Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Frances Goodrich (93 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Adaptation, Screenplay –4 Noms, 0 Wins} 1905: Harry Revel (52 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1914: Eustace Lycett (91 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Visual Effects;Oscar Nominee: Visual Effects, Special Effects – 4
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Never Let Me Go Rating Director Mark Romanek Screenplay Alex Garland (Novel: Kazuo Ishiguro) Length 103 min. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Isobel Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins MPAA Rating R for some sexuality and nudity
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The Chicago Film Critics have revealed their winners for this year’s awards. The full list is below. Awards Tallies (3) The Social Network (2) Black Swan, Inception The Awards Best Picture The Social Network
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A strong Friday did not translate into a strong weekend with Tron Legacy leading the weekend. Don’t forget to come back Wednesday to submit your predictions for Week 17. Original rules can be found here: Game Rules. #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: Tron Legacy, $44,026,211 Everyone each get a point
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I got a little caught up this weekend on movies, though not nearly enough. More short snippet reviews today with longer ones hopefully in the future. And for those expecting my Feed the Queue review of Nashville, you’ll have to wait another week. I didn’t get any Netflix DVDs watched last week, so it did
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Virgil E. Miller (86 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Black-and-White) –1 Noms, 0 Wins} 1893: Stephen Avery (54 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Story – 1 Noms, 0 Wins} 1898: Irene Dunne (91 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actress – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1907:
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Below are the winners for the 15th Annual Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, an off-shoot of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nomination Tallies (3) Inception, The Social Network (2) Alice in Wonderland, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The King’s Speech, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (1) Animal Kingdom, Burlesque, The Fighter,
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The year’s almost over, but we still have stragglers and will well into the new year. So, here are four new trailers from 2010 plus 13 from 2011 with a trio of new posters to go with it all. In addition, The Beaver‘s release date was changed and you’ll find a link to that update
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1899: George Dutton (77 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing, Special Effects –5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1902: Ralph Richardson (80 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor –2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1925: Robert B. Sherman (85) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Song, Substantially Original Score; Oscar Nominee: Song, Substantially
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Houston jumps on the bandwagon awarding its prize for Best Picture to Social Network. Nomination Tallies (4) The Social Network (2) Inception The Nominations Best Picture The Social Network Best Director David Fincher – The Social Network Best Animated Film Toy Story 3
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Oscar News The Golden Globes, arguably the biggest of the Oscar precursors, announced their nominees on Tuesday. The King’s Speech led the pack with 7 nominations, and will face off for Best Picture – Drama with Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception and The Social Network. The Kids Are All Right led the comedy films with
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Gladys Cooper (82 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actress –3 Noms, 0 Wins} 1891: Lewis Lewyn (77 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Color Short Film – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1899: Rex Wimpy (73 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Special Effects – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1900:
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Welcome to the new Film Fun Friday. In an effort to make our games more fun, I’ve increased the interactivity of them. Now you’ll be responding to your fellow players or continuing their thoughts. Each game has a different set of rules, so make sure to read up before posting. And always remember to have
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The Chicago Film Critics have announced their nominations for 2010. The full list is below. Nomination Tallies (8) The Social Network (6) Black Swan, The King’s Speech, True Grit, Winter’s Bone (5) Inception (3) Blue Valentine, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right The Nominations Best Picture Black Swan Inception The King’s Speech The Social
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On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their responses are posted below. Wesley Lovell 1. Which of the three new wide releases would
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