Blogs Posts in Gossips category; 417 blog posts

Who should win the Best Actress Oscar?

Barring a major upset this year, this award is essentially a two-horse race. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) and Viola Davis (The Help) have split the main awards leading up to the Oscars and it seems certain one will walk away with the Acad [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012 – Best Picture: The Sounds of Silence

The year started off 9 months ago with The Artist taking the early lead in Cannes. It had the early advantage in Cannes of being one of the few wholly uplifting films to screen there. A tiny tasty bonbon that melts on our tongue in flavor [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar nominee 'Undefeated' scores outside the lines

Undefeated chronicles a championship season but covers turf that extends miles beyond the football field. A coming-of-age story, a tale of a dedicated coach and an inspirational sports saga, this Oscar-nominated documentary is a stirring [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar race: Best Actress race spices up ho-hum year for film...

2011 wasn't a great year for movies. In fact, we don't think that any of this year's nine nominees for Best Picture will be remembered as a classic film 50 or even 25 years from now. That said, there were some admirable perfor [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar ballot counting 'surreal' for L.A. accountant

Go ahead. Call Rick Rosas superstitious. He won't mind. For the past 10 years, the Los Angeles accountant has worn the same tuxedo to the Academy Awards. He'll be donning the same one on Oscar night, as one of the official ballot [...]

Posted On : Feb, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Making a Case for 'The Muppets' Songwriter Bret...

With only two competitors in the Oscar race for Best Song, a much-deserved win for Bret McKenzie’s “Man or Muppet,” a soaring anthem that speaks to the existential dilemma all of us have grappled with at one time or anot [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Nomination Speculation: Best Director

This week’s blog post will be all about the man behind the camera–the director. This year’s list has a mix of both newcomers and more experienced directors that are used to the Oscar rounds, and like the last week’ [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar nod for animated 'Morris Lessmore' could be just the s...

Sit back, settle in and pour yourself a cuppa, assuming you're the cuppa sort. Author and newly minted Oscar nominee William Joyce and his cohorts at Shreveport's fledgling Moonbot Studios have a story to tell. And given that s [...]

Posted On : Feb, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscars 2012: Oscar nominations avoid controversy

Months ago, at the beginning of the awards season, I suggested that some of the finest films around would struggle to win recognition because the Oscar voters have a tendency to play it safe. I mentioned three releases (all British, as it [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar magic brewing in gritty Chicago factory where the fame...

The pewter-like alloy is poured slowly into a mold and cools quickly. But it takes 40 hours of precise and delicate work before Oscar is ready for the bright lights of Hollywood. The heart of the trophy - with its iconic square jaw, broad [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

DiCaprio 'not motivated' by Oscar

Leonardo DiCaprio has admitted he'd love to bag an Oscar - but it's not what motivates him. Hollywood's highest paid actor, Leonardo has been nominated for an Academy Award three times. "I don't think anyone would say [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Top dog Oscar campaign heats up

A growing pack of fans is howling for Uggie the terrier to get a sniff at the Oscars after the Jack Russell stole the show in the silent movie The Artist that scooped a slew of Golden Globe awards. The nine-year-old mutt last year took [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Stars told they cannot be presenters at both Oscars and Gold...

Jennifer Lopez pulled out of the Globes after she and other stars were warned by email through their agents that it could prevent them from appearing on the Oscars in February as presenters. One source said, "There have been com [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0