New This Week Released in June, 1974, Roman Polanski’s modern noir, Chinatown, released by Paramount,was the best reviewed and most talked film released for most of the year. Then in December, Paramount released Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, the second film in his Godfather trilogy, which became an even bigger hit than Chinatown.…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Edith Evans (88 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actress, Supporting Actress –3 Noms, 0 Wins} 1894: King Vidor (88 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary;Oscar Nominee: Directing, Drama Directing – 5 Noms, 1 Win} 1912: Rene Wheeler (88 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Motion Picture Story –…
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A weak weekend was led by the poorly performing religious horror flick The Rite. Don’t forget to come back Wednesday to submit your predictions for Week 5. Original rules can be found here: Game Rules. #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: The Roommate, $15,002,635 Wesley each get a point for picking…
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We continue our rundown series this week with the writing awards, art direction and the supporting acting prizes. Today’s article features the Adapted Screenplay category. Come back tomorrow for Original.
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Having missed my update last week due to a heavy schedule, it’s time to get caught up with reviews of Five Easy Pieces, The Searchers, Animal Kingdom, The Green Hornet, Saw VII, Greek Season 1 and Eureka Seasons 2 & 3. So, here is what I watched this weekend: FIVE EASY PIECES One might say…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: George Oppenheimer (77 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1920: Raphael Bretton (91) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction; Oscar Nominee: Art Direction,Art Direction (Black-and-White) – 4 Noms, 1 Win} 1923: Mary Ann Nyberg (56 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Costume Design (Color) –2…
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It’s not often I get a perfect score in predicting, but the Annie Awards went precisely as I expected. No love for Toy Story 3 and a ton of awards for How to Train Your Dragon. It was a clean sweep (in that How to Train Your Dragon won every category in which it was…
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No unpredictability here. The Art Directors Guild has managed to reinforce most of what we were thinking with this year’s awards, seen below. The Awards Best Period Art Direction The King’s Speech (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Fantasy Art Direction Inception (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Contemporary Art Direction Black Swan (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter, Tripp, Wes)
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Carroll Clark (74 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque); Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White), Art Direction (Color) –7 Noms, 1 Win} 1903: Louis Mesenkop (71 at death) {Oscar Winner: Special Effects, Special/Honorary;Oscar Nominee: Special Effects – 3 Noms, 3…
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The winners for this year’s Writers Guild of America awards have been announced with something of a surprise in the Original Screenplay category, but expectations met in the other categories. Here are the winners. The Awards Best Original Screenplay Inception (No one) Best Adapted Screenplay The Social Network (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Documentary Screenplay…
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Oscar News At last weekend’s SAG Awards, The Fighter and The King’s Speech each took 2 acting awards, with the latter winning the Best Ensemble award. Oscar nominees Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo each took home an individual acting award. Tom Hooper won the Directors Guild of America award last weekend…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Bronislau Kaper (81 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Drama/Comedy Score;Oscar Nominee: Song, Drama/Comedy Score, Substantially Original Score, Musical Score –4 Noms, 1 Win} 1919: Red Buttons (87 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1921: Ken Adam (90) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner:…
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Several presenters and performers were named this past week for the Academy Awards. Before, I get to those, the final two sets of nominees for the Documentary Short Subject category (previously listed as Nominees to Be Determined) have been announced. Here’s a run down of those press releases: Sci-Tech Awards Marisa Tomei to Host Academy’s…
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Below is the winner of the USC Scripter Award announced this evening. The Award Best Adapted Screenplay Ben Mesrich (author) & Aaron Sorkin (screenwriter) – The Social Network
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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 two new wide releases would…
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