New This Week CLICK HEREfor other new releases this week. It’s a commonly held notion that All the President’s Men; Network and Taxi Driver were the Oscar front-runners and that Rocky came out of nowhere to win the 1976 Oscar for Best Picture. That wasn’t at all the case. Rocky, whose artistic reputation has not…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Luis Buñuel (83 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay,Adapted Screenplay – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1901: Charles Newman (76 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1908: John Mills (97 at death) {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1917:…
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I Am Number Four Rating Director D.J. Caruso Screenplay Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Marti Noxon (Novel: Pittacus Lore) Length 109 min. Starring Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Callan McAuliffe MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for language
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Today, we start our final week of Rundown articles. This week, we’ll cover the remaining categories for this year’s Oscars starting with today’s look at Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. Tomorrow, we’ll open up about our thoughts on the Best Editing prize. Following on Wednesday, we’ll look at Costume Design, then round out the week…
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Not being at home most of the weekend tends to interrupt your regularly scheduled movie viewing. So, this week, I have only one new movie to review: I Am Number Four. I have started La Dolce Vita, but got interrupted about two-thirds through and haven’t been able to get back to it yet. Next weekend…
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Here are the winners for this year’s Golden Reel Awards Awards Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film The Social Network (Wesley, Peter) Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film Inception (Wesley, Peter) Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Foreign Language Film…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Clemence Dane (77 at death) {Oscar Winner: Motion Picture Story – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1898: Ray Moyer (87 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color); Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color) – 12 Noms, 3 Wins} 1899: Emile Santiago (96…
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This year’s winner of the Cinema Audio Society award was a surprise to most who look at these kinds of awards. Awards Best Sound Mixing True Grit
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Bernard Knowles (74 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Color) – Not Official: Preliminary submission not granted official nomination} 1912: Pierre Boulle (81 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Adapted Screenplay – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1925: Robert Altman (81 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary;Oscar Nominee: Picture,…
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Below are the winners of this year’s American Cinema Editors Awards. AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS Best Editing, Drama> The Social Network (RU:Wesley, Peter, Wes) Best Editing, Comedy/Musical Alice in Wonderland Best Editing, Animated Toy Story 3 (Wesley, Peter)
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Paul Terry (84 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Animated Short Film – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1895: Louis Calhern (61 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1899: Homer G. Tasker (90 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 2 Noms, 0 Wins}…
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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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This weekend, three of the last four guilds to announce winners will finally make their picks known. Starting things off on Saturday are the Cinema Audio Society, which honors the best in Sound Mixing, and the American Cinema Editors, which recognize the best in Editing. Following those on Sunday are the awards from the Motion…
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We finish out the week with Best Actress, one of the few categories ripe for upset. Come back next week when we do our final five articles in preparation for this year’s Academy Awards.
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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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