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OSCARLAND: The Too Many Best Actors Problem

It’s been a relatively quiet week in Oscarland: 12 YEARS A SLAVE expanded well if not phenomenally, ALL IS LOST continued to struggle at the box office despite superb reviews, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB had a moderately...

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OSCARLAND: The Nominees

The race is officially on, with Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel (both from Fox Searchlight) tied for the lead with 9 nominations (The Imitation Game has 8, while Boyhood, not so much a technical showcase, has 6), an...

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OSCARLAND: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Complete and “Final” Oscar Predictions

The following are my final predictions for the 2014 Academy Awards (you can find a much more detailed analysis for all the major categories in our Why and Why Not? posts). Keep in mind: (a) I’m often wrong, (b)...

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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 Day Arrives

Provocative, almost existential questions have circled this year’s Oscars since seconds after the nominations were announced. Should the awards, and the Motion Picture Academy’s voting membership, mirror th...

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OSCARLAND: We Are Here

Like presidential politics, the Oscar race doesn’t really stop anymore; one campaign gets underway before the last has even ended. Argo had yet to collect its statuettes in February before we were already hearing...

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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 BAFTAs

Although there were some new faces due to release patterns and category differences, in the big picture, the BAFTAs–Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars–turned out to be very much like the Golden Globes.�...

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OSCARLAND: Xmas at Marty’s

The big news this week in Oscarland was the confirmation that Martin Scorsese’s WOLF OF WALL STREET (Paramount), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill and many more, which wasn’t finish...

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OSCARLAND: The Too Many Best Actors Problem

OSCARLAND: The Nominees

OSCARLAND: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Complete and “Final” Oscar Predictions

OSCARLAND: Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

OscarLand: The Day Arrives

OSCARLAND: We Are Here

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actress

OSCARLAND: The BAFTAs

OSCARLAND: Xmas at Marty’s

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