Author: Tripp Burton
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Oscar Week in Review: August 22-28, 2010
There are several major announcements this week to cover, from Honorary Oscars to new Oscar contenders. Oscar News Two awaited films are getting December releases from Roadside that could push them into Oscar consideration. I Love You Phillip Morris, starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as a gay couple, got good buzz at the 2009…
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2010 Honorary Oscars Announced
This morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the recipients of the 2010 Honorary Oscars. Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Award, while honorary Oscars will go to preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach. The press release follows. Beverly Hills, CA (August…
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Oscar Week In Review: August 14-21, 2010
This is a new feature here at CinemaSight, where every Saturday I will have a round-up of all the latest Academy Award related news of the week. For the next few weeks, we will probably be playing around with different titles and features, so please be patient. Oscar News Perhaps the biggest Oscar-related news of…
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Cannes 2010 and the Oscars
What can this year’s Cannes Film Festival tell us about the Oscars? When it comes to prestige, the Cannes Film Festival is one of the most celebrated and respected film awards to receive. When it comes to the Academy Awards, though, the Cannes Film Festival doesn’t always line up too nicely with what gets honored…
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Cannes Film Festival: Lineup Announced
Opening Film (Out of Competition) Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, USA) In Competition Tournee (Mathieu Almaric) Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois) Hors la loi (Rachid Bouchareb) Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu) A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) Housemaid (Im Sangsoo) Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami) Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) Another Year (Mike Leigh) Fair Game…
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What Did the Globes Tell Us?
Oscar prognosticators can argue until their hair turns grey what the importance of the Golden Globes mean. Sometimes the winners match up, sometimes they don’t match up. It doesn’t matter. Looking at what won a specific award in no way leads to what will win an Oscar. There is no one with a perfect track…
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Tripp’s Post-Globe Nomination Predictions
Well, with 3 major critics groups finished and the Globe nominations finished this morning, frontrunners and losers are already starting to creep out of the woodwork or fall out of sight. Anyways, here are my Post-Globe Nod predictions, with brief (and probably incorrect) insight following the categories. Please do not hold any of these against…
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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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TB #5: Feels Like a Nominee, Must Be a Nominee
So, we are at the point of the year where all the major film festivals are over, and so most of the major Oscar contenders have been seen, at least by some film critics and insiders. In fact, there only seem to be three films that no one has yet seen: James Cameron’s Avatar, Peter…
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TB #4: The Good, The Bad and the Honorary Oscar
The academy this summer, along with everything else it announced, stated that the Honorary Awards will no longer be a part of the Oscar ceremony come February. Then, this week, they announced the FOUR Honorary Award winners. They will receive their awards at an untelevised ceremony in November. This is of course a double-edged sword.…
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TB #3: Summer Science Fiction in the Best Picture Race?
First off, I wanted to thank Peter for the great hypothetical Oscar scenarios he has been running on this board. They have been fun to read, and really have helped put this major change in retrospect for me. The talk on other blogs I have come across the past week is the fact that bloggers…
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TB #2: The Best Song Change
A lot of ink, both on this blog and elsewhere, has been spilled already about the major upheaval of the Best Picture category, but little attention has been paid to the other major change the Academy made last week to their nominating procedure. Starting this year, in the Best Song category, there may be 2,…
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TB #1: More of the Same?
It seems to me like Wesley could not have picked a better time to start this new blog than right now, the week that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the biggest change to the Oscar set up since at least 2002, if not before. 2002 was the year that the Academy…
