Category: Week in Review

Oscar News The Santa Barbara Film Festival will give its American Rivera Award to Annette Bening. Last year, the award went to eventual Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock, while Oscar winners Forrest Whitaker and Philip Seymour Hoffman won the award the same year as their Oscar (along with eventual nominees Mickey Rourke and Diane Lane).…

Oscar News Halle Berry’s film Frankie and Alex, which garnered some strong reviews for the Oscar Winner at Cannes, will have an Oscar qualifying run this December, it was just announced. This is seemingly to try and get the actress a second Oscar nomination. Jean-Luc Godard will not come to Los Angeles on November 13…

Oscar News The Gotham Independent Film Awards are always the first out of the gate, and they announced their nominations this week. Nominated for Best Film are Black Swan, Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right, Let Me In and Winter’s Bone. Last year’s winner was eventual Best Picture The Hurt Locker. The Hollywood Awards…

Oscar News The Academy released the official short list for Best Foreign Language Film, and there are 65 eligible films up for contention this year. Among the recognizable films on the list are Mexico’s Bitiful (directed by Oscar nominee Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and starring Oscar winner Javier Bardem) and Thailand’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall…

Oscar News Peter Weir’s The Way Back, featuring Oscar nominees Ed Harris and Saiorse Ronan, got an official release date of December 29, meaning it will be eligible for Academy Award consideration. The New York Times ran an article this week stating that Disney is putting together a major push for Toy Story 3, believing…

Oscar News The official deadline for submissions for Best Foreign Language Film was Friday, so we should be able to expect an official list of eligible films very soon. HitFix is reporting that the first screeners of the year were sent out to Academy members this week: Mother and Child and Animal Kingdom. The Gotham…

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Oscar News Lionsgate has picked up Toronto Film Festival hit Rabbit Hole. Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning play, and with great roles for Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Dianne Weist (plus Aaron Eckhart), this gives Lionsgate a contender this season. For a look at why it could play a major role, look here. The Venice…

Oscar News The Telluride Film Festival was last weekend, and several movies used that launching pad to get out of the box running. Among the films to make a loud impression were The King’s Speech, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours and Never Let Me Go. Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan garnered good buzz, especially for Natalie Portman. The…

Oscar News Two contenders premiered at the Venice Film Festival late this week. Oscar Winner Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere is garnering a lot of comparisons to Lost in Translation, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is getting comparisons to Requiem for a Dream. If both filmmakers are working in top form, they could be major competitors this…

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…

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…