After all that clamoring to anoint this or that contender, the New York Film Critics Circle was stuck in a theater being the FIRST! to see "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" while preparations for the first l...
If the best supporting actor race is wide open, the best supporting actress race is a case study of populist favorites vs. critics favorites. On the one hand, you have performances by Octavia Spencer, Jessica Ch...
It's not hyperbole to say that the 2012 best supporting race may be the most wide open Oscar category in years. Moreover, it's not for lack of suitable candidates. Instead, there may just be too many great...
The main trio star as Edward Cullen, Bella Swan and Jacob Black, respectively.
Rita Wilson, Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver share a moment at the 2011 Governors Awards. Winfrey, a former nominee for "The Color Purple," is the recipient of this year's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award.
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A strangely jubilant atmosphere prevailed at Monday’s boozy standing lunch in central London, where this year’s British Independent Film Award nominees were read out to an invited crowd of journalists, ind...
The British Independent Film Awards are essentially the across-the-pond equivalent of the Spirit Awards, but they seem to grow in profile every year as a slightly hipper alternative to (and bellwether of) the BAFTAs. ...
Hunter McCracken and Elizabeth Olsen (left) give amazing performances in "The Tree of Life" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" respectively this year. And in each case, it was their first at-bat. We us...
Looking back at the past decade, there hasn't been many surprises in the race to win the best actor Academy Award. By the time the New Year came around, most pundits and Academy members pretty much knew who woul...
