UPDATED: 2/21/13 -- FINAL PREDICTIONS
Best Picture
"Argo"
(alt. "Silver Linings Playbook")
Best Director
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
(alt. David O. Russell, "Silver Linings ...
I almost feel compelled to put Paul Thomas Anderson's much-discussed sixth feature film on the list because the understanding and wielding of craft is impeccable. It goes on a bit, and reminds that you can have too mu...
When you look at sound mixer Scott Millan's pedigreed resume, the last thing he seems to need is another award. Four Oscars (for "Apollo 13," "Gladiator," "Ray" and "The Bourne Ult...
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Speaking with HitFix this week about his collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal on the cop drama "End of Watch," director David Ayer had a few choice things to say about Arnold Schwarzenegger from the set of the...
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As we move out of the Toronto fray, Venice and Telluride already a memory, we look to the season ahead. The starting gun echo of those three early fall festivals is beginning to fade away, and with the dust settled or...
I'm realizing this year that the great costume designer, Mark Bridges, could likely receive his first Oscar nomination (finally) for Michel Hazanavicius's "The Artist." Of course, he had to do...
Bennett Miller is knackered. He's recently touched down from the Toronto Film Festival where his film "Moneyball" first screened for the masses. It was a project with plenty of baggage by the time he came ar...
I don't want to write too much about "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" right now because, point blank, I want to see it again and digest and -- gasp! -- consider. For now, though, I'll start with this: I...
