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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EFA: Best European Film Honors Another Controversial Filmmaker
13 minutes readEFA Best Film Honors a scandal-plagued Filmmaker for 2nd consecutive time while behind-the-times European Academy honors ‘old’ Oscar winners.
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Lesbian Drama Best Film at Tribeca + Asian Film Awards
27 minutes readCarice van Houten and Rutger Hauer in ‘Black Butterflies’ Carice van Houten & ‘She Monkeys’: Tribeca Film Festival Awards Writer-director Lisa Aschan’s feature film debut, the Swedish lesbian drama She …
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The King’s Speech PG-13 Cut + Charlotte Brontë on Censorship
3 minutes readColin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech: Censored, “family-friendly” version of Tom Hooper’s Oscar winner is a box office dud. PG-rated version of Oscar winner The King’s Speech flops …
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Colin Firth and Wife + Céline Dion: The Oscars
20 minutes readColin Firth and Wife Livia Giuggioli: Academy Awards. Best Actor Oscar winner railed against censorship, dismissed message movies.
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Roger Deakins: ‘True Grit’ cinematographer has no Oscar to call his own. Oscar Predictions: Best Cinematography – Roger Deakins, ‘True Grit’ Although Inception‘s Wally Pfister won the 2011 American Society …
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Oscar Upset + M. Night Shyamalan Fantasy Tops Razzies
17 minutes readHeidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum Picks Oscar winner Colin Firth. Many have complained that the 2011 Oscar ceremony was dull. That hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco were out of their …
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Luncheon for Oscar nominees Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges and (partially) Nicole Kidman. Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges photos: Oscar Nominees Luncheon 2011 Best Actress Academy Award nominee Annette Bening sits on …
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Best Actress Oscar: Natalie Portman & Jennifer Lawrence
15 minutes readBest Actress Oscar Nominees Group picture with Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence with Nicole Kidman, Annette Bening and Michelle Williams.
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SAG Awards: Barbara Hershey & Natalie Portman + Susan Sarandon & Son Jack Henry Robbins
18 minutes readNatalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress for ‘Black Swan.’ Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress winner ‘bleeped’ TNT and TBS bleeped Natalie Portman, …
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Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes Below-the-Belt Barbs Targeting Gay Scientologists + Mel Gibson Eclipse Winners
15 minutes readRicky Gervais’ mean-spirited Golden Globes humor eclipsed coverage of the actual winners. Among them, Annette Bening for her performance as a fierce, family-defending lesbian wife/mother in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Hardy in Inception. The BFCA voters usually get it right, e.g., The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Sean Penn for Milk, Heath Ledger for The …
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LA Weekly Critics Poll offers several surprises from Assayas to Polanski plus M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan efforts’ Worst Film tie.
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Facebook Movie Remains Critics’ Favorite + Hollywood Liberal Is ‘Humanitarian of the Year’
15 minutes readFacebook movie unfriending drama remains film critics’ fave while Texas group chooses Hollywood liberal celebrity Humanitarian of the Year.
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Actors Guild: SAG Awards comes up with second Annette Bening vs Hilary Swank rematch while Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon bypassed.
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Jennifer Lawrence vs. David Fincher: End of Absolute Awards Season Rule + Colin Farrell Surprise
14 minutes readJennifer Lawrence vs. David Fincher: End of Absolute Awards Season Rule for Facebook flick but Colin Farrell definitely the biggest surprise of all.
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Mainstream Group Choices: New York Film Critics Selects Crowd-Pleasing Hollywood Establishment Fare
15 minutes readMainstream group choices: New York Film Critics opt for Establishment fare from inspirational king biopic to crowd-pleasing lesbian family comedy-drama.
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L.A. Film Critics Daringly International Choices
11 minutes readL.A. Film Critics adventurous international selections range from terrorists and criminals to short-tempered king and obsessively devoted mother.
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Royal Drama Tops British Independent Film Awards But Director Snubbed + Jennifer Lawrence Wins Stockholm
19 minutes readRoyal Drama tops British Independent Film Awards but director snubbed and missing from respected film magazine Top Ten + Jennifer Lawrence wins Stockholm.
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Spirit Awards Nominations: Jennifer Lawrence & James Franco In + What’s American & What’s Ain’t
6 minutes readMichelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine. Winter’s Bone, in which an Ozark Mountain teenager hunts down her drug-dealing father, topped the 2011 Spirit Award nominations announced earlier today. Directed …
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The King’s Speech box office: Starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, Tom Hooper’s real-life-based period drama is the biggest sleeper hit of the year. Helena Bonham Carter costars.
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Patricia Norris Lifetime Achievement Award + Nicole Kidman Honor
13 minutes readPatricia Norris. Patricia Norris: Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Production Designer and Costume Designer Patricia Norris, a frequent David Lynch collaborator, will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement …
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Indie Spirit Awards: Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station ‘Indie’ Spirit Awards’ mostly mainstream winners The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie …
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Gay Professor & Seduced Schoolgirl: BAFTA Winners + Aaron & Sam Taylor-Johnson Among Guests
22 minutes readRichard Buckley, Tom Ford, Livia Giuggioli and Colin Firth. Firth was the Best Actor winner for his portrayal of a bereaved gay professor in 1960s Los Angeles in Ford’s A …
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Best Actor Oscar: Colin Firth + George Clooney + Jeff Bridges
16 minutes readBest Actor Oscar nominees Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2010 Oscar Nominees Luncheon held this afternoon …
Hall Pass Box Office: Panned Farrellys Top Oscar Weekend
Hall Pass box office: The Farrelly brothers’ critically panned comedy managed to top the domestic chart and be a major commercial dud. Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis star.
Wally Pfister Surprises, Julia Roberts Reprises Old Joke at American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards Deakins’ Oscar chances down.
The King’s Speech (Movie 2010): Flawless Colin Firth
The King’s Speech with Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter The King’s Speech (movie 2010) review I can’t imagine what it must be like to be born into royalty. That kind …
Critics Awards: Natalie Portman continues to wow US groups while Australian actress and British terrorism comedy are surprise winners in central states.
Pat Tillman and Edward Cullen + other curious film awards season choices ranging from pre-med student Michelle Williams to stripper Halle Berry.
Geoffrey Rush gets career award while Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Firth are Critics’ Winners plus Pixar vs. Animated Film Society fight to worsen?
Vera Farmiga, Charlize Theron and Tom Ford: Oscar Red Carpet with Lee Daniels and Burma VJ nominees while Steve Martin cohosted ceremony.