Posts Tagged ‘Oscars’
 

 

Oscar Major Category Odds: Less Than a Week to Go

Following up on Mitch Salem’s Best Picture overview, here’s an updated look at the odds for the major Oscar categories. After its winning streak at the various guild award ceremonies, Argo has traded places with L...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

OSCARS MINUS 6: The “Argo”-ness of It All

  So, is it over? It certainly feels over.  Voting for the Academy Awards ends tomorrow, and last night’s win at the Writers Guild for Best Adapted Screenplay cemented Argo’s astonishing streak of victories ov...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Oscar Odds: After the Golden Globes

After its Golden Globes win for Best Drama, the odds of winning Best Picture for Argo improved a bit (moving from a $7.50 payout on a $1 wager to $5.25 and moving past Les Miserables into second place).  But the favorite rem...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Oscar Odds: After the Nominations

With the announcement of the Oscar nominations today, Lincoln only became more of a favorite by London oddsmakers (moving from a payout of about $1.80 on a $1 bet last week to about $1.40 today).   The odds got a bit longer ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: The Directors Guild Nominations

  It wasn’t a great morning for the Weinstein Company, which saw both of its major candidates rejected by the Directors Guild of America in that organization’s nominations, the last to be announced before Thurs...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: The National Society of Film Critics Is Full of “Amour”

  Today’s shipment of critical praise comes courtesy of the National Society of Film Critics, a small (60-member) but prestigious group, which today gave Michael Haneke’s AMOUR one of its biggest boosts of the ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: The WGA Nominations

  The Writers Guild of America, it should quickly be noted, operates under very strict eligibility rules, only allowing awards to go to films produced under WGA or WGA-affiliated contracts.  That disqualified a number of ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

OSCAR ODDS: An Early Look

  As the movie awards season starts to get going, here’s an early look at how the betting odds are shaping up on the Internet.  Lincoln is the clear favorite for Best Picture, with bookmakers offering a little unde...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZ OSCAR WATCH: Producer and Art Director Guilds Weigh In

  Two of the Guilds whose memberships overlap with the Motion Picture Academy issued their nominations yesterday.  The first and by far more important (and most eager–they accelerated their announcement by 24 hours,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Not Fade Away”

  NOT FADE AWAY:  Watch It At Home – The Tumultuous 1960s (Again) What do you do after you’ve created the seminal television drama of our time?  If you’re David Chase, it seems that you take a few years...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARBALL: The Golden Globe Nominations

  Another day, another set of nominees. The Golden Globes, of course, whose nominees in full can be found here, have become their own thing, even though as an organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has no mor...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

OSCARBALL: The SAG Nominations

  The Screen Actors Guild award nominations are important in the Oscar precursor game, but not in their most showcase way:  the Best Ensemble winner (often taken to be SAG’s equivalent of “Best Picture,”...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARBALL: The Critics’ Choice Nominations

  The Broadcast Film Critics Association is one of those organizations that wants everyone to be happy, including the television network (CW) that carries its yearly telecast, so it gives out a number of MTV-like silly awa...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Weekend in Critics Awards

  The big prizes this weekend were the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, LAFCA has a habit of showcasing its iconoclasm (the organization has only given its Best Picture prize to the eventual Oscar winner once i...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

CRITICS AWARDS: The National Board of Review’s Day

  The National Board of Review is an organization whose members are largely unknown (and the opinions of whom are of zero interest), with an existence that gets noticed on exactly one day of the year, like that one groundh...
by Mitch Salem