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OSCARLAND: “Alone Yet Not Alone” Now Really Alone

The Oscars are not the Golden Globes. That appears to be the underlying message of today’s action by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, revoking the Best Original Song nomination of “Alone Y...

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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Director

We’ve reviewed all the performers in the Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress and Best Actor categories, and now it’s time to look at the filmmakers themselves. Here’s a last ...

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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actress

As we did with Best Supporting Actor and will do the rest of this week with the other major categories, this is a final look at the rationales behind and against each nominee’s likelihood of winning. We’re ...

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OSCARLAND: The Nominations and Instant Analysis

…and now it’s all real. AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY lead the Academy Award nominations with 10 each, with 12 YEARS A SLAVE right behind at 9, and those three are probably the leading candidates for Best Pic...

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OSCARLAND: WGA Awards and The Woody Allen Issue

Tonight the Writers Guild of America followed the lead of the Golden Globes and gave its award for Best Original Screenplay to Spike Jonze for HER rather than to AMERICAN HUSTLE. The WGA awards were seen as Hustle̵...

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OSCARLAND: Writers Guild Nominations

The Writers Guild is unusual among awards-giving groups in that it strictly enforces the rule that only screenplays written for films produced under Guild agreements are eligible. That tends to exclude some of the majo...

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OSCARLAND: The Foreign-Language Short List

What do Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Past have in common? Two things, actually: they’re both widely considered among the best foreign-language films shown in the US this year–and neither will be nomi...

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OSCARLAND: Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

Let’s face it: anyone with an interest in the matter has been circling the same basic list of titles and names for weeks now, if not months, and the truth is that as much fun as it would be for some shocking surp...

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OSCARLAND: The Critics Choice Nominations

The Broadcast Film Critics Association and their “Critics Choice” awards seem on the whole way too eager to please, desperate to have as many movies and stars in their tent (and on their CW awards telecast) a...

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OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Produces a Tie

The Producers Guild of America didn’t clarify much of anything tonight by giving its Best Picture award to both 12 YEARS A SLAVE and GRAVITY. That provided all 3 of the presumed frontrunners with a prize for the ...

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OSCARLAND: LA and Boston Don’t Clear Anything Up

A messy awards season became even messier with the results of today’s critics group awards. The big prize of the day was the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which… tied. Full results are here, but Bes...

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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actor

The votes are in, and all that’s left is the counting. The Calendar section of the LA Times has returned to normal size, the pop-up website ads have subsided, the screenings and Q&As have finished, and the ta...

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OSCARLAND: Rating the Studios

We’ll never know if this year’s Best Picture race is as close as we think it is, since the Academy has no intention of ever releasing its vote totals (something it did back at the very beginning of Oscar hist...

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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Picture

We’ve taken a tour through Best Actress and Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director, and that leaves one last major gold statue to be handed out. As we have all along, we ...

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OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Nominations

The calendar has turned to 2014, and the critics, for the most part, have spoken. Now Oscar season is moving into the Guild part of its schedule, and today the Producers Guild announced its Best Picture nominees. The...

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OSCARLAND: “Alone Yet Not Alone” Now Really Alone

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Director

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actress

OSCARLAND: The Nominations and Instant Analysis

OSCARLAND: WGA Awards and The Woody Allen Issue

OSCARLAND: Writers Guild Nominations

OSCARLAND: The Foreign-Language Short List

OSCARLAND: Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

OSCARLAND: The Critics Choice Nominations

OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Produces a Tie

OSCARLAND: LA and Boston Don’t Clear Anything Up

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actor

OSCARLAND: Rating the Studios

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Picture

OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Nominations

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