Home Viewing with Peter #981
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Best Cinematography
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:46p – Added Wes’ info) Our Post-ASC predictions are now ready to be revealed as we continue our look at the categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Here are five facts on the Cinematography award, our predictions and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts Among the first categories ever created, Cinematography has been
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XI
Milestones & quips make up many of our reflections for the Oscars. Here are three more moments that we enjoyed tremendously. Peter J. Patrick 1973, 46th Academy Awards A terminally ill Susan Hayward makes her last appearance on the arm of Charlton Heston and Katharine Hepburn makes her only appearance. As David Niven intones, “A
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The DVD Report #145: March 2, 2010
Two recent children’s films dominate this week’s new releases. Maurice Sendak’s once controversial Where the Wild Things Are had previously been filmed as an animated short in 1973 and re-released with new narration in 1988. Spike Jonze’s new film stretches the thin story to the breaking point, but nonetheless has legions of admirers. The original
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Best Sound Mixing & Sound Editing
The sound awards are always one of the hardest to predict simply because it’s hard to know what the Academy is hearing. They’ve gone for classic, quality sound mixes and they’ve gone for aural deluges with no coherence. We’ll give you a few facts, share our predictions and our favorites and least favorites. Trivia: Five
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part X
Sometimes the greatest moments are the ones least remembered by modern audiences. And sometimes they are just the surprise moments that you never realized were so important. Our tenth edition of Favorite Oscar Moments continues. Tripp Burton & Peter J. Patrick 1977, 50th Academy Awards Tripp: They came out to present the Best Sound award,
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Precursor: Visual Effects Society
Avatar wins big at the Visual Effects Society Awards. Winners listed below. Visual Effects Society Visual Effects/Visual Effects-Driven Picture Avatar (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Supporting Visual Effects Sherlock Holmes Animation/Animated Picture Up (Wesley)
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Best Costume Design
With the Costume Designers Guild having given out their prizes, it’s now time for us to weigh in on the Costume Design award for the Oscars. In addition to our predictions, you’ll find five facts and our favorite and least favorite wins. Trivia: Five Facts Introduced in 1948, the category started out with Black-and-White and
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part IX
We’re nearly at the Oscars. Will there be something memorable this year? Perhaps nothing as memorable as what we’re discussing here, but we can always hope (or fear in the case of Peter’s selection). Below, we discuss our favorite Oscar moments, with honorary Oscars, memorable arrivals and new trends. Peter J. Patrick 1989, 62nd Academy
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Precursor: American Society of Cinematographers
Below is the winner of the Cinematogrpahy award from the American Society of Cinematographers: The Winner Cinematography The White Ribbon
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Precursor: Cinema Audio Society
The winner of the CAS award for Best Sound Mixing is below: The Winner Sound Mixing The Hurt Locker (Peter)
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Best Actor
(Updated 3/5/10, 12:50p – Added Wes’ info) As we get closer and closer to the Oscars, more of the top categories will be revealed. Here are some facts about the Best Actor category, along with our predictions and favorite and least favorite winners in the Best Actor category. Trivia: Five Facts The category was among
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Precursor Predictions: Visual Effects Society
Sunday, the very last of the guilds to announce will do so. The Visual Effects Society is probably the one group whose decision doesn’t matter as the Oscar winner in this category has been virtually set in stone since before the nominations were even announced. Still, it’s a fun group to watch the results on.
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VIII
From our earliest Oscar memories to the ones where we vocally cheer to the unique fashions, Cinema Sight’s Favorite Oscar Moments series continues with its eighth incarnation. Peter J. Patrick 1958, 31st Academy Awards My first Oscar show. Two moments stand out. The first is Rosalind Russell’s presentation of a Special Award to Maurice Chevalier
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Best Original Song & Original Score
(Updated: 2/28/2010, 2:45p) We have another one-two punch today as we look at the music categories at the Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Like with our documentary and short film categories yesterday, we’ll split the score and song categories into two separate five-part fact sheets, then offer up our predictions in both
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Precursor Predictions: A.S. of Cinematographers & Audio Society
Saturday, the American Society of Cinematographers and Cinema Audio Society are the next-to-last guilds to give out their prizes. Below are our predictions. American Society of Cinematographers Cinematography Avatar The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Inglourious Basterds Nine The White Ribbon Cinema Audio Society Sound Mixing Avatar (Wesley, Tripp) District 9 The Hurt Locker (Peter)
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