Amour and Zero Dark Thirty are awards season faves + Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises among Top 10 but Anne Hathaway shoo-in for another film.
Movie Awards
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‘Miserable Failure’: Michael Moore Revamps Best Documentary Oscar + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker In
8 minutes readBest Documentary Oscar: Michael Moore Changes Miserable Failure? + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi in despite house arrest and smuggled movie.
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National Board of Review Awards make history as Kathryn Bigelow becomes 1st woman Best Director while 1 more top star is Best Supporting Actor.
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European Film Awards: Michael Haneke Sets Best Director Record
14 minutes readEuropean Film Awards: Michael Haneke Best Director record as 2 French cinema veterans win their 1st award + Annie Awards bypass blockbusters.
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Famous Children of Famous Parents Are Potential Oscar Contenders + Sex-Themed Movies Top Rome Festival
14 minutes readFamous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts …
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Jodie Foster: Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jodie Foster will be the next Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced – by way of Foster’s …
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Seth MacFarlane Oscars host confirmed: Unusual pick Seth MacFarlane, best known internationally for the comedy box office hit Ted, will host the 2013 Oscar ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 24, Oscarcast …
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The Intouchables Movie Is French Oscar Submission + Iran Boycott & Australia Submits ‘German’ Movie
12 minutes readThe Intouchables movie: France’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry. In the cast: Omar Sy as Driss, François Cluzet as Philippe. The Intouchables movie, France’s biggest French-language blockbuster at the …
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George Stevens Jr, Stunt Man Hal Needham: Honorary Oscar
6 minutes readHonorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and …
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Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Christian Petzold drama ‘Barbara’: Germany Oscar Submission Starring Nina Hoss, writer-director Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s …
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Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Still Living
2 minutes readBest Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday, …
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George Cukor Gay Woman’s Director Nonsense
7 minutes readA Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his …
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Avatar 2 News + Barbra Streisand Director Comeback?
9 minutes readAvatar 2 news: Sequels to be filmed concurrently says Sigourney Weaver Avatar 2, 3, 4 to be filmed concurrently. [Photo: Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.] Audiences are clamoring for original fare, …
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Cannes Winners: Old Age Drama + Mob Mentality Indictment
18 minutes readCristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are …
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On the Road interview: cast members Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley March 21 update: “It’s interesting to play characters that have existed,” says Kristen Stewart in an On the …
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First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime …
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Little Caesar (Movie 1931): Iconic But Dated Gangster Drama
6 minutes readLittle Caesar (movie 1931) review: Edward G. Robinson is an iconic all-American gangster in Mervyn LeRoy’s landmark but creaky crime drama. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. costars.
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Harvey Weinstein ‘Entourage’ Includes French President + Viggo Mortensen & Vanessa Paradis Are ‘Canadian’ Winners
14 minutes readHarvey Weinstein “entourage” apparently includes the current French president. The Legion d’Honneur Chevalier was nominated by none other than Nicolas Sarkozy, whose behind-the-scenes support for the powerhouse Hollywood producer and …
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Kirk Baxter, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper, Angus Wall. Presenters Tina Fey and Bradley Cooper pose with Oscar winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held …
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Jean Dujardin Makes Oscar History
12 minutes readJean Dujardin. Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius’ The …
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‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist …
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Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Along with Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg produced …
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Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: When Margaret Thatcher stares back, need for Women’s Museum and faulty Academy Award history knowledge.
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Meryl Streep + Husband Don Gummer + Tom Cruise
27 minutes readMeryl Streep and husband Don Gummer: Oscar 2012. Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer at the Governors Ball after 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood and Highland Center …
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Milla Jovovich + Angelina Jolie + Brad Pitt: The Oscars
37 minutes readMilla Jovovich and Tim Gunn. Milla Jovovich and Tim Gunn: Academy Awards’ Red Carpet Ukrainian-born actress Milla Jovovich (on Dec. 17, 1975, in Kiev, at the time part of the …
NYFCC Awards: Rachel Weisz Is Major Best Actress surprise + Sally Field Breaks and Daniel Day-Lewis Ties New York Film Critics Circle records.
Oscars’ Predictions: Robert Pattinson & Clint Eastwood Chances?
Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013 …
Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis’ Third Best Actor Oscar?
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar 2013? Ever since it was announced that Steven Spielberg was going to direct an Abraham Lincoln biopic, film pundits, bloggers, …
Django Unchained Trailer + Lindsay Lohan Hospitalization Media Frenzy & Kristen Stewart Kiss
Django Unchained trailer with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Django Unchained trailer is out. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds fame, Django Unchained is set …
Emma Thompson Oscar Role Returns? + Brooklyn Decker Burrito + Colin Farrell Channels Arnold Schwarzenegger
Emma Thompson back as Gareth Peirce? Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson may once again play human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, according to Screen Daily. Nearly twenty years ago, Thompson played …
Melissa McCarthy & Husband Ben Falcone: Academy Awards
Maya Rudolph. Maya Rudolph attends the Governors Ball after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood on Feb. 26, ’12. Rudolph wasn’t nominated for any …
Octavia Spencer Academy Award Winner & Next Year’s Oscar Dates
Octavia Spencer. In this very artistic picture, Octavia Spencer admires her Oscar statuette at the Governor’s Ball, following the 2012 Annual Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA Feb. 26. Spencer was …