12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards
After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More
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12 Years a Slave, McConaughey, Blanchett Win Spirit Awards
The Film Independent Spirit Awards, famous for giving out their trophies the day before the Oscars, looked an awful lot like an Oscar preview today.... Read More
Captain Phillips, Gravity Share MPSE Honors
Captain Phillips and Gravity shared the two major awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors last night, with the former taking Dialogue and ADR and... Read More
12 Years a Slave Wins BAFTA’s Best Film (and Not Much Else)
It’s another awards show, which means 12 Years a Slave won the top prize but still managed to stumble, hard. After losing category after category... Read More
Visual Effects Society Awards: Gravity and Frozen Sweep
Adding one more lock to its inevitable Oscar win, Gravity dominated the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) awards, winning six of its seven nominations, including the... Read More
BAFTA : How It Could Influence the Oscar Race
By Alex K Kay For all intents and purposes, the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts (popularly acronym’d as BAFTA) is the penultimate bellwether... Read More
WGA Winners: Her and Captain Phillips Win as Hustle and Wolf Tumble
Spike Jonze’s Her beat out David O. Russell’s American Hustle for the Writers Guild’s highest honor for original screenplays and set itself up for a... Read More
Producers Guild Winner(s): Things Just Got a Whole Lot Harder
A tie. A statistical tie. Both Gravity and 12 Years a Slave were announced the winners last night, to the shock of everyone. A first... Read More
Megan Ellison: From Heiress to Oscar Winner (Well, in March)
Double Oscar nominee Megan Ellison. Following up her Oscar nomination last year for producing Zero Dark Thirty, that’s how she can be referred to as... Read More
86th Academy Award Nominations: Dallas Overperforms, 12 Years Underperforms and N’Oprah Strikes Again
The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced this morning to a chorus of shocks and awes with American Hustle and Gravity leading the... Read More
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