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Previews: Week Ending November 29, 2009
The balance of new trailers has been fluctuating recently and this week has shifted towards the 2010 films. There are nine new trailers for next year and only three for this year. The straggling 2009 film trailers include one Oscar contender, The Last Station; one comedy, The Strip; and one Bollywood pic, De Dana Dan.…
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Newly Updated Oscar Hopefuls & An Animated Short First
I have made a much needed update now to my Oscar Hopefuls list, including several new movements in the field. To see the full list, visit 2009 Oscar Hopefuls. I don’t have a lot of time to explain, so I’ll save that for another day. But this will be my last update before the first…
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1996 at the Oscars
1996 was the perfect Oscar season for those who like to be kept guessing until the last moment. There was no clear front-runner among the year’s top contenders. The National Board of Review got things going with a split vote for the Australian made Shine as Best Picture while Fargo’s Joan Coen took the Best…
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Oscar Campaign Breakdown: The Traditional Indies
In this final article, I’m going to give you some info on the studios that are so small and so vastly underfunded that they can truly claim the Indie title. Most of these companies won’t be that familiar to the general public, but their available titles, though not always huge contenders, are certainly noteworthy. The…
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Two Nominees No One Is Mentioning?
Two performances seem to be untouched so far with Oscar followers that I think need to be considered as serious contenders for a nomination. Both come from long-time Hollywood performers who have yet to make it to the Oscars. Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. After a much stronger than expected opening this weekend, Bullock…
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The DVD Report #131
The most successful film in Hollywood history in terms of tickets sold is now 70 years old. To celebrate, the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of Gone With the Wind has been released on both Blu-ray and standard DVD. Only 150,000 editions of each have been produced. The Blu-ray set contains three discs, the standard…
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The DVD Report #131: November 24, 2009
See what’s coming out this week on DVD! The most successful film in Hollywood history in terms of tickets sold is now 70 years old. To celebrate, the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of Gone With the Wind has been released on both Blu-ray and standard DVD. Only 150,000 editions of each have been produced.…
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1995 at the Oscars
It’s difficult to fully comprehend what happened in 1995. Early speculation focused on possible Oscar wins for Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking, the true story of a nun who acts as spiritual advisor to death row inmates; Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis’ account of an alcoholic’s descent into hell; Ang Lee’s much admired adaptation of…
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Oscar Campaign Breakdown: The Mini-Majors and Specialty Divisions
In my second article covering the contenders the studios have for this year’s Oscars, I’m taking a look at two groups: the mini-majors (DreamWorks, Lionsgate, Overture Films and The Weinstein Company) and the big studio specialty shingles. The Mini-Majors Although DreamWorks feels like a Major, it isn’t. It doesn’t have its own distribution arm, forcing…
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1994 at the Oscars
A good movie is a good movie and will appeal to almost anyone of any age, but there are degrees of appeal that age sometimes plays a part in. In 1994 most people were either in the Forrest Gump camp or the Pulp Fiction camp. The former appealed primarily to the baby boomer generation, which…
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Previews: Week Ending November 22, 2009
It’s a fairly vigorous week, resulting in 16 new trailers and a new poster. The new poster belongs to this weekend’s release of The Blind Side. The remaining posters are split 11 and 5 across 2009 and 2010. The five from 2010 are for Bitch Slap, Extraordinary Measures, How to Train Your Dragon, Salt and…
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1993 at the Oscars
For the first time in ten years, Oscar’s Best Picture winner was a foregone conclusion. Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, his most serious film to date, a true story about the Holocaust featuring a coda with real life survivors of Auschwitz, was a highly acclaimed work that swept all the precursors. The only question was what…
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1992 at the Oscars
1992 was a year in which everyone agreed Emma Thompson was the year’s best actress in James Ivory’s film of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, but agreements on the other categories, particularly the year’s Best Picture and Director were difficult to come by. The L.A. Film Critics were the first to announce his year. Those chose…
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Oscar Campaign Breakdown: The Majors
With the first precursor awards just around the corner (Satellite Award and Annie Award nominations on Nov. 30), it’s about time to talk seriously about the Oscar race in terms of what each studio has on its plate that they could and possibly will push. For all the latest precursor dates (with a few unconfirmed…
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Documentary Feature Finalists Announced
Beverly Hills, CA (November 18, 2009) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title,…
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