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Liam Heffernan

Just a coffee drinking Oscar loving glasses wearing jewey looking minimum wage earning facebook obsessing stalkery sounding lottery wishing aspiring writer.


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    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART VIII: THE CAMPAIGN

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    It’s Oscar nominations day. You couldn’t sleep. Years of hard work and stress and socialising have been judged by six thousand of your peers, the results of which are about to be announced. But this is no lottery, this is the Oscars. Campaigns are a lengthy and expensive process, but you already know that, which [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART VII: THE BOX OFFICE

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    Your Weinstein produced, Gondry directed American period drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Amy Adams, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris O’Dowd, Richard Gere, and Francis McDormand with a Howard Shore score has been shot and edited. Your cast have traversed the United States in a seemingly endless gauntlet of interviews and publicity events leading up to its highly-anticipated Thanksgiving [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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    The holidays are a joyous time, full of food and alcohol and presents and TV specials and family and friends. To most people it’s the best day of the year, but to film buffs it is merely a warm-up act, providing us with ample opportunities to catch up on the latest releases, and get suitably [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART V: RELEASE DATE

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    Your Script is written, your actors are cast, your director is hired, your studio is investing, and your composer is composing. Pre-production is well underway and your vision of an Oscar-winning American period drama is beginning to take shape, so now’s the time to start thinking about the practicalities of selling a Hollywood movie. The [...]




    So You Want to Win an Oscar? PART IV: SOUNDTRACK

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    The Weinsteins are your new BFFs. After hearing your marvellous pitch for an American period drama based on a true story starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Amy Adams, Richard Gere, Whoopi Goldberg, Frances McDormand, and Chris O’Dowd and directed by Michel Gondry (though let’s be honest, that baby sells itself), they immediately threw their Oscar for The [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART III: THE STUDIOS

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    After many a night schmoozing with the Hollywood elite your persistence has finally paid off. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Amy Adams, Richard Gere, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris O’Dowd, and Frances McDormand have all committed to your Michel Gondry helmed American period drama based on a true story. But you can’t afford to crack out the champagne just yet, [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART II: CAST & CREW

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    You’ve written an outstanding American period drama based on a poignant true story that serves as a stark commentary on current social issues, and I bet you’re pretty darn proud of yourself, aren’t you? Well you can wipe that smirk off your face, because you have only just begun your long and painful journey to [...]




    So You Want to Win An Oscar? PART I: GENRE

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    Thousands of films are made every year. Only a small number of them are seen beyond family and friends, and only a fraction of those are eligible for Oscar consideration, of which only a minority are nominated and only a few of those actually win anything. You could say it’s almost impossible to win an [...]




    5 Films to Watch Before the US Election

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    With the US Presidential Election just around the corner, I have been rummaging through my DVD collection and beyond in search of a suitable batch of films to get me all excited about the forthcoming political slugfest. On Tuesday November 6th Mitt Romney will take on President Obama in what is shaping up to be [...]




    The Convenient Friendship of Seth & Oscar

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    The reaction to the Academy’s announcement that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will host next year’s Oscar telecast has been overwhelmingly positive, and rightly so. Over the last decade his trademark brand of controversial comedy is enough to get us all excited about what to expect on the big night, and hundreds of millions of [...]




    Top 10 Movie Characters Who Should Be In the Olympics

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    Here in London we are gripped by what is being spun by the PR miasma as ‘Olympic Fever’. So what better bandwagon to leap aboard and strap tenuous reigns around the rampant beast and produce our own piece of crossover content? Our thoughts exactly. So, as a patron of the picture house you’ll know that [...]




    Top 10 Oscar Contenders to Watch This Year

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    We haven’t long said goodbye to the last awards season, but already next year’s hopefuls are starting to make themselves known. Here is a list of ten movies in 2012 to watch out for – with all the ingredients of an Oscar-nominated film, we’ll be hearing much more about them in the coming months. 10: [...]