Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton Look Picture Perfect at Dinner
Ron Sachs – Pool/Getty Images Say cheese! It’s good to know that even ladies like Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton put that iPhone front-facing camera to use. The Oscar-winning actress and secretary...
View ArticleLincoln surges ahead of Les Miserables in Oscar Best Picture race
What a difference a few days makes. On Dec. 12, Les Miserables had a cozy lead in Oscar’s Best Picture race, according to a poll of experts conducted by Gold Derby. Just two days later, Lincoln –...
View ArticleOscars complicated counting of Best Picture ballots explained
Blog: News & Views Oscars complicated counting of Best Picture ballots explained On Voting for Oscar nominations began on Monday (Dec. 17) and runs till Thursday, Jan. 3. This year, the academy is...
View ArticleOscar Buzz: Argo, Lincoln and 5 Movies Most Likely to Get Best Picture
The Oscars are that time of year when Hollywood commends Hollywood for being so Hollywood. However, that doesn’t change that because of the Academy Awards, we actually get to see quite a few great...
View ArticleMost of best picture Oscar picks are expected to be moneymakers
“Zero Dark Thirty” is poised to join a bumper crop of box office successes among the Academy Award nominees for best picture. Four of this year’s nine nominated movies have grossed more than $100...
View ArticleMore Honest Titles for This Year’s Best-Picture Oscar Nominees
College Humor has unveiled its annual “Honest Titles” gallery of parody movie posters, suggesting more accurate names for this year’s Oscar-nominated films. You don’t need to be familiar with the...
View ArticleArgo Favoured To Win Best Picture Oscar
by Renee Israel When the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced, nobody was surprised to see that Steven Spielberg’s historic masterpiece Lincoln soon became a forerunner to win Best...
View ArticleTwo Oscar experts valiantly hold out for ‘Lincoln’ to win Best Picture
Blog: News & Views Two Oscar experts valiantly hold out for ‘Lincoln’ to win Best Picture Twenty-three of our 25 Oscarologists predict “Argo” will win Best Picture, but two brave pundits still...
View ArticleWhy Ben Affleck must return 2013 Best Picture Oscar statuette
In Canada, there used to exist a company that produced Canadian Literature. When I first wrote Mack Dunstan’s Inferno I pitched it to that very company, several times. I even approached them through...
View ArticleAdele Brings Home Adorable Mini-Oscar for Baby Son: Picture
Souvenir for baby! After sweeping the 2013 Hollywood awards season, British singer Adele headed home to the UK with trophies for both her and her 5-month-old son. ” . . . and we’re home! What an epic...
View ArticleWill ‘Mud’ make it into Best Picture race at Oscars?
Blog: News & Views Will ‘Mud’ make it into Best Picture race at Oscars? Comments “Mud” marks the first screener sent out to academy members with most getting Jeff Nichols‘ hit coming-of-age film...
View ArticleWhy Oscar may never give us 10 Best Picture nominees again
LOS ANGELES – “I really hope we have 10 nominees this year” is a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot lately in conversations about the Oscar race. The underlying assumption is clear: With the Academy’s...
View ArticleOscars: how competitive is the race for best picture?
2 December 2013 Last updated at 02:12 GMT Oscars: how competitive is the race for best picture? By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News From left: Sandra Bullock in Gravity,...
View ArticleUpdated 2014 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture and Director
The precursor awards are underway and I waited until seeing the likes of American Hustle, Saving Mr. Banks and Love Survivor before rushing to update my predictions once again. That said, after the...
View ArticleOscars: Why Not World’s Best Picture?
When the Oscars modified the best picture category in 2009 and instituted an annual list of up to 10 nominees, the intention may have been to make sure that critically acclaimed blockbusters like the...
View ArticleCould ‘Gravity,’’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Oscars best picture too?
Could ‘Gravity,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Oscars best picture too? 20 m ago By Rafer Guzmán Photo credit: AP | Chiwetel Ejiofor in a scene from “12 Years A Slave.” For the first time in the 24-year...
View ArticleOscar’s Best-Picture Nominations Surprisingly Risky
People rarely describe Oscar voters as edgy or daring, citing the best-picture victories of “nice” films like “American in Paris” over “Streetcar Named Desire” or “Dances With Wolves” over...
View ArticleThe Toughest Best Picture Races in Oscar History
2013 was, as we film critics have reiterated endlessly in the pages of CraveOnline, an extraordinarily good year for movies. As such, all nine films nominated for Best Picture Academy Award this year...
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