Awards
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Required Reading: Resnais, Cheap Disposable Superheroes and Toothless Comedy
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Alain Resnais:…
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Who (We Think) Will Win at the 2014 Academy Awards
Whether you think of the Academy Awards as irrelevant or increasingly irrelevant, there will always be a surface-level fun to the proceedings. The gold is…
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4 of the Year’s Best Oscar Infographics to Delight Your Eyes, Tickle Your Brain
In all the hubbub leading up to the Academy Awards, it’s easy to forget that the annual awards ceremony is meant to be fun –…
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How Does Someone Get Into the Oscars’ In Memoriam Segment?
No matter how boisterous and feel-good an Academy Awards show can be (and, given that the Oscars pour out significantly less booze during the show…
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Required Reading: An Oscar Voter’s Ballot and The Superhero Evolution
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Oscar Voter…
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2014 Oscar Prediction: Best Foreign Film
Best Foreign Language Film remains one of the tougher categories to predict well in advance, but the last few years have seen the race narrow…
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Required Reading: The World’s Best Picture and the Legend of Kurt Russell
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Forget Oscars:…
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Watch Special Effects Evolve in This Montage of Modern FX Oscar Winners
The very first Best Picture, Wings, also won an award for Engineering Effects, but it was hardly the birth of an Oscar category. It took…
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5 Recent Movies I’m Afraid to Rewatch (And Why)
A few weeks ago, I saw and greatly enjoyed American Hustle. It’s all surface and doesn’t really add up to anything profound, but I was…