Awards
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First-Time Nominees and Second Chances For the DGA Directorial Achievement Award
This year, someone who has never won a DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement will win a DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. The filed…
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These Might Be Your Oscar Nominees For Best Picture
The Producers Guild of America is known for aligning its picks with the Oscar nominations with the startling regularity that can only come when two…
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Why Winning the NBR Might Hurt The Social Network’s Oscar Chances
David Fincher’s highly acclaimed flick The Social Network just took the top prize (and just about everything else it could) from the National Board of…
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The Pros and Cons of Anne Hathaway and James Franco Hosting the Oscars
If you’re like me, you remember a time when Billy Crystal was the only person that hosted the Oscars, every year, forever and ever. There…
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Culture Warrior: A Case for the Non-Fiction Best Picture
With the release of Pixar’s Up, last year saw a great deal of conversation surrounding the ghettoization of animated movies at major awards shows. This…
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Culture Warrior: Honorary Oscars are Bullsh*t and Godard Knows It
Last week, the recipients of the Honorary Oscars were announced, the awards ceremony taking place at the Academy Governor’s Awards Dinner on November 13 (an…
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‘Piranha 3D’ Shoots For the Oscar
After the stuffier critics bash Piranha 3D for its attempts, it’s inevitable that at least one internet commenter (who also happens to be “the funniest…
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Anyone Want to Direct ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’?
As we all know, everyone seems to have an opinion about the Twilight series because having an opinion about it is fairly easy. Both the…
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Culture Warrior: Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Move
For an industry that is viewed reductively by much of middle America as being politically left-leaning to the point of being out-of-touch with the rest…