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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’...

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STATUETTE STAKES: Nomination Thoughts

> After what seemed as long as a presidential primary season, the Oscar nominations are finally here. What do they tell us? THE ARTIST Is Still The Film To Beat. There were plenty of surprises sprinkled throughout today’s...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

Steve McQueen (the filmmaker) doesn’t take it easy on audiences. His first feature Hunger provided an excruciatingly detailed look at the fatal hunger strike of the Irish convict Bobby Sands, and he followed it w...

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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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SBD AWARDSWATCH: “Argo” Springs a Small Leak

Mitch Metcalf will have more to say about this weekend’s actual boxoffice numbers versus Sunday’s studio estimates later today, but one point is worth noting for its Oscar implications. It was important to ...

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THE BIJOU: Honorary Oscars Announced

> The Motion Picture Academy came up with 2 great choices and a puzzler in their selections for this year’s honorary Academy Awards. (Remember–as of last year, the honorary Oscars are no longer part of the tel...

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OSCARS MINUS 1: Final Predictions and Hopes

We’re less than 24 hours away from that exciting moment when the first negative tweet about Seth McFarlane’s performance as this year’s Oscar host appears, so it’s time to go all-in and make some ...

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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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THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part 2)

> Today, we return to SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s coverage of the Oscar race (see Part 1 here, with an introduction to those contenders best called the Field–these may not be the favorites, but even as longer shots they’r...

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The Sked: Oscar Ratings — Not a Disaster — UPDATE

Based on the fast national ratings for Sunday, the Academy Awards telecast should average around a 13.4 rating with adults 18-49 (adjusting the preliminary 12.1 rating upward to account for the Pacific time zone seeing the show...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY: Worth A Ticket – An Epic of Betrayals John LeCarre is (I guess one should say “arguably”) the greatest of all spy novelists, and his 1974 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, ...

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OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

The voting has just closed for this year’s Academy Awards, and here at Oscar Central, we are ready to make the following call: Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Best Actor Oscar for Lincoln. I know, way out on a...

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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...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: Worth A Ticket – Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served t...

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OSCARLAND: Do the Oscars Need To Be Popular?

Here’s a factoid: during the 1970s, that halcyon decade when the rebel filmmaker inmates finally, if briefly. took over the Hollywood studio asylum, viewed by movie history ever since with wistful nostalgia, ev...

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STATUETTE STAKES: NY Film Critics Kick Off Awards Season

STATUETTE STAKES: Nomination Thoughts

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “12 Years A Slave”

OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Nominations

SBD AWARDSWATCH: “Argo” Springs a Small Leak

THE BIJOU: Honorary Oscars Announced

OSCARS MINUS 1: Final Predictions and Hopes

OSCARLAND: The BAFTAs

THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part 2)

The Sked: Oscar Ratings — Not a Disaster — UPDATE

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

Oscar Major Category Odds: Less Than a Week to Go

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

OSCARLAND: Do the Oscars Need To Be Popular?

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