high number means that for the second time in the award's history (and the first time since 2002), fiv...
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A Tale of Two Trailers: The De-Gaying of "A Single Man"
While the heterosexualized poster for Tom Ford's not-so-heterosexual "A Single Man" caused a wee stir last week, it seems the recently released trailer has just re-enforced those complaints.
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Eugene Hernandez: Building Buzz
New York, NY, November 9, 2009 -- "Precoius" v. "Up in the Air"? That was the case on Thursday night in Manhattan as the two expected Oscar contenders hosted competing events in New York City.
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For Your Consideration: Assessing The Major Oscar Categories
What's been a slow awards season build since Toronto and Venice kicked things off two months ago is about to become an accelerated horserace. With Fox Searchlight's announcement yesterday that they were bumping up awards bait "Crazy Heart" for 2009 Oscar consideration, it's reasonable to believe tha...
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