Mr. Nicholas Plowman correctly predicted 17 of 24 Oscar winners in the informal LiC Oscar Pick ‘Em contest so if he ever finds himself in the same city as me, I owe him a movie.
You may recall that Nick also won the Oscar nominees contest of a month ago. Congratulations Nick! Next year I’m copying [...]
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Because all the cool kids are doing it, here are my Oscar picks. I know what you’re thinking. If all the cool kids were jumping off a cliff, would I do it to? Hell yeah. There might be something good down there. Scarlett Johansson maybe. Or a chicken pot pie.
Anyway, If you’d like to play [...]
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The Nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood making off with 8 nominations each, including Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay. More importantly, Nick Plowman is the winner of the Name Those Nominees Contest selecting 39 out of 45 nominations. Alison [...]
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In the considered opinion of the readers of Living in Cinema, here is how the Oscar nominations in the major categories will shake out tomorrow morning. The the top 5 vote getters in each category are:
Best Picture
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton
Juno
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Director
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old [...]
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Remember: The deadline to enter the Name Those Nominees contest is 12:00pm PST (-8 GMT) Monday, January 21st. Email your five picks in the following categories to contest@livingincinema.com today.
Picture
Director
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
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Months of pointless speculation will come to an end on the morning of Tuesday, January 22nd when the nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards are finally announced. This will kick off another month of wishing and hoping and thinking and praying before the awards are finally handed out on February 24th.
32 seconds later, the speculation will begin anew.
Unless your last [...]
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The correct answer to contest #2 is:
Get Carter (1971), directed by Mike Hodges, starring Michael Cain.
The supernatural Sartre scores 5 points for guessing correctly after the first picture.
Frank Booth gets 4 points for answering after the second picture.
Bert and Joel score 3 points for getting it after three pictures.
I’ll be keeping a running tally of the scores [...]
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And here’s the last picture. Frankly, if you don’t recognize it by now, you probably haven’t seen the movie. Lucky for you, if you DO recognize it, you can sill submit a guess and score points after the jump.
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Image #4. Name the movie after the jump. If there are no winners, another image will be posted 10/29, sometime in the afternoon Los Angeles time.
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Here’s image #3. Once again, click through to submit a guess.
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Here’s image #2. Click through to Name that Movie…
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I’m going away for the weekend so I won’t be able to post anything substantive, but I’m going to try another contest, this time with pictures instead of audio clips. I hope this is harder than last time. Anyway, here’s the first image. See if you can tell me what movie it’s from. Unless Wordpress fails [...]
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This is the innaugural edition of Name that Movie. Click on the link after the jump to listen to an audio clip from a movie. If you think you know the movie it’s from, use the contact form below the quote to email me and let me know. Whoever gets it first will have my respect and admiration [...]
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