Another One Bites the Dust…Foxcatcher moved to 2014

In yet another shocking move of the 2013 Oscar film season, Sony Pictures Classics has decided to take Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher out the running for this year to “support the decision of the film makers to allow for more time to finish the film.” This news came hot off the heels of the erroneously released teaser trailer that burned up the internet. It’s an odd decision by Sony Pictures Classics as it only has Blue Jasmine and Before Midnight as Oscar contenders this year and for the most part the three films wouldn’t be competing in many of the same categories outside of Best Picture.

Foxcatcher details the true life events of wrestling coach and multi-millionaire John duPont (played by Steve Carell) and the relationship with Olympic wrestling champion brothers Mark and David Shultz (played by Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, respectively) that led to murder. Miller’s previous films, Capote and Moneyball resulted in multiple Oscar nominations (including a Directing nomination for Miller for Capote) and an Oscar for Best Actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.  Foxcatcher was written by Dan Futterman and also stars Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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