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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: [...]




A Madcap Look at the 2012 Oscars Ceremony – Ryan Gosling’s Revenge

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Yes, I used the word ‘madcap’. It doesn’t get used enough and I’m always happy to throw it out there when I feel its appropriate. And this video reeks of appropriateness. It’s easy to forget that less than a week ago we were following the happenings in Tinsletown, States for the Oscars. Sleep deprived and, [...]




The 2012 Oscars Live Blog

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Right! It’s another caffeine fuelled night ahead of us as we prepare to liveblog the 84th Academy Awards. The Artist is the favourite to scoop up the awards tonight, which would round off a grand few days for Michel Hazanavicius and his silent film which run rampant through the Cesars and Independent Spirit awards but [...]




POLL: Which Film should win the Best Picture Oscar?

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Sunday night brings a gold-plated backslap to the world of film and whatever the results of the Oscars there will be debate and derision in equal measure. The question of relevance will rear its ugly, pointless head again and whether we see The Artist running riot over the opposition or if Scorsese’s Hugo takes home [...]




Are The Oscars Becoming Irrelevant?

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Well no, since you asked. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t deeply flawed. The Oscars are the high watermark of film recognition. The red carpet trampling, lovvie love-a-thon that is the motion picture awards season starts in earnest with the Golden Globes in early January and extravagantly culminates every year in late February with the [...]




The 2011 Oscars – Another Year, Another Snoozer

Last night was, once again, the biggest night in the movie industry.  It was Oscar’s 83rd year and it was once again a bit of a snooze-fest.  Every year I sit down to watch this thing hoping and praying it’ll be better than the previous year.  Every year I’m left with the same feeling.  Maybe [...]




2011 Oscar Predictions

Internal industry politics and sentiment are always a decisive factor in the Oscar beauty contest, and must always be accounted for (despite the assertions by many that Mickey Rourke would win for The Wrestler a few years ago, I was certain he wouldn’t as he pissed a lot of people off in the early years of [...]