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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

Movie review: Oscar-nominated short films

The races for the live-action and animated short film Oscar tend to operate blessedly outside the Academy Awards hype machine; assembled here into two separate programs, this year's nominees — a stronger batch than last year' [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

265 Feature Films in Contention for 2011 Best Picture Oscar

Two hundred sixty-five feature films are eligible for the 2011 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. To be eligible for 84th Academy Awards® consideration, feature films must open in a c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Oscar nod a tall order for short films

When Los Angeles filmmaker Brent Roske arrived for an awards-promotion screening of George Clooney's new movie "The Descendants" on the 20th Century Fox lot in October, his chief concern was where to park. He found a pr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

The 2011 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (2011)

In addition to the 10 candidates for best picture and the smattering of contenders in other major categories, there are 15 movies whose titles will be mentioned at the Oscars on Feb. 27 that very few nonvoters are likely to have heard of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Box office: Indie films jockey for Oscar attention

Several of the indie films hoping for Oscar attention are moving beyond the art house to play to mainstream moviegoers. Others are struggling to get there. "Black Swan" and "The King's Speech" significantly expand [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

15 Films Vie for Visual Effects Oscar Nominations

The list has been narrowed down to just 15 films that will be in the running for nominations in the 'Achievement in Visual Effects' Oscar category. Of these, seven will be chosen in January by members of the Academy's Visual [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Glimmers of Hope for Small Films During Glittery Oscar Promo...

“Brooklyn, Brooklyn in the house!” Darren Aronofsky shouted from the front of the Ziegfeld Theater on Tuesday night. Mr. Aronofsky, the director and Coney Island native, was living out a childhood fantasy when his film &ldquo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

J’can films and the Oscars - Productions not considered fore...

THE call has gone out for members of Jamaica's creative industries, particularly music and film, to band together in order to extract maximum benefits.Film producer Darrin Holender, whose credits extend to the recently released featu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Foreign language films submitted for Oscars

More than 50 countries have announced their official submissions to the 83rd annual Academy Awards for consideration in the Oscar's Foreign Language category. This Friday, October 1 is the deadline for selections. Approximately anoth [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

New Rules For Oscars: Five Films To Compete For The 'Best Vi...

Oscars bosses have approved new rule changes which will enable five films to compete for the Best Visual Effects Academy Award, instead of three. The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided that 199 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Heather Bremer: Are today’s Oscar nominees on par with films...

The countdown to Oscar Sunday is now measured in days, not weeks. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual awards show airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC. Ten films are up for the Best Picture statuette. The Academy m [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Food films add flavor to Oscars

This year’s Academy Awards have a little extra flavor as two films in which food played a leading role are nominated. Meryl Streep garnered a record 16th Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Julia Child in "Julie & Julia, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Oscar-Nominated Short Films

As an Oscar mudslide for Avatar is imminent, the less publicized races are all the more interesting and far more fun to handicap. There’s a furious energy in short-film filmmaking, since distribution possibilities are everywhe [...]