DVD LINKS: DVD NEWS | RELEASE DATES | NEW DVDS | REVIEWS | RSS FEED Before we begin, one title you won't see in the "Latest Announcements" section at the bottom of this article is the just announced release of the Lord of the Rings trilogy extended editions on Blu-ray. It's not listed because the [...]
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Photo: AMPAS // RopeofSilicon.com The Oscar voting period for the 2011 Oscars ended yesterday at 5 p.m. PST and the scramble for Oscar positioning continued up until the final bell, notably in the Art Direction race, which, if you haven't heard yet, wait until we get to that category in this prediction piece. Things got [...]
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Recent winners of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards for best film editing have gone to The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, The Departed, Crash, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Chicago and Gladiator. I think you get my drift, but if not six out of the last ten films to [...]
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On the heels of this morning's Producers Guild nominees, the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2010. Before you begin scrutinizing these nominees you should know the screenplays for The King's Speech, Winter's Bone, Toy Story [...]
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The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the television and motion picture nominations for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards, which will be handed out on Saturday, January 22. Among the ten films nominated for the guild's top award, the only difference right now between my current Best Picture predictions is the inclusion of The [...]
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The Producers Guild of America unveiled their nominees for Best Documentary this morning and I can't quite get a grasp on what to expect from this category this year in terms of the Oscar race. I know the online masses will likely favor Banksy's Exit through the Gift Shop, and while I see that one [...]
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After viewing 101 contenders for Best Feature Documentary for the 83rd Academy Awards, the Documentary Branch has revealed the final 15 contenders shortlist for nomination consideration. This list is in alphabetical order: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC) Enemies of the People Rob Lemkin and Thet [...]
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An excerpt from the script for Let Me In by Matt Reeves Photo: Overture Just as I have done for the last several years, it's time to start listing the available Oscar-contending screenplays as studios begin making them available for the upcoming Oscar push. This first batch of updates doesn't necessarily contain the big name [...]
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The nominees for the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced today and Winter's Bone leads the list with three nominations including one for Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance and Breakthrough Actor for Jennifer Lawrence. This is something that bodes well for Bone's chances to score a Best Picture nomination as the field has [...]
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Recently we saw the release of Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman" and arriving this weekend is Charles Ferguson's Inside Job. Waiting for "Superman" deals with the issues facing public schooling in America while Inside Job tackles the causes of the economic crisis. As of right now Superman has a 93% RottenTomatoes rating and Inside Job [...]
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