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Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
…boxers by Hanes and a t-shirt by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Consider this your Oscars red carpet open thread. 7:30PM: It just occurred to me that until women’s eveningwear is as subdued as a man’s tuxedo, women will never be allowed to talk about just their work on the red carpet. Conversely, until men start … more…
Fun! I love being on the tee-bee! Not! Man, that TV makeup feels like you’ve been slathered in plaster. I do love talkin’ ’bout the movies, though… This is the whole episode. I’m told there will later be a clip of only the Oscar stuff. TWO MINUTES LATER: And here it is already.
Recently the members of the Online Film Critics Society discussed what technical race — that is, editing, production design, on so on — we follow with the most interest and which films we would have nominated. The critics’ responses are here. Now it’s your turn: Which technical Oscar category interests you most? Mine is probably … more…
I was overhasty this morning in deleting two comments that I mistook for spam: in fact, they were directing us all to where we can see “Logorama,” the fourth of the five Oscar-nominated animated short films. (My apologies to that commenter.) It’s not embeddable — and it’s possible that this may be deleted at some … more…
The short-films categories are often the tie-breakers in Oscar pools, and often everyone is just guessing who’ll win what because usually, no one except Academy voters have seen these nominees. This year, more of us have the same opportunity. From an Academy press release: New York, Mar. 2 – The Academy Award Nominated Short Films … more…
Last week, Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier was banned from attending the Oscar ceremony on Sunday over the emails he sent to Academy members. According to The Los Angeles Times, this is the first time such a ban has been instituted. I didn’t understand at first why an email asking for an Academy member’s vote … more…
Recently the members of the Online Film Critics Society were polled to see which Oscar-winning Best Picture we thought was least deserving of that honor. The “winner”? Crash, which won Best Picture for 2005. Other films that garnered more than one vote (links go to my reviews): 2001: A Beautiful Mind 2000: Gladiator 1997: Titanic … more…
Mary McNamara, the television critic at the Los Angeles Times, today offers some advice to the producers of the Oscars regarding ratings. Her reasoning: Last weekend’s Super Bowl drew a huge audience of more than 106 million people, making it the most watched broadcast in U.S. history. Since the Oscar telecast have been hurting in … more…
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