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Oscar Nominations Announced: ‘Hugo’ Tops the Field with 11 Nods, ‘The Artist’ Places Second with 10

The complete list of nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, which were announced via the Oscar site’s live stream about an hour ago, can be found after the jump. I’ll update this post later today — probably sometime in the … Continue reading

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‘Hanna,’ ‘Moneyball’ Included in Cinema Audio Society Nominees

The Cinema Audio Society declared their five nominees today for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing, and with both Hanna and Moneyball, the group stuck their head out for a pair of unexpected — but absolutely worthy — achievements in the … Continue reading

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Recapping the Largely Uneventful Golden Globes: A Toned-Down Gervais Still the Highlight

When Ricky Gervais is on auto-pilot mode and he’s still the most watchable element of the Golden Globes, then you know it was a rocky broadcast. (“Rocky” meaning, well, boring.) Alright, maybe he wasn’t the absolute best part. Sidney Poitier’s … Continue reading

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Hoyte van Hoytema’s ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Lensing Among the Crop of ASC Nominees

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced their five feature-film nominees this morning, and the rewarded crop marked another bullet to the chest for War Horse, as Janusz Kaminski’s photography of Steven Spielberg’s critically divisive stage adaptation was merely the … Continue reading

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Academy Cuts Best Makeup Field to Seven: ‘Iron Lady’ in, ‘J. Edgar’ Out

The Academy has recently been hard at work shaving the field of contenders over in the Best Visual Effects category — you’ll recall that the crop was initially cut to 15, and then, just last week, snipped even further to … Continue reading

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DGA Surprises, Nominates Allen, Fincher

Well, at least Tate Taylor didn’t get in. I’ll take David Fincher — even so-so Fincher, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — over the soap-brand flavoring of The Help any day of the week. That said, there were … Continue reading

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‘Anonymous,’ ‘Drive,’ and Frontrunning ‘Hugo’ Nominated by Art Directors Guild

Production Designer Dante Ferretti’s track record at the Academy Awards is a rather glowing one as of late. In his two most recent visits to the ceremony — for The Aviator and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, … Continue reading

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Oscar Predictions: Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ Trying to Build Late-Year Momentum

With both The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse hitting theaters this holiday season, Steven Spielberg will undoubtedly be the focus of much year-end movie discussion, both Oscar- and box-office-related. His inflated stage adaptation, without question, is the more major … Continue reading

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D.C. Critics Deem ‘The Artist’ 2011′s Best Film

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association has named Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist 2011′s Best Film, following a path whose foundation was laid last week by the New York Film Critics Circle. The WAFCA also awarded The Artist for Ludovic … Continue reading

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National Board of Review Gives a Big Hug to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’

The National Board of Review has a thing for Clint Eastwood. Each one of the director’s films since 2002′s Blood Work has been included in the NBR’s compilation of the year’s top ten films — and now, with the inclusion … Continue reading

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