Oscar Prospects: Anna Karenina
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Any...
View ArticleOscar Prospects: Les Misérables
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] With its...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
If not bound to have the most impressive lineup, this category may just yield the season's most deserving win, as Tony Kushner's script for Lincoln remains miles ahead of the competition, standing,...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actress
Boasting enough fine performances to fill a 10-wide field at least, Supporting Actress is this year's most riches-packed race, and the one with the least room for disappointment. In any season, Sally...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Actor
Whether the reason boils down to Oscar politics or an overall lack of enthusiasm, it certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master, despite the mind-boggling...
View ArticleUnderstanding Screenwriting #104: Lincoln, Skyfall, Flight, & More
Coming Up In This Column: Lincoln, Skyfall, Flight, Silver Linings Playbook, Middle of Nowhere, Covert Affairs but first... Fan Mail: First an addition to US#103. I mentioned in the credits for Argo...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Picture
As is customary at this stage of the game, Oscar's top quintet of Best Picture hopefuls are sure to land nominations, so much so that every pundit can pat himself on the back, saying proudly that if...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Lincoln Leads Oscar Noms, What Happens When You Cast...
The Oscar nominations have been announced. Here is what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie. Cinema Eye Honors announces its winners. Arrested Development's fourth-season premiere date...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: J.J. Abrams to Direct Next Star Wars, Slamdance Winners,...
J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode VII. Andrew Bujalski wins a prize at Sundance. Manohla Dargis on the independent voices drowned out by the Sundance buzz. Slamdance announces jury and audience...
View ArticleRanking Oscar's 2013 Nominees
The 85th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category. This...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
Of all the major players in this year's Oscar game, Lincoln has arguably had the most mercurial ride, beginning as a sight-unseen frontrunner, performing few remarkable feats in the precursors,...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actress
Blergh. Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway, a typically smart and endearing performer who was robbed of an Oscar in 2009...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Bush Family Emails Hacked, The Grandmaster Reviews, Tony...
Audacious hack exposes Bush family phoos and sensitive correspondence. David Hudson rounds up reviews of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster. Listen to the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Push the...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Actor
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself, whose notorious choosiness about selecting...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Production Design
Permit me a small indulgence. Every time I consider this category, the voice of The Chipmunk Adventure's Miss Miller pops into my head, singing, "C'mon a my house, my house a c'mon." I mean, she sings...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Cinematography
Just as we'd expect from the Academy, there's no shortage of lushness on display in this year's nominees for Best Cinematography, ranging from Seamus McGarvey's dense visual palette for Joe Wright's...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Score
Typically, there's at least one Oscar-nominated score that stands out as unique, with memorable flourishes that push it ahead as the frontrunner (think Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's tech-heavy...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Costume Design
Okay, so, this isn't a tough one exactly, but it bears mentioning that one of the two times we've gotten this category wrong was when we disregarded the almost always reliable frilliest-always-wins...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Director
After Argo collected nearly every major industry award in the lead-up to the Academy Awards, in the process emerging as this year's Best Picture frontrunner, it came as a shock to everyone to see Ben...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Sound Mixing
It's at this point we had to ask ourselves, "Is Argo really going to end up a two-Oscar Best Picture winner?" Because while it seems almost certain to buck all sorts of precedent and take Best...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Editing
As you might have noticed from our previous Oscar posts, one of the hottest topics among we Slant prognosticators is just how many trophies Argo is capable of collecting. Certain races (like Adapted...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Picture
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades' worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Composite Winner Predictions
Picture: Argo Director: Ang Lee, Life of Pi Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Supporting Actress: Anne...
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