Home Viewing with Peter #988
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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What to See: January 21-23, 2011
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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Precursor: Costume Designers Guild Nominations
Below are the nominees for the 2010 Costume Designers Guild Awards. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design The Fighter The King’s Speech True Grit Best Fantasy Costume Design Alice in Wonderland The Tempest TRON Legacy Best Contemporary Costume Design Black Swan Burlesque Inception The Social Network Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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This Day in Oscar History: January 21
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: J. Carrol Naish (77 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1898: Rudolph Maté (66 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1903: William Lyon (71 at death) {Oscar Winner: Editing – 6 Noms, 2 Wins}…
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Feed the Queue #29
Another week with only a pair of participants. Sure, it’s up one over the prior time, but it’s not near our busiest. So, I hope more people will start contributing soon. It wasn’t even a close competition between the two. Three films tied for second place out of four, leaving a clear winner for first.…
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Oscar Profile #21: Billie Burke
Born August 7, 1884 in Washington, D.C, Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke spent her early life touring the world with her father, the famous clown, Billy Burke. Eventually settling in England, the redheaded beauty became a star on the London stage in 1905 and returned to America in 1907 to star opposite John Drew in…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 20
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Mildred Griffiths (55 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Color) – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: George Burns (100 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1907: Waldon O. Watson (79 at death) {Oscar Winner: John A. Bonner Medal,Sci-Tech Award –…
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Game: Week 3 – 2011 Spring Box Office Predictions
Time for another week of box office predictions. Submit yours below. Don’t remember the rules or need a refresher? Check them out here: Game Rules. Submit the Following for this Week
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Short List: Foreign Language Film
The Academy’s Foreign Film branch has narrowed the potential Oscar nominees down to 9 from 66. From this list, five will be selected: Beverly Hills, CA (January 19, 2011) – Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®. Sixty-six films had originally…
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Looking at the Weekend: January 21-23, 2011
Oscar’s rejects find a home in December as The Way Back and The Company Men, both once strong contenders for Oscars, failed to materialize with any substantial buzz. Only The Way Back still has a shot at a couple of nods. With them, we have a number of other films that are getting appropriately dumped…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1883: Elliott Clawson (59 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Writing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1902: Gene Milford (89 at death) {Oscar Winner: Editing – 3 Noms, 2 Wins} 1906: Millen Brand (74 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1907: Charles Henderson (63 at…
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Oscar Hopefuls: The Near-Final List
It’s getting fairly close to the Academy Awards Nominations (one week to be exact) and I’m becoming more solidified in my choices. I’ve made another pass through my predictions and updated them again. While this is not my FINAL set of predictions, it almost is and the final set will be solidified by Monday. Below…
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Game: Week 2 – Box Office Predictions: Results & Standings
Nearly doubling the next highest grosser, The Green Hornet takes the week.. Don’t forget to come back Wednesday to submit your predictions for Week 13. Original rules can be found here: Game Rules. #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: The Green Hornet, $33,526,876 Everyone gets a point for picking The Green…
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5 Favorites #9: 5 Favorite Stage Musical Adaptations
Every week, we’ll pose a new “five favorites” question. You just list your five favorites that fit in that category (preferably in preference order) and you’re welcome to discuss and debate the selections and see just how much you do or do not have in common with others. Let’s tackle more films this week. So,…
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The DVD Report #191: Oscar on DVD – 1972
New This Week CLICK HEREfor other new releases this week. Nowadays it would be extremely unlikely, if not outright impossible, for the year’s two “best” films to open in the first quarter of the year. Yet that’s exactly what happened in 1972. Cabaret opened on February 13th, nine days before the previous year’s Oscar nominations…
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Precursor: British Academy Award Nominations
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced it’s nominees for this year’s awards. According to the last information I got directly from their site a month or so ago, they weren’t supposed to announce until later this week, so I have no idea why these are out now, but here they…
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