THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
CRITICS AWARDS: “Zero Dark” Fires the First Shot
Year-end awards from critics groups have two purposes in the big-picture (which is to say the Oscar) context. In the aggregate, if enough of the groups are in agreement to form a consensus, they can make an accolade se...
STATUETTE STAKES: Murphy’s Law
> And the hits keep on coming for the Academy: following Brett Ratner’s hurried exit yesterday, Eddie Murphy has packed his host bag and left the building as well. This isn’t a huge surprise, as Murphy w...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part I)
> While you weren’t looking, the Oscar race began. One could make the argument, of course, that it’s been on for months–since, at least, Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS energized the indie/art-film audie...
UPDATED: THE SKED SUNDAY CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/2/14
SUNDAY UPDATE: In final FINAL numbers, THE ACADEMY AWARDS gained an extra 0.2 to 13.1, which although tiny as a percentage of total rating, was gratifying to the Academy and ABC, because it pushed the telecast 0.1 abov...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FORECAST: OSCARS 2012 – IT’S NEVER TOO SOON
> Moving on… As we all know, last night was the Rise Of the Planet Of the Black-and-White Silent French People. For some of us, this was not good news. But there’s always next year! Which means thi...
STATUETTE STAKES: NY Film Critics Kick Off Awards Season
> The New York Film Critics Circle famously (notoriously?), having decided that they simply couldn’t wait to announce their 2011 awards until, y’know, they had actually seen all the movies (when Warners couldn’...
THE SKED MOVIE PROMO WATCH: OSCAR NIGHT EDITION
> The Academy limits the number of movie ads that can be aired on the Oscar telecast (until recent years, they didn’t allow any), so as not to make the night look like the awards are shilling for the studios. (God f...
The Weekend in Critics Awards
The big prizes this weekend were the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, LAFCA has a habit of showcasing its iconoclasm (the organization has only given its Best Picture prize to the eventual Oscar winner once i...
SBD AWARDSWATCH: “Argo” Springs a Small Leak
Mitch Metcalf will have more to say about this weekend’s actual boxoffice numbers versus Sunday’s studio estimates later today, but one point is worth noting for its Oscar implications. It was important to ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY 2018 OSCARS LIVE-BLOG
The awards may be boring at tonight’s Oscars–Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Guillermo del Toro seem to be sure things–but the politics should be fascinating, as host Ji...
OSCARLAND: Do the Oscars Need To Be Popular?
Here’s a factoid: during the 1970s, that halcyon decade when the rebel filmmaker inmates finally, if briefly. took over the Hollywood studio asylum, viewed by movie history ever since with wistful nostalgia, ev...
SHOWBUZZ OSCAR WATCH: Producer and Art Director Guilds Weigh In
Two of the Guilds whose memberships overlap with the Motion Picture Academy issued their nominations yesterday. The first and by far more important (and most eager–they accelerated their announcement by 24 hours,...
OSCARBALL: The SAG Nominations
The Screen Actors Guild award nominations are important in the Oscar precursor game, but not in their most showcase way: the Best Ensemble winner (often taken to be SAG’s equivalent of “Best Picture,”...