Things worked a bit differently at the very first Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The festival took place in the fall, for starters, while the top prize -- not yet named the Palme d'Or -- was shared between 11 films. Th...
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...
Tarantino's voice burst onto the scene in "Reservoir Dogs" with a conversation over breakfast. The now-iconic opening credits sequence that followed also delivered that voice as he dug up this 1970 George Ba...
With the recent reveal of the Academy's list of Best Original Song qualifiers -- all 75 of them -- the music branch has a wide swath of popular artists to choose from. Of course, the branch tends to focus on the work ...
Variety published a music-focused Eye on the Oscars special today, and it's packed with interesting nuggets, from spotlights on individual composers in the awards race this year -- including "The Master"'s J...
Over the last several years we've seen a higher concentration of prequels than perhaps ever before, a trend which is mainly the result of increasingly risk-averse studios going back to the drawing board in an effort t...
It has become near faux pas not to place John Ford's 1956 adaptation of Alan Le May's "The Searchers" at the top of a list such as this. But while cliches happen for a reason, succumbing to that kind of grou...
In typical "Glee" fashion, extenuating and implausible circumstances lead a whole cast of characters into song. Atypical of "Glee," Jimmy Fallon, Randy Jackson, Tina Fey, Betty White, Joel McHale, ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have won the 2010 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee said Monday.
They will be invited to accept the award, which...
It's funny... I frequently attend festivals, and I publish my reviews from those festivals, and I ask you to trust me that my reaction to those films aren't colored by where or how I see them. And yet, here I am...
