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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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Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by TheFilmChair on January 21st, 2009
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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 [...]
NY Film Critics pick Milk
Posted by TheFilmChair on December 10th, 2008
It’s not an out-of-left-field choice like LAFCA’s WALL-E pick, but the NYFCC solidifies Milk‘s position as a serious contender in the Best Picture race. It’s also worth noting that Penelope Cruz is sweeping the Supporting Actress awards so far this season. She’s 3 for 3 at with her NBR, LAFCA, and NYFCC wins. Best Picture [...]
Film Independent’s Spirit Awards – Demme’s Rachel for Oscar?
Posted by TheFilmChair on December 2nd, 2008
Film Independent announced the nominations for the 24th annual Independent Spirit Awards today, and Oscar-hopeful Rachel Getting Married got a lot of attention. The film tied smaller indies including the Melissa Leo-starrer Frozen River and my favorite film so far this year Ballast (a film that I’m sure you won’t hear about in the Oscar race) with [...]
Quickie: Rachel Getting Married
Posted by TheFilmChair on November 9th, 2008
Rachel Getting Married (2008)–**** Quickie Review Just out of rehab, Kym returns home for her sister’s wedding, but it may be more than she and her family can handle. A rare family drama that is both unnervingly raw and decidedly heartfelt, this Jonathan Demme picture can take pride in its acute realism. It never sensationalizes [...]
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2008′s Creative Dearth
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 [...]