Ok, this contest thing didn’t go as smoothly as I’d planned.
In order to avoid confusion over multiple performances, the fine print of the original contest rules states that nominations for individuals have to specify a film. A number of entries came in that broke that rule. With no time to get everyone who did it [...]
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Send up the signal. Muriel’s back.
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So, I’m less surprised that The Dark Knight didn’t make it for motion picture or director than I am that The Reader did. The Reader is a good movie. I liked it a lot, but I didn’t see it getting nominated for the big ones.
I didn’t predict Michael Shannon for supporting actor, but Oscar loves [...]
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With the actual nominees just a half an hour away, here are the consensus predictions of those who entered the Living in Cinema 2nd Annual ‘Name Those Nominees’ Contest:
Picture
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Director
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
David Fincher – The Curious [...]
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It’s another good weekend to catch up on all the Oscar nominees you may have missed because the new release pickings are slim for the third outing in row. I don’t even have the energy to find a picture to go with this post.
Inkheart. Cornelia Funke’s (Any relation to Tobias?) children’s novel about storybook characters coming [...]
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