Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
While I was puttering around with the predictions post, I didn’t notice that the Los Angeles Film Critics Association had gone up:
Picture: Wall·E
Runner-up: The Dark Knight
Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Runner-up: [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I think Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone secretly enjoys having me publicly humiliate myself because from time to time she asks me to join her and her infinitely smarter awards watching collegues in making predictions about this or that award. Other than predicting that it will probably be sunny in Los Angeles tomorrow, I’m not so [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
For a while, the Academy was prepared to make one of its most egregious errors in recent memory (and that’s saying something) by disqualifying Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s marvelous and innovative score for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight because there were too many composers listed on the score sheet – a violation of [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
It was about this time last year when, despite my best efforts, I realized LiC was fully involved in awards season. This year I’m not even trying to resist it.
The junket monkeys of the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced their nominations this morning with At the Movies poseurs Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz doing the [...]
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