Tom O'Neil Articles

James Cameron is ecstatic that Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker was the night's big winner First the good news: the Adam Shankman-Bill Mechanic-produced 2010 Oscar telecast drew 14% more viewers than last year, when Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture. Whether that was because of Avatar, the Super Bowl Ratings Effect, Sandra Bullock, The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson (who [...]

Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia (Columbia Pictures) (left); Yolande Moreau in Séraphine (Music Box Films) (right) Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Quentin Tarantino, Abbie Cornish, Inglourious Basterds, and Everlasting Moments were a few of the top contenders for the 2010 National Society of Film Critics Awards, announced earlier today. Both indieWIRE and The Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil have full lists of [...]

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada (top); Helen Mirren in The Queen (bottom) Tom O'Neil in the Gold Derby: "No, no, no, no — contrary to some wrongheaded sources over the past few days, Helen Mirren did not make Golden Globe history by becoming the first star to win kudos for acting on film and TV in the same year. [...]