Film Preview: Evil Dead Burn (2026)
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The DVD Report #135: December 22, 2009
One of the year’s nicest surprises, newcomer Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer is a bittersweet charmer about a boy falling in love with a girl who doesn’t return his affections. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the former child star of TV’s 3rd Rock From the Sun continues his meteoric rise to screen fame following his critically acclaimed
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Precursor: Chicago Film Critics Awards
The Chicago Film Critics have announced their winners. The full list is below: Winner Tallies (5) The Hurt Locker (2) An Education; Up The Winners Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Animated Feature: Up Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker Best Actor: Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker Best Actress: Carey Mulligan –
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Precursor: Satellite Award Winners
Below are the winners for the 14th Annual Satellite Awards as announced at their ceremony last night, December 20, 2009. Winner Tallies (4) The Hurt Locker (2) Nine; Precious; 2012 The Winners Drama Picture: The Hurt Locker Comedy/Musical Picture: Nine Animated/Mixed Media Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker Drama Actor:
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2004 at the Oscars
Warner Bros.’ last minute decision to open Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby in December, 2004 instead of February, 2005 threw a monkey wrench in everyone’s Oscar forecast this year. Up to that point, the front-runners had been Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator; Marc Foster’s Finding Neverland and Alexander Payne’s Sideways with some prognosticators even predicting unlikely
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274 Films Qualify for 2009 Academy Awards
The Academy has announced which 274 will vie for this year’s Oscars. Obviously only a small fraction of these will actually be considered, but it’s always an interesting list to scroll through. The press release follows, but a link to the actual reminder list pdf can be found here: http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/reminderlist2009.pdf 274 Films Eligible for 2009
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Previews: Week Ending December 20, 2009
The updates for 2009 are dwindling quickly. We have only one update and it’s just a second poster for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The remaining eight updates, a small number by most standards, comes from 2010. There are three films I’ve previewed before that have either a second poster (Daybreakers) or their first (Clash
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2003 at the Oscars
There was never much doubt that the third episode of Peter Jackson’s monumental filming of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy would win 2003’s Best Picture Oscar. The only real suspense was in guessing what the other nominees would be. Three of the major precursors, the New York Film Critics, the Broadcast Film Critics
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Post-SAG Predictions
With three contributors on this site, we’ve decided to try something new. Peter, Tripp and I have found that while we all love the Academy Awards, we each have differing opinions on how it will eventually go. So, we’ve compared our post-SAG predictions for several categories and have several common selections, but we’ll giv eyou
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Precursor: Houston Film Critics
Below are the Houston Film Critics award winners. These were announced December 18, 2009. Winner Tallies (3) The Hurt Locker; Up in the Air (2) Up The Winners Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker Best Actor: George Clooney – Up in the Air Best Actress: Carey Mulligan –
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Precursor: Toronto Film Critics
Below are the winners of the Toronto Film Critics awards. These were announced December 16, 2009. Winner Tallies (3) Inglourious Basterds (2) Hunger The Winners Best Picture: TIE: Hunger, Inglourious Basterds Runner-Up: The Hurt Locker Best Actor: Nicolas Cage – The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Runners-Up: George Clooney – Up in the
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Precursor: Austin Film Critics
Below are the Austin Film Critics winners. These were announced on December 16, 2009 Winner Tallies (3) The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds (2) Me & Orson Welles; Up; Up in the Air The Winners Best Film: The Hurt Locker Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker Best Actor: Colin Firth – A Single Man
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Precursor: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics
Below are the ranked lists of the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics. They release their information differently than other groups. The film at the head of the list is the actual winner, but they rank the top 5 (in some cases top 1 or 2) and list them in that order. These were announced December 16,
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Precursor: San Diego Film Critics
Below are the San Diego Film Critics awards winners and runners-up. These were announced December 15, 2009 Winner Tallies (6) Inglourious Basterds (2) The Messenger The Winners Best Film: Inglourious Basterds Runner-Up: Runner-Up: A Single Man Best Director: Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds Runner-Up: Runner-Up: James Cameron – Avatar
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Precursor: Indiana Film Critics
Below are the Indiana Film Critics award winners. This group has never announced previously to my knowledge, so may be a new entity. These were announced December 14, 2009. Winner Tallies (3) Up in the Air (2) Where the Wild Things Are The Winners Best Film of the Year: Up in the Air Runner-Up: Fantastic
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R.I.P. Oscar winner Jennifer Jones
The legendary actress who received five Oscar nominations, winning for her performance in The Song of Bernadette has died. A full obituary is to follow: By Bob Thomas, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A publicist says Jennifer Jones, who was nominated for Academy Awards five times and won for her portrayal of a saintly
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