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Doubt made Oscar history yesterday. The film nabbed 4 acting nominations (Best Actress, Meryl Streep; Best Supporting Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman; and Best Supporting Actress, Viola Davis and Amy Adams), but nothing for Best Picture and Best Director. It’s the first picture in Oscar history do so. The only other picture with as many acting nomination and no [...]
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Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by TheFilmChair on January 21st, 2009
Will The Dark Knight get its Best Picture nod? Will Slumdog nab the most nominations? Will Woody Allen spoil the day for another director? Will Kate Winslet get the two nods she deserves? What’s going to happen?! Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. PST the Academy will announce the Oscar nominees. Anyone who has watched [...]
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Tags: academy awards, angelina jolie, anne hathaway, brad pitt, burn after reading, changeling, christopher nolan, clint eastwood, danny boyle, david fincher, dev patel, doubt, frank langella, frost/nixon, frozen river, gran torino, gus van sant, heath ledger, james franco, josh brolin, kate winslet, marisa tomei, melissa leo, meryl streep, mickey rourke, milk, penelope cruz, philip seymour hoffman, rachel getting married, revolutionary road, richard jenkins, robert downey jr., sean penn, slumdog millionaire, taraji p. henson, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, the visitor, the wrestler, tropic thunder, vicky cristina barcelona, viola davis, wall-e, woody allen 
No Comments »Slumdog takes Best Picture at Critics’ Choice Awards
Posted by TheFilmChair on January 8th, 2009
No real surprise as Slumdog Millionaire takes top prize (and 4 others) at the BFCA Critics’ Choice Awards. (Sorry, The Dark Knight fans.) All signs continue to point to Slumdog as the Best Picture favorite. Damn me for not having cable television. I’d would have liked to seen some of these acceptance speeches, especially Kate [...]
Posted in Random Tags: anne hathaway, bruce springsteen, danny boyle, dev patel, doubt, heath ledger, john adams, kate winslet, man on wire, meryl streep, milk, oscar, rachel getting married, sean penn, slumdog millionaire, the dark knight, the reader, the wrestler, tropic thunder, wall-e, waltz with bashir No Comments »WGA Nominees 2009
Posted by TheFilmChair on January 7th, 2009
And the WGA Nominees are: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures ADAPTED [...]
Movie Review: ‘Doubt’ & ‘Frost/Nixon’
Posted by TheFilmChair on December 28th, 2008
Doubt — *** Frost/Nixon — ***1/2 The differences between Doubt, an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s stage play directed by the playwright, and Frost/Nixon, an adaptation of Peter Morgan’s play directed by Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard, reveal two approaches to theatrical adaptations. Doubt looks like a stage production forced to be a movie, while Frost/Nixon [...]
Early Oscar Contenders: Slumdog Millionaire V. Milk?
Posted by TheFilmChair on November 9th, 2008
During the 2008 presidential election, the underdog story Rocky was referenced over and over again. Sen. Hillary Clinton compared herself to the Best Picture winner’s central character as she tried to win the Democratic nomination. Sen. John McCain briefly used Rocky III‘s ”Eye of the Tiger” as a campaign theme, only to have a member from [...]
Posted in Commentary Tags: academy awards, all the king's men, barack obama, changeling, doubt, fox searchlight, gus van sant, hillary clinton, jimmy carter, john mccain, milk, national board of review, network, Oscar 2008-2009, richard nixon, rocky, slumdog millionaire, taxi driver, the dark knight, wall-e No Comments »2008′s Creative Dearth
Posted by TheFilmChair on October 27th, 2008
As someone who fancies himself a bit of a film critic, I try to manage my own expectations despite my genuine love of cinema. (That sound pretentious, but bear with me.) Before this year, I would generally see anything that was thrown in front of me because I would rather watch a bad movie than [...]
Posted in Commentary Tags: australia, burn after reading, changeling, doubt, frost/nixon, gran torino, in bruges, iron man, milk, munich, no country for old men, pineapple express, rachel getting married, religulous, revolutionary road, shine a light, slumdog millionaire, snow angels, stop loss, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, the wrestler, wall-e No Comments »
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Year in Review – Top Ten Films of 2008
One of the problems with living in a place like Cleveland (or Erie, Pa. before this) and not in NYC or LA is that you don’t get to see all the movies of 2008 until it’s 2009. I’ve always given myself an extra month to catch up. Considering the lackluster year it’s been for movies, [...]