May 17, 2008
Music awards at the Oscars have always been a bit dicey, but the past few years have been flat-out confusing. The Best Original Song category has gotten ludicrous, with 3 out of the 5 nominees coming from the same film -- and then all 3 nominees lose, most likely because...
Alex Remington | Posted February 11, 2008 | Entertainment
This is it, guys. Here are my selections for who should win the Oscars for the big 6 catetgories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture. Let's get right to it.
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Viggo Mortensen...
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Drew Grant | Posted January 23, 2008 | Entertainment
With the Academy Awards coming up (or possibly not? Who knows!), I have been scanning the blogosphere trying to find crowd favorites and balancing them against previous academy decisions. Well, actually, I did about ten minutes of that, then I got bored and watched all of the lasagnacat videos, listened...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted January 18, 2008 | Entertainment
Read Part I here.
Read Part II here.
But you can only crunch the numbers so much. After that, everything else is just a feeling. Here are my feelings about why best picture nominees and box office have diverged in this decade.
It feels like we've rarely...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted January 17, 2008 | Entertainment
So why have best picture nominees gotten so unpopular in this particular decade?
Is it the DVDs?
In the past, the Academy and box office often worked together. A film got nominated and people went to see it. It won and more people went...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted January 15, 2008 | Entertainment
In 1944, the year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences settled on five best picture nominees (replacing 10, which replaced 12, which replaced seven, which replaced five), the year's biggest box office hit, Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby, won the Oscar for best picture. The Academy's picture...
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John Ridley | Posted December 18, 2007 | Entertainment
Here's the what's up from yesterday's WGA strike meeting which was attended by a smaller smattering of writers than the smattering of writers who attended our last strike meeting.
The bad news: the strike is not over. The good news: the WGA will not grant waivers to either the...
Martin Lewis | Posted December 12, 2007 | Entertainment
I watched Oprah walk on stage last night and introduce the winner.
The winner that I think we will see this spring.
African-American.
Powerful.
Charismatic.
Inspirational.
I was blown away by the passion and eloquence.
The speaking of Truth To Power.
Yes... I believe that the movie she introduced...
AP | September 12, 2007 11:21 AM
New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | September 11, 2007 10:35 PM
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Mike Miley | Posted February 11, 2008 | Entertainment