'Air' Director Didn't Base Anna Kendrick's Casting On 'Twilight': It's 'A Graveyard Of Acting'

... National Board of Review announced their 2009 film award winners yesterday, and unsurprisingly "Up in the Air" walked away with a whole bunch — including a Best Supporting Actress win for Anna Kendrick. While ... are still two and a half months until the Academy Awards, winning a NBR award means you have a pretty good shot of nabbing an Oscars (the Best Picture NBR winner the past two years has gone...

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Stop right where you are, already you've gone too far

... Mind is the worst Best Picture winner of my lifetime. Indeed,... only outright bad film that Academy has rewarded in that category ... Goldsman that posits that the best means to overcome mental illness...most years, my director and picture choices march in lockstep. Ron...structure of the narrative. Worst Best Actress in a Leading Role...he deserves the descriptor "Academy Award winner" before his name, but...

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Hunk de Jour; The First Post!

... he can act. PLEASE NOTE! If you click on a picture (and some of these you DO want to click on), it...some of my very very very very favorites! Screencaps from the best sceen in the new Star Trek movie! Drool! I mean...final two pictures come from a movie called Surrender Dorothy! Here is the description from IMDB: Academy Award® Winner Diane Keaton delivers one of the most dynamic and astonishing...

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Carole, in train-ing

... taken in some California railyard instead of Promontory Point: It's a rather charming picture -- I love seeing Carole, smiling, in a conductor's cap, and to view lots...is; my first guess is that it's Bessie Love, a 1920s star probably best known for starring in the 1929 Academy Award best picture winner, "The Broadway Melody." But I could be on the wrong track (figuratively, of course). Nor...

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2009 awards season gets a 'Last'-minute entry

...this year including three more Best Actress possibilities) and opened in...order to qualify for the Academy Awards. There was some speculation...the deal clearly involves an Academy Award campaign, but why not...a good portion of the academy, particularly the still-influential veteran...starred in 1965's Best Picture winner "The Sound Of Music...with older Golden Globe and Academy voters. In fact the Globes...

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The big question this Oscartime is:

...an Academy Award, can't comprehend why the best-picture list...to draw more eyes, the academy would like Oscar to find...eclectic mix of contenders, the academy simply chooses 10 small films...Z and Midnight Cowboy (the winner) represented the cutting edge, while...1939 – often considered Hollywood's best – was invoked as an example...dissipates the importance of the award," Bona says. •Statue-swapping fatigue...

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In Pedro’s movies I am always either dying or having babies

...It’s good,” she said, turning the picture toward Mr. Almodóvar, her eyes ...,” which would win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Mr. Almodóvar ...“Volver,” Ms. Cruz earned her first Academy Award nomination for playing a determined widow who was an amalgam of ... not one of the world’s best-known openly gay directors and she ... by Bartlett Sher (a 2008 Tony winner for “South Pacific”) and written by ...

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Oprah Reason Behind Precious Snub??

... since when do film critics and academy members watch Oprah? SASHA STONE, ..." has already won the audience award at Sundance AND at Toronto. ... be stupidly proclaiming "Avatar" will win best picture. Ridiculous. SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA, USA TODAY ...This is much ado about an award that really only represents whatever is...the Gothams. SCOTT FEINBERG, AND THE WINNER IS ... — I think the folks ...

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Oscar Predictions 2010!

...The plan from the Academy to widen the Best Picture nomination field to... screen villain. Also, helloooooo- Nazis! BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Marion Cotillard, Nine ... supporting females. Cotillard, a previous winner, has the biggest female role,... Clint Eastwood. Too, too obvious. BEST ACTRESS Carey Mulligan, An Education ... an award for BEST writing, not MOST writing.” BEST PICTURE An ...

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The Polanski Culture: Hollywood’s Push to Normalize Sex With Children

...his homophobic father … so maybe the best option for him is a sexual...and written and directed by Oscar-winner Alan Ball, last year’s “...Kate Winslet won last year’s Best Actress Oscar for her role in...sound and fury of the moving picture. First we’re led to ...” co-workers torment him. The award for Most Unsettling, however, must go...to 2004’s “Birth,” where Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman stars as a...

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