Month: February 2010
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Precursor: London Film Critics Circle Awards
Below are the winners of the 2009 London Film Critics Circle awards. Winner Tally (4) Fish Tank (1) All other films The Winners Best Picture Un Prophète Best Director Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker Best Actor Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds Best Actress Mo’Nique – Precious
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Precursor Predictions: Writers Guild & Sound Editors Guild
(Updated 2/19/10, 12:51p) Saturday, the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Sound Editors will announce the winners of their 2009 prizes. Below are our best attempts to predict these awards: Writers Guild of America Original Screenplay Avatar (500) Days of Summer (Tripp) The Hangover The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Wes) A Serious Man…
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Best Supporting Actor
Rounding out the supporting categories, today, we bring you the Best Supporting Actor race, some trivia about the category, and our picks for the best and worst the category has had to offer. Trivia: Five Facts Walter Brennan was the first winner of this category, established alongside Best Supporting Actress in 1936. Brennan was also…
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Best Animated Feature
We continue our category-by-category analysis of this year’s Oscar races with the Best Animated Feature award. Below are a few interesting facts, our predictions and alternates, and a list of our favorite and least favorite winners in this category. Trivia: Five Facts Animated Feature is the youngest category at the Oscars, having been created in…
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Best Supporting Actress
We begin our daily Oscar predictions coverage with the Best Supporting Actress category. Each day between now and the Friday before the Academy Awards, we here at CinemaSight will be presenting a category-by-category analysis of the races including trivia about the category, our predictions and alternates, and a glimpse out our favorite and least favorite…
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The DVD Report #143: February 16, 2010
Some day they may make a good movie about Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, but Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel isn’t that movie. Oscar nominated for its gorgeous costume designs, the film looks pretty and is better constructed than last year’s TV movie, Coco Chanel, but is still a vacuous conceit that plays footsy with the truth.…
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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…
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Precursor: Online Film & Television Association Winners
The winners for the 14th Annual Online Film & Television Association’s Film Awards have been revealed on their website: OFTA. Below is the full list of winners. They have also selected their inductees into the Hall of Fame for 2010, which can also be found updated on their website. The group has also announced their…
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Precursor: Art Directors Guild Winners
The Art Directors Guild have announced their awards for 2010. Below are the results. Best Art Direction Period Art Direction Sherlock Holmes Fantasy Art Direction Avatar Contemporary Art Direction The Hurt Locker Predictions Comparison Wesley Lovell – 2/3 (Sherlock Holmes, Avatar) Peter J. Patrick – 2/3 (Avatar, The Hurt Locker) Tripp Burton – 2/3 (Sherlock…
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Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors
Tomorrow, the American Cinema Editors will select their choices for the best edited films of the year. Below are our predictions: Best Film Editing Drama Editing Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Star Trek Up in the Air Comedy Editing (500) Days of Summer (Wesley, Tripp, Wes) The Hangover
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Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild Awards
Below are our predictions for tomorrow’s Art Directors Guild Awards. Best Art Direction Period Art Direction Inglourious Basterds (Peter) Julie & Julia Public Enemies A Serious Man Sherlock Holmes (Tripp, Wesley) Fantasy Art Direction Avatar (Peter) District 9 (Tripp) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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The DVD Report #142: February 9, 2010
Joel and Ethan Coen have tried to make something profound in the guise of a black comedy with A Serious Man, one of ten films nominated for this year’s Best Picture Oscar. The film is a re-telling of The Book of Job from the First Testament, in which God sets terrible plagues upon a good…
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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…
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Precursor: Annie Awards
Below are the winners of the 37th Annie Awards. Winner Totals The Winners Animated Feature: Up Animated Short: Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 Animated Effects: The Princess and the Frog – James Mansfield Character Animation: The Princess and the Frog – Eric Goldberg Character Design: Coraline – Shane Prigmore Directing: Pete Docter – Up Music:…
