Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures present
“The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2010″
In theatres February in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom
LONDON, UK, 29th January 2010 – Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures will once again bring the wildly popular Oscar® nominated short film programme (Live-Action and Animation) to theatres in the US, Canada [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Here’s the short list for the Best Foreign Language Oscar:
The Secret in their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) – Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina)
Samson & Delilah – Warwick Thornton (Australia)
The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner – Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria)
A Prophet (Un Prophète) – Jacques Audiard (France)
The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Less than a month after announcing the short list for the Visual Effects Oscar, AMPAS has cut the list further to 7 titles.
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District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2012
6 of these films are not in Kansas anymore. They are on Pandora.
Source: Screen Daily
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
If you live in New York and you’re eager to catch up on a few of this year’s Oscar short-listed documentaries, the fine folks who bring you the Tribeca Film Festival every year will be screening 6 of the 15 short-listees on January 8 & 9, 2010 at Tribeca Cinemas.
Now is your chance to see [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
From Awards Daily, here’s this year’s list of the 10 films that have been short-listed for the Live Action Short Oscar:
The Door, Juanita Wilson
The Ground Beneath, Rene Hernandez
Hotel, Tim Conrad
Instead of Abracadabra, Patrik Eklund
Kavi, Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish, Luke Doolan
The New Tenants, Joachim Back
The Response, Adam Rodgers, director
Short Term 12, Destin Daniel Cretton
Sidney Turtlebaum, Tristram Shapeero
While [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
You could be forgiven for not realizing the Oscars embarrassed themselves two times in a single weekend. First of all they called attention to the fact that Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall don’t have Oscars. Though he’s a cinema giant, it’s fair to say Roger Corman hasn’t exactly trafficked in Oscar type material so we’ll [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
After weeks of hand wringing and speculation, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been chosen to host the 82nd annual Academy Awards on March 7.
I thought Martin did a terrific job in his two times up to the plate and would’ve done fine all by himself, but the addition of Alec Baldwin is frosting on [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
The campaign to get an Oscar nomination for Sam Rockwell’s performance in MOON appears to be gaining some traction…maybe.
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
According to THR’s Gregg Kilday, Guillermo Arriaga’s upcoming The Burning Plain will debut on DirecTV VOD on August 21, nearly a month before it hits theaters on September 17.
Because everything is always about Oscar, David Poland wonders if this will effect the film’s eligibility, particularly the performance of Charlize Theron which he calls “spectacular.”
AMPAS rules [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Further rules changes threaten to make the Oscars even more meaningless.
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