THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Moneyball”
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Silver Linings Playbook” & “Seven Psychopaths” Take the Prizes
It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein. First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined ...
OSCAR ODDS for Major Categories
>Courtesy of the London oddsmakers (averaging a variety of books at easyodds.com), there appears to be little suspense ahead for the Best Picture and Best Director races at this year’s Academy Awards and almost no races a...
STATUETTE STAKES: NY Film Critics Kick Off Awards Season
> The New York Film Critics Circle famously (notoriously?), having decided that they simply couldn’t wait to announce their 2011 awards until, y’know, they had actually seen all the movies (when Warners couldn’...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE WINNERS
> It’s a measure of how desperately this year’s Oscar needed some kind of surprise that the closest thing to a thrill all evening was Meryl Streep’s win as Best Actress. Streep has been winning Academy A...
CRITICS AWARDS: “Zero Dark” Fires the First Shot
Year-end awards from critics groups have two purposes in the big-picture (which is to say the Oscar) context. In the aggregate, if enough of the groups are in agreement to form a consensus, they can make an accolade se...
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.�...
OSCAR ODDS for Major Categories — UPDATED
>Updated Oscar odds confirm a complete snooze is in store for Sunday’s Academy Awards as The Artist and director Michel Hazanavicius are heavy favorites to win Best Picture and Best Director, bringing a very French flavor...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”
THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...
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...
STATUETTE STAKES: The Oscar Race That Wasn’t
> This year’s Academy Awards have so far engendered the kind of enthusiasm and excitement usually associated with a suburban DMV office on a Tuesday afternoon. People seem to be sullenly resigned to the inevitabilit...
The Sked: ACADEMY AWARDS Telecast Ratings Prediction
>Tonight’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC should be short on suspense as The Artist sweeps to victory in the Best Picture and Best Director categories. (See our Oscar Odds for more.) While there is a race for ...
THE BIJOU’S NEWS & NOTES: New Oscar Rules
> The Academy, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to fiddle once again with the Best Picture category. Instead of 5 nominees, as was the case pre-2009, or 10, as we’ve had the past 2 years, now no one will know jus...