"Argo" may have taken a decisive lead in the Best Picture race with its slew of guild wins, but with two weeks of voting left, "Lincoln" isn't going to go away quietly -- indeed, the year's most no...
I suspect this won't be a popular choice, as one might see De Niro's lip-licking turn as an ill-disguised Satan in Alan Parker's lurid but luscious horror-noir -- combined with his equally flamboyant Al Capone cameo i...
Once an A-list director who scored Oscar nominations for "Midnight Express" and "Mississippi Burning," Alan Parker's critical reputation has since slipped, along with his work rate: he hasn't direc...
"I was still horizontal in bed, but I was probably the happiest person on the planet. ...I'm just so happy for everyone [on the movie] and everyone just deserves it. It's incredible." (You can read Lawrence'...
Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Snubbed in Directing
Lowdown: Academy director's branch went for Michael Haneke for "Amour" and David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook" instead even thoug...
As usual, BAFTA delivered a few surprises this morning. While nothing in their nominee list is as far off the Oscar radar as, say, "Drive"'s hefty haul last year, they've muddled up the hierarchy a little am...
"Lincoln" led this morning's BAFTA nominations with 10 mentions, followed closely by "Life of Pi" and ""Les Misérables" with nine each -- but in something of twist, only one o...
When the Academy announced it was shifting its nomination date forward, nowhere else was the 'Simon says' effect more blatantly evident than in BAFTA's decision to move theirs up a week or so -- squeezing in just one ...
The BAFTA Rising Star Award, the one prize subjected to a public vote at the UK's answer to the Oscars, can be a frustrating business. More often than not, it pits a host of gifted young actors against one contender w...
I somehow missed this when it appeared a few day ago, but A.O. Scott's essay on the year in movie heroines is essential reading. While noting the commercial and/or critical success of female-powered narratives ranging...
