Oscar Nominees React: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Christopher Plummer Respond to the News
January, 24, 2012 7:29 am | Comments On #Christopher Plummer, Gary Oldman, hugo, Kenneth Branagh, Meryl Streep, Michel Hazanavicius, Movies, Oscar nominees, reactions, The Artist, Viola Davis
It was a very good morning for Meryl Streep, George Clooney and the teams behind "Hugo" and "The Artist" after the Academy Awards nominations were announced Tuesday.
This year's crop of Oscar nominees reacted with humility, glee and gratitude to hearing their names called out in the wee hours of the morning, dispensing said glee and gratitude through prepared statements and interviews...
Read More'The Artist,' 'Hugo' Lead Oscar Nominations
January, 24, 2012 5:43 am | Comments On #Academy Awards, Awards, oscars"The Artist," "The Descendants" and "Hugo" are among the nine films nominated for Best Picture by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," "The Help," "Midnight in Paris," "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life" and "War Horse" also made the cut.
Also read: The Complete List of Oscar Nominees
"Hugo" received the most nominations, with 11. "The Artist" received 10.
"Moneyball" and "War Horse" received six each, while "The Descendants" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" each got five.
Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life...
Read MoreSteve Pond's Oscar-Nomination Predictions: In With 'Dragon Tattoo,' Out With 'War Horse'
January, 23, 2012 2:17 pm | Comments On #Academy Awards, Awards, hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, Oscar nominations, oscars, The Artist, The Descendants, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The HelpPredicting the Oscar nominations used to be so easy.
Oscar-watchers knew who the frontrunners were, we could make educated guesses about the rest, and – crucially – we knew how many nominations there would be: 10 for Best Picture, five for everything else.
Then the Academy threw a monkey wrench into that with a new system of vote-counting that will produce anywhere from five to 10 nominees.
It only makes the questions harder to answer. Will the new method really help a love-it-or-hate-it movie like "The Tree of Life," or will it hurt a consensus favorite like "The Help?"
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Read MoreAnalysis: Rivals to 'The Artist' Are Down to Their Last Shot
January, 22, 2012 8:08 am | Comments On #Academy Awards, Awards, DGA Awards, hugo, oscars, Producers Guild Awards, producers guild of america, The Artist, The DescendantsOne more chance.
That's all that remains for the films hoping to throw a roadblock in the way of the inexorable march to the Oscar stage for "The Artist."
When Michel Hazanavicius' black and white silent film won the top award from the Producers Guild on Saturday night, it silenced the last nagging notion that the charming film might be too slight to win Oscar's Best Picture award.
(Left, producer Thomas Langmann accepting the PGA award; photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Now that the producers have voted it the year's best, on ballots that were tallied using the same system that the Academy uses, it's all but inevitable that Oscar voters will do the...
Read MoreRecount: Why There May Only Be 6 Best-Picture Nominees
January, 20, 2012 4:40 pm | Comments On #Academy Awards, Awards, best picture, Oscar ballots, oscars, preferential systemLast month, I used a recount of the Critics Choice Movie Awards ballots to show how the new Oscar voting system was likely to produce eight Best Picture nominees, not 10.
But it turns out that might be an overly generous number.
Also read: There Will Only Be 8 Best Picture Nominees -- Here's Why
Because I didn't get to directly handle the CCMA ballots, I wanted to run another test to see just how the system plays out. So I took the more than 200 Top 10 lists collected on the Movie City News website, and tallied them as though they were Oscar ballots.
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Read More'Super 8' Speaks Loudest to Sound Editors
January, 20, 2012 1:17 am | Comments On #Awards, Motion Picture Sound Editors, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Super 8, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, TransformersOn Thursday, the Cinema Audio Society nominated a minimalist slate of five feature films for sound mixing. On Friday, the Motion Picture Sound Editors celebrated the art of sound editing by going in the opposite direction, doling out 47 Golden Reel Awards nominations to 40 different films in seven film categories.
They also handed out almost four dozen television nominations, and more than two dozen in categories labeled "other."
Among the feature films, nominees ranged from "Hugo," "The Help" and "The Tree of Life" to "Quarantine II: Terminal" and "Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll" – everything, it seems, except "The Artist" and...
Joel Cox, Doug Ibold to Receive Editors' Lifetime Achievement Awards
January, 19, 2012 11:52 pm | Comments On #ACE Eddie Awards, American Cinema Editors, Awards, Clint Eastwood, Doug Ibold, Joel CoxClint Eastwood's longtime editor Joel Cox and TV veteran Doug Ibold will receive Lifetime Career Achievement Awards from the American Cinema Editors on February 18, ACE announced on Thursday.
The awards will be given to Cox (below) and Ibold (left) at the 62nd annual ACE Eddie Awards, which will take place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and will be hosted by Patton Oswalt.
Eastwood will present the award to Cox, while television producer Dick Wolf will present the honor to Ibold.
Cox has worked with Eastwood for more than 35 years and more than 30 movies, including "Million Dollar Baby," "J. Edgar," "Gran Torino," "...
Read More'The Help' Tops NAACP Image Award Nominations
January, 19, 2012 10:37 am | Comments On #NAACP Image Awards, The HelpThe nominations for the 43rd NAACP Image Awards were announced Thursday, and the leader of the pack is "The Help" with eight.
That may come as a bit of a surprise, as the DreamWorks movie has drawn some controversy for its portrayals of racial attitudes in Mississippi in the early 1960s.
In addition to being nominated for best movie, Tate Taylor nabbed nominations for best director and best screenplay.
The female actresses behind "The Help" lodged the film in additional categories: Viola Davis and Emma Stone are up for best actress; Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer and Cicely Tyson are in the running...
Read More'The Artist,' 'Thor,' 'Bridesmaids' Among Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees
January, 19, 2012 9:59 am | Comments On #Awards, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Glee, gme of thrones, Harry Potter, Jane Lynch, Media, The Artist, Thor, X-MenThor's hammer and cape and the "Bridesmaids" dresses will both vie for honors at the 14th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards.
The guild released its list of nominees for the ceremony Wednesday, with a diverse list of contenders that included "Thor," "Bridesmaids," "The Artist." "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
On the TV front, HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" are both up for nods, as well as Showtime's "The Borgias" among others.
The ceremony, which will be hosted by Jane Lynch of "Glee" (...
Read MoreCinema Audio Society Likes the Sound of 'Hugo,' 'Moneyball'
January, 19, 2012 5:30 am | Comments On #Academy Awards, Awards, CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, hugo, Moneyball, oscars"Hanna," "Hugo," "Moneyball," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "Super 8" sounded best in 2011, according to the members of the Cinema Audio Society.
The CAS, a non-profit organization of sound professionals that honors the best achievements in sound mixing each year, nominated those films for its top feature film award on Thursday.
Only "Hugo" (left) and "Moneyball" are in the running for the top Oscars, though the nominations may well overlap with the Academy's sound categories.
Last year's CAS feature film winner, "True Grit," was nominated for the Sound Mixing Oscar but lost to "Inception...
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The Odds is an informed, bemused, skeptical and authoritative look at all aspects of the Academy Awards race. Steve Pond, author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Big Show, has been covering this particular circus for more than two decades, much of that time as the only reporter with full backstage and rehearsal access to the Oscar show.
