Precursor: American Cinema Editors Awards
The winners have been announced for the 2009 American Cinema Editors Awards. Below are the results.
American Cinema Editors
Best Editing, Drama
The Hurt Locker
Best Editing, Comedy
The Hangover
Best Editing, Animated
Up
Best Editing, Documentary
The Cove
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CinemaSight: Welcome to Our New Home!
Cinema Sight is live and operational.
Those of you who have been following our transition may have noticed the changes to the front page of the site and been wondering what's going on. The Oscar Guy was established in 1996 as the ultimate in pre-Oscar coverage. Since then, I've been expanding my coverage to include film reviews, previews and many other features that have taken us from being just an Oscar fan site to a full-fledged film website.
With my contributors (Peter J. Patrick, Tripp Burton and Wes Huizar) in tow, we have launched cinemasight.com, where our motto is "Looking at Film from every angle". While we will continue our coverage of the Academy Awards and the awards leading up to it, and we will continue everything that has made our site great, we will be doing so under a new name and look. For all those who have supported us over the years, I thank you and hope that you will continue following us on our journey through the self-discovery, reflection and examination of film as an art form, an entertainment medium and an educational tool.
This new name, Cinema Sight, represents our varied views of film criticism and appreciation as well as our effort look into the past and the future at everything that makes film so wonderful and the reasons why we became so enthralled with the medium.
For the next few months, we will be forcibly re-directing your traffic from oscarguy.com to cinemasight.com to help streamline the transition. However, you will want to update any bookmarks you have to reflect the new location because the original site will be going through a transformation of its own and will become little more than a personal webpage for myself.
So, thank you all for coming with me on this new journey and helping to make this site a wonderful place to be.
Site Design Under Construction
As you may be noticing, this page has been going through several changes today as I restructure and redesign it to its new form. My apologies if this is distracting or difficult to look at. In the end, it will be worth it, but for now, it does look like a mess.
Please stick with me as I make these transitions to a new layout as I'm working with other people's code, so I don't always know where the information I want to change is located, so it may take a few days for everything to start looking normalized again.
Thanks for your patience.
Times, They Are A Changing
Starting late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, I will be transitioning this site to a new one. In order to do this, I will need to stop all updates to the site before the transition. My intention is to keep your login info and settings the same in the transition, but I make no promises.
If all goes smoothly, it will be back up and operational later in the day on Sunday. If not, I don't know. Thankfully, we've got a nice lull between the Oscar nominations and anything of significant importance (the Annie Awards and the USC Scripter award are it for the next week). Hopefully you like what I will be doing with everything.
When everything is said and done, for a short period of time, there will be an automatic re-direct, but you WILL need to change your bookmarks at that time or else they will stop working after that period. How things will be transferred after that time has no been decided.
Just giving everyone a heads up that while they may still be able to post after this time, their posts may get lost in the transition.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Precursor Calendar: January, 2010 and a Happy New Year
Well, it's another year and another decade, but it's still Oscar season. May we all have a Happy New Year and may our upcoming months of Oscar fun be filled with surprises, but only pleasant ones.
Of course, we still have plenty of precursors left before The Big Night. So, here's the breakdown of what's to come in January. Keep in mind, dates marked with "?" are not guaranteed dates, but are based on last year's dates. Even if you lose track of this post, you can always reference the Calendar in the sidebar on the right. There's also a guide to the entries below.
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OG #2: The Film Generations
There are more than a dozen definitions of the word "generation". Most of them are a purely academic differences, but the decision to call these blogs "The Film Generations" is manifold.
Contributing to this blog are people from very different generational backgrounds. Whereas Peter is more of the Baby Boomer era, I'm more akin to Generation X, as will be one of our future contributors. But, the point in this is that we each see film in a different way. We each have a broad and distinct voice in terms of the films we love. And while part of that is most certanly a generational gap, it's also a manner of taste. However, we each share one common interest: movies. They are what we grew up on. They are a part of our fabric as individuals.
And that is thanks to generations of filmmakers and audiences who have shaped or culture and our lives with their own personal visions. From the early filmic generations where the Nickelodeon provided a brief, escapist pleasure during the 1890s and early 20th century, we have had a fascination with the moving image. To a sad degree, a lot of people out there have no concept of how a movie is really made or what actually makes a moving image a moving image. But, the fact still remains we are a product of those early days of shorts, silents and everything else that has brought us to the modern filmic era. And, I say era because it's the more common term to describe the history of film, but in truth, they are merely different generations that correspond with the times, slowly following, and, in some cases molding the future of the world.
Thus, The Film Generations blog will be about celebrating movies, talking about our experiences, sharing our passion and everything that goes along with this significant achievement, perhaps one of the greatest and most influential of mediums in the history of the world.
OG #1: Welcome to The Oscar Guy Blogs
While it isn't much yet and we're still in the process of getting things set up, this will be a primary spot for new and fun information regarding the Oscars, movies, other awards and a myriad other things that pop into our minds. Please be patient as we get things set up.




